Bartlett's Familiar Quotes

#1. There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

Justin Kaplan

#2. A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again - in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind - that which you were in at the time.

John Constable

#3. The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.

Ishmael Reed

#4. Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass,
This life can be.
Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful
Because common, beautiful because beautiful,
Noble because common, because free.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#5. But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.

Sigmund Freud

#6. What is not recorded is not remembered.

Benazir Bhutto

#7. Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.

Alan Cohen

#8. I've learned that reputation is a truth others concoct to serve their own needs. Genuine truth is revealed in one's actions, actions performed under duress without the time to calculate how they'll make one appear in the world's eyes.

Lindsay Buroker

#9. We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

Johnny Vegas

#10. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of hurtful feelings and memories the same way we so easily send a bad picture sailing into our computer's trash can?

Liz Fenton

#11. I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

Bobby Darin

#12. Ever the charmer, eh, Braden? (Sin)
Hold your tongue, Sin. (Braden)
I would, but with my luck, one of your giant Scottish bugs would land on it. Besides, it makes my hand wet and pruney when I do that. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#13. Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader

Jon Miller

#14. Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!

John Bartlett

#15. That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.

Harold S. Kushner