There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you went to school and you studied this industry and you studied economic cycles, why are you now surprised that this is happening? It’s like going into politics and saying, ‘I didn’t know I could be voted out of office." - Recently layed off 50-year-old Merrill financial adviser with 67 weeks of pay severance on a $101,000 salary.
if you come over you’ll seewe’re not so lonely my cricket and me.
- Willie Nelson
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland.
Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
- John McCain
The creature outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
It's an illusion, Michael! A trick is something a whore does for money...or candy!
- Gob.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.
- President Eisenhower, Farewell Address to the Nation, 1961
Too fucking busy and vice versa
- Dorthy Parker's reply to her editor's pestering insistence for her work while she was on her honeymoon.
I wish Chanel would make men's clothing.
- Jeff
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, all foes to true understanding. Likewise tolerance, or broad, wholesome charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
It is impossible to tell you all the insults my painting of this year has won me, but I don't care, for when I am no longer controversial I will no longer be important.
- Courbet
I love Africa in general — South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
- Paris Hilton
Why does your Grace go in search of adventures in these wasteland and crossroad places, when nothing will ever be written of them, and so no one will ever hear of them?
- Sancho Panza to Don Quixote in Don Quixote
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
“We are but shrubs, no cedars we.”
- Billy Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus