Maude-isms
• “For aesthetic appreciation, always a little time.”
• “Burials and births--one linked to the other, the great circle of life.”
• “I like to keep variety--always looking for the new experience.
• “People get upset because they feel they have a hold on to things. I’m just here as a reminder: Here today, gone tomorrow, so don’t hold onto things.”
• “How the world still dearly loves a cage.”
• “Try something new each day. After all we are given life to find it out. It doesn’t last forever.”
• “Greet the dawn with a breath of fire.
• “Is it enough?”
• “I like to watch things grow. They grow and bloom and fade and die and change into something else. Ah life...”
• “I feel that much of the world’s sorrow comes from people who are this yet allow themselves to be treated as that.”
• “Consistency is not really a human trait.”
• “Everybody should be able to make some music; that’s the cosmic dance.”
• “The earth is my body...my head is in the stars.”
• “Isn’t it wonderful? All around us living things!”
• “Vice...virtue..it’s best not to be too moral; you cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality; if you apply that to life, then you’re bound to live it fully.”
• “Kings die...kingdoms fell...I don’t regret the kingdoms, What sense in borders and patriotism? But I miss the kings.”
• “A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they’re not dead really; they’re just backing away from life...Play as well as you can. L-I-V-E live! Otherwise you’ve got nothing to talk about in the locker room.”
• “Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves; you can’t let the world judge you too much.”
• Harold: You sure have a way with people.
Maude: Well, they’re my species.
• Harold: I love you!
Maude: Oh, Harold. That is wonderful. Go and love some more.
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