Famous quotes by Authors

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs"

James Lane Allen, Author

"Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?"

Christopher Morley, Author

"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up"

Christopher Morley, Author

"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Only the sinner has the right to preach"

Christopher Morley, Author

"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin"

Dave Barry, Author

"We believe that electricity exists because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires"

Dave Barry, Author

"Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough"

Dave Barry, Author

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life"

Christopher Morley, Author

"From now until the end of time, no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance"

Christopher Morley, Author

"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed"

Christopher Morley, Author

"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it"

Christopher Morley, Author

"If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone"

Christopher Morley, Author

"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention"

Christopher Morley, Author

"New York, the nation's thyroid gland"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting"

Christopher Morley, Author

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