My Quotes Page





Here are some quotes that I have collected over the years...they all either made me laugh or were too true, or both! I thought I'd share them with everyone, so here they are, in random order (as they say on the Miss America pageant)!





"I'm happy to say I regret nothing."
--Marilee Lewis (aka Starwhite*)

This is the last line of her last post to the Internest listserv. I hope I can live to be able to say that...





"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures."
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)





"Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die."
-- anonymous (attributed to Mary Frye -- 1932)





"The Universe is undergoing temporary repairs to its space/time continuum.
For your own safety, please avoid using space and time today.
Alternate methods of corporeal existence should be considered for duration.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
The Management"
authorship unknown





"A piece of writing should be like a lady's skirt:
long enough to cover the important stuff,
but short enough to be interesting."
authorship unknown





"The more you love, the more you can love --- and the more intensely you love.
Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough,
he could love all of that majority who are decent and just."
--Excerpt from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein





"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"

"The Matrix?"

"Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to church or when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

"The truth?"

"That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind."

--Morpheus and Neo, The Matrix





"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real one?"

--Morpheus, The Matrix





"The last thing I remember, the only thing I remember, is the first star I see. I remember being a star in my Mommy's tummy,
and if I ever stop being alive, I want to go back to being a star."
--Raven, age 5





I have a dream where people come together in love and break up with love.
That the breakup ritual be as positive & considerate as the be-together ritual.
That "'till death do us part" be removed from the marriage vow.
And we move on to new relationships with clear communication, without duress and free from bondage to any institution.
Where love of self is love of others and acceptance of choice nourishes our freedoms and our souls' evolution.
Where judgments fall away due to lack of aggression and peace rules supreme inside the house and outside as well.
Beauty





Haiku

Network, at toast's whim.
What mischief resides in wires?
Toast no bread today.

--Kira April, written about a blown fuse crashing a server.





"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
-- Winnie the Pooh





"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
---Stone Temple Pilots





Earth's Commandments

1.Thou shalt love and honor the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.

2.Thou shalt keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of the seasons.

3.Thou shalt not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.

4.Thou shalt give thanks for thy food to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.

5.Thou shalt limit thy offspring, for multitudes of people are a burden unto the Earth.

6.Thou shalt not kill nor waste Earth's riches upon weapons of war.

7.Thou shalt not pursue profit at the Earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.

8.Thou shalt not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the Earth.

9.Thou shalt consume material goods in moderation so all may share Earth's bounty.

--Earnest Callenbach. 1990





The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
--Ralph Sockman





There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
--Elie Wisel





Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
--W.L. George





Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
--Paul Tillich





Evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total that if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota - the lovely, the rate, and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.
--Mercedes Lackey





To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Tennyson





Those who would give light must endure burning.
--Hannah Senesch





There are stars whose radiance is visible on earth though they have long been extinct.
There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world
though they are no longer among the living.
These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark.
They light the way for Mankind.
--Hannah Senesch





"Hello. My name is Oedipus. You are my father. Prepare to die."
Authorship unknown





"If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
--Betty Reese





"The Goddess is inside the earth, and outside the earth, and up into the sky and the galaxies.
She gives us power to live here, and keep in balance."
--Raven, age 5





"Every planet needs somebody to care about. The planets that don't have any people, they don't have anyone to care for,
so they would like us to come visit and be friends."
--Raven, age 5





"You never need more people to do something. You just do it."
--Raven, age 5





"Christian Fundamentalists may object to single parents on earth, yet have no problem accepting one in heaven."
--Arachne's Aphorisms for Wiccans





"To hell with other people's opinions. I'm on my own broom."
--Liza Minnelli





"Those who don't read good books have little advantage over those who can't read them."
--Mark Twain





"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
--Thomas Mann





floppity flappity flip
the mouse on the moebius strip
the strip revolved
the mouse disolved
in a chronodimensional slip
--Matt Williams
(I love my boyfriend...he's just as odd as me!)





There was a young lady named Bright
who traveled much faster than light
she started one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous Night

But that's not the end of the trip
her ecdysiast name is a flip!
she's named for a twist
paper turns with a wrist
Now you should see Moebius strip!
--Evan Robinson (one of my friends from Internest)





Bigamy, they say, is a vice,
And more than one spouse is not nice,
But one is a bore,
I'd prefer three or four,
And the plural of spouse is spice!
--anonymous