He should be most proud that the PMRC wants to put their obscene lyrics sticker on his `Jazz From Hell' -- which is an instrumental album.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

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.-- Anais Nin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.-- Mahatma Gandhi (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture.-- Steven Wright (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.-- Roald Dahl (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.-- R. D. Laing (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.-- Peter Ustinov (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?-- George Moore (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.-- Solomon Short (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.-- Candice Bergen (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.-- Scott Adams (source http://quote.kitt.net)

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,-- William_Shakespeare/" (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.-- Lady Bird Johnson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.-- John Ruskin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.-- Homer (source http://quote.kitt.net)

They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.' But then he added, 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.'-- Ronald Reagan (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.-- Leon Trotsky (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.-- William Shakespeare (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Henry James chews more than he bites off.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.-- Pico Iyer (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.-- Nicolas Boileau (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Everything you can imagine is real.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)-- Robert Byrne (source http://quote.kitt.net)

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.-- Benjamin Franklin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.-- John Muir (source http://quote.kitt.net)

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.-- Graham Greene (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.-- David Letterman (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.-- Friedrich von Schiller (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.-- Henry David Thoreau (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.-- Dorothy Parker (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.-- George F. Will (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.-- Ken Rockwell (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.-- Aristotle (source http://quote.kitt.net)

For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.-- Henry Ford (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.-- Henny Youngman (source http://quote.kitt.net)

No life that breathes with human breath-- Alfred Tennyson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Big thinking precedes great achievement.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."-- Benjamin Franklin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.-- Maxwell Maltz (source http://quote.kitt.net)

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.-- Elayne Boosler (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. -- Aesop (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.-- Frederick The Great (source http://quote.kitt.net)

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.-- Graham Greene (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.-- Samuel Johnson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.-- Theodore Roosevelt (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.-- Karl Kraus (source http://quote.kitt.net)

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?-- Cyril Connolly (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.-- Gordon Parks (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.-- Albert Guerard (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. -- Anthony Burgess (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law-- Immanuel Kant (source http://quote.kitt.net)

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.-- Tallulah Bankhead (source http://quote.kitt.net)

He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy: But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sun rise.-- William Blake (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.-- Mark Twain (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes!-- "The King of Hearts" (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.-- Henry Cate VII (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.-- Calvin Coolidge (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.-- Fran Lebowitz (source http://quote.kitt.net)

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.-- Benjamin Franklin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.-- Abraham Lincoln (source http://quote.kitt.net)

DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.-- Jeff Marder (source http://quote.kitt.net)

One picture is worth a thousand words.-- Fred R. Barnard (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.-- Bible (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.-- William Shakespeare (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.-- John Updike (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Lack of money is the root of all evil.-- George Bernard Shaw (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.-- Fulton J. Sheen (source http://quote.kitt.net)

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.-- Charles Sumner (source http://quote.kitt.net)

They are slaves who fear to speak,-- James_Russell_Lowell/" (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.-- Seneca (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.-- Theodore Roosevelt (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.-- Clifford Stoll (source http://quote.kitt.net)

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.`-- Calvin Coolidge (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.-- Alan Turing (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.-- Georg W. Hegel (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.-- George Bernard Shaw (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.-- William Rotsler (source http://quote.kitt.net)

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.-- Benjamin Franklin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.-- Margaret Cho (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.-- E. B. White (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.-- William Faulkner (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.-- Sefer Hasidim (source http://quote.kitt.net)

From the still-vexed Bermoothes.-- William Shakespeare (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.-- Arthur C. Clarke (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.-- Langston Coleman (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.-- Woody Allen (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.-- Carl Zwanzig (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.-- Joan Didion (source http://quote.kitt.net)

O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!-- William Shakespeare (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you�re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.-- Otto von Bismarck (source http://quote.kitt.net)

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.-- William Shakespeare (source http://quote.kitt.net)

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.-- Groucho Marx (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I never know how much of what I say is true.-- Bette Midler (source http://quote.kitt.net)

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.-- Paul Tillich (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Reality is what won't go away when you stop beliving in it.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Woman was God's second mistake.-- Friedrich Nietzsche (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.-- Terry Pratchett (source http://quote.kitt.net)

DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.-- Robert R. Coveyou (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

They can because they think they can.-- Virgil (source http://quote.kitt.net)

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.-- Mark Twain (source http://quote.kitt.net)

FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.-- John Lancaster Spalding (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.-- H. L. Mencken (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.-- Sean O'Casey (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Creditors have better memories than debtors.-- Benjamin Franklin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

...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. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.-- Albert Einstein (source http://quote.kitt.net)

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 (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'-- Leslie Nielsen (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.-- John Wayne (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.-- Anonymous (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?-- Tom Stoppard (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.-- Martin Luther King Jr. (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.-- Max Frisch (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.-- Will Rogers (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.-- Paul Gauguin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.-- Swedish Proverb (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.-- Lily Tomlin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.-- Indira Gandhi (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.-- Anonymous (source http://quote.kitt.net)

