Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)
Variant: Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
Context: Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try.
“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Sometimes credited to Jack Kerouac, from his book The Dharma Bums. It is not a quote by Kerouac. It first appeared as a very brief description of The Dharma Bums in Esquire's list of "The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read" in 2010: http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g96/80-books/?slide=71. It was later copied by Kilburn Hall in his list of 30 "Books and Authors Every Man Should Read" which he first posted online in 2012: https://kilburnhall.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-books-and-authors-every-man-should-read/
Misattributed
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (15 October 1897), as quoted in Origins of Psychoanalysis
1890s
“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”
George Orwell book Coming Up for Air
Source: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1
“Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.
Introduction to "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.”
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
“Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) American historian, social critic, and public intellectual
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 1070
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
