Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho Marx

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"
Steven Wright

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
Andy Warhol

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."
Andy Warhol

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
Robert Frost

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Robert Frost

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson