Julius Caesar
I came. I saw. I conquered.
I love treason, but I hate the traitor.
I value the name of honour more than I fear death.
The unexpected death is preferable to any other death.
Generally, people like to believe in what they want most.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Mostly, men worry more about what they can not see than about what they can.
It is easier to find men who are willing to die, than to find those willing to suffer pain with patience.
Tiberio Caetano
It's the open societies that are the source of new ideas.
John Cage
I have nothing to say and I'm saying it.
Michael Caine
Movie actors don't retire. The movies retire you.
First of all, I choose the great, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Scientific accomplishments are creations of the will and rewards of ardour.
James Callaghan
A lie can travel half way around the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Agnes Callard
What makes speech truly free is the possibility of disagreement without enmity.
Arthur Calwell
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Dom Helder Camara (bishop)
If I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. If I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Cambodian Wildlife Sanctuary
No one in the world needs an Elephant tusk but an Elephant.
David Cameron
It is not where you come from but where you are going that counts.
For many faith is a gift to be cherished, not a problem to overcome.
James Cameron
All kids are scientists when they’re a year old. They are trying to figure out how the world works.
Luis de Camoens
To many, fame comes too late.
Albert Camus
A loveless world is a dead world. ('The Pest')
There can be no peace without hope. ('The Pest')
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. ('The Pest')
There is no love which can't be bettered. ('The Pest')
The bleak sterility of a life without illusions. ('The Pest')
Where there is no hope, one must invent hope.
The habit of despair is worse than despair itself. ('The Pest')
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
To love somebody means to agree to grow old with him.
The human heart has the tendency to call only catastrophic events "fate".
In a universe stripped of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an incredible summer. ('Return to Tipasa')
Fantasy consoles us for what we can't be and humour for what we really are.
In a time of pestilence: there are more things to admire in men than to despise. ('The Pest')
On the whole men are more good than bad. ... But they are more or less ignorant. ('The Pest')
We're all footprints on a beach. The tide comes through and you never were here.
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
Archbishop of Canterbury
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Truman Capote
All literature is gossip.
That's not writing, that's typing. (on Jack Kerouac)
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
In California, you lose a point off your IQ every year.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
I may be a black sheep, but my hooves are made of gold. ('Answered Prayers')
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
More tears are shed over unanswered prayers than answered ones.
A good deed is something you do because you want something in return.
(‘Children on their birthdays')
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
There is no shame to have a dirty face – the shame comes when you keep it dirty. (‘In Cold Blood’)
But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes.
('Other Rooms, Other Voices')
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
It's better to look at the sky than live there. ... Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ('Breakfast at Tiffany's')
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
Drew Carey
I might not be a very good lover, but at least I am quick.
Peter Carey
Slow as a wet week. (‘Theft')
Sandra Carey
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Andrew Carnegie
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Dale Carnegie
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Leslie Caron
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Bob Carr (former Premier of NSW/Australia)
Technology sends messages, books provide content.
Lewis Carroll
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Johnny Carson
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Rachel Carson
In nature nothing exists alone.
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
In every grain of sand there is the story of Earth.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in this world.
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Phil Carter
The army cares whether you can shoot straight, not whether you are straight.
Ignazio Cassis (President Switzerland)
Neutrality does not mean indifference. Neutrality does not mean absence of solidarity.
Rosario Castellanos
Death will be the proof that we lived.
Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between future and past.
I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest.
Willa Cather
Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
Catholic Bishops' Conference, Zimbabwe
Oppression is sin and cannot be compromised with. It must be overcome. God takes sides with the oppressed.
Wynn Catlin
Diplomacy --- the art of saying "Nice doggie" 'til you can find a stick.
Cato (the Elder)
The best way to keep good deeds remembered is to add some new ones.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force.
Nicolas Caussin
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Vint Cerf
Privacy is something that has emerged out of the urban boom coming from the industrial revolution.
Miguel de Cervantes
To be prepared is half the victory.
Gold creates worries - and so does the lack of it. (‘The Jealous Man from Estremadur')
Stick around good people and you'll become one yourself.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Paul Cézanne
It's great and yet so terrible to stand before an empty canvas.
