492 Quotes by source unknown

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not ''happiness and pleasure'' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.