Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Brian Aldiss
Art is something that makes you proud to be human.
Amiri Baraka
Humour is falling downstairs if you do it while in the act of warning your wife not to.
Kenneth Bird
The miracle is not that we have done so much with our world, but that we ever did anything.
Ray Bradbury
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far.
Jean Cocteau
Youth is a period of missed opportunities
Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
Cyril Connolly
Death is what makes life an event.
Francis Ford Coppola
Arguing with a woman is like trying to read a newspaper in the wind.
Fjodor Dostojevski
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Comedy. like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
Marty Feldman
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
Benjamin Franklin
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Robert Frost
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
André Gide
Film is truth, 24 times a second
Jean-Luc Godard
cin2tan Naivete is the autobiography of humans ! (iwc)