“Beulah, peel me a grape!”
Mae West in I’m No Angel, quoted in Esprit de Corps Vol. 9 #2 (Dec. 2001) (see also https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024166/trivia)
“A ship wrecked sailor, buried on this coast/ Bids you set sail./ Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost,/ Weathered the gale.”
“a finely translated epigram in the Greek anthology” quoted in William James, Pragmatism and four essays from The Meaning of Truth
“It is universally acknowledged that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions. The same events always follow from the same causes.”
David Hume, quoted in Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Susan Sontag, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail July 23 2001
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
“You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece.”
Gunnery Sargeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket]
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.”
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
“For everywhere, above and below, you will find nothing but the selfsame things; they fill the pages of all history, ancient, modern, and contemporary; and they fill our cities and homes today. There is no such thing as novelty; all is as trite as it is transitory.”
Marcus Aurelius Meditations VII.1