Richard Lederer Quotes

#1. I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

Richard Lederer

#2. There have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.

Jane Goodall

#3. English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Richard Lederer

#4. I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

Richard Lederer

#6. I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

Boozoo Chavis

#7. I have a rat inside my skull that runs on a treadmill - pitta-patta pitta-patta pitta-patta. I enjoy the company of other people who experience that pitta-patta in their skulls.

Richard Lederer

#8. When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.

Richard Lederer

#9. Work hard and honest, love what you do, and good things will

Beverly Preston

#10. We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

Richard Lederer

#11. Had made her see that there was hope for many of her squadmates, hope for a life beyond the regimented existence of an Arrow. Those like Zaira could stand sentinel against the darkness so others could be free to grab at life.

Nalini Singh

#12. A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.

Jane Austen

#13. The opposite is best. Whenever you're angry with someone, apply this maxim. I means doing the exact opposite of what your body's telling you to do. Believe me, it works miracles. Titus in Love in Lowercase

Francesc Miralles

#14. In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

Richard Lederer

#16. Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

Bob Teague

#17. In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens
the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

Richard Lederer

#18. If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.

Michael Jackson

#19. Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.

Richard Lederer

#20. Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.

Richard Lederer

#21. In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#22. The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,
and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

Richard Lederer

#23. The garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#24. Those memories and his feelings for her, had lain dormant but not forgotten.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda