Woody Allen

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.
Dionne Warwick

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Dionne Warwick

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan Quayle

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Woody Allen

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Woody Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen


Other people:

I Can Never Change The Direction Of The WIND But I Can Always Adjust MY Sails

"Take whatever you can and give nothing back." - pirates

We were even wrong about what mistake we are making.

I refused an offer she didn't make.


Khalil Gibran:

Only an idiot and a genius break man-made laws; and they are the nearest to the heart of God.


We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.


Is there a greater fault than being conscious of the other person's faults?


It is the honor of the murdered that he is not the murderer.


A great singer is he who sings our silences.


The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.


I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.


If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces,
Then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.


A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.


No man can draw the line between necessities and luxuries. Only the angels can do that, and the angels are wise and wistful.
Perhaps the angels are our better thought in space.


Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.


He who longs the most lives the longest.


Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.


We choose our joys and our sorrows long before we experience them.

Turtles can tell more about roads than hares.


My father and mother desired a child and they begot me.
And I wanted a mother and a father and I begot night and the sea.


You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.


The truly free man is he who bears the load of the bond slave patiently.


Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches;
Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.


Death is not nearer to the aged than to the new-born; neither is life.


Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.


The envious praises me unknowingly.


A great man has two hearts; one bleeds and the other forbears.


There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.


Should you sit upon a cloud you would not see the boundary line between one country and another, nor the boundary stone between a farm and a farm.
It is a pity you cannot sit upon a cloud.


Seven centuries ago seven white doves rose from a deep valley flying to the snow-white summit of the mountain. One of the seven men who watched the flight said, "I see a black spot on the wing of the seventh dove."
Today the people in that valley tell of seven black doves who flew to the summit of the snowy mountain.


In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden.
And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers.
And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"


Art is a step from nature toward the Infinite.


Even the hands that make crowns of thorns are better than idle hands.


Our most sacred tears never seek our eyes.


Every thought I have imprisoned in expression I must free by my deeds.

We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein


I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein


If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein


If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein


Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Gertrude Stein


It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein


Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein


Money is always there but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein


The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein


Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein


There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein


When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein


You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein