Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.
--Elbert Hubbard
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
--Confucius
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
--Freud
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
--Tears for Fears
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
--Chinese Proverb
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
--Rodan of Alexandria
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
--Richard Armour
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
--Edgar A. Shoaff
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
--Einstein
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
--Jules de Gaultier
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
--Goethe
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
--Xenocrates of Chalcedon
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
--Vernon Law, baseball pitcher
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
--Luciano de Crescenzo
We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.
--Bryan Singer, director of "The Usual Suspects"
Our Conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
--Walter Lippmann
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
--Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
--Isaac Asimov
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--Arthur C. Clarke
Comedy is an escape not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
--Christopher Fry
I like a man who grins when he fights.
--Winston Churchill
True is the grief you carry without witnesses.
--Marcus Martialis
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
--Abraham Maslow
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
--Groucho Marx
An amateur thinks it's really funny if you dress a man up as an old lady, put him in a wheelchair, and give the wheelchair a push that sends it spinning down a slope towards a stone wall. For a pro, it's got to be a real old lady.
--Groucho Marx
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is love, there is pain.
--Spanish Proverb
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
--Robert Cody
Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.
--Norwegian proverb
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
--Stalin
If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the light.
--John Cowan
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
--Henry Ward Beecher
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
--Unknown
If you would keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
--Unknown
What we do not understand we do not possess.
--Goethe
Don't eat yellow snow.
--Frank Zappa
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
--Book of Proverbs
I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.
--Elmer Diktonius
To think before you talk is like wiping your ass before you shit.
--Arne Anka
It is better to have men ask why you have no statue, than why you have one.
-Unknown
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
--Confucius
A home without books is a body without soul.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
-Mae West
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
--Confucius
When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
--Confusius
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
--Sir Isaac Newton
Be careful of reading health books; you may die of a misprint.
--Mark Twain
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
--Oscar Wilde
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
--Isaac Asimov
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
--Oscar Wilde
Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?
--Matt Groening
Pride only hurts. It never helps.
--Pulp Fiction
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
--Wilson Mizner
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
--Herman Hesse
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
Never act out of fear, and never let fear stop you from acting.
--Unknown
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
--Anais Nin
Without struggle, there can be no growth.
--Chinese proverb
Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
--Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, and they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
--Muhammad Ali
Avoid strangers by introducing yourself.
--Unknown
The way of the paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on a tight-rope. When the verities become acrobats we can judge them.
--Oscar Wilde
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
--Helen Hayes
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
--MLK Jr. Letter From Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
Once you start worrying about what other people think of you, you stop being yourself.
--Unknown
We do exactly what we would do if this Q never exisited. If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are.
--Captain Picard, Star Trek.
From chaos come clarity.
--Nick Hexum
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
--John Erskine
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them.
--Unkown
Medicine is the art of entertaining the patient, as the body heals itself.
--Voltaire
Many things will catch your eye, but few will catch your heart. Pursue these.
--Unkown
Only show a select few your inner self and remember that they are doing the same, so cherish those whom you have really met.
--Unkown
Good friends are like stars, you may not see them, but they are always there.
--Unkown
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
--Isaac Asimov
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.
--Bob Marley
The deeper that sorrow carves in to your being, the more joy you can contain.
--Kahlil Gibran
The more a man talks, the less his words are worth.
--Unknown
Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you but trusting them not to.
--Unknown
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
--Voltaire
A good Traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
--Lao Tzu
It is not what you give your children that spoils them; it's what you give them to avoid confrontation.
--Unknown
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be -- because you only have one life and one chance to do all the things that you want to do.
--Britta Fiksdal
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only standing still.
--Chinese proverb
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quakery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
--Raymond Chandler
Most of the shadows of life come from your own self blocking the sun.
--James Pickett
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
--Antonio Gramsci
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
--Voltaire
Trying to speak about the ultimate reality is like sending a kiss though a messenger.
--Cyprus Frost
Oh really?
-Wiseman
If there is no wind, row.
--Japanise proverb
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
--Albert Einstein
A winner listens, a looser just waits untill it is their turn to talk.
--Unknown
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
--Scott Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
--Douglas Noel Adams author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
--Aesop
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
--Sir William Arthur
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
--Josh Billings
Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
--Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
--Akhenaton
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
--Joseph Addison
To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.
--Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
--Isaac Asimov
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A quote is useless until put to use.
--Unknown
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