Couton Quotes & Sayings

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. — Jimmy Buffett

The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal. — Edward Short

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. — Mindy Kaling

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them. — Birdy

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up. — Dan Garfat-Pratt

It had, however, been declared by his own physician to be a case of natural causes. Bentzen had gone to see the man and explained that falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back was a disease caused by an unwise opening of the mouth. — Terry Pratchett

It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle. — Kenneth Kaunda

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. — Pierre Corneille