A painter has his eyes and the mind. And they should help each other.
The most fascinating thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Genius is the ability to renew one's feelings in the experience of every day.
Painting from nature is not copying an object, but realising one's sensations.
Shadow is also a colour, just as light, but less brilliant. Light and shadow are only grades of two tones.
Michael Chabon
No medium is inherently better than any other.
One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusions is that every golden age is either past or in the offing. (both ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay')
Marc Chagall
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Adelbert von Chamisso
In pain a new time is born.
Raymond Chandler
The telephone is a fetish. (‘The Long Good-Bye’)
Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. (‘The Long Good-Bye’)
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Beyond a certain point all dangers are equal. (‘The Long Good-Bye’)
And there is no such thing as too much money, is there? (‘Farwell, My Lovely’)
Don't be a hero young man. There's no percentage in it. (‘The Long Good-Bye’)
Class is a thing that has a way of dissolving rapidly in alcohol. (‘The High Window’)
The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. ('The Long Good-Bye')
Marriage: For two people in a hundred it's wonderful. The rest just work on it. ('The Long Good-Bye')
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
In a jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on a report. ('The Long Good-Bye')
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
It was so quiet at Victor's that you almost heard the temperature drop as you came in at the door. ('The Long Good-Bye')
Any time a state government takes money from gambling and calls it taxes, that government is helping to keep the mobs in business. ('The Long Good-Bye')
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
Raymond Chandler/Robert B.Parker ('Poodle Springs')
Crime is not a disease, it's a symptom. ('The long Good-Bye')
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. ('The Big Sleep')
The power of money becomes very difficult to control.
Life in jail is in suspension, without purpose or meaning.
He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel.
There are one hundred and ninety ways of being a bastard. (all four: 'The long Good-bye')
She looked like you could disappear forever into one of her sighs.
There is something compulsive about a telephone. The Gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish. ('The long Good-bye' ca. 1952)
Subrahmayan Chandrasekhar
There is a time for all things, and a time to end all things.
Beauty is that to which the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.
Coco Chanel
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Charlie Chaplin
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
John Jay Chapman
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
Charles Prince of Wales
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance.
Naomi Chazan
Isn't democracy all about disagreeing in order to improve?
Stephen Chbosky
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech; closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
John Cheever
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
Anton Chekhov
Man is what he believes.
The centre of gravity should be in two people: he and she.
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
Medicine is my lawful wife and writing my mistress; when I tire of one, I spend the night with the other.
Lord Chesterfield
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
G.K.Chesterton
A stiff apology is a second insult.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad if you consider the alternatives.
A woman without secrets is like a flower without scent.
Jacques Chirac
War is proof of failure, it is always the worst solution. All must be done to avoid it.
Nothing would be worse for humanity than to move toward a situation where we speak only one language.
Sam Chisholm
Losers have meetings, winners have parties.
Noam Chomsky
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Robert Chrisman
There is a fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Agatha Christie
Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax. ('They came to Baghdad')
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (‘They came to Baghdad’)
Rachel Chu
The key is playing to win, instead of trying not to lose.
Steven Chu (US Secretary of Energy - 2009)
What the US and China do over the next decade will determine the fate of the world.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Politics is like piano playing: the earlier you start, the better.
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
Never, never, never, never give up!
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Nothing in history was ever settled except by wars.
We shape our buildings, and afterwards they shape us.
The inherent value of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
The traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
The British alone had managed to combine Empire and Liberty.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except of all those other forms.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what's required.
The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down. Pigs treat us as equals.
Madness is … an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of surprise.
There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger. The pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
You can always count on the Americans to do he right thing - after they have tried everything else.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Carlo Ciampi(former President of Italy)
Freedom of the press is paramount. Without press pluralism and impartiality, there is no democracy.
Cicero
A letter doesn't blush.
Laws are silent in times of war.
All things develop from small beginnings.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
The common weal ought to be the highest law.
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
A teacher's authority often harms those who want to learn.
It is perseverance and not genius that takes a man to the top.
