“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” —Letter to Bushrod Washington (15 January 1783).
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“Rash judgments are doubly pernicious; they hurt those who form them, and those of whom they are formed.”
“If your wife comes home and the front end of the car is rearranged you have to decide, ‘Do I want a good car or a good marriage–you cannot have both at that point.”
“How many sheep there are without, how many wolves within!” (Homilies on John, 45, 12)
“Write drunk, edit sober.” I had to learn this one from my daughter. Not that she drinks–that I know of–but the other night while I was up late working on the script for Vacation Bible School, I was typing so fast because my brain was firing ideas faster than I could record them, and I […]
‘Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.’
“No, it’s logical if you think like your father. See, to him, there’s only two women: your mother and everyone else.”
TOUCHSTONE: This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect yourself with them? ROSALIND: Peace, you dull fool. I found them on a tree. TOUCHSTONE: Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
“You lost today, kid. But that doesn’t mean you have to like it.” One of the best lines in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (or any movie of that matter). It’s what the lead tomb robber (played by Richard Young) said to Young Indy (River Phoenix) as he gifted him with what would become […]
“What a waste of money! What a waste of time! It’s no answer to say that I was well paid. Nobody can be adequately paid for wasting his time.” From a letter to Alfred Hitchcock, which can be seen in its entirety at Letters of Note.