Jules Feiffer quotes

" Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. " # Age and Aging # Maturity # Adolescence

" Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? " # Martyrdom # Sin # Jesus Christ

" At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? " # Age and Aging

" I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary. " # Poverty and The Poor # Words # Love

" The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. " # Adolescence # Mistakes # Belief

" Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them " # Martyrdom # Sin # Jesus Christ

" Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. " # Confidence # Action # Sex

" I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. " # Quotations