People don't understand the great income derived from thrift.
Everyone wants to reach old age but complaints once it is there.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
There is an element of evil in power. But the good we seek can't be had without it.
What could make you happier than to meet some one you can talk to as to yourself?
Gratte Ciel
Rules are not only there to protect the critical mass of society. They are there to keep people unconscious.
Zeno of Citium
We have two ears and only one mouth so that we may listen more and talk less.
René Clair
Nothing unites more strongly than mutual antipathy towards a third.
Arthur C. Clarke
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is really Ocean.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
There may be intelligent life in space or not. Either thought is frightening.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them.
A faith that cannot survive the collision with truth is not worth many regrets.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
I don't pretend to have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20.
Marcus Clarke
The crown of divinity is a crown of thorns.
A deed once done lives in its conequence forever.
In a convict ship the greatest villain is the greatest hero.
There are few men who are not mad one hour out of the waking twelve.
He who would touch the hearts of men must have had his own heart seared.
The missionaries of mankind have ever been great sinners before they earned the divine right to heal and bless.
It was the agony of the Garden and the Cross that gave to the world's Preacher His kingdom in the hearts of men.
Their weakness was made their strength, and out of their own agony of repentance came the knowledge which made them masters and saviours of their kind.
(all from 'For The Terms Of His Natural Life')
Matthias Claudius
Liberty means you can do anything as long as it does no harm to others.
Judge a person according to his deeds and not his words. Many do bad but talk beautifully.
Tiberius Claudius
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Carl von Clausewitz
War is the province of Chance.
War is the continuation of policy by other means.
Military activitiy is never directed against material force alone; it is always aimed simultaneously at the moral forces which give it life, and the two cannot be separated.
Michael Clayton
The truth can be adjusted
John Cleese
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Georges Clemenceau
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
If a man has to be persuaded to act before he acts he is not a man of action. One must act as one breathes.
A man's life is interesting above all when he has failed - I well know. Because it is a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Bill Clinton
Strong and wrong beats weak and right.
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web. - Now even my cat has its own page.
Every election is a change election. All elections are about tomorrow, not yesterday. Yesterday is only relevant as it gives evidence about tomorrow.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Never waste a good crisis.
Women's rights are human rights.
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Dan Cloer
It is wise to remember that we are always at the mercy of our current ignorance: we don't know that we don't know what we don't know.
George Clooney
The problem with famous people in general is that they actually think they're geniuses.
Glenn Close
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
John Cloud
Happiness isn't normal. (in: TIME Magazine)
Ronald Coas
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
Jean Cocteau
Don't get majority mixed up with truth.
One has to know how far one can go too far.
I didn't know it was impossible - that's why I did it.
Many springs might not agree with the course of the river.
It's the strength of fools that they are not afraid of talking nonsense.
Always pretend to be more stupid than the rest of them - just don't be it.
A glass half empty is also half full; but half a lie does not equal half a truth.
Leonard Cohen
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Edwin Louis Cole
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
Teju Cole
Style is formalised obsession.
Tony Coleman (chief actuary, IAG insurance)
There's no doubt that bushfires are directly related to global warming.
Francis Collins (Head of Human Genome Project)
If humanity begins to view itself as a machine, programmed by this DNA sequence, we have lost something really important.
COLORS Magazine
For every doubt there is a product.
C.C.Colton
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Barry Commoner
Everything is connected to everything else.
Richard Condon
The calendar takes care of everything. ("Prizzi's Honour")
The truth had become a problem to be solved. ("Emperor of America")
Fear was the first creator of Gods in the world. ("Prizzi's Money")
(He) was as lovable as a dropped load of napalm. (‘Prizzi's Glory')
Sarcasm is the cheapest kind of crutch to humour. (‘The Manchurian Candidate')
It is fiddly work making houseflies, said the Lord. (‘Prizzi's Glory')
Modern man doesn't need a brain. He has computers and television. (‘Prizzi's Glory')
Their brains had not merely been washed, they had been dry-cleaned. (‘The Manchurian Candidate')
The first thing a human is loyal to ... is his own conditioned nervous system. ("The Manchurian Candidate")
The resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins. (‘The Manchurian Candidate')
Without (consciousness), a bullet becomes a tourist flying without responsibility through the air.
