"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." -Harper Lee
"A buried conscience is the worst ghost of all." - Janice Law (slightly edited)
"An attorney must have either a guilty conscience or no conscience at all." -David Mamet
"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well and is cheaper, and more easily obtained." - Jerome K. Jerome
"In a place where there is no human, strive to be human." - Rabbi Yona
"In order to discover who you are first learn who everybody else is and you're what's left." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"The best time to publish your book is next year." - Andy Peloquin
"If the final hour comes upon you when you are planting a tree, finish planting it." - Hadith
"Don't say you're against false equivalencies if you eat bananas." - Eric Lyden
"You can't go to a party ironically." - Jon Lovett
"Remember the first rule of conspiracy theories: follow the monkey." - Stephen Colbert
"If a chap can’t compose an epic poem while he’s weaving tapestry he had better shut up.’ - William Morris
"The journey of a single step can begin with a thousand miles." - John Flynn
"If you don't have a joke a fact is second best." - Penn Jillette
"When life gives you lemons have a gin and tonic." - Simon Brett
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Bring a flash light." - Chris Knopf
"Be ye not snit-prone." -Bryan Bowers
"Ever
tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett
"Don't kill the messenger. In fact, don't kill anyone." - Andy Zaltzman
"If you catch all your flights you're getting to the airport too early." - Jon Lovett
"When life gives you harlequins, make harlequinade." - Falsetry
"'Write about what you know' gets a bad rap. If you don't know do the research and then you know." - Barb Goffman
"If you were thinking of assassinating a politician my main advice would be don't bother - they keep spares." - Mat Coward
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” - Henry James
“Write like everyone you know is dead." - Joe Lansdale
"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard." - John Steinbeck
"You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind." - Hillary DePiano
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more
dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit
will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit
is persistence in practice.” - Octavia Butler
"When I have a hard time identifying what desperately needs my attention, it's usually sleep." - Mike Bray
"A word of advice: Don't Google nun's underwear." - Catriona McPherson
"Experience is a thing of extraordinary value and often exorbitant price. And yet, when you try to give it away, to hand it over to someone else free of charge, they frequently refuse it." - Leonard Pitts.
"No crying on the yacht." - Catriona McPherson
"Talking is how they distract us from doing, and never mistake a Post or Submit button for someone’s genuine interest or actual action in the world." - Will Ludwigsen"No man can serve two bastards." -Jim Britell
"If I've learned one thing from reading Dante, it's that if you find yourself in hell, take notes." - Neil Steinberg
"Don't steal the reader's crayons."- Chantelle Aimee Osman.
"You can't mend an omelet without unbreaking a few eggs." - Neil Gaiman
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." -Confucius
“Those memories ain't gonna make themselves.” – Brian Thornton
"Don't kill your darlings. Just lock them in the basement." - Jon McGoran
“There is ecstasy in paying attention.” - Annie Dillard
“The only difference between a groove and a grave is the depth.” - Michael Z. Lewin
“Water towers on fire take care of themselves.” -Chris Otepka
“To really succeed neatness-wise you need a messy best friend.” -James Powell
“Let us look less to the sky to see what might fall; rather, let us look to each other…and rise.” -Judge Michael McShane
“Sometimes you have to be forced into your luck.” -William DeAndrea
"Only a damned fool puts the fight above what he fights for.” -Michael Collins
“What Would Sam Spade Do?” -William Francis Condon
“Wearing belt and suspenders doesn’t help if you forget your pants.” -Lorrie B. Potters
"Never argue with a nerd - you both get bogged down in details, but the nerd enjoys it." - Emily Keene
"The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'" -Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Be obscure clearly.” - E.B. White
“What is to give light must endure burning.” - Viktor Frankl
"Be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust." -Ian Andersen.
