To be is to do - Socrates
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
I could carve a better man out of a banana.
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Fath...
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
No damn cat, and no damn cradle.
Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. *Harmless untruths
It is never a mistake to say good-bye.
If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternit...
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground...
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we could all be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice,And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise.
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir. he read, You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure...
American humorist Kin Hubbard said , It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have...