Quotes to Explore

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Author : Chanakya

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.

Author : Ben Harper

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Author : Victor Hugo

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Author : John Adams

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Author : Marcel Proust

I don’t remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Author : Oscar Wilde

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?