"The earliest Christians get the hungriest lions." John M. Floyd
"Never swear at a parrot." Kevin McLoughlin
"It is impossible to wrap ones arms around a whale, a fleeing fox or a sunken ship" Judge Kevin M. McCarthy, Popov v. Hayashi
"If you hear any sinister background music, run like hell." -Carol Cail
"Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry." -Spanish Proverb
"Forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them more." -Oscar Wilde
"Beware of barking at underdogs; don't fight with people who have nothing to lose." -Dory Previn
"Rather than easy answers, search for clearer contradictions." -Lorrie B. Potters
"If all the people of the world would just join hands, three quarters of them would drown." -attributed to Pete Seeger
"It's a free country, or at least deeply discounted." - Lorrie B. Potters
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights created America." -- Jimmy Carter
"America is always changing, but America never changes." - James Baldwin
“There is in American history a specie of ignorance, absurdity, and imbecility unknown to the annals of any other nation.” -James Callender, who drowned in a mud puddle
"Americans worship at the Church of the Second Chance." - Mara Liasson
"Questioning generals is what Americans do." - Neil Steinberg
"I am an American from the tip of my wallet to the bottom of my bank account." - Charles Salzberg
"When you've got immigrants who are coming here legally, we've never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion." - Governor Nikki Haley, R-SC. 1/13/2016
“When you don't like it where you are you always go west.” -Robert Penn Warren.
“The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay.” - Julian Castro
"Marketing is what made America great. " -Jeffrey Dronkin, NPR Ombudsman
"America has left the building." -Chris Chandler
"I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood." -Dan Bern
"The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place to sit down." -Albert J. Tally, 1924
"The number of drug addicts in the United States is variously estimated...at from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000." -L.F. Kebler, 1910 (A1.9:393)
"A surfeit of skunks creates their own crosswalk." - Douglas Fingles
"No one walks slower than an entitled goose." -Anjili Ferris Babbar
"Possums often fake their own deaths in hopes of collecting the insurance money." - Sandra Murphy
"There are so
many legends about wolves, although mostly they are legends about the
way men think about wolves." - Terry Pratchett
"I want to be intimately involved with a black rhino. If I go over
there and shoot it or not shoot it, it's beyond the point." -Corey
Knowlton, who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt and kill a rhinoceros.
"The squirrels don't hate you. They talk about everyone." -Kim Barlow
"If a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun." -Dan Rather
"If a chicken had grammar, it wouldn't have anything interesting to say." -David Premack
"Rats are gifted with charm, imagination, and generosity." -U.S.
National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration, TD 8.31:Z7/ENG./CHINESE
"The dog who bites you may have his reasons." -James E. Ricketson
"Consider the mouse before he considers you." -Herb Sargent
"The fact that monkeys have hands should give us pause." -R.D. Malloy
"No
bleakness is complete without a crow." - J.B. Toner
"Skulls go with everything." - Toni L. P. Kelner
"A poor sculptor blames his chainsaw." - Zeke Hoskin
"Culture – it’s supposed to be borin’." - Roddy Doyle
"Kids and art have the same purpose: finding out what it means to be a person." - Mac Barnett
"Anywhere a ferry pulls into looks good.” Marissa Piesman
"Promises are made to be broken...Otherwise there wouldn't be half as much art or beauty in the world." -Laura Anne Gilman
"I can sleep through anything but beauty." -Flip Breskin
"Some paintings would be easier to appreciate if the artists were hung next to them." -Lorrie B. Potters
"The odds fall sweet in favor to an open heart." - Ferron
"There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns." Octavia E. Butler
"I'll agree to anything if you ask me far enough in advance." - Jimmy Johnson
"Some people never consider changing themselves, not when it's so much easier to try to change the entire world instead." - Neil Steinberg
"I did my worst and I did it well." -Judy Goodenough
"I don't light up a room by walking in. I'm a human dimmer switch." - Dan Savage
"That was the PROPER nostalgia. Not the nostalgia you get these days." - Terry Pratchett
"In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy." - Tom Holt
"The world is built to eat you alive, but before you go down the gullet the bastards can't stop you from looking around." - Jess Walter
"Sometimes I feel like my shadow's casting me." - Warren Zevon
" I'm changing the world, one trite catchphrase at a time." - Peter Rozovsky
"Everybody who sees the world through rose-colored glasses is a
realist. That's why they put the rose-colored glasses on." - Max Allan
Collins.
"Everyone wants to feel special, but nobody wants to feel different." -Richard Osman
"It is not strictly true that absolutely no one likes a pedant." - Andy Zaltzman
"I don’t ask for a lot. It saves time." –
Marina Hyde
"I have a five part answer to that. The first part has sixteen parts. " -John Scalzi
“I’ve spent a lot of years learning that ‘No’ is a complete sentence,' but I think I’ve finally got it.” -Elizabeth Zelvin
"Overreacting in advance saves time later." - Catriona McPherson
"You never know when your bad luck is going to run out." - Dan Savage
"A good sulk is a commitment." - Sarah Kellington
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right." -Arthur Schopenhauer
"I will be conquered. I will not capitulate." - Samuel Johnson
"The worst thing in the world is to be deliberately, flamboyantly shocking and depraved and have no one pay attention." -Eve Fisher
"Who among us has not wanted to be a pregnant horse?" - John Scalzi
"Nostalgia was arthritis of the brain." -John Harvey
"Impulse does not appreciate being questioned." - Matthew Iden
"Half aloof is better than none." - Terri Weiner
"I am not a recluse but I play one in real life" - O'Neil De Noux
"Sometimes I even surprise myself. it comes in handy when I have the hiccups." - Charles Salzberg
"When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they? " - Bob Monkhouse
"I live by the question mark and I'll die by the exclamation point." - Laird Long
"One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious." - Chateaubriand
"You don't choose your obsessions. They choose you." -Jodi Compton
"I don’t have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.” - Loren D. Estleman
“ARE YOU CALLING ME EASILY OFFENDED?!?” - Ophelia Benson
“I don’t care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy.” - Lee Child.
“This isn’t a relationship. It’s a hostage situation.” –Dan Savage
“Imperfection is sustainable.” –Libby Chenault
“I’m hardly ever on the winning side, but that don’t mean I ain’t been right.” -Michael Smith
“There are no happy endings… there are only happy people.” - Dorothy Gilman
"I’m ready for anything. That’s probably why it never happens.” -Kinky Friedman
"I'd go away, if it wasn't so far." - Corey Ford
"I don't burn bridges behind me, I nuke them." -Jacqueline Bartha
"I will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance." -Leonard Cohen
"Some days I don't know if I should laugh or call the police." -Cecil Adams
"Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath." -H. Allen Smith, 1947
"It's probably too late to do anything about it now, but the next best thing is to complain about it, which is what we're good at." -David Williams, Citizens Against Government Waste
"Sometimes joy slips in." -Richard Matoon
"I couldn't feel so I learned to touch." - Leonard Cohen
"Yes, I am insane. Thanks for asking." -Harlan Coben
"Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.'" -Avram Davidson
"They can't break you if you don't have a spine." -Scott Adams
"The last freedom is choosing your attitude." -Victor Frankel
"If that indifference was originally a defense, it had consumed what it had once defended." -Ursula K. Le Guin
"They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known." -Billy Joel
"We all wanted to be existentialists. None of us knew what the hell it meant." -Michael Smith
"Whoever thought the sixties would be called the good old days?" -Si Kahn
"heaven protect us from all the things / to which we can become accustomed" -Gloria McElroy
"A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale." -John Ciardi
"Of course, this is only my personal opinion and I may be old-fashioned, but I would rather be old-fashioned than terribly, terribly ill with fever and have to wear ice-packs for weeks on end." -Robert Benchley
"Good manners are a sign of strength." -Dick Francis
"A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull." -Jerome K. Jerome
"Five years ago I was a four stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas." -Vivian Stanshall
"The expression 'dead serious' is a self-fulfilling prophesy." -C.W. Metcalf
"Most people would rather stand on hot coals than stand corrected." -Lorrie B. Potters
