Bugger Quotes

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives

and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

That our government should have been maintained in its original

form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at.

It had many props to support it through that period,

which now are decayed and crumbled away.

Through that period,

it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now,

it is understood to be a successful one.

O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught.

Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

One year they asked me

to be poster boy for birth control.

There has never yet been a man in our history,

who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.

Acting is the art of inhabiting someone else’s soul.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

Unexpressed emotions will never die.

They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal;

it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I don’t know why people think dreams are nonsense.

I looked up my family tree and found out

I was the sap.

Writing is my love.

If you love something,

you find a lot of time.

I write for two hours a day,

usually starting at midnight; at times,

I start at 11.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity,

and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

Try to make sense of what you see, and

wonder about what makes the universe exist.

Be curious

I go to assume a task more difficult than that

which devolved upon Washington.

Unless the great God, who assisted him,

shall be with me and aid me, I must fail;

but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm

that directed and protected him shall guide and support me,

I shall not fail I shall succeed.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.

Your goodness must have some edge to it,

else it is none.