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Famous Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
“I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”
“Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.”
“Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.”
“See the cat? See the cradle?”
“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
“Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.”
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
“Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.”
“How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
“In this world, you get what you pay for.”
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
“Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.”
“A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!”
“As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.”
