Quotes, September 2003
01. Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.
- St. Augustine
02. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai Stevenson
03. It's not the men in my life that counts… it's the life in my men.
- Mae West
04. You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington
05. A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
- Chauncey Depew
06. The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
-Paul Twitchell
07. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
- Albert Einstein
08. What was it that Adam ate that he wasn't supposed to eat? It wasn't just an apple - it was the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The subtle message? Get smart and I'll fuck you over - sayeth the Lord. God is the smartest - and he doesn't want any competition. Is this not an absolutely anti-intellectual religion?
- Frank Zappa
09. If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
- Tom Robbins
10. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-Blaise Pascal
11. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Barry Goldwater
12. Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
- Kurt Vonnegut
13. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- Thomas Paine
14. As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
15. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
- George Washington
16. As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
- Katherine Hepburn
17. "Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar at the supper time."
- McGuire Sisters hit tune (1958)
18. Må man säga vad ont man vill om ett syndigt leverne - men det är almännbildande.
[Say what bad things you want about sinful living - but it is educating]
Hjalmar Bergman, Swedish writer
19. When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change, you will change.
- Dr. Robert Anthony
20. Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
- Miguel Cervantes
21. The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
22. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
23. Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
- Leo Burnett
24. An expert is one who knows more and more about less an less.
- Nicholas M. Butler
25. It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
- A. J. Balfour
26. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty, but I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sidwell
27. There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
28. The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
29. It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
- Richard Dawkins
30. I like men who have a future, and women who have a past.
- Oscar Wilde
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