| Author |
Quote |
| Abraham Lincoln |
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. |
| Ancient Proverb |
If justice rules the universe, we are all in trouble. |
| Anonymous |
Life on earth may be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun. |
| Art Canin |
Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional. |
| Bertrand Russell |
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. |
| Bugs Bunny |
Never take life to seriously, because you know that you are not getting out of it alive. |
| Burt Reynolds (Smokey and the Bandit) |
When you tell someone something, it depends on what part of the United States your standing in as to how stupid you are. |
| Charles Dickens |
Credit is a system whereby a person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to gaurantee that he can pay. |
| Dr. Laura Slessinger |
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. |
| Dr. Laura Slessinger |
The good guys end up with the burdens because they have the shoulders. |
| George Carlin |
If you think there is a solution, then you are part of the problem. |
| James Oberg |
Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but not so open that your brains fall out. |
| Jim Croce |
If you dig it, do it. If you dig it alot, do it twice. |
| Lee Travino |
The more I practice, the luckier I get. |
| Ogden Nash |
Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. |
| Richard Wood |
There is a great similarity between bars and churches, they are both made for sinners. |
| Swami X |
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes, is the answer. |
| Thomas Gray |
...where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise. |
| Unknown |
A smile is the shortest distance between two people. |
| Unknown |
The best defense against logic is ignorance. |
| Unknown |
There is nothing more conciousless than majority rule. |
| Unknown |
Knowledge is power, power is corrupt, so never trust a smart guy. |
| Unknown |
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy. |
| Unknown |
Everyone is a genius. Its just that some people are too stupid to realize it. |
| Unknown |
God is Dead - Nieztsche, Nieztsche is dead - God. |
| Unknown |
Trust in God, but lock up your car. |
| Unknown |
Psychiatrists don't have to worry as long as other people do. |
| Unknown |
A dollar bill looks the same today as it did 20 years ago. Looks can be deceiving. |
| Unknown |
A diet is what you keep putting off while you keep putting on. |
| Unknown |
A delay is better than disaster. |
| Unknown |
A computer's attention span in only as long as it's extension cord. |
| Unknown |
A compromise is an arrangement whereby people who can't get what they want make sure nobody else does either. |
| Unknown |
A common cold is not common if it is yours. |
| Unknown |
A college education is very educational. It teaches the parents of the student how to do without a lot of things. |
| Unknown |
A closed mouth gathers no feet. |
| Unknown |
A budget is like a conscience. It doesn't keep you from spending money, but it makes you feel guilty about it. |
| Unknown |
A budget is an orderly way of discovering you can't live on what you're earning. |
| Unknown |
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, he tells you. |
| Unknown |
A big problem these days is that we have a surplus of simple answers, and a shortage of simple questions. |
| Unknown |
A bargain sale is where people fight for merchandise that's reduced in price because nobody wanted it in the first place. |
| Unknown |
A bargain is something that looks better than it is and sells for less than it was. |
| Unknown |
A bargain is a transaction in which each party thinks he has cheated the other. |
| Unknown |
A bank is a place where you can keep the government's money until the IRS asks for it. |
| Unknown |
A balanced budget is when the month and the money run out together. |
| Unknown |
A bachelor is someone who opposes marriage because it means being put on a wife-support system. |
| Unknown |
A baby sitter is a teenager who behaves like an adult, while the adults are out behaving like teenagers. |
| Unknown |
If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me. |
| Unknown |
An acquaintance is a person you know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. |
| Unknown |
Among the things money can't buy, is what it used to. |
| Unknown |
Procrastination is the fault most people put off correcting. |
| Unknown |
Playing golf is like raising children... you keep thinking you'll do better next time. |
| Unknown |
Pets are such agreeable friends... they don't talk back, borrow money, asks questions, or criticize. |
| Unknown |
If you and your partner always agree, one of you is unnecessary. |
| Unknown |
A budget is what you stay within if you go without. |
| Vince Lombardi |
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. |
| Will Rogers |
Even if your on the right track, you will get run over if you sit still. |
| Woody Allen |
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. |
| Author |
Quote |
| Albert Camus |
Any one who has considerably meditated on man, by profession or vacation, is led to feel nostalgia for the primates. They at least don’t have any ulterior motives. |
| Albert Camus |
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. |
| Albert Camus |
...Crime always finds lawyers, and innocence only rarely. |
| Albert Camus |
Truth like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. |
