wallpapers of quotes on attitude

Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. ~Jacques Seguela



Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746



Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt! ~Robin Williams



Maxim: a concisely expressed principle or rule of conduct, or a statement of a general truth; a saying of proverbial nature.



It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. ~Clare Short



Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."



Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957



He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum



Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"



I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog. ~D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938



Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. ~Edward Everett



Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. ~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002



History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. ~Konrad Adenauer



It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli



Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. ~Bertrand Russell



Curmudgeon: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner (source: Portable Curmudgeon Redux, Jon Winokur).



There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. ~Rudolph Ladenburg



Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 15



Confidence and hope do more good than physic. ~Galen