jburns’s most recent Quotables

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Life is like riding a bicycle; in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

The girl speaks eighteen languages and can't say no in any of them.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Mr Churchill, you are drunk.

Madam, you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning.

It's times like these I wish I were an ostrich.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.