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“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.” -Edward Abbey
“A patriot must be ready to defend his country against his government.” - Edward Abbey
“Success has made failures of many men.” -Cindy Adams
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." -Douglas Adams
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." -Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.” -Mortimer J. Adler
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” -Aesop
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”-Aesop
“Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.” -African proverb
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” -African proverb
“Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.” -Howard Aiken
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” -Herm Albright
“The hottest places in hell are reserves for those who, in times of great moral crisis, remain neutral.” –Dante Alighieri
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." -Fred Allen
“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” -Fred Allen
"When I was born, I was so surprised, I didn't talk for a year and a half". -Gracie Allen
"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." -Roger Allen
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. -Woody Allen
“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” -Woody Allen
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” -Woody Allen
"I had an interesting point to add, but I forgot it." –Allison
“Whoever said nothing was impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.” –Allison
“I shall smite you! Once I learn how to haggle with the gods.” –Allison
"If you feel like you are in control you are not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
“Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.” –Julie Andrews
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.” -Maya Angelou
"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." –Anonymous
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." –Anonymous
“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.” –Anonymous
“Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.” -Anonymous
“Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.” –Anonymous
“That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I’m just the one to do it,” -Anonymous
“Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.” –Anonymous
"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends." –Anonymous
"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." –Anonymous
“One who knows nothing can understand nothing.” -Ansem, Kingdom Hearts.
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” -Marcus Aurelius Antonius
"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand." -Sir Edward Appleton
"Give me where to stand and I will move the Earth" -Archimedes
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." -Aristotle
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” -Aristotle
“A friend is a second self.” –Aristotle
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” -Aristotle
“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
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” -Isaac Asimov
“I sang silly songs of vegetable jubilee the whole way home.” – Asraniel
“When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.” -Clyde B. Aster
“All poets adore thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.” -W. H. Auden
"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!" –Auron (Final Fantasy X)
“Cry me a river, build a bridge, get over it, and I'll set it on fire when you're halfway across.” –Axel (Kingdom Hearts 2)
“Reality is at the end of your dreams; your dreams are at the end of reality.” -Rei Ayanami(Neon Genesis Evangelion)
"Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire." -Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
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“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.” — Richard Bach
“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.” -Burt Bacharach
There is superstition in avoiding superstition. - Francis Bacon
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.” -Sir Francis Bacon
“Silence is the virtue of fools.” -Sir Francis Bacon
“Knowledge is power.” -Sir Francis Bacon
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything." -Walter Bagehot
“When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.” -Bernard Bailey
“People who say you're as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.” -Russel Baker
“The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.” -Russel Baker
"The light only masks the darkness, for the darkness is forever present watching, waiting, planning for its vengeance, always eager to smother the light which locked it away and no matter how strong the light is the darkness always returns, stronger than ever. And once it is there, the chances of sending it back are slim, for it grows wiser each time it is banished. That is why when I return, you will have absolute hell to pay for I AM THE DARKNESS." -Yami Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” -James Baldwin
“Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.” -Ralph Banks
“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” -Frank Barron
"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." -Dave Barry
"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death." -Dave Barry
“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.” -Dave Barry
"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing in your ear." -Dave Barry
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." -Dave Barry
“Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.” –Dave Barry
“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,” –Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
“Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours.” -Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
"Remember when American moms used to tell their kids to finish dinner because children were starving in Africa? Well, thanks a lot, Mom — Africans are still starving and American kids are obese." —Larry Baum
“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.” –L. Frank Baum
“If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.” -Paul Beatty
“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.” -Henry Ward Beecher
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." -Robert Benchley
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” -Robert Benchley
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways." -Stephen Vincent Benét
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." -John Benfield
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” -Ernest Benn
“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.” -Arnold Bennett
“It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.” - Arnold Bennett
“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” -Bo Bennett
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Taylor Benson
“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.” -Bernard Berenson
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." -Edgar Bergen
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are." - Milton Berle
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle
“Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.” -Milton Berle
“Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our patience and races like a gazelle when you are out of breath.” -Simon Birch
“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” –Smiley Blanton
"We fear that which we cannot see... we respect that which we cannot see... thus the blade will be wielded." - Bleach
“The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'” -Roy Blount Jr.
