"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."

Renard, Jules on Literature
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"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Fowler, Gene on Writers and Writing
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Bach, Richard on Writers and Writing
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"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."

Asimov, Isaac on Writers and Writing
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"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."

Valdez, Jeff on Cats
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on Nature
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"Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end"

Unknown, Source on Life and Living
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"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better."

Oliphant, Margaret on Style
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"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."

Hudnick, Gittel on Money
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"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand."

Grass, Gunther on Arts and Artists
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"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

Unknown, Source on Arts and Artists
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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

Woolf, Virginia on Food and Eating
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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."

Wilder, Thornton on Adventure
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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

Belloc, Hilaire on Song and Singing
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"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

Jordan, Michael on Enjoyment
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"It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Leisure
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"If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing."

Proverb, Zimbabwe on Music
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"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

Lebowitz, Fran on Food and Eating
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"The covers of this book are too far apart."

Bierce, Ambrose on Critics and Criticism
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"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet."

Gordon, George on Parties
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"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."

Ade, George on Posterity
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up."

Picasso, Pablo on Children
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"It's fun being a kid."

Angier, Bradford Arthur on Children
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"Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs."

Maugham, W. Somerset on Association
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on Evil
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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

Lerner, Max on Evil
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

West, Mae on Evil
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"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on Evil
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"There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing."

Proverb, French on Gambling
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"I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against."

Runyon, Damon on Gambling
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"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet."

Runyon, Damon on Gambling
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"Nothing is sacred to a gamester."

Saurin, Bernard Joseph on Gambling
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"The dice of Zeus always fall luckily."

Sophocles on Gambling
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"One should always play fair when one has the winning cards."

Wilde, Oscar on Gambling
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"I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else."

Byron, Lord on Gambling
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"Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces."

Proverb, American on Gambling
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