"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
Benedict Spinoza(11/24/1632 – 02/21/1677)
Dutch philosopher ("Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order")
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
Benedict Spinoza
"I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it."
Laurence Sterne
"The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any sane person."
Zachary Taylor
"Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it."
William Lamb Melbourne
"Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that."
Scott Joplin
"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids. Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."
Anna Louise Strong
"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
Margaret Caroline Anderson
"Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everybody who voted for Kennedy or Rockefeller."
William F. Buckley
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
Georges Clemenceau
"Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
Billy Connolly
"I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive."
Candy Darling
"Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like."
Spider Robinson
"July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever....Too late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida."
Diego Rivera
"I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be—in order to come up with a good excuse."
Colin Hanks
"And I'd love to one day be in a position where I could choose a role to showcase my creativity versus just my bra size."
Katherine Heigl
"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."
Dodie Smith
"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear."
Freddy Mercury
"Manifestly subliterate."
John Simon
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
Clive James