Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen…
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It?s the age-old struggle?the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
A 'geek' by definition is someone who eats live animals....I've never eaten live animals.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
I would rather be governor of California than own Austria.
Boldness be my friend.
The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people and don't come in clearly enough.
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much…
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
Round numbers are always false.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first!
Without music, life would be a mistake.
You're never too old to become younger.
I can't think of a better way to spread the message of world peace than by working with the NFL and being part of Super Bowl XXVII.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which…
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added…
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances…
Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for…
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that…
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a…
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Civilized people need love for full sexual satisfaction.
The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find…
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression…
That government is best which governs least.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.
A guy could have one major limb lying on the ground a full ten feet from the rest of his body, and he'd claim it was 'just a sprain'.
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.