Quotes
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde
All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin (1939- )
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
"I have my own God, and I think my God finds me incredibly fucking funny. That's why I chose him as my God ." Dennis Miller
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon
the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it. Irving Berlin
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. In politics stupidity is not a handicap. A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte
Life moves pretty fast, If you don't take a look around once and awhile, you could miss it.
Ferris Bueller
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James B. Cabell
I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. Thomas Carlyle
" ... It is impossible to love and be wise . " Francis Bacon
" ... You shall have joy , or you shall have power , said God ; ... you shall not have both . "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
" ... Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart ... "
Eric Hoffer
" ... Wise men say nothing in dangerous times ... " John Selden
" ... Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours ... " Frank Moore Colby
"I think; therefore I am." Rene Descartes
"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
"Religion is the opiate of the masses." Karl Marx
"The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." Bertrand Russell