Stephen > Stephen's Quotes

“Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.”
― Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney

“THE MORE I SEE OF MEN, THE BETTER I LIKE MY DOG." ~ Frederick the Great”
― Frederick the Great

“What a piece of work is man" ~ Hamlet”
― William Shakespeare

“If you can do it, why do it." ~ Gertrude Stein”
― Gertrude Stein

“We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.”
― John Steinbeck

“And I told you to bring nine toys, she said. you bought eight. Next time try to pay more attention. And the disappointment in her voice made him cry even harder, so hard that he couldn't talk and thus he couldn't tell her that he put eight toys in the wagon because the ninth toy was the wagon itself.”
― Nathan Hill

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts.........perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
― John Steinbeck

“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
― Anita Merina

“I let the dog out or I let him in and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V”
― Virginia Woolf

“Say no evil, see no evil and you will never be invited to a party.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
― Denis Diderot

“After Spain, World War II was simple. I wasn't even tempted to pick up a gun to fight for General Motors, U.S. Steel, or the Chase Manhattan Bank, even if Hitler was running the other side.”
― David Dellinger, From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter

“Be the person your dog thinks you are!”
― J.W. Stephens

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
― Sigmund Freud

“There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated.”
― Nelson Mandela

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
― Andy Rooney