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” -Niels Bohr
“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.” -Niels Bohr, to a young physicist
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.” -Victor Borge
“I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped...sin and hellfire... one has lepers.” –Shepherd Book, “Firefly”
“If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.” –Shepherd Book, “Firefly”
“The Bible is quite specific about killing. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.” –Shepherd Book, “Firefly”
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” -Alec Bourne
"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out." -Elizabeth Bowen
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” -Ray Bradbury, advice to writers
"Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain." - Georges Braque
“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.” -David Brin
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles." -Claude M. Bristol
“You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.” –Garth Brooks
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” -Mel Brooks
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” -Mel Brooks
“I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.” -A. Whitney Brown
“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.” -Rita Mae Brown
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. -Sir Thomas Browne
“No one can earn a million dollars honestly.” -William Jennings Bryan
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it." -Art Buchwald
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”-Pearl Buck
“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.” -Pearl Buck
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." -Buddha
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” -Buddha
“Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” –Buddha
“I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flyin’. She is all I have left, and Music is her name.” -Jimmy Buffett
“When you’ve seen the Southern Cross for the first time, you’ll understand that’s why you came this way. Cus the truth you’ve been running from is so small, but it’s as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.” –Jimmy Buffett
“I'm still an atheist, thank God.” -Luis Bunuel
“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.” -Abigail Van Buren
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." -Anthony Burgess
“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.” -George Burns
“The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.” –Gerald Burrill
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself." -Sir Richard Francis Burton
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” -Samuel Butler
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.” -Samuel Butler
“All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.” -Samuel Butler |
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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." -James Branch Cabell
“Beauty is everywhere, but one may see the beautiful view and the other sees a dirty window. You have the power within you to choose what you see, what you think and what you paint.” -Leanne Cadden
“Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; and those who can do neither, administer.” -Collet Calverley
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning." -Calvin
“[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.” -Joseph Campbell
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.” - Albert Camus
"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun." -Al Capone
“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff,” –Mariah Carey
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” -Sandra Carey
“When someone goes insane, they don’t lose their mind, it just becomes something more entertaining.” -George Carlin
“Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.” -George Carlin
“The very existence of the flame-thrower is proof that somewhere, sometime, someone said ‘I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m not close enough to get the job done.’” –George Carlin
“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.” – George Carlin
“Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.” -Thomas Carlyle
“The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.” - Thomas Carlyle
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -Dale Carnegie
“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.” -Johnny Carson
"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill." -Johnny Carson
"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are." -Nicholas Chamfort
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable." -Raymond Chandler
“Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.” -Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” -G. K. Chesterton
“If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.” -G. K. Chesterton
“He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.” –Chinese proverb
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” –Chinese proverb
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.” –Chinese proverb
“The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand.” –Chinese proverb
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” –Chinese proverb
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” –Chinese proverb
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” –Chinese proverb
“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” –Chinese proverb
“When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out.” –Chinese proverb
“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.” –Chinese proverb
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.” –Chinese proverb
“You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.” –Chinese proverb
“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.” –Chinese proverb
“Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.” –Chinese proverb
“One generation plants the trees. The next gets the shade.” – Chinese proverb
“Treat your friends as you do your paintings; place them in the best light.” –Jennie Jerome Churchill
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” -Winston Churchill
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” -Sir Winston Churchill
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -Winston Churchill
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -Winston Churchill
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill
“When future generations look back, let them say this was your finest hour.” -Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”-Winston Churchill
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her." -Agatha Christie
"You’re in such a good mood! Did you run over a small child or something?" – Clairee (Steel Magnolias)
“Strong convictions precede great actions.” –J.F. Clarke
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -Irvin S. Cobb
“Do you know what the chain of command is here? It's the chain I go get and beat you with to show you who's in command.” –Jayne Cobb, “Firefly”
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." -Sir Barnett Cocks
“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.” -Paulo Coelho
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.” -Colette
"There'll be no more hiding in shadows of fear; There'll be no more chains to hold you; The future is yours - you hold the key; And there are no walls with freedom; Now we're here, we won't go back; We are one world; We have one voice; Side by side we are not afraid; Because the train is coming to carry you home!"
-Phil Collins, “Dance into the Light”
“Guide them with edicts, keep them in line with punishment, and people may stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. But if you guide them by your own virtue, and keep them in line with acts of decency, they will develop a sense of shame and control themselves.” –Confucius
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” –Confucius
"Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." -William Congreve
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -Cyril Connolly
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -Rich Cook
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” -Charles Horton Cooley
“‘Why not’ is a slogan for an interesting life.” - Mason Cooley
"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone." -Tommy Cooper
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." -Professor Irwin Corey
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." -Pierre de Coubertin, 'The Olympic Creed' Inspired by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, speech, Olympic Games 1908
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” -Norman Cousins
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." –Noel Coward
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it." –Noel Coward
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” -Noel Coward
“The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.” -Noel Coward
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” –Frank Crane
“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.” -Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
"Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." -Quentin Crisp
“If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.” - Quentin Crisp
“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.” - Norm Crosby
“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.” -Samuel McChord Crothers
"Though I walk through the valley in the shadow of death I fear nothing because I am the baddest son of a bitch to ever walk the earth." -C. Cumming
“There’s nothing that can’t be solved with a choke collar and a cattle prod.” –C. Cumming (in reference to high school students)
"They [The Egyptians] are all wrapped up in the afterlife." –C. Cumming
