Quips& Quotes

“We have as many personalities as we have friends.” – attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Oldie

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” – Ursula Le Guin

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” – Spike Milligan

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to success.” – actor Jim Backus

“You can’t bomb your way to peace.” – Madeleine Habib, Médicins Sans Frontières

“The word ‘reality’ is one of the few words that means nothing without quotes.”

– Vladimir Nabokov

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.” – Baudelaire

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

– CS Lewis

“This is the first time in a year we’ve seen a man apologising for something and it wasn’t sexual harassment. Progress!”

– Trevor Noah on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

“As always, I’m surrounded by fans. But that’s what happens when you’re a farming superstar.” – Sam Neill about his chickens

“Hate loves silence, which it takes for consent.”

– JK Rowling

“I’m not afraid of dying. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen