Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Ogden Nash

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

Ogden Nash

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Philip James Bailey

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

Philip K. Dick

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Philip K. Dick

Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

Philip K. Dick

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Philip K. Dick

It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.

Philip K. Dick

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch