Quotations

"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas."

— Jose Marti, Cuban journalist, born 1853

"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century."

— Jose Marti, Cuban journalist, born 1853

"The world is the same--you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love."

— Dean Martin, American singer, born 1917

"The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about."

— Dean Martin, American singer, born 1917

"I intend to live forever, or die trying."

— Groucho Marx, American comedian, born 1890

"I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from.
Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvah, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat."

— Harpo Marx, American comedian, born 1888

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

— Karl Marx, German philosopher, born 1818

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

— Karl Marx, German philosopher, born 1818

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."

— Karl Marx, German philosopher, born 1818

"Barn burned down. Now I can see the moon."

— Mizuta Masahide, Japanese poet and samurai, born 1657

"One does not complain about water because it is wet, nor rocks because they are hard, or trees because they are green. As the child looks out upon the world with wide, uncritical and innocent eyes, simply noting and observing what is the case, without either arguing the matter or demanding that it be otherwise, so does the self-actualizing person look upon human nature both in himself and in others."

— Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, born 1908

"Self-actualized people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy, however stale these experiences may be for other people."

— Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, born 1908

"If donating organs communicates something important about what we believe, then offering them at the department of motor vehicles makes getting a driver's license a sacred moment."

— Kevin Massey, American pastor

"When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either."

— William Masters, American gynecologist, born 1915