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"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
People

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
Power

"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
Friendship

"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
People

"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
Birthday

"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
History

"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
Difficulty

"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
Idea

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
Genius
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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
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"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
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"We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic."
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
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"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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