Today Quotes
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Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974
Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998
Getting old is not for sissies.Bette Davis
What a beautiful morning.John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.Sallust
If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go.Groucho Marx
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903