Quotes, March 2002
01. Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice.
- Oscar Wilde
02. The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde
03. Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne on his deathbed
04. I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- Mae West
05. Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce
06. I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Unknown
07. The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
- Richard Feynman
08. Don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die.
- Advice on women, seen in a Male restroom
09. What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- Thomas Sowell
10. A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics.
- Unknown
11. When you're up to your neck in shit, all you can do is sing.
- Samuel Beckett
12. If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
13. To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
- Marcus Aurelius
14. People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
- J. Michael Straczynski
15. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- Franklin P. Jones
16. It is a good rule of life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse
17. The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
- H. L. Mencken
18. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Jane Austen
19. Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
- Jean Cocteau
20. It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.
- Cynthia E. Varnado
21. The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
22. Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
- Georges Wolinski
23. A Lady is someone who never shows her underwear - unintentionally.
- Lillian Day
24. God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell. That is not free will. It's akin to a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me, I'll track you down and blow your brains out. When a man says this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his imprisonment/execution. When god says the same we call him loving and build churches in his honor.
- W. Easttom
25. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
- Henry Havelock Ellis
26. [In regard to the Trinity]; "Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one . . . and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies.
- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson
27. All in all, I can't say I believe in god. If, in fact, I ever find out that he does indeed exist, I think I'll stay away from him, because if he's responsible for half the things he gets credit for, he's got to be one mean son of a bitch.
- Peter Gether
28. An absurd problem came to the surface: 'How could God permit that [crucifixion of Jesus Christ]!' The deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a sacrifice. The sacrifice for guilt, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
29. Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here.
- Rev. Donald Morgan
30. Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
- Jules Feiffer
31. God hated the world so much that he sent his only son so that whoever does not believe in him will perish and be denied eternal life.
- Unknown
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