Quotes, April 2002
01. I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules.
- Dan Barker, former priest
02. If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
- Jack Handey
03. A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
- Walter Winchell
04. When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
- Elayne Boosler
05. Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard
06. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
- Unknown
07. I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
08. Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
- Buckminster Fuller
09. Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
- William S. Burroughs
10. Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell
11. Geteilte Freude ist doppelt Freude. Geteilter Schmerz ist halber Scmerz.
[Shared joy is double joy. Shared pain is halfed pain.]
- C.A. Tiedge
12. A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
- Cecil B. De Mille
13. A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common
hatred of it's neighbours.
- Dean William R. Inge
14. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
15. There's always something fishy about the French.
- Noel Coward
16. In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
- Mark Twain
17. I am not European, I can't find deep meaning in everything I do.
Kevin Costner
***No quotes for April 18 - May 2 due to a vacation on the continent***
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