William Saroyan: Trending quotes (page 10)

“I was four years old, and had long since reasoned that it was folly to expect the big things from people. It was enough to get the little things. The biggest thing, of course, was love, the nearness of somebody you love when you need somebody to be near.”

“Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.”

“I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world.”

“It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.”

“One of us is obviously mistaken.”

“Be, beget, begone.”

“Cowards are the nicest people, the most interesting, the gentlest, the most refined, the least likely to commit crimes.”

“The bicycle is a city thing, virtually useless anywhere excepting on a pavement or hard surface of some kind. Without the road it would never have been invented. It is a little mad, both in design and purpose. Two wheels held together in a frame, with a simple mechanical system enabling a forward movement for one person.”

“Going around the world on a bicycle is no longer enough -- the daredevil has got to go around the moon on a Pogo stick with one arm tied behind him if he wants to get his picture in the paper.”