Joseph Demakis > Quotes

“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coco Chanel”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. Pope Paul VI”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Khalil Gibran”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Francois Fenelon”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.”
― Joseph Demakis, The Ultimate Book Of Quotations