Witipedia & News
Killer quotes often help bring writing alive. I have been an avid collector of quotations, apothegms and aphorisms for many years and list below some of my favourites on a variety of topics. Some are culled from books and magazines, others from newspaper obituaries or picked up randomly.
"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day to day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov
"Happiness is having a large loving caring close knit family in another city."
George Burns
"I have the body of an 18-year0old. I keep it in the fridge."
Spike Milligan
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"As a child I though I hated everybody but when I gre up I realised it was just children that I didn't like."
Philip Larkin
"When it hurts, we return to the banks of certain rivers."
Czeslaw Milosz
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
Picasso
"I only drink moderately. In fact, I have a case of moderately in my dressing room."
Dean Martin
"The future is not what it was and the past isn't getting any better either."
Bernard Levin
"Wake me up in an emergency - even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
Ronald Reagan
"I don't like the idea of living on the silver screen. I want to live on in my apartment."
Woody Allen
"It's true hard work never killed anybody but i figure why take the chance."
Ronald Reagan
"I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean"
G.K. Chesterton
"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."
Goethe
"I don't mind growing old, I just don't like growing up."
Martha Gelhorn
"The two most beautiful words in the English Language: cheque enclosed."
Dorothy Parker
"Life is what happens to you when you're busy making plans."
John Lennon
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level."
Quentin Crisp
"I'm still a going concern, but a little concerned about going."
Laurie Lee in old age
"I only drink to make other people interesting."
Jeffrey Bernard
"I always have a quotation for everything it saves original thinking"
Dorothy L.Sayers