1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa."Grandfather Wills , Hocus Pocus

And so it goes...

A najgorszą skazą jest to, że jesteśmy najzwyczajniej w świecie głupi. Przyznajcie to! Czy sądzicie, że Auschwitz był dowodem inteligencji? „

On the eighth day, the forty-year-old hobo said to Billy: "This ain't bad. I can be comfortable anywhere.""You can?" said Billy.On the ninth day the hobo died. So it goes. His last words were: "You think this is bad? This ain't bad.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through--poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap--money unhappiness.--"$10,000 a Year, Easy

My nose, thank god, had conked out by then. Noses are merciful that way. They will report that something smells awful. If the owner of a nose stays around anyway, the nose concludes that the smell isn't so bad after all. It shuts itself off, deferring to superior wisdom.

She was a tiny girl—a trinket brunette, very pretty, very pale, and hard as nails.