Bespoiled Quotes & Sayings

I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil. — Jim Norton

Suppose I should say to a wrestler, 'Show me your muscle'. And he should answer me, 'See my dumb-bells'. Your dumb-bells are your own affair; I want to see the effect of them.
Take the treatise 'On Choice', and see how thoroughly I have perused it.
I am not asking about this, O slave, but how you act in choosing and refusing, how you manage your desires and aversions, your intentions and purposes, how you meet events
whether you are in harmony with nature's laws or opposed to them. If in harmony, give me evidence of that, and I will say you are progressing; if the contrary, you may go your way, and not only comment on your books, but write some like them yourself; and what good will it do you? — Epictetus

You really oughta warn a guy when you're going all glamorous on him, so he'd be prepared. — Rosamond Du Jardin

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament. — Robert Walpole

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. — Jim Rohn

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record. — Paul McCartney

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back! — Nick Johnson

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain De Botton

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator. — Dylan Moran

What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he'd stepped out of himself. He'd slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that fell to the floor with the unfastening of a single closure. The person beneath it was someone he barely recognized. — Lisa Unger

Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.' — Jimmy Fallon

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity. — David D. Aitken

They no longer saw themselves as doers or avengers or saviors; the day had absorbed them. Helplessly, they were only living. — Stephen King

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together. — Michel De Montaigne