Favourite quotes

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." [Edmund Burke]

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

WOODY ALLEN

"No man can follow Christ and go astray." [William H.P. Faunce]

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. - T. S. Eliot

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell

Interesting how truth transcends the ages

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. - Cicero

"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles..."

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. -Mark Twain

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. -Friedrich Nietzsche

"The head that once was crowned with thorns

Is crowned with glory now."

[Thomas Kelley]