Jaffe's
Favorite Quotes*
*atrributed
to the author when known
Humor is
so important, it's not funny.
-SRJ
If
you paint yourself into a corner, you can always get out if you are
willing to walk on the paint.
-SRJ
The glass
may indeed be seen as either half full or half empty, but it is only from
the half full glass from which one may pour the contents.
- SRJ
The greatest
thing most people should fear is that they will turn into their parents.
-SRJ
The hottest
places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis,
assumed positions of neutrality.
- Dante
The man
who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in the position.
- Anon
Whosoever
would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
To be great
is to be misunderstood.
If a man
does not keep step with his fellow men, it is perhaps because he marches
to the beat of a different drummer.
-Emerson, Self Reliance
"Pay no
attention to that man behind the curtain."
- The Wizard of Oz
"It is
better to travel well than arrive."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Lady Astor:
"Why, Sir Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill:
"I am, Madam, and you are ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober."
Clement
Atlee is a modest man. He has much to be modest about.
"That is
just the sort of English up with which I will put"
-Churchill
I'd never
join a club that would admit someone like me as a member.
You're
only as old as the women you feel.
- Groucho Marx
This above
all, to thine ownself be true.
Brevity
is the soul of wit.
-WS
(How
do you write women so well?)
"I start
with a man, and I take away all reason and accountability."
- Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets
"So we
beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
-F.
Scott Fitzgerald
"The most essential
gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is
the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
- Hemingway |