Quotes of Barry Humphries

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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

- Barry Humphries

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“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ If you are happy with the person you are becoming, and you can understand that the journey is long and the processes are slow; you are on the right track no matter what your current situation is. ”

- Joshua Lynott

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes. ”

- Steve Backley

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller