sigmund freud quotes

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson


Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. ~Bob Garfield


All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis


It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery


Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. ~Pete Hamill


Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ~George Eliot


What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


Nothing is more useful than silence. ~Menander of Athens


Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ~Vine Deloria, Jr.


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878


You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter


I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned! ~Author Unknown


There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi


It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen. ~Author Unknown


'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870


Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer


It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945