Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] Quote:You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.[Galileo Galilei] 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: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:A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.[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:Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.[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:Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?[Steven Wright] Quote:I hate it when my leg falls sleep in the middle of the day, because that means it'll be up all night.[Steven Wright] 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:In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.[Paul Dirac] Quote:Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.[J. Ghetto] Quote:To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.[Mark Twain] 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:Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.[Roy Goodman] Quote:...I hope that we will hear no more of all ways of life and all cultures being equally valid, which none of us truly believes but which many people mouth in order to appear broad-minded and generous of spirit.[Armand Nicholi Jr.] Quote:Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.[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:I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'[Homer Simpson] Quote:When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, like that movie Spaceballs. But instead it was dark and disturbing. Like that movie -- Police Academy.[Homer Simpson] Quote:English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.[Chief Wiggum] 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:I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket & flew to the moon! What was his name? Apollo Creed?[Homer Simpson] Quote:It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.[George Patton] Quote:A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.[Mark Twain] Quote:To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.[Cardinal Bellarmine] Quote:Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.[Robert G. Ingersoll] Quote:We make war that we may live in peace.[Aristotle] Quote:Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.[Saint Augustine] 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:In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.[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:Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.[Victor Hugo] Quote:The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.[Victor Hugo] Quote:To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.[Victor Hugo] Quote:History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.[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:If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.[Mother Teresa] 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:Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:You do what you are...You?re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you?re good at. you don?t take for granted.[Morgan Freeman] 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:Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.[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:Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.[Heywood Broun] Quote:I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.[Andr Maurois] Quote:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith] Quote:The good thing about being bisexual is that it doubles your chance of a date on a Saturday night.[Woody Allen] Quote:I like to say that I'm bisexual...when I want sex, I buy it.[Boy George] Quote:A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby[T.S. Eliot] Quote:It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.[Benjamin Franklin] 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:Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.[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:It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?[Matthew J. Clayfield] Quote:The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.[GK Chesterton] Quote:By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'[Isaac Asimov] Quote:Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.[Michael Votto] Quote:If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.[Dave Barry] Quote:Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...[Dave Barry] Quote:Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.[Dave Barry] Quote:Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?[Dave Barry] Quote:I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.[Dave Barry] Quote:If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.[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:It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.[Dave Barry] Quote:Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.[Dave Barry] Quote:Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.[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:Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.[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:Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.[Dave Barry] Quote:The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.[Dave Barry] Quote:The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.[Dave Barry] Quote:The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.[Dave Barry] Quote:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[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:God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.[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:Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.[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 I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.[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:Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?[Philip Hamerton] Quote:A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.[Lynn Lavner] Quote:Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...[C.S. Lewis] Quote:When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.[Robert Frost] Quote:Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.[Christopher Morley] 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:People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.[E.B. White] Quote:It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.[Robert Frost] Quote:The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.[Robert Frost] Quote:You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.[Dave Barry] Quote:You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says,[Dave Barry] Quote:I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.[Dave Barry] Quote:'You scratch my back, and I'll suck blood out of yours' - that is the insect motto.[Dave Barry] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[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:Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.[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:The only flaw in the Hinckley trial is that it left a lot of people with the impression that psychiatrists are just a bunch of bearded voodoo doctors who espouse confusing and wildly contradictory theories that have nothing to do with common sense. This is totally unfair. Many psychiatrists are clean-shaven.[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:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[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:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[Dave Barry] Quote:I'm a middle age white guy, which means I'm constantly reminded that my particular group is responsible for the oppression of every known minority PLUS most wars PLUS government corruption PLUS pollution of the environment, not to mention that it was middle-age white guys who killed Bambi's mom.[Dave Barry] Quote:The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read, and they have far more teeth than would be necessary for a strictly seafood diet. Their mouths look like the entire $39.95 set of Ginsu knives, including the handy Arm Slicer.[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: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:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.[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:Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.[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:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] 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:He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.[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:I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.[Aristotle] Quote:Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.[Aristotle] Quote:I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.[Aristotle] Quote:It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.[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: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:America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.[Laurence Peter] Quote:The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.[Yoko Ono] Quote:I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.[Lauren Bacall] Quote:All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:He that lives upon hope will die fasting.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.[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:Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.[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:Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.[Bill Maher] Quote:Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.[Michael Korda] Quote:Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.[Colin Powell] Quote:Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'[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'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.[Mark Twain] Quote:The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.