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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
R. W. Griswold
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Richard Diran
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner
US comedian
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner
US comedian
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959)
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R. A. Dickson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F Kennedy
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
US Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971)
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheimer
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
Robert Bloch
US horror & science fiction author (1917 - 1994)
My mother buried three husbands ... and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner
US comedian
To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'
Rita Rudner
US comedian
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
US author and social activist
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.
Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
R. W. Griswold
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Richard Diran
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner
US comedian
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner
US comedian
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959)
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R. A. Dickson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F Kennedy
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
US Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971)
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheimer
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
Robert Bloch
US horror & science fiction author (1917 - 1994)
My mother buried three husbands ... and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner
US comedian
To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'
Rita Rudner
US comedian
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
US author and social activist
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.
Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame
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