1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way.

The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had wrought. We accepted their congratulations with good grace and proper modesty, but I felt then as I feel now, that I would have given my life to save Dresden for the World's generations to come. That is how everyone should feel about every city on Earth.

The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!

And somebody might now want to ask me, "Can't you ever be serious?" The answer is, "No.

They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?