The Old Gringo Quotes

#1. Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles

#2. When we say nasty things about other people, we're really criticizing something in them that we don't like in ourselves.

Craig Lancaster

#3. The thing is," said Gilheeny, "is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.

Samuel Shem

#4. Good-bye
if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

Earl Wilson

#6. Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#7. There are basically two types of memory which can either be long or short term.

Marc Collingwood