"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y | Excellence | 4 bookmarks

"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

Parker, Dorothy | Wit | 3 bookmarks

"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live."

Parker, Dorothy | Suicide | 4 bookmarks

"Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host."

Parker, Dorothy | Parties | 2 bookmarks

"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy | Apathy | 6 bookmarks

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

Parker, Dorothy | Leaders and Leadership | 2 bookmarks

"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y | Creativity | 1 bookmarks

"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y | Life and Living | 2 bookmarks

"Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y | Liberals | 1 bookmarks

"The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed."

Parker, Dorothy | Words | 3 bookmarks