When I got rid of my Facebook account, I said there wasn’t anything I’d miss about having a profile there. I realised today that I was wrong. I miss the quotes section on my profile page.

I know quoting other people is the last refuge of a lazy mind, but I’m a big fan of the well crafted aphorism and my Facebook profile provided a nice way for me to keep track of ones I came across, particularly those I agreed with.

I toyed with the idea of moving them over here, on to my about page, but putting quotes on your blog’s about page is just a cliche too far. So, by way of compromise, I’ve decided to make them into a post so they’ll always be in the archive.

Here goes, then, with the ones I left behind when I left Facebook. Weirdly, almost all of them reflect how I currently feel..

“Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.” - Frank Sinatra

“The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.” - William Goldman

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” - James Thurber

“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.” - Oscar Wilde

“I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.” - Noel Coward

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” - Oscar Wilde

“The best revenge is massive success.” - Frank Sinatra

“Nobody knows anything.” - William Goldman

“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” - Hunter S. Thompson

More as I find/remember them.