Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.[Albert Einstein] Quote:There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.[Kevin Smith] Quote:Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'[Jedi Master Yoda] Quote:Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't part anywhere near the place.[Steven Wright] Quote:I bought some batteries but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.[Steven Wright] Quote:Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.[Mark Twain] Quote:The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.[Tom Clancy] Quote:Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.[J. Ghetto] Quote:All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.[Tobey Maguire] Quote:There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.[Victor Hugo] Quote:If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:How can those who scorn God revere men?[Sun Tzu] Quote:Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.[Harrison Ford] Quote:I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman![Homer Simpson] Quote:The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws![Homer Simpson] Quote:When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:She didn't reckon with the awesome power of the Chief of Police! Now where did I put my badge?...Hey, that duck's got it![Chief Wiggum] Quote:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.[Lyall Watson] Quote:God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.[Saint Augustine] Quote:The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?[Victor Hugo] Quote:There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.[Mother Teresa] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.[Mother Teresa] Quote:There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I came, I saw, I conquered.[Julius Caesar] Quote:I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.[Brigham Young] Quote:Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.[Heywood Broun] Quote:Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.[Ian Fleming] Quote:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it;[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot![Dave Barry] Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry] Quote:If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.[Dave Barry] Quote:If you were to open up a baby's head -- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.[Dave Barry] Quote:In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West -- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford -- were caused by erosion.[Dave Barry] Quote:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.[Dave Barry] Quote:Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.)[Dave Barry] Quote:We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.[Konrad von Gesner] Quote:You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.[George Patton] Quote:How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.[Christopher Morley] Quote:In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.[Christopher Morley] Quote:There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.[Christopher Morley] Quote:There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.[E.B. White] Quote:A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.[Robert Frost] Quote:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[John Donne] Quote:It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.[Luther Sutherland] Quote:Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.[Michael Jackson] Quote:There are no seeing eye cats, of course, because the sole function of cats, in the Great Chain of Life, is to cause harm to human beings.[Dave Barry] Quote:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:The reason gas stations sell food, of course, is that the supermarkets are busy cashing checks. The supermarkets have to cash checks because the banks are busy mailing unsolicited credit cards to everybody in the Western Hemisphere. The result is that very few people fix cars.[Dave Barry] Quote:Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation.[Dave Barry] Quote:I realise that I'm making gender-based generalizations here, but my feeling is that if God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations, She would not have given us genders.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry] Quote:Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.[Dave Barry] Quote:On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR's even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.[Dave Barry] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] Quote:Cooking was invented in prehistoric times, when a primitive tribe had a lucky accident. The tribe had killed an animal and was going to eat it raw, when a tribe member named Woog tripped and dropped it into the fire. At first the other tribe members were angry at Woog, but then, as the aroma of burning meat filled the air, they had an idea. So they ate Woog raw.[Dave Barry] Quote:I assume you are on the Internet. If you are not, then pardon my French, but vous ehzeh un big loser. Today EVERYBODY is on the Internet, including the primitive Mud People of the Amazon rain forest. In the old days, when the Mud People needed food, they had to manually throw spears at wild boars; whereas today they simply get on the Internet, go to www.spear-a-boar.com and click their mouse a few times (the Mud People use actual mice). Within three business days, a large box is delivered to them by a UPS driver, whom they eat.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.[Socrates] Quote:Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.[Edmund Burke] Quote:They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.[Aristotle] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Aristotle] Quote:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.[Aristotle] Quote:If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.[Laurence Peter] Quote:If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?[Laurence Peter] Quote:Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.[Laurence Peter] Quote:There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.[Laurence Peter] Quote:There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.[Laurence Peter] Quote:A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?[Lauren Bacall] Quote:Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.[Lauren Bacall] Quote:My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.[Victor Hugo] Quote:An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.[Colin Powell] Quote:When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.[Colin Powell] Quote:I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.[Mark Twain] Quote:Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.[Stephen King] Quote:We're all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.[Saint Augustine] Quote:There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.[Frank Tyger] Quote:Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.[Aristotle] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Mary Arnim] Quote:There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.[Marguerite Gardiner Blessington] Quote:The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.[Fulke Greville] Quote:To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.[Olin Miller] Quote:I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.[Bill Cosby] Quote:If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.[Bill Cosby] Quote:There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Character is much easier kept than recovered.[Thomas Paine] Quote:There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.[George Washington] Quote:My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.[George Washington] Quote:There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.[Author Unknown] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.[Yogi Berra] Quote:The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.[Yogi Berra] Quote:There is no friend as loyal as a book.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.[George Carlin] Quote:There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.[George Carlin] Quote:If a man does his best, what else is there?