("The Manchurian Candidate")
Marquis de Condorcet
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Confucius
Happiness is everywhere. The trick is to discover it.
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Once people are fed and clothed, then they will think about sex.
Choose a job you like and you never have to work a day of your life
Who makes a mistake but does not correct, will make a second mistake.
Since we know hardly anything about life, how could we know about death?
Experience is like a lantern in the back: it illuminates only the stretch already behind us.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves (one for your enemy, and one for yourself)
Man has three ways to act wisely: first through thinking, which is the noblest; second through imitation, which is the easiest; and third through experience, which is the hardest.
Gui Congyou
We treat our friends with fine wine, but for our enemies we have shotguns.
Steven Conn
Nothing succeeds like failure.
Michael Connelly
Everybody counts or nobody counts. (‘The Narrows’)
There is no end of things in the heart. (‘Lost Light’)
Losing one's empathy was losing one's soul. ('The Dark Hours')
If you don’t like ghosts move out of the house. (‘Echo Park’)
You have to believe in Heaven to believe in Hell. ('Cielo Azul')
You don’t go into the darkness without the darkness going into you. (‘A Darkness More Than Night’)
A trial is a contest of lies. Cops lie. Lawyers lie. Witnesses lie. The victims lie.
(‘The Brass Verdict’)
Cyril Connolly
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hallway.
The factors of decadence – luxury, scepticism, weariness and superstition – are constant. The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
John Connolly
Men, by and large, sought sex. Women traded it. (‘The Unquiet’)
Alana Conner
When people feel threatened, they can't change, they can't listen.
Bob Conquest
If you analyse the systems of a horse and a tiger, you find them pretty much the same: but it would be a great mistake to treat a tiger like a horse.
Joseph Conrad
Words... are the great foes of reality.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
Exactitude in small matters is the very soul of discipline. ('The Secret Sharer')
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. ('Heart of Darkness')
Pat Conroy
Strength deters war, appeasement invites conflict.
Calvin Coolidge
All growth depends on activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort; and effort mens work.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Pierre Corneille
Happiness seems made to be shared.
It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.
Desire increases if fulfilment is postponed.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
We never experience a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Patricia Cornwell
I am serious as a heart attack.
Geniuses don't always work and play well with others. (both 'The Body Farm')
Cosmus Duke of Florence
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Joseph Coughlin
In the past century we have created the greatest gift in the history of humanity: 30 extra years of life.
Yet, we don't know what to do with it.
Bryce Courtenay
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.
Remember, greed is the most important motivation in the human race.
Banks are run by men who have no special talent and are easily infected by opportunity and greed like everyone else.
( all three ‘Salomon’s Song’)
Jacques Cousteau
Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Noel Coward
Work is much more fun than fun.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
It was not Cafe Society, it was Nescafe Society.
There's always something fishy about the French.
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Eva Cox
We live in a society, not in an economy.
Annabel Crabb (Australian journalist)
Take a long walk on a short jetty.
Cathy Craigie
When all the trees have been cut down / when all the animals have been hunted / when all the waters are polluted /
when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only the will you discover you cannot eat money.
Robert Cringely
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
Quentin Crisp
Vice is its own reward.
Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level, it's cheaper.
The idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Alison Croggon
Histories skip over centuries of peace to focus on a year of war.
Oliver Cromwell
Make the iron hot by striking it.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Charles M.Crowe
Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted, not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
Aleister Crowley
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Mario Cuomo
You campaign in poetry and govern in prose.
Ray Cummings
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. (‘The Time Professor')
Bill Cunningham
Money is the cheapest thing, liberty is the most expensive.
Mario Cuomo
We campaign in poetry; we govern in prose.
Marie Curie
All my life through, the new sight of nature made me rejoice like a child.
George W.Curtis
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Nikolaus Cybinsk
He doesn't deserve a monument. He was already petrified when alive.