1. Indecision is the key to flexibility.
2. There is always one more S.O.B. than you counted on.
3. If you ever find something you like, buy a lifetime supply, because they will stop making it.
4. All things being equal, fat people use more soap.
5. You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
6. Be kind, everyone is fighting a tough battle.
7. This is as bad as it can get, but don't count on it.
8. There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
9. By the time you can make ends meet, they've moved farther apart.
10. Happiness is merely the remission of pain.
11. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
12. Sometimes too much drink isn't enough.
13. The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
14. The world gets a little better each day and worse in the evening.
15. The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.
16. Not one shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
17. Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the rest of the world.
18. Things are more like they are today than they ever