Quotes and Sayings

Garry shandling - i have such poor vision i can date anybody....
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Randolph bourne - society is one vast conspiracy for carving one...
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Seneca
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".
Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
Saint Augustine
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Havelock Ellis
Lyndon b. johnson - our purpose in vietnam is to prevent the success...
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
That was my gift - - Having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting them play what they knew, and above it.
Miles Davis
Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
Thomas a Kempis
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
I am no more humble than my talents require.
Oscar Levant
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.
Author Unknown
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?
Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
The more things change the more they remain the same.
Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.
Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
William Shakespeare
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty - One, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
Johnson
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.
Shimon Peres
End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph F. Newton
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.
Annie Gottlie
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
Bhagavad Gita
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman