264 quotes
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
Jailbird (1979)
In the nightmare of a warring world, it takes peculiar skills to get along.
Armageddon in Retrospect (2008)
I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
"Things don't stay the way they are," said Finnerty. "It's too entertaining to try to change them."
Player Piano (1952)
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
Player Piano (1952)
He faced the problem that complicates the lives of cannibals—namely: that a single victim cannot be used over and over.
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Paul wondered at what thorough believers in mechanization most Americans were, even when their lives had been badly damaged by mechanization.
Player Piano (1952)
Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.
Player Piano (1952)
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.
Cold Turkey (2004)
Every greedy, unreasonable dream I’d ever had about what a woman should be came true in Mona. There, God love her warm and creamy soul, was peace and plenty forever.
Cat's Cradle (1963)
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
But listen: If anyone here should wind up on a gurney in a lethal-injection facility, maybe the one at Terre Haute, here is what your last words should be: "This will certainly teach me a lesson."
Armageddon in Retrospect (2008)
It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
Deadeye Dick (1982)
The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.