[George Patton] Quote:Black holes are where God divided by zero.[Steven Wright] Quote:An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.[Albert Einstein] Quote:It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.[Steven Wright] Quote:The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.[Gloria Leonard] Quote:Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.[Woody Allen] Quote:There is time for everything.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There is no substitute for hard work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There's a way to do it better - find it.[Thomas Edison] Quote:When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:We need men who can dream of things that never were.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.[Winston Churchill] Quote:No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.[Confucius] Quote:If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything![Steve Martin] Quote:There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.[Steve Martin] Quote:You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.[Steve Martin] Quote:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.[Socrates] Quote:Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.[Socrates] Quote:If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.[Socrates] Quote:To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:The man who regards life as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.[Albert Einstein] Quote:There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.[Woody Allen] Quote:Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.[Josh Billings] Quote:Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.[Will Rogers] Quote:If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?[Steven Wright] Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright] Quote:I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Where knowledge ends, religion begins.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.[Seth Green] Quote:In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.[Paul Harvey] Quote:There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.[George Washington] Quote:To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There is nothing so stable as change.[Bob Dylan] Quote:Home is where you come when you run out of places.[Author Unknown] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Every exit is an entry somewhere.[Tom Stoppard] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.[Andr Gide] Quote:No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.[George Berkeley] Quote:Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.[Rebecca West] Quote:Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'[George Orwell] Quote:I figure wherever I am, that's the place to be.[Tommy Lasorda] Quote:Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.[Sydney Harris] Quote:There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.[Tommy Lasorda] Quote:Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.[Mark Twain] Quote:There is more to life than increasing its speed.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:We firmly believe there is more to life than money, beer, and sex. We just don't know what it is.[Aaron Shapiro] Quote:Without losers, where would the winners be?[Casey Stengel] Quote:Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.[Albert Camus] Quote:There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.[Albert Camus] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.[Thomas Paine] Quote:But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.[Orson Welles] Quote:If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.[Doug Larson] Quote:If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.[Henry Mencken] Quote:The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.[Mother Teresa] Quote:There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.[Saul Bellow] Quote:I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'[Saul Bellow] Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.[Mark Twain] Quote:There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.[Ayn Rand] Quote:The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.[Woody Allen] Quote:Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.[Margaret Mead] Quote:There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.[Daniel Webster] Quote:There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.[David Gemmell] Quote:It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.[Warren Buffett] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.[Antoine de Saint-Exuper] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.[Robert Frost] Quote:The leader of genius must have the ability to make differentopponents appear as if they belonged to one category.[Adolf Hitler] Quote:There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens] Quote:My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the hell she is.[Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.[William James] Quote:What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. This is because the primary function of the government is -- and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution -- 'to spew out paper.'[Dave Barry] Quote:No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.[Reinhold Niebuhr] Quote:There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.[Oscar Levant] Quote:There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.[W.J. Cameron] Quote:There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.[Christopher Morley] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.[Adam Smith] Quote:Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.[Adam Smith] Quote:Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.[Adam Smith] Quote:Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.[Adam Smith] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[Adam Smith] Quote:If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.[Adam Smith] Quote:If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?[Albert Einstein] Quote:As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.[Indira Gandhi] Quote:There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.[Douglas Adams] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.[Thomas Aquinas] Quote:Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.[Mark Twain] Quote:There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.[Mark Twain] Quote:History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.[Billy Graham] Quote:Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.[W. R. Inge] Quote:I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:There is no 'I' in 'team.'[Author Unknown] Quote:You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.[Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Wedding: a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.[Fred Allen] Quote:A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.[Woody Allen] Quote:A good photograph is knowing where to stand.[Ansel Adams] Quote:In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.[Ansel Adams] Quote:What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.[Mark Twain] Quote:There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.[Mark Twain] Quote:In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.[Mother Teresa] Quote:There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.[E.B. White] Quote:The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.[George Washington] Quote:The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.[George Washington] Quote:For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.[George MacDonald] Quote:There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.[George MacDonald] Quote:There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.[Douglas Adams] Quote:What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.[Joseph Addison] Quote:True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.[Jack Handey] Quote:To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.[Jack Handey] Quote:Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.[Jack Handey] Quote:We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.[William Blake] Quote:We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.