Lines Matching refs:author
1201 …ce unless he is certain that it is positively bad. <BR> -- Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977), U.S. author
1253 … to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude. <BR> -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952), British author
1272 …nything that eats or needs repairing. <BR> -- Billy Rose, (1899-1966), U.S. entrepreneur and author
1287 …st me." Except just this once, of course. <BR> -- John Varley, (1947--), sci-fi author, Steel Beach
1293 One should always be a little improbable. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish author
1311 …ut shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. <BR> -- Dean McLaughlin, U.S. sci-fi author
1350 No wise man ever wished to be younger. <BR> -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author
1360 …ld age is not that one is old, but that one is young. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
1368 …n one long march to and from the lavatory. <BR> -- John Mortimer (1923--), English dramatist/author
1377 America is one long expectoration. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
1393 … discovered before, but it had always been hushed up. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
1406 … his country well has no need of ancestors. <BR> -- Voltaire (1694-1778), French author/philosopher
1407 …eir ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. <BR> -- Douglas Adams (1952-2002), SF author
1431 …r being so familiar with warlocks and witches. <BR> -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, Scottish author
1447 …se them again for the better part of their lives. <BR> -- Stephen Baker, author of How To Live wit…
1451 …embled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. <BR> -- Stephen Baker, author of How To Live wit…
1458 …he last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. <BR> -- Stephen Baker, author of How to Live wit…
1508 … so long as you don't paint badly like other people. <BR> -- George Moore (1852-1933), Irish author
1526 …ss always bores me to death. I prefer other people's. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
1528 …han others can in a week <BR> -- William Dean Howells (1837-1920), U.S. author, editor, and critic
1532 …od wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? <BR> -- Marvin Kitman U.S. TV critic and author
1553 …t, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves. <BR> -- Katherine Brush, U.S. author
1565 …l the cities and found no statues of committees. <BR> -- G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, British author
1566 …ing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." <BR> -- Petronius Arbiter, (-66 AD) Roman author
1578 Those who do not complain are never pitied. <BR> -- Jane Austen (1775-1818), English author
1580 … Yes, we are their sex organs. <BR> -- Solomon Short (aka David Gerrold, US science-fiction author)
1748 …e we used to drink water before the Prohibition. <BR> -- Ring Lardner Sr., (1885-1933), U.S. author
1783 Wine is bottled poetry. <BR> -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1854-1894), English author
1789 Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery. <BR> -- Doug Horton, SF author
1884 …eeded seem to be found in plebian dishes. <BR> -- William Feather(1889-1981), U.S. author/publisher
1916 …ntract the habit of eating, very few survive. <BR> -- Wallace Irwin (1876-1959), U.S. editor/author
1924 … tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. <BR> -- C.S. Lewis, (1898-1963), English author
1943 …d be the man who blew my brains out with a pistol. <BR> -- Edgar Allan Poe (1804-1849), U.S. author
1982 I can resist everything except temptation. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
1983 …g the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. <BR> -- Flannery O'Connor, (1925-1964), U.S. author
2026 … other man has a right to knock him down for it. <BR> -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author
2066 Every man has a sane spot somewhere. <BR> -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1854-1894), English author
2076 …ne of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. <BR> -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author
2085 Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. <BR> -- Johann Goethe 1749-1832), German author
2097 The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
2100 … the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
2168 …iry tales written by the fingers of God. <BR> -- Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875), Danish author
2169 …s day-to-day living that wears you out. <BR> -- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian physician/author
2190 Life is a sexually-transmitted disease. <BR> -- Guy Bellamy, U.S. author
2193 … is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. <BR> -- Alice Walker (1944--), U.S. author
2217 …ep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning. <BR> -- Doug Horton, SF author
2263 …can we explain the success of those we don't like? <BR> -- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author
2270 … nails and picking his nose, but not of marrying. <BR> -- William Faulkner (1897-1962), U.S. author
2279 …other men's wives to think of getting one of my own. <BR> -- George Moore (1852-1933), Irish author
2291 … are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. <BR> -- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian physician/author
2299 …e has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. <BR> -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author
2317 …not fair that some men should be happier than others. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
2327 We wedded men live in sorrow and care. <BR> -- Chaucer (1340-1410), English author
2376 I've a grand memory for forgetting. <BR> -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1854-1894), English author
2429 …because they increase the number of men. <BR> -- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986), Argentinian author
2434 … women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. <BR> -- Rebecca West (1892-1983) Irish author
2447 …unded our religions and composed our masterpieces. <BR> -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
2450 One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. <BR> -- Muriel Spark (1918--), Scottish author
2458 …ver one that I couldn't explain away afterward. <BR> -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), English author
2473 …ishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. <BR> -- Jules Renard (1864-1910), French author
2502 …portant thing in life. When you are old, you know it. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish author
2525 Music is the brandy of the damned. <BR> -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish author