funny hater quotes and phrases

Writing is a struggle against silence. ~Carlos Fuentes



Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~Herbert Hoover, attributed



There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown



...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949



Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto



It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~Charles Baudelaire



We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979



The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer



Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein



A waist is a terrible thing to mind. ~Tom Wilson



Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye



I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909



You know you're an Arizona native when you think Taco Bell is the local phone company. ~Emma Louise Philabaum, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993



There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn



Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein



In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late. ~Kin Hubbard



The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ~Elting E. Morison



Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective. ~Huxtable Pippey



There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber