Who Quotes

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

God help those who do not help themselves.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.