[Bruce Campbell] Quote:Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.[Mark Twain] Quote:I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.[Mark Twain] Quote:It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.[Mark Twain] Quote:The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.[Mark Twain] Quote:The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.[Stephen King] Quote:The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.[Stephen King] 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:People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk.[Stephen King] Quote:We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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:The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.[Hada Bejar] 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:I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.[Bill Cosby] Quote:A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.[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:Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.[Bill Cosby] Quote:You do not lead by hitting people over the head ? that's assault, not leadership.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.[Thomas Paine] Quote:He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.[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:Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.[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:It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.[Erich Fromm] Quote:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.[George Washington] Quote:As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.[George Washington] Quote:If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.[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:They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.[Mike Tyson] Quote:You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.[Yogi Berra] Quote:I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question.[Yogi Berra] 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:Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.[George Carlin] Quote:Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.[George Carlin] Quote:I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.[George Carlin] Quote:I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.[George Carlin] Quote:Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?[George Carlin] Quote:Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.[Thomas Edison] 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:It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[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: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 must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[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:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.[Benjamin Disraeli] 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:Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.[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 American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] 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:The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.[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:We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority,let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.[William F. Buckley] Quote:Let him that would move the world first move himself.[Socrates] Quote:Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.[Socrates] Quote:One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.[Socrates] Quote:It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.[Roger Ebert] Quote:I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side.[Abraham Lincoln] 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: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:How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?[Charles de Gaulle] Quote:If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?[Steven Wright] Quote:The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right.[Mark Twain] Quote:Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.[Colin Powell] Quote:In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.[Paul Harvey] Quote:My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.[Aristotle] Quote:A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be temped to risk his own destruction.[Dwight Eisenhower] 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:At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.[GK Chesterton] 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:I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.[Woody Allen] Quote:More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.[Woody Allen] Quote:I've occasionally heard that I was kicked out of Harvard for being a Communist, for dealing drugs, for corrupting minors, or for diverse other infractions of local decorum. Unfortunately, none of these rumors are true. The one I've heard more often is that I am dead. That one I encouraged, hoping it would cut down on the junk mail. It didn't.[Tom Lehrer] 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:The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.[George Burns] Quote:What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.[Rita Mae Brown] Quote:In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.[Gloria Steinem] Quote:How lucky for those in power that people don't think.[Adolf Hitler] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.[Hermann Goering] Quote:Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.[Margaret Mead] 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:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes] Quote:A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.[Ludwig Wittgenstein] 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:It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.[Andrew Jackson] Quote:Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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:The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:In time we hate that which we often fear.[William Shakespeare] Quote:I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:I love Thanksgiving. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.[Robert Fulghum] Quote:One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.[Erna Bombeck] 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:I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:I know of only one duty, and that is to love.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.[Elbert Hubbard] 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:Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.[James Baldwin] Quote:The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.[Mark Twain] Quote:Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Being with a woman never hurt no professional ball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.[Casey Stengel] Quote:The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.[Saint Augustine] Quote:If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.[John Barrymore] Quote:I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'[Oscar Levant] Quote:I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.[Henry Mencken] Quote:The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.[Anne Frank] Quote:Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.[Niels Bohr] Quote:Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy.[Anne Frank] Quote:A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.[Saul Bellow] Quote:California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.[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:Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.[Albert Einstein] 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:Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.[Mel Brooks] Quote:My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.[Woody Allen] Quote:It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.[George Patton] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.[Booker T. Washington] Quote:We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.[Will Rogers] Quote:I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.[Margaret Mead] Quote:It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.[Patrick Henry] Quote:The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.[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: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: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:All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.[Brian Tracy] Quote:Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.[Truman Capote] Quote:I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.[Michael Jordan] Quote:The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.[Vince Lombardi] 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:Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home![Charles Dickens] Quote:Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.[Mother Teresa] 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:If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.[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:Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.[W.J. Cameron] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.[GK Chesterton] Quote:That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] 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:I'm so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Art is the lie that tells the truth.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.[Francis Bacon] Quote:Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.[Jimi Hendrix] Quote:Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?[George Carlin] Quote:I don't know how old I am because the goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.[Satchel Paige] 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:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace.[Helen Keller] Quote:It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.[Mark Twain] Quote:Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.[Robin Williams] Quote:One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.[Mark Twain] Quote:To be, or not to be: that is the question.[William Shakespeare] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?[Marilyn Monroe] Quote:The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.[Amy Bloom] Quote:The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu] Quote:Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.[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:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[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:War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way 'til you can.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.[Henry Ford] Quote:A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.[Ansel Adams] Quote:In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.[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:The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.[John F. Kennedy] 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:Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.[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:Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.[Daniel Webster] 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:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.[Patrick Henry] Quote:The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.[H.G. Wells] Quote:Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.[George MacDonald] Quote:Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.[Nicolo Machiavelli] 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:Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.[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:Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.[Niels Bohr] 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:Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action![Albert Einstein] Quote:It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.[Albert Einstein] 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:One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.[Geof Greenleaf] Quote:Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.[Jack Handey] Quote:How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.[Jack Handey] Quote:Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again.[Jack Handey] Quote:Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing?![Jack Handey] Quote:What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.[Jack Handey] Quote:I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away.[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:I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.[Jack Handey] Quote:It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?[Charles de Gaulle] Quote:When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.[D.H. Lawrence] Quote:I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.[Erica Jong] Quote:Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.[Henry Van Dyke] 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:A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.[John F. Kennedy] 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:I think it's insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It's an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you've experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.[Eleanor Roosevelt] 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:I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.[Cheris Kramerae] Quote:Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.[Douglas MacArthur] 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:Our industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world. Our domestic markets no longer suffice. We need foreign markets.[Woodrow Wilson] 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:The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.[Ayn Rand] 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:I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.[John Adams] 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:The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.[Will Rogers] 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:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:To succeed, we must first believe that we can.[Michael Korda] Quote:Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.[Edward R. Murrow] Quote:The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.[Harry Truman] Quote:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.[Jacob August Riis] Quote:Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.[Mae West] Quote:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.[George Washington] Quote:The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.[Horace Walpole] 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:If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Wal-Mart, what's that? Do they, like, make walls there?[Paris Hilton] Quote:I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses.[Rene Descartes] Quote:What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.[Art Spander] Quote:Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.[Plato] Quote:We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.[Robert Wilensky] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] 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:On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.[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:At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. [Pindar] Quote:In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. [Pliny the Elder] Quote:The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. [Herb Caen] Quote:I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. [Sir Philip Sidney] Quote:Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. [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:Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. [Evan Esar] Quote:Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. [Evan Esar] Quote:Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. [Elisabeth Kubler-Ross] Quote:I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. [Georgia O'Keeffe] Quote:They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] 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:The love of democracy is that of equality. [Charles de Montesquieu] 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:After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. [Henry Miller] Quote:An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. [Pliny the Younger] Quote:The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:In time we hate that which we often fear. [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:Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, <br>Is the immediate jewel of their souls: <br>Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; <br>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; <br>But he that filches from me my good name <br>Robs me of that which not enriches him <br>And makes me poor indeed. [William Shakespeare] Quote:It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. [Aesop] Quote:All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. [Edmund Burke] Quote:Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. [John Henry Cardinal Newman] Quote:None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. [Ferdinand Foch] 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:But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. [Niccolo Machiavelli] 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:You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. [Josh Brand and John Falsey] 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:War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. [Georges Clemenceau] Quote:Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. [Russell Baker] 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:I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming?suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. [Agatha Christie] Quote:One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. [Agatha Christie] Quote:It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. [E. B. White] Quote:I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. [E. B. White] Quote:It is light grief that can take counsel. [Anonymous] Quote:To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. [Anonymous] Quote:Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. [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:Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. [Meister Eckhart] Quote:Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits. [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:We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us. [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:Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. [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:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is... [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. [Mark Twain] Quote:Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. [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:I think that I shall never see<br>A poem lovely as a tree. [Moliere] 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:I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. [Herbert Hoover] Quote:The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. [Al Franken] Quote:Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. [Cicero] Quote:History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. [Cicero] Quote:The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. [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:Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. [Bill Gates] Quote:How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. [Alice