Patrick > Patrick's Quotes

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
― George Orwell

“A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... And how many want out.”
― Sir Winston Churchill

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
― Mother Teresa

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings