Another selection of recently encountered quotes to make you think or smile. So to get us off on just the right note …
Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us.
[Wallace Thurman, writing in Infants of Spring]
One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.
[James Thurber]
I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just sit and talk. About love, about life, about anything, about everything. To sit under the moon with all the time in the world, the full-speed train that is our lives slowing to a crawl. Bound by no obligations, barred by no human limitations. To speak without regret or fear of consequence. To talk for hours and about what’s really important in life.
[unknown]
Stories never really end … even if the book likes to pretend they do. Stories always go on.
[Cornelia Funke, Inkspell]
When we love people so, we love them for what they are, not for what we wish they were.
[Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina]
Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.
[Gayle Forman, Just One Day]
By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms — elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest — will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.
[Aldous Huxley]
Telling people not to shag until they’re married is like telling them not to play tennis until they’re in the Wimbledon final.
[Girl on the Net]
Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.
[Mae West]
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
[Groucho Marx]
I have always imagined that Paradise will be kind of a library.
[Jorge Luis Borges]
People have to talk about something just to keep their voiceboxes in working order so they’ll have good voiceboxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
[Kurt Vonnegut]
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with the mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre, and in some cases, backbone.
[Terry Pratchett]
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
[AA Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh]