Writer Quotes

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Life is wasted on the living.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.