[Will Rogers] Quote:If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.[Thomas Aquinas] Quote:Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.[Erica Jong] Quote:Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.[John Lennon] Quote:All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.[Alphonse Karr] Quote:There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.[Ben Jonson] Quote:There are only two places in the league--first place and no place.[Tom Seaver] Quote:There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.[Robert Alden] Quote:Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ? kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ? with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:I have gathered a posie of other men?s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.[John Bartlett] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.[Albert Camus] Quote:This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.[Sun Tzu] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.[John Adams] Quote:There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.[John Adams] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.[Henry Ford] Quote:Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.[Gene Brown] Quote:All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'[Ted Williams] Quote:Wal-Mart, what's that? Do they, like, make walls there?[Paris Hilton] Quote:I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.[Henny Youngman] Quote:It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.[Plato] Quote:Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.[Plato] Quote:You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.[Plato] Quote:There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.[Plato] Quote:I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.[Fred Allen] Quote:Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.[Walter Lippman] Quote:People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:There are no facts, only interpretations.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:In heaven all the interesting people are missing.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. [Herb Caen] Quote:There is no great genius without some touch of madness. [Seneca] Quote:The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' [Aaron Copland] Quote:Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. [Evan Esar] Quote:Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [Ovid] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. [Bill Watterson] Quote:Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. [Bill Watterson] Quote:There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. [Henry James] Quote:Where facts are few, experts are many. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. [Erica Jong] Quote:There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. [Pliny the Younger] Quote:There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. [William Shakespeare] Quote:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. [Havelock Ellis] Quote:There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. [George Santayana] Quote:The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. [Aesop] Quote:It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. [Aeschylus] Quote:The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. [John Cage] Quote:If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. [Niccolo Machiavelli] Quote:Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. [Pearl Buck] Quote:When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. [Madeleine L'Engle] Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. [Evelyn Underhill] Quote:Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. [Fred Allen] Quote:I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. [E. B. White] Quote:To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam) [Anonymous] Quote:There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed. [Anonymous] Quote:There's never a new fashion but it's old. [Geoffrey Chaucer] Quote:In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. [Arnold Bennett] Quote:In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few. [Virgil] Quote:There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Hey, what do you think drives all this grey matter up here? Electricity. It's brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots, why can't your cerebellum? It's all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It's all logical. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:For certain is death for the born<br>And certain is birth for the dead;<br>Therefore over the inevitable<br>Thou shouldst not grieve. [Bhagavad Gita] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. [George S. Patton] Quote:They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:I hate women because they always know where things are. [James Thurber] Quote:Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain] Quote:Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. [Mark Twain] Quote:Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. [Mark Twain] Quote:He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. [Douglas Adams] Quote:Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... [Herbert Hoover] Quote:To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. [Henry J. Tillman] Quote:Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? [Cicero] Quote:Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? [Cicero] Quote:There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. [Cicero] Quote:If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. [Cicero] Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero] Quote:If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. [Franklin P. Adams] Quote:In charity there is no excess. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. [Tallulah Bankhead] Quote:There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' [Andre Gide] Quote:My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] Quote:If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] Quote:There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. [F. Scott Fitzgerald] Quote:For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. [Bob Wells] Quote:The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. [Robert Ingersoll] Quote:There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. [Hippocrates] Quote:There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. [Bette Davis] Quote:My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. [Bette Davis] Quote:Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before. [Mitchell Burgess] Quote:A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. [Aristophanes] Quote:Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. [Jules Renard] Quote:I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, ""I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."" [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [George Sand] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] Quote:They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why!? I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know? They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was? My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. [Barbara Hall] Quote:LEONARD: I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious.<br>CHRIS: I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered. [Barbara Hall] Quote:If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." [David Assael] Quote:Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. [David Assael] Quote:If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. [Carl Schurz] Quote:If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. [Joseph Addison] Quote:There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. [Michel de Montaigne] Quote:There's nothing that keeps its youth,<br> So far as I know, but a tree and truth. [Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. [Bill Vaughan] Quote:The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. [Dorothy Parker] Quote:You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Andre Maurois] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. [Christopher Morley] Quote:The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. [Confucius] Quote:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. [Confucius] Quote:There are more fools in the world than there are people. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. [Heywood Broun] Quote:Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. [Alan Corenk] Quote:Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. [Walter Winchell] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. [Agnes Repplier] Quote:There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. [Albert Guinon] Quote:Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. [Albert Einstein] Quote:We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. [Helen Keller] Quote:Act as if it were impossible to fail. [Gore Vidal] Quote:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. [Jeffrey Vlaming] Quote:Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. [Booker T. Washington] Quote:Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. [Sam Levenson] Quote:There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. [Muhammad Ali] Quote:I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. [Aristotle] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Aristotle] Quote:Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. [Aristotle] Quote:Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. [Aristotle] Quote:Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. [Euripides] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others. [Dag Hammarskjold] Quote:There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. [A. J. Liebling] Quote:Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. [Ecclesiastes] Quote:There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. [Josh Billings] Quote:In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. [Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. [David Letterman] Quote:Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. [Robert Frost] Quote:The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! [H. L. Mencken] Quote:All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. [Franz Kafka] Quote:If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. [Woodrow Wilson] Quote:All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. [Galileo Galilei] Quote:ONE WHO WAITS: There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by.<br> ED: Which one do you think it is?<br> ONE WHO WAITS: Ah. I think that time is just time. [Geoffrey Neighor] Quote:There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, <br> Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. [Peter Drucker] Quote:But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. [Carl Sagan] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] Quote:There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. [Arthur Rubinstein] Quote:The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. [Brooks Atkinson] Quote:There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. [Richard Feynman] Quote:I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. [Eugene McCarthy] Quote:There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. [Homer] Quote:When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. [Plato] Quote:Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. [Epicurus] Quote:There is so much good in the worst of us,<br> And so much bad in the best of us,<br> That it hardly behooves any of us<br> To talk about the rest of us. [Johann K. Lavater] Quote:When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. [Alexander Hamilton] Quote:There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. [Charles Rosin] Quote:If there?s one thing I know it?s God does love a good joke. [Hugh Elliott] Quote:There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. [Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. [Al Capp] Quote:There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. [Salvador Dali] Quote:Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. [Robert Orben] Quote:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobol] Quote:The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. [Woody Allen] Quote:All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. [Maurice Maeterlinck] Quote:Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. [Epicurus] Quote:I drink to make other people interesting. [George Jean Nathan] Quote:I drink therefore I am. [WC Fields] Quote:A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. [Jonathan Swift] Quote:The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings. [Arthur Lewis] Quote:I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. [Dean Martin] Quote:If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. [Desmond Bagley] Quote:An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. [Edgar Wallace] Quote:There's nothing as stupid as an educated man, if you can get him off the thing he was educated in. [Will Rogers] Quote:My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. [Paul Merton] Quote:A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. [Bob Hope] Quote:Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. [Jim Carey] Quote:After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions. [Bert Lahr] Quote:After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions. [Bert Lahr] Quote:Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' [Charlie Brown] Quote:Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobal] Quote:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobal] Quote:Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. [Matt Lauer (on NBC's Today Show)] Quote:Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. [Jim Carrey] Quote:Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there. [Yakov Smirnoff] Quote:Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. [Yakov Smirnoff] Quote:It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. [Dan Quayle] Quote:Americans have different ways of saying things. They say [Alexai Sayle] Quote:The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi. [Bill Gullickson] Quote:Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'. [Paul Merton] Quote:The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. [Billy Connolly] Quote:Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything! [Steve Martin] Quote:In the begining there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it. [Dave Thomas] Quote:It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher. [Linda Evangelista] Quote:If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? [Art Hoppe] Quote:And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. [Spike Milligan] Quote:If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretences. [William Sunday] Quote:Not only is there no Go, but you try getting a plumber at weekends. [Woody Allen] Quote:Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. [HG Wells] Quote:A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. [Ronald Knox] Quote:Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'. [Charlie Brown] Quote:Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. [Jim Carrey] Quote:If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? [George Deacon] Quote:When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read. [Hillaire Belloc] Quote:There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably diserable. [Mark Twain] Quote:There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. [Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891] Quote:There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. [Robert Orben] Quote:If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. [George Gobol] Quote:Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious. [Alan Winter] Quote:I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. [Marie Corelli ] Quote:The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. [Tom Clancy] Quote:When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read. [Hilliare Belloc] Quote:To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? [Cicero] Quote:There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. [Cicero] Definitions of: ereDefinition: Before; sooner than.Definition: Rather than. |
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