Willeford Charles Quotes & Sayings

No whiskey, no religion, nothing. — Charles Willeford

I have the utmost respect for people who are asexual. I didn't believe that they existed at first. But they do exist, and their numbers are growing. — Volkmar Sigusch

My work is one long triumph over my limitations. — Charles Willeford

And what will bow your shoulders down
will be the vicious and worthless company
with whom you will fall into this abyss. — Dante Alighieri

Money is the root of all goodness. To talk disparagingly about money is the privilege of those who have money. There are also those people who state matter-of-factly that "money isn't everything". This statement is also true, but only so long as one has money. — Charles Willeford

I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon. — Charles Willeford

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. — Charles Willeford

The Filipino houseboy was conscious now — Charles Willeford

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace. — Jonathan Jackson

A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance. — Charles Willeford

And frankly, I'm a huge gold digger and The Miz is about to make a lot of money! — Alex Riley

It is a funny thing. A man can make a promise to his God, break it five minutes later and never think about it. With an idle shrug of his shoulders, a man can break solemn promises to his mother, wife or sweetheart, and, except for a slight momentary twinge of conscience, he still won't be bothered very much. But if a man ever breaks a promise to himself he disintegrates. His entire personality and character crumble into tiny pieces, and he is never the same man again.
I remember very well a sergeant I knew in the army. Before a group of five men he swore off smoking forever. An hour later he sheepishly lit a cigarette and broke his vow to the five of us and to himself. He was never quite the same man again, not to me, and not to himself. — Charles Willeford

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult. — Charles Willeford

I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make ... I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King. — Charles Willeford

he was an oddity of some magnitude. — Charles Willeford

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it. — Robert Greene

Nothing human surprises me. — Charles Willeford

By the end of a short walk, the septic tip of a cane probably collects enough germs to destroy a small city. — Charles Willeford

Outside of taking care of a man's needs, women don't get much pleasure out of life, anyways. — Charles Willeford

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways. — Thomas A Kempis

Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer. — Charles Willeford

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. — Thomas Lynch

It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny anymore because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny. — Charles Willeford

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. — Thor Heyerdahl