"It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness."
John Milton(12/09/1608 – 11/08/1674)
English writer
"It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness."
John Milton
"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
Peter Kropotkin
"I am a poor man, but I would gladly give ten shillings to find out who sent me the insulting Christmas card I received this morning."
George Grossmith
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
Dolores Ibarruri
"Anything that's white is sweet.
"By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life."
Emmett Kelly
"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."
Grace Murray Hopper
"I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name-dropping."
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
"My trademarks are a hoarse, grating voice and the face of a retired pugilist: small narrowed eyes set in puffy features which look as though they might, years ago, have lost on points."
Broderick Crawford
"There are instances where it is in the best interests of the nation not to vote the will of the people."
"Tip" O’Neill
"When you become a star, you don't change—everyone else does."
Kirk Douglas
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
Redd Foxx
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
Buck Henry
"A pitiful, rancorous, attacking moron."
Morton Downey, Jr.
"The best moment of playing [Shakespeare's] Juliet is the nanosecond when they offer you the part."
Dame Judi Dench
"The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!"
Beau Bridges
"Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music ... now it's your turn."
Neil Innes
"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
Joan Armatrading
"She has this Jayne Mansfield body and a horrifyingly great brain."
John Malkovich
"I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it."
Donny Osmond
"I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are."
Felicity Huffman
"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
Dame Edith Sitwell
"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person."
Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche
"What I remember most about him was the little boy quality shining forth at you from behind those thick glasses of his, tearing at your heart. He had that extreme and touching idealism of youth which made you wish that he would never have to be disillusioned. Now he won’t be."
Louella Parsons