Arthur M. Jolly Quotes

Marriage is the safe harbor men proffer from a tempest they themselves conjure into creation.

If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

You can't make cheese from rats. … It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

A servant is the true reflection of his master.

The waves round the horn will toss us to and fro, to and fro like a rubber duckie in the bathtub of an angry God.

Just because you’re living in blissful oblivion doesn’t mean you’re not responsible.

Get me a drink, or I'll tell you I love you. I'll wake you up in an hour or two, crooning, all sloppy and maudlin, tell you I love you really. You'd like that, right? Hearing Momma tell you she loves you? Isn't that what you want, deep inside?

What about what he lives for, Squire? Isn't that the true measure of a man, what he lives for?

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

You'll find, young Jim, that there are two measures of a man. Only two. What he will die for...and what he will kill for. You made your choice aboard the Hispaniola.

I said I'd make ye a man, Jim - but damme if ye didn't go and do it behind my back when I were watching elsewhere.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

One cannot restrain a dancing cow.