Bloomsday Quotes

#1. The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.

Edmondo De Amicis

#3. Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

Suzanne Collins

#4. God made women too beautiful and their memories too long.

David B. Lentz

#5. If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

Jonathan Ive

#6. What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.

Pat Condell

#7. No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

Orison Swett Marden

#8. I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors. Closed it down and opened the Fuck You, Get Over It bed and breakfast.

Scroobius Pip

#9. People are just not impressed by me at home.

Viola Davis

#10. Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

Morrissey

#11. At this moment, I have nothing to do or ponder except love and wonder.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

M.F.K. Fisher

#13. Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

Bruce Hornsby

#14. A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful-then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

William Allingham

#15. Time doth make cowherds of us all.

David B. Lentz

#16. Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Austin O'Malley

#17. God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning ... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.

David B. Lentz

#18. Laugh, but weep at the same time. If you cannot weep with your eyes, weep with your mouth. If this is still impossible, urinate.

Comte De Lautreamont