quotes about fake people in your life

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950


How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation? ~Samuel Johnson How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks. ~Chef, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride," original airdate 3 September 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone


Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


I cannot help it, - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. ~Alfred de Musset, L'Espoir en Dieu


It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. ~Mark Twain


Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ~Francis Meehan


He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. ~Kenneth Boulding, "Energy and the Environment," Beasts, Ballads, and Bouldingisms, 1976


Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ~Paul Eldridge


The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins. ~Tom Canterbury


I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ~Bertrand Russell, 1912


I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932


Forbidden things have a secret charm. ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus


Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ~Theodore Parker


Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~Mark Twain


Me and ice cream. Best friends forever. ~Jessi Lane Adams


It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. ~Dale E. Turner It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ~Stephen Mallarme


It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. ~Rebecca West


In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. ~Jeff Bezos