Fredric Brown Quotes

#1. Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.

Fredric Brown

#2. When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.

Fredric Brown

#3. The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.
And only the phoenix lives forever.

Fredric Brown

#4. People are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.

Fredric Brown

#5. No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

Fredric Brown

#6. It should not matter, but it does. I want to know how many hours of the night are gone and how many remain and that there is no good reason for my wanting to know does not stop the wanting.

Fredric Brown

#7. There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.

Fredric Brown