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)