Showing posts with label John F. Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John F. Kennedy. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

A passel of quotes of the day

Sex is like a game of bridge - if you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.
- Mae West

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- Congressman, Senator, and President John F. Kennedy

Always run from a knife and rush a gun.
- Jimmy Hoffa

This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.
-William Blake

Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken.
- Author Unknown

It was a pleasant café, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a café au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
-Ernest Hemingway

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
- Eli Khamarov

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ~Stephen Mallarme

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
-Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
- Elton John
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