| Albert Camus |
Where there is no memory there is no guilt. |
| Albert Einstein |
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. |
| Alfred Korzyloski |
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. |
| Ancient Proverb |
I mourned that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. |
| Ancient Proverb |
Man thinks, God laughs. |
| Antione de Saint Exupery |
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. |
| Aristotle |
Man is a social animal. |
| Aristotle |
It is a waste of time to talk ethics with anyone under the age of fifty. |
| Barry Goldwater |
Moderation in the pursuit of justice, is no virtue. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwiling to learn. |
| Bertrand Russell |
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance. |
| Bob Segar |
I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then. |
| Buddha |
Human desires are endless. Like the thirst of a man who drinks saltwater: he gets no satisfaction and his thirst is only increased. |
| Buddha |
If the string is too tight, it will break, but if it is too loose it will not play. |
| Carl Sagan |
What in the precepts of science keeps a scientist from doing evil. |
| Carl Sagan |
It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. |
| Carl Sagan |
Naturally people try various belief systems on for size, to see if they help. And if we’re desperate enough, we become all too willing to abandon what may be percieved as the heavy burdon of skepticism. |
| Carl Sagan |
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. |
| Carl Sagan |
We are all flawed, and creatures of our time. Is it fair to judge as by the unknown standards of the future? Some of the habits of our age will doubtless be considered barbaric by later generations. |
| Carl Sagan |
...silencing an opinion is ‘a peculiar evil’. If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the ‘opportunity of exchanging error for truth’; and if it’s wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in ‘its collision with error’. |
| Confucius |
Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life. |
| Confucius |
Study without reflection is a waste of time, reflection without study is dangerous. |
| Dr. Laura Slessinger |
When you come to a fork in the middle of the road, if you choose the stuff on the right, you can’t have the stuff on the left anymore. |
| E. B. White |
When you write for children you can not lie, you can deviate from reality, but can not deviate from the truth. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same. |
| Emily Dickenson |
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. |
| Epictetus |
We must not believe the many who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. |
| Eric Hoffer |
Those who have something to live for are willing to die for it. Those who don’t have something to live for, dont want to die for anything. |
| Franklin P. Jones |
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Without God, everything is permitted. |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. |
| G. K. Chesterton |
The only immoral way to drink is to do it for a medical purpose. |
| G.K. Chesterton (Heretics) |
Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is aquainted with ideas and moves among them like a lion tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaler. |
| Herman Hesse |
You can’t always get what you want, but you can always get what you need. |
| Immanuel Kant |
The unavoidable problems of reason themselves are God, Freedom, and Immortality. |
| Indian Philosophy |
The artifacts of a sufficiently advanced extraterestial civilization would be indistinguishable from magic. |
| J. D. Salinger |
The mark of the imature man is that he wants to die for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. |
| Jason Marsh (Inspired by Wood) |
What you do in life should be a reflection of what you believe. |
| Jesse Waitz |
People die not because they have nothing to live for, but because they have everything to live for. |
| Joe Plumeri |
Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality. |
| John Lennon |
Life is what happens to you when your busy making other plans. |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Do one thing, everyday, that scares you. |
| Latin Proverb |
Where there is doubt, there is freedom. |
| Leo Tolstoy |
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. |
| Leo Tolstoy |
Life is only good as long as it intoxicates us. |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Nothing is so difficult, as not decieving oneself. |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
In order to convince someone of the truth, it does not suffice to state the truth, rather one must find the way from error to truth. |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
If there was any value in the world it would have no value, if there were any value within, it would have to come from without. |
| Mark Twain |
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. |
| Plato |
A wise man talks because he has something to say, a fool talks because he has to say something. |
| Plato |
No human nature invested with supreme power is able to order human affairs, and not overflow with insolence and wrong. |
| Pubilus Syrus |
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. |
| Richard Wood |
Is there any way to maintain equality without making the unequal equal. |
| Richard Wood |
