Famous Bill Phillips Quotes

#1. But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Demetri Martin

#2. Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

Julie Burchill

#3. I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?

Italo Calvino

#4. Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

Edward FitzGerald

#5. If you try to pinpoint the meaning of the Anglo-Saxon now using Ibero-American ideas, your ability to correctly measure time will most likely decrease.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#6. Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you.
Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.

L.J.Smith

#7. I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

Henry Alford

#8. The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Empathy and joy of life are closely connected. For most of us, deep and intense moments of happiness are often, if not always, tied to deep and intense contact with others.
Training our empathetic abilities is therefore also training joy of life.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#11. Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. You know my God. My God is called love

Mother Teresa