QUOTES
Quote of the week:
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without.
-James Baldwin
When I die, I want to go like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like all the passengers in his car. Unknown
But if you build your life on dreams it’s prudent to recall—a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all. -Don Quixote
What’s enough love? A little more than anyone ever gets. -Charly
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The other is to get it. -Shaw
Don’t waste your youth growing up. -Laotzu?
When I was young, I could remember anything—whether it happened or not. -Mark Twain
If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. -Nietzshe
Like—what’s the point of poetry when you can like, uh—talk? -Jon Speigal
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -J. A.Holmes
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Picasso
Physicists define stress as force per unit area. The rest of humanity defines stress as physics. -Unknown
Engineering: "How will this work?"
Science: "Why will this work?"
Management: "When will this work?"
Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?"
-Unknown
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. -Unknown
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. -Soren Kierkegaard
Life: nobody gets out alive. -J.Q. Delegano
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you…Look at every path closely and deliberately, try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question…Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use. -Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde
I go by many names, under many skies, doing many things, yet am always at the same place. I eat up its power, reveling in anguish. I love, I lie, I am only a human. This is my life; no trespassing, please. -The Lord Greycloak of Raven’s Hill
If God had meant for us to be naked, we’d have been born that way. -Mark Twain
I think that if there is a god, he doesn’t exist in you or in me, but in the space in between. -Before Sunrise
Religion is the opiate of the masses. -Marx
You cannot find yourself, only create yourself. -Anne Sekel
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. -John Barrymore
Man is the only creature that has the ability to blush, or the need. -Mark Twain
NEXT FOUR ARE ALBERT EINSTEIN’S
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.
…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
I do not know with what weapons WW3 will be fought, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
* **
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. -Paul Fix
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei
Silence is argument carried out by other means. -Guevara
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. -Unknown
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -James Michener
Thinking is the soul talking to itself. -Plato
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -TomLin
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure. -Unknown
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. -Benet
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -Hector Berlioz
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. -Jean de la Bruyere
After I’m dead, I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. -Marcus Porcius Cato
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. -Phyllis Diller
Reality is merely and illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz
I’m gonna live forever, or die trying. -Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
Drive slow and enjoy the scenery—drive fast and join the scenery. -Doug Horton
Some men are alive simply because it’s against the law to kill them. -Ed Howe
Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell. -Aldous Huxley
If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid. -Jeremy Preston Johnson
My interest is in the future because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there. -Charles F. Kettering
What sane person could live in the world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. LeGuin
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. -William Osler
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics. -Josef Stalin
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. -Earl Wilson
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. -Emiliano Zapata
Children in the front seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children. -Unknown
Death is God’s way of telling you not to be such a wise guy. -Unknown
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. -Unknown
NEXT FIVE ARE UNKNOWN AUTHORS
Don’t worry over what other people are thinking about you. They’re too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun.
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
* * *
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Unknown (Indian Proverb.)
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right. -Ashleigh Brilliant
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -A. Whitney Brown
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -Samuel Butler
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. -Simon Cameron
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? -Jean Cocteau
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king…and the one-eyed man with the high heels and the feather boa is queen.
-Dr. Squid
I am free from all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. -W.C. Fields
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -W.C. Fields
I don’t want any ‘yes-men’ around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. -Samuel Goldwyn
One nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people. -Lucille. S. Harper
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. -Adolf Hitler
Be your own hero, it’s cheaper than a movie ticket. -Doug Horton
Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others. -Doug Horton
Smile, it’s better than a poke in the eye. -Doug Horton
Smile, it’s free therapy. -Doug Horton
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. -Thomas Jefferson
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
-Mary Ellen Kelly
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John F. Kennedy
I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it. -Groucho Marx
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He’ll come in handy if you run out of food. -Dean McLaughlin
I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say. -Marshall McLuhan
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking. -Henry Louis Mencken
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Teresa
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head. -Unknown
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. -Alfred Adler
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. -Ambrose Bierce
Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. -Ambrose Bierce
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. -Unknown
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Unknown
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? -Unknown
Love your enemies: they’ll go crazy trying to figure out what you’re up to -Unknown
The sum of mans problems come from his inability to sit alone in a silent room. -Pascal
Blessed is he, who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence to the fact. -George Elliot
There are two important secrets to life; the first is to never tell everything at once. -Venturray
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Unknown
You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person. -Yiddish Proverb
The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt. -Unknown