#w

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#few #friends #his #indeed #life

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them. ↗

— James Caan

#anybody #because #bodyguards #forbid #get

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. ↗

— James Caan

#going #him #i #i quit #once

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding? ↗

— James Caan

#am #baseball #bat #crying #dope

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. ↗

— James Caan

#brando #done #generation #hasn #lying

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. ↗

— James Caan

#being #collector #does #garbage #honestly

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference. ↗

— James Caan

#between #difference #five #four #i

The banalities of a great man pass for wit. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#great man #man #man pass #pass #wit