Writer Quotes

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

Who has not served cannot command.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

Patience is the best medicine.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

A good husband makes a good wife.

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.