people quotes

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
-- George Eliot

You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me
from your own life. May it all turn out to your happiness.
-- Goethe

Mother told me to be good but she's been wrong before.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following:
Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a
rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when
swerving away from the rabbit hits a pedestrian.
-- Frank Herbert, "The White Plague"

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes
may not be the same.
-- George Bernard Shaw

If people see that you mean them no harm, they'll never hurt you, nine
times out of ten!

Only fools are quoted.
-- Anonymous

Be careful what you set your heart on -- for it will surely be yours.
-- James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name"

After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
-- Joseph Conrad

To be great is to be misunderstood.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific."
-- Jane Wagner

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to
boot yourself in the posterior.
-- A.J. Liebling, "The Press"

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
-- Publilius Syrus

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they
ought to be.
-- William Hazlitt

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he
is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.
-- Sydney Harris

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men
have mediocrity thrust upon them.
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"