Walker] Quote:He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. [Robertson Davies] Quote:We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. [Marie Ebner von Eschenbach] 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:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. [Ann Landers] Quote:The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. [Robert Ingersoll] Quote:You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. [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:It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. [Bette Davis] Quote:We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. [Henri Matisse] Quote:It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. [Charles Baudelaire] Quote:Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. [David Frost] Quote:Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. [Colette] Quote:I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. [Oprah Winfrey] 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:I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] 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:One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. [Barbara Hall] Quote:That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. [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:The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. [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:Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. [David Assael] Quote:They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. [David Assael] Quote:Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. [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:Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. [Joseph Addison] Quote:How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! <br> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it <br> That we can die but once to serve our country! [Joseph Addison] Quote:To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. [Andy Wachowski] Quote:The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. [Charles Lamb] Quote:There's nothing that keeps its youth,<br> So far as I know, but a tree and truth. [Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. [Isaac Asimov] 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:What luck for rulers that men do not think. [Adolf Hitler] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. [Bill Cosby] Quote:America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. [Arnold Toynbee] Quote:Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. [Izaak Walton] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. [J. R. R. Tolkien] Quote:First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. [Margaret Mead] 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: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:Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. [Adam Clayton Powell Jr.] Quote:A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. [Saint Jerome] 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:Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. [Ayn Rand] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. [W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. [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:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. [Heywood Broun] Quote:What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. [Epictetus] Quote:When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? [Epictetus] Quote:We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. [Francis Quarles] Quote:At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. [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: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:A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. [Helen Keller] Quote:If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. [Hermann Hesse] Quote:History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? [Henry Bromel] Quote:I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. [Charles W. Eliot] 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:I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. [Dave Barry] Quote:I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. [Lawana Blackwell] 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:It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. [Marquis de Vauvenargues] Quote:I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. [Abraham Lincoln] 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:I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. [Ursula K. LeGuin] Quote:It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. [Thucydides] Quote:It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. [J. K. Rowling] Quote:His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. [J. K. Rowling] Quote:The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. [Robert J. Sawyer] Quote:It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. [Juvenal] Quote:I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. [Bob Dylan] Quote:Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. [Unknown] Quote:Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. [Aristotle] Quote:I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. [Aristotle] Quote:We make war that we may live in peace. [Aristotle] Quote:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. [Euripides] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. [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:Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. [Don Marquis] Quote:Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. [Herman Melville] Quote:History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. [Henry Ford] Quote:The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others. [Dag Hammarskjold] Quote:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. [Dag Hammarskjold] Quote:By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. [Helen Hayes] 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:I think that I shall never see <br> a billboard lovely as a tree. <br> Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, <br> I'll never see a tree at all. [Ogden Nash] Quote:Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. [Doris Lessing] Quote:Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. [Thomas H. Huxley] Quote:Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. [Robert Frost] Quote:Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. [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:The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. [Amelia Earhart] 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:It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. [Anatole France] Quote:Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. [Anatole France] Quote:Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. [Anatole France] Quote:Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. [Max Frisch] Quote:Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. [Franklin P. Jones] Quote:Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. [Franklin P. Jones] Quote:If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? [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:Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. [Doug Larson] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] Quote:The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. [William James] Quote:Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. [Jean Giraudoux] Quote:I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. [Neil Armstrong] 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: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:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] 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:It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. [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:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. [Cynthia Ozick] Quote:I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. [Jean Paul Richter] Quote:If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. [Rene Descartes] Quote:If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. [Lyndon B. Johnson] Quote:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette] 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:The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. [Joan Baez] Quote:Courage is fear that has said its prayers. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Quote:Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life. [Charles Rosin] 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:It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. [Elizabeth Taylor] Quote:The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. [Elizabeth Taylor] Definitions of: thatDefinition: As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, that which he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples.Definition: As an adjective, that has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun. Definition: As a relative pronoun, that is equivalent to who or which, serving to point out, and make definite, a person or thing spoken of, or alluded to, before, and may be either singular or plural. Definition: As a conjunction, that retains much of its force as a demonstrative pronoun. Definition: To introduce a clause employed as the object of the preceding verb, or as the subject or predicate nominative of a verb. Definition: To introduce, a reason or cause; -- equivalent to for that, in that, for the reason that, because. Definition: To introduce a purpose; -- usually followed by may, or might, and frequently preceded by so, in order, to the end, etc. Definition: To introduce a consequence, result, or effect; -- usually preceded by so or such, sometimes by that. Definition: In an elliptical sentence to introduce a dependent sentence expressing a wish, or a cause of surprise, indignation, or the like. Definition: As adverb: To such a degree; so; as, he was that frightened he could say nothing. |
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