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." -E. E. Cummings
“Equality is what does not exist among mortals.” -E. E Cummings
“The big thieves hang the little ones.” -Czech Proverb |
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“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” –Dali
“Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.” –Dandemis
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous-everyone hasn't met me yet.” -Rodney Dangerfield
"Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb." –Dark Helmet (Space Balls)
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -Clarence Darrow
“Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.” –Evan Davis
“Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.” -Evan Davis
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” –Jimmy Dean
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” -Barbara De Angelis
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." -Ellen DeGeneres
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." -Ellen DeGeneres
“I’m a godmother, it’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me ‘god’ for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.” –Ellen DeGeneres
“Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.” -Ellen DeGeneres
“You have to look at foreign countries the same way you do women. You must assume they’re all out to destroy you.” –Vance DeGeneres
"Men have always fought each other; have always created chaos; that's familiar and safe. They always know where they are in those circumstances. But, to hazardously step into the unknown and love one another is far too risky for them." -Demon City Shin Joku
"We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." –Dencombe, "The Middle Years"
"You can’t proclaim yourself king just because some watery tart threw a sword at you." –Dennis the peasant (Monte Python)
“Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.” –Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
“There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.” –Thomas Robert Dewar
“He would make a lovely corpse.” –Charles Dickens
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” -Charles Dickens
“There is no greater frigate than a book…” –Emily Dickinson
“Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality.” -Emily Dickinson
“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.” -Gordon R. Dickson
"Any problem in life can be solved with the proper use of explosives." –Digger (a webcomic by Ursula Vernon)
“I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.” -Richard Diran
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Death is the null-hypothesis.” – Tommy Dornhoffer
“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.” -Peter Drucker
"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle." -Stan Dunn
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” -Will Durant
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." -Jimmy Durante |
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“Do your duty until it becomes your joy.” –Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” -Umberto Eco
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." -Umberto Eco
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.” –Maria Edgeworth
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” -Thomas A. Edison
“In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched.” –Paul Ehrlich
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” –Albert Einstein
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -Albert Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” -Albert Einstein
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” -Albert Einstein, (attributed)
“If ‘A’ is success in life, then ‘A=X+Y+Z’. Work is X. Y is play. And Z is keeping your mouth shut.” -Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” -Albert Einstein
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” -Albert Einstein
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein, (attributed)
“Try not to become a man of success but rather become a man of value.” -Albert Einstein
“What I have to say about this book can be found inside the book.” - Albert Einstein
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” -Charles W. Eliot
“Perseverance is not one long race; it is many short races one after another.” –Walter Elliott
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” -Harlan Ellison
“Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.” –Keppel Enderbery
“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.” -Nora Ephron
“You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.” – Max Erhman
“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” -Susan Ertz
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.” - Evan Esar
“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.” -M.C. Escher
“The wisest men follow their own direction.” -Euripides |
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“If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.” -Scott Fahlman
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." -Richard Feynman
“You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.” -Carrie Fisher
"Instant gratification takes too long." -Carrie Fisher
“The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.” -Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." -Paul Fix
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” -Gustave Flaubert
“Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you.” –Elizabeth Foley
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” -Malcolm Forbes
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." -Henry Ford
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.” -Henry Ford
“We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.” - John M. Ford
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." -Edward Morgan Foster
“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” –Malcolm Forbes
“There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.” -Malcolm Forbes
"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them." -Harrison Ford
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake." -E. M. Forster
“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.” -Charles James Fox
"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them." -Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." -Anatole France
“But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” -Benjamin Franklin
“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.” -Don Fraser
"Now you will go away or I shall taunt you a second time." – French tauter (Monte Python)
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!" – French taunter (Monte Python)
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” -Anna Freud
Who is more foolish - the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? -Maurice Freehill
"To be forgotten is worse than death...." –Freya, Final Fantasy IX
“It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.” –Suellen Fried
“The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.” -Michael Friedman
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” –Erich Fromm
“In three words I can describe what I have learned of life: it goes on.” –Robert Frost
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” -Robert Frost
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” -Robert Frost
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." -Robert Frost
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." -Robert Frost
"Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glint on snow. I am the sun on ripened grain; I am the soothing, gentle rain. When you awake in morning hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there...I did not die.” – Mary Elizabeth Frye
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"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." -John Kenneth Galbraith
“Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.” –Gallagher
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”-Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” –Mahatma Gandhi
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings." -Ed Gardner
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." -Andre Gide
“No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.” -W. S. Gilbert
“Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?” Gimli, "Lord of the Rings"
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” -Arnold Glasow
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced." -Vincent Van Gogh
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." -Vincent van Gogh
“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” –Al Gore, Vice President
“We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.” –Al Gore, VP
“Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.” -Baltasar Gracian
“When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.” -Charles Varlet de La Grange
“If you ever find yourself running away from an axe murderer in the middle of the night on a deserted campus, please know that all campus emergency phones are checked nightly. Furthermore, if you find a phone doesn't work while you are running from said axe murderer, please proceed to the next emergency phone and call from there.” –Will Green, Hendrix Student Senate
“Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.” -Leslie Grimutter
“I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.” -Bruce Grocott
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” - Matt Groening
“The verb ‘to love’ in Persian is ‘to have a friend.’ ‘I love you’ translated literally is ‘I have you as a friend,’ and ‘I don't like you’ simply means ‘I don't have you as a friend.’” - Shusha Guppy
"The world is round; it has no point." -Adrienne E. Gusoff
"Living hell is the best revenge." -Adrienne E. Gusoff
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