Interesting Quotes
I know I'm an acquired taste: I'm anchovies. And not everyone wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go more places. -Tori Amos
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. -Ramona L. Anderson
We have no say over the hand dealt us in life, but we do have a lot of control over how this hand is played. We are responsible for bringing out the meaning of our own lives in each moment that we live. Remember each moment happens only once and can never be retrieved again. -Roberta Andersen
Women like silent men. They think they're listening. -Marcel Archard
He who believes he knows the ending of things before they begin is either a very wise person or an idiot. Regardless, he is unhappy for he hast drove a knife into the heart of wonder. -Osten Ard
Happiness depends on ourselves. -Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach
Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon
If a child runs into the room saying "Mummy, mummy! I love Jesus and He loves me! We're all going to Heaven when we die and God is looking over us!", people will smile and praise the child. Nobody would say "Don't be silly. You can't possibly say that because you don't fully understand everything about the religion. How can you know that for sure, when you've not read the Bible in the original Hebrew?!?". But if a child (or teenager, or adult) says "I've had a good think about it, and have come to the conclusion that Jesus is a myth and nothing in Christianity makes much sense. I declare myself to be a freethinking secular humanist.", then they are quite likely to receive the latter response. You could have all the theological training of a hedgehog and still get wild applause if you stand up and say you're a Christian, but it seems that atheists are required to demonstrate more intelligence and Biblical expertise than all the clergymen and theologians that have ever lived before they are allowed to publicly express their doubts. -Adrian Barnett
Dear Mister Language Person: I am curious about the expression, Part of this complete breakfast. The way it comes up is, my 5-year-old will be watching TV cartoon shows in the morning, and they'll show a commercial for a children's compressed breakfast compound such as Froot Loops or Lucky Charms, and they always show it sitting on a table next to some actual food such as eggs, and the announcer always says: Part of this complete breakfast. Don't that really mean, Adjacent to this complete breakfast, or On the same table as this complete breakfast? And couldn't they make essentially the same claim if, instead of Froot Loops, they put a can of shaving cream there, or a dead bat?
Answer: Yes.
-Dave Barry
What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrifically witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties. -Dave Barry
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. -Ludwig Van Beethoven
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. -Claude Bernard
If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it. -Yogi Berra
I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go. -Frank Bettger
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. -Charles Bixton
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? -Niels Bohr
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. -Ashleigh Brilliant
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. -H. Jackson Browne
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -John Burroughs
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality i accept. -Calvin and Hobbes
Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll to to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money! -George Carlin
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. -Thomas Carlyle
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. -Dale Carnegie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -George Washington Carver
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. -M. Kathleen Casey
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. -Dick Cavett
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese Proverb
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn. -Chinese Proverb
I think the next best thing to solving a probem is finding some humor in it. -Frank A. Clark
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. -Arthur C. Clarke
The intellegence of the planet is constant, and the population is growing. -Arthur C. Clarke
Irix is about as stable as a one-legged drunk with hypothermia in a four-hundred mile wind, balancing on a banana peel on a greased cookie sheet. When someone throws him an elephant with bad breath and a worse temper. - Simon Cozens
The Past may not be your fault, but the Future is your responsibility alone. -Gene Cruz
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. -Marie Curie
Bad is never good until worse happens. -Danish Proverb
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. -James Dean
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself. -Charles de Gaulle
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. -Thomas De Quincey
You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable. -Princess Diana of Wales
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich
Watch me not care. -Dilbert
Everything comes if a man will only wait. -Benjamin Disraeli
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. -Jack Dixon
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. -Fedor Dostoevski
Boys frustrate me. I hate all thier indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you. Kirsten Dunst
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. -Will Durant
You can be in my dreams if i can be in yours. -Bob Dylan
The most unbelievable social convention of the age in which we live is the one to the effect that all religious opinions should be respected, no matter how ignorant. -William Edelen
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein
Few are those who think with their own minds and feel with their own hearts -Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. -Albert Einstein
Spirited ideas have always found great opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A stumble may prevent a fall. -English Proverb
Money is what people without talent use to keep score. -Jeremy C. Epworth
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -Douglas Everett
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. -Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. -Henry Ford
If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France
I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Benjamin Franklin
Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. -Bruce Jay Friedman
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. -Erich Fromm
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound. Thomas Fuller
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. -C. G. Fung
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. -John Kenneth Galbraith
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei
There is more to life than increasing its speed. -Mahatma Gandhi
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. -Paul Geraldy
Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it. -Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -Andre Gide
It's never too late to do nothing at all. -Alan Ginsberg
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. -Arnold H. Glasgow
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. -Natalie Goldberg
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
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. - H. R. Haldeman
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. -Jack Handy
The danger is not that computers will think like men, but that men will think like computers. -Sydney J. Harris
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. -Ernest Hemingway
The first draft of anything is always shit. -Ernest Hemingway
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. -Jimi Hendrix
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -Eric Hoffer
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. -Oliver Wendelll Holmes
It's email, not magic. It's the electronic equivalent of a piece of paper, yet people seem to think it can accomplish such miracles as curing dying children, stopping the creation of imaginary laws in congress, and nobler enterprises such as getting free clothes from Gap, all for flooding the inboxes of your friends, coworkers and relatives with get-rich-quick schemes a two-year-old could see through... provided it arrived via snail mail. -Carla Homan
Don't take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. -Elbert Hubbard
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. -Hungarian proverb
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. -H.L. Hunt
If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese proverb
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact. -William James
Never spend your money before you have it. -Thomas Jefferson
Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind faith. -Thomas Jefferson
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erika Jong
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -Michael Jordan
Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair. -Daniel W. Joselyn
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. -Sam Keen
It's not what happens to you in life that's important, it's how you react to what happens. -Mike Keenan
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? -Eugene Kennedy
A child miseducated is a child lost. -John F. Kennedy
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. -John F. Kennedy
About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. -Robert F. Kennedy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -Charles Kettering
I am a part of all I have read. -John Kieran
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. -Kikuyu proverb
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody has the will to win; precious few have the will to prepare to win. -Bobby Knight
Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all. -T. J. Kopp
Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there. -Mercedes Lackey
I do not think I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive... and open to growth. -Madeleine L'Engle
Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted. -John Lennon
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? -Stephen Levine
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln
It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again. -Vince Lombardi
We have uniformly rejected all letters and declined all discussion upon the question of when the present century ends, as it is one of the most absurd that can engage the public attention, and we are astonished to find it has been the subject of so much dispute, since it appears plain. The present century will not terminate till January 1, 1801, unless it can be made out that 99 are 100. It is a silly, childish discussion, and only exposes the want of brains of those who maintain a contrary opinion to that we have stated. -The (London) Times, December 26, 1799
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." -C.S. Lewis
Mistakes are the dues one pays for a full life. -Sophia Loren
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -Aaron Machado
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. -Og Mandino
Don't be so humble - you are not that great. -Golda Meir
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. -Mistinguett
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. -George Moore
After all there is but one race - humanity. -George Moore
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than onself is real. -Iris Murdoch
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. -Cynthia Nelms
What does the spell checker on the computer have against passive voice? -Dunn Neugebauer
Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not kill me makes me stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche
I contribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. -Florence Nightingale
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -Anias Nin
It is a known fact that women have better verbal skills than men. I just have to say: Duh! -Conan O'Brien
The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -Sean O'Casey
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. -P. J. O'Rourke
It is neccessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself. -Thomas Paine
Figure out who you are and then do it on purpose. -Dolly Parton
A good plan is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. -General George S. Patton
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived. -M. Scott Peck
I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find someone you can beat. -Harvey Penick
I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. -J.C. Penney
The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts. -William Lyon Phelps
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well." -Emo Phillips
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. so i ran over and said "stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?" He said, "Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off. -Emo Phillips
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. -Pablo Picasso
The harder you work, the luckier you get. -Gary Player
To believe everthing or to doubt everything are two equally convienent solutions: Both dispense with the need for reflection. -Jules Henri Poincare'
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -Ivy Baker Priest
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -Gilda Radner
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. -Gilda Radner
Thinking men cannot be ruled. -Ayn Rand
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans. -Ronald Reagan
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. -Jules Renard
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacher
I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry. -Anthony Robbins
Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control. -Wess Roberts
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. -Pat Robertson
Shh! Don't talk so loud! Now everyone will want death. -Joel Robinson
What do women want? To be treated like a queen; but by a king, not a pawn. -James Robison
Love really is a fire that consumes the heart. What most people don't realize, is that fire is painfully hot and the closer you are to it, the bigger the burn you're going to get. -John Roche
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. -Theodore Roosevelt
I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. -Rita Rudner
Absentmindedness is looking for the horse you are riding. -Russian Proverb
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion. -Carl Sagan
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously. -Jean-Paul Sartre
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -Charles Schwab
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. -Seneca
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
-"Oh, the Places You'll Go!", Dr. Seuss
Illusions are dangerous people. They have no flaws. -A line in "Sabrina"
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. -Scottish Proverb
Songs are sneaky things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed the right song at the right moment could change history. -Pete Seeger
Lord, what fools these mortals be! -Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-Shakepeare, Macbeth (V, 5)
'To thine own self be true,
And so it shall come that you
can be false to no other man'
-William Shakespere
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. -George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic 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
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, weare not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, 'Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.' The real fear should be of the opposite course. -Gail Sheehy
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting." -Allan Sherman
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. -Frank Sinatra
If you want to make someone hate you, explain to them, logically and politely, why they are wrong. -Phil Simborg
Heh Heh Heh! Lisa! Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and eskimos! -Homer Simpson
I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! S-M-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T! -Homer Simpson, singing, upon finding out he's been admitted to college
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. -Homer Simpson
We must bait our hooks with honesty, or else the happy marriage is the one that got away. -The Reverend on "The Simpsons"
Any kid'll run an errand for you if you ask at bedtime. -Red Skelton
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith
If it's such a nice day, why spoil it for the rabbits? -Snoopy
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. -Socrates
Finally he released the young man, and waded back to dry land. Then Socrates questioned the man. "What did you most want just now?"
The young man replied, "Air."
"When you want knowledge as much as you just wanted air, you shall have it."
-Socrates
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority and disrespect for their elders. Children nowadays are tyrants. -Socrates
If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. -Julia Soul
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -Leopold Stokowski
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. -Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. -Shirley Temple
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.-Virgil Thomson
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber
Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first. -Mike Todd
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J. R. R. Tolkien
Norms are things that are always perceived, but never achieved. Phillip A. Trella
As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. -Donald Trump
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. -Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. -Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distrue them as you please. -Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. -Mark Twain
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -Mark Twain
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them. -Mark Twain
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp, but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. -Mark Twain
Love is not a desicion, it is a feeling. If we could decide who we love, it would be alot simpler, but alot less magical. -Mr Twig, "South Park"
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu
Often we have no time for our friends, but all the time in the world for our enemies. -Lean Uris
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. -Paul Valery
Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up. -Suzanne Vega
We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life. -James Van Praagh
I wish they would only take me as I am. -Vincent Van Gogh
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and scepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically. -Vincent Van Gogh
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. -Vincent Van Gogh
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. -Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conner, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway. -Judith Viorst
Common Sense is not so common. -Voltaire
An Academic speculated whether a bather is beautiful if there is none in the forest to admire her. He hid in the bushes to find out, which vitiated his premise but made him happy.
Moral: Empiricism is more fun than speculation.
-Sam Weber
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. -Orson Welles
Most modern technology, as good as it may be, is inherently evil. -Gary Welch (of The Katies - its a really good band)
He who hesitates is a damned fool. -Mae West
Whenever I have to decide between two evils, I always choose the one I haven't tried before. -Mae West
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. -E. B. White
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -William Allen White
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. -Alfred North Whitehead
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. -Dennis Wholey
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. -Oscar Wilde
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. -Woodrow Wilson
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -Oprah Winfrey
I used to believe in forever, but forever was too good to be true. -Winnie the Pooh
I think - therefore I'm single. -Lizz Winstead
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes if for happiness. -Mary Wollstonecraft
What is the difference between apathy and ignorance? I don't know and I don't care. -World Entertainment War
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. -Zig Ziglar