Booze, like fire, will provide comfort for many, but when out of control it can burn you just the same. |
| Richard Wood |
Death is the difference between knowing something about a species and knowing something about ourselves. |
| Richard Wood |
If your not living the way you would if you had 6 weeks to live - then you’re not living at all. |
| Richard Wood |
If you don’t know how to die, then you don’t know how to live. |
| Richard Wood |
Every time you pick up a book you gamble with your life. |
| Russeau |
The conscious of the guilty will vindicate the innocent. |
| Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) |
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. |
| Sir. Francis Bacon |
A little philosophy inclineth men’s minds to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds to religion. |
| Sir. Francis Bacon |
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find fault and discourse, but to weigh and consider. |
| Socrates |
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. |
| Socrates |
The unexamined life is not worth living. |
| Soren Kirkegard |
Without god, man is not too weak, but too strong for himself. |
| Sydney Smith |
Never try to reason the predjudice out of a man, It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. |
| Unknown |
You cannont teach anyone anything, you can only motivate them to learn. |
| Unknown |
Any man who does not fear his potential is either a fool or blind. |
| Unknown |
People find it much easier to be a result from the past, than a cause of the future. |
| Unknown |
A discussion is an exchange of knowledge. An argument is an exchange of ignorance. |
| Unknown |
A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow. |
| Unknown |
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. |
| Unknown |
A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there. |
| Unknown |
A commentary on the times in which we live is that the noun 'honesty' is usually preceded by the words 'old fashioned'. |
| Unknown |
If there's more than one answer, it's not a stupid question. |
| Unknown |
An angry person is seldom reasonable, and a reasonable person is seldom angry. |
| Whoopie Goldberg (Ghost of Mississippi) |
Hate only hurts on person, you. Because half the people that you hate don’t know, and the other half don’t care. |
| William Shakespeare (Hamlet) |
There is nothing right or wrong, tis only thinking makes it so. |
| William Shakespeare (Henry VIII) |
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never ever get it out. |
| Author |
Quote |
| C. S. Lewis |
The best way to enslave a people, is to preach equality. |
| Carl Sagan |
If we like them they’re freedom fighters...If we dont like them, they’re terrorists, In the unlikely case we can’t make up our minds, they’re temporarily only guerillas. |
| Carl Sagan |
...for many, there is no such thing as a national religion, although the religion of nationalism has millions of adherents. |
| DeToqueville |
Americans are so enamoured with equality, that they would rather be equal in slavery, than unequal in freedom. |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today. It is the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from earth, but to set up Heaven on earth. |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Starting at unlimited freedom we arive at unlimited despotism. |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
There has never been freedom without despotism - but in the herd, there is equality - that’s Shiggaloffism. |
| G. K. Chesterton |
There is no equality in Nature. |
| Jesse Waitz |
Socialism, Marxism, and Communism only encourage a lazy , slovenly, regression to mediocrity! |
| John Stuart Mill |
If society lets and considerable number of its members grow up as mere children, incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motive, society has itself to blame. |
| Joseph Stalin |
The death of a single man is a tragedy, the death of a million men is a statistic. |
| Justice Robert H. Jackson |
It is not the function of our government to keep the citizens from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. |
| Mussolini |
There can only be one free man in any state, and that is the dictator. |
| Richard Wood |
The materialist...embrace ideology in place of truth. |
| Richard Wood |
Capitalism is not idealistic or utopian, that’s one the main reasons it works. |
| Richard Wood |
Freedom is not license. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. |
| Unknown |
Kill 10 men, you’re a murderer, kill 10 million, and your a conquerer. |
| Unknown |
Liberty leads the overwhelming majority to nothing but lackeyism before another man’s thoughts, since people are awfully fond of things that are offered them ready-made. |
| Unknown |
A bipartisan issue is a problem neither party knows what to do about. |
| Unknown |
If we bought only what we could afford it would destroy our economy. |
| William Henry III (In defence of Elitism) |
...A secular king is an earthly God. |
| William Henry III (In defence of Elitism) |
What is most important is the act of speaking, not what is being said. |
| William Henry III (In defence of Elitism) |
...the elitist dictum is that some values and indeed some people are better than others, and some should be encouraged. |
| William Henry III (In defence of Elitism) |
Fairness is not the same thing as equality. |
| William Henry III (In defence of Elitism) |
An imperfect world is not the same thing as a worthless one. |