God is either everything, or He is nothing.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.-- Ovid (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.-- Desiderius Erasmus (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The beginning is the most important part of the work.-- Plato (source http://quote.kitt.net)

...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.-- J. K. Rowling (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.-- Holly Lisle (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.-- William James (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.-- Archimedes (source http://quote.kitt.net)

God is a verb.-- R. Buckminster Fuller (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Never give a sucker an even break.-- W. C. Fields (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?-- Seneca (source http://quote.kitt.net)

God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.-- Pablo Picasso (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.-- Jane Wagner (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.-- Larry McMurtry (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.-- Louis D. Brandeis (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The revolution is not a tea party.-- Mao Tse-tung (source http://quote.kitt.net)

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.-- Adelle Davis (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.-- Matthew Arnold (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?-- Cesare Pavese (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.-- George Bernard Shaw (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.-- Sir Arthur Eddington (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.-- Margaret Thatcher (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.-- Kurt Vonnegut (source http://quote.kitt.net)

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. -- Sir Francis Bacon (source http://quote.kitt.net)

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.-- Sam Rayburn (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.-- Thomas Elliot (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.-- Yogi Berra (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God�s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.-- Real Live Preacher (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.-- Oscar Wilde (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.-- Lord Acton (source http://quote.kitt.net)

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.-- Saul Bellow (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.-- Francis Quarles (source http://quote.kitt.net)

To err is human, to forgive divine.-- Alexander Pope (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.-- Johnny Carson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.-- Horace (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night.-- Steven Wright (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.-- Isak Dineson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.-- Samuel Butler (source http://quote.kitt.net)

His ignorance is encyclopedic.-- Abba Eban (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Drugs are a bet with your mind.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.-- Bertrand Russell (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.-- Virginia Woolf (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. -- William Phillips (source http://quote.kitt.net)

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

History never looks like history when you are living through it.-- John W. Gardner (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Marketing is a fashionable term. The sales manager becomes a marketing vice president. But a gravedigger is still a gravedigger even when it is called a mortician - only the price of the burial goes up.-- Peter Drucker (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.-- Andrew Carnegie (source http://quote.kitt.net)

In a mad world only the mad are sane.-- Akira Kurosawa (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.-- Will Rogers (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.-- Kahlil Gibran (source http://quote.kitt.net)

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Here stand I. I can do no other.-- Martin Luther (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Men seldom make passes-- Dorothy_Parker/" (source http://quote.kitt.net)

But love is blind and lovers cannot see-- (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.-- Mark Twain (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.-- Arthur Schopenhauer (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.-- Thomas Merton (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.-- Judy Garland (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name _Nemeseia_, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the _Novemdiale_, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.-- Elbert Hubbard (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.-- P. J. O'Rourke (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.-- Isaac Asimov (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.-- Dr. Seuss (source http://quote.kitt.net)

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.-- George Bernard Shaw (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (source http://quote.kitt.net)

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.-- Bono (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely take your intellect and lay it off somewhere in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself. The result is prophecy.-- Mark Twain (source http://quote.kitt.net)

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.-- Edwin_Teale/" (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.-- Benjamin Franklin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.-- Bertrand Russell (source http://quote.kitt.net)

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.-- Bobby Knight (source http://quote.kitt.net)

He whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster!-- Friedrich Nietzsche (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear. -- Japanese Proverb (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.-- Nathaniel Emmons (source http://quote.kitt.net)

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.-- Socrates (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.-- Peter Ustinov (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.-- John Kenneth Galbraith (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.-- Sylvia Plath (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.-- Henry Ward Beecher (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.-- Mahatma Gandhi (source http://quote.kitt.net)

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.-- Paterculus (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.-- Unknown (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.-- Seneca (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I woke up one morning thinking about Turkish drummers, but it didn't last long, because I didn't know much about Turkish drummers.-- Bruce Cockburn (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.-- Charles M. Schulz (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.-- Ogden Nash (source http://quote.kitt.net)

One Ring to rule them all,-- (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.-- Kahlil Gibran (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.-- Mahatma Gandhi (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.-- George Bernard Shaw (source http://quote.kitt.net)

...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.-- J. R. R. Tolkien (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.-- Robert Frost (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.-- Niccolo Machiavelli (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.-- Bette Davis (source http://quote.kitt.net)

True poverty does not come from God.-- Yiddish Proverb (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.-- Robert Benchley (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.-- George Santayana (source http://quote.kitt.net)

VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.-- R. Buckminster Fuller (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Energy and persistence conquer all things.-- Benjamin Franklin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.-- Lenny Bruce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The French are just useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.-- Runs through your argument." Then leave the rest (source http://quote.kitt.net)