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Famous quotes by Writers

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
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"Language is a virus from outer space"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth"
Voltaire, Writer
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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"
Jose Rizal, Writer
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"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"
Eli Khamarov, Writer
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"Business is the salt of life"
Voltaire, Writer
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"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"
Voltaire, Writer
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument"
Voltaire, Writer
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"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
Douglas Adams, Writer
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move"
Douglas Adams, Writer
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"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere"
Voltaire, Writer
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
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"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed"
Irene Peter, Writer
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
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"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers"
Rudyard Kipling, Writer
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"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"
Olin Miller, Writer
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"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
P. G. Wodehouse, Writer
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"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law"
Voltaire, Writer
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"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking"
Voltaire, Writer
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"You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
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"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
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"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
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"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"
Voltaire, Writer
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"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
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"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
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