Quaintest Quotes

#1. Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain
Quaintest thoughts - queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

William Gibson

#3. Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Robert Mugabe

#4. I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious
unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

Mark Twain

#5. The holy country is occupied by holy citizens.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Take your patience pill ... You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

Michael Nutter

#7. Things come apart much easier than they go together.

William Wharton

#8. You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.

Nirmala Srivastava

#9. Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

J. Lincoln Fenn

#10. When in doubt, zoom out.

Reggie Watts

#11. I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.

Carol Loomis

#12. Is it harder to dream about what you don't have, than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Barbara Delinsky

#13. They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

Erich Maria Remarque

#14. The way I feel when you look at me is divine purpose. I don't think a species could have created this feeling that I have for you, not even in millions of years. I think it's too good and too pure, and sometimes, I don't feel worthy of such a gift and yet, it's mine.

Christina L. Barr

#15. Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly
about any subject at all.

William Zinsser

#16. The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

Thomas Jefferson