"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
William Shakespeare(04/23/1564 – 04/23/1616)
English writer (died on his birthday, allegedly)
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
William Shakespeare
"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."
William Shakespeare
"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!"
Miguel de Cervantes
"I like the noise of democracy."
James Buchanan
"The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith."
James A. Froude
"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."
Chauncey Depew
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
William Wordsworth
"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"
Edwin Markham
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
Max Planck
"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
Lester Bowles Pearson
"Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"
Art Hoppe
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
Shirley Temple Black
"I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire."
Roy Orbison
"There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure."
Victoria Glendinning
"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence."
Bernadette Devlin
"Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too."
Joyce deWitt
"We're the only band that's got real communication between the stage and the audience. People know they can come and talk to us and pour beer over us, buy us a drink and spit at us."
Captain Sensible
"Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean."
Valerie Bertinelli
"I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act."
Otto Preminger
"Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world—actors or anybody—is yourself."
Paulette Goddard
"[O. J. has] an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to make the cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legs and the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with his variation of speed..."
Howard Cosell
"A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame."
Boris Yeltsin