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"When you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, then slander, curse, and abuse them without mercy." -"The Little Book of Venom"
"If war is darkness, then you are light. But there's a price for it-paid in the coin of your own heart." –"Stronghold"
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." -Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"The covers of this book are too far apart." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.” -William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." -William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
"The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living." –Christopher Paolini, "Eragon"
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." -H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
"The road to disaster is ordered by the righteous, planned by the well-meaning, and paved with their good intentions." -Tayledras proverb, "Owl Flight"
"Half of being clever is making sure you’re not being stupid." -Tayledras proverb, "Owl Flight"
"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." -Philip K. Dick, What the Dead Men Say (1954)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." –Dumbledore, Harry Potter
"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself." –Dumbledore, Harry Potter
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." –Dumbledore, Harry Potter
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." -Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated." -Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"
"Only the shallow know themselves." -Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
"Fortune favors the brave." -Virgil, "Aeneid"
"Going to hell isn't hard. It's coming back that's the tough part." -Virgil, "Aeneid"
"Long farewells give time for the enemy to aim." –Lionwind, "The Black Gryphon"
"The best attack is one no one sees coming." –Kaled’a’in proverb, "The Black Gryphon"
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." -Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public." -Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery", 1964
"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." -Helen Rowland, A Guide to Men, 1922
"When once you have tasted the sky, forever after you walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will ever long to return." –Tayledras proverb, "Transmutation", Larry Dixon ("Crossroads and other Tales of Valdemar")
"It [the soul] must stand entire, or it does not stand at all." – Frederick Douglass, "My Bondage and My Freedom"
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." -Mark Twain, "Huckleberry Finn"
“Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.” -Blaine Lee, "The Power Principle"
"Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"
"Nemo me impune lacessit."(No one harms me with impunity) –Montressor(E.A. Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado")
"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point-of-view is seldom necessary." Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." -Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." -Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." -Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos." -Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -H. G. Wells, "Outline of History"
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved." -William James, "Talks to Teachers" ch. 8 'The Laws of Habit' , Lectures 1892, printed 1899
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
"Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you." –Amberdrake, Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon’s "The Black Gryphon"
"Choke back your bile and let its venom blister your own throat." –Dante Aligheri, "Inferno"
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." -G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." -Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
"You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul." -Margaret Weis, "Soulforge"
“Happiness, n.: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.” -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” -Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"
“To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.” -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” -Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” -Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” -Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
“We all have darknesses within us, and we all have to learn how to deal with them... But we have to recognize what they are first.” -Cadvan of Lirigon from “The Riddle”
“Whether it's tame or a stray, a cat is a creature that lives free.” -Train Heartnet from "Black Cat"
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953 |
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