H.P. Oliver Quotes

Don't be consistent but be simply true.

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.

I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.

We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

You are not an "author, " you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.

During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant of those lessons is that I still have many lessons to learn about out craft.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.