J.D. Stanley > J.D.'s Quotes

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“When you have found the shrubbery, then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest ... with a herring”
― Tall Knight of Ni (played by Michael Palin) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
― Lord Byron

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish”
― Julius Caesar

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk him up. The pyramids were designed and constructed without a whiff of a sniff of caffeine. Coffee was introduced to Europe only in 1615. The achievements of antiquity are quite enough to cow the modern human, but when you realize that they did it all without caffeine it becomes almost unbearable.”
― Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Spelling and punctuation are completely irrelevant; unless you are hoping to be understood.”
― Henry G. Sheppard

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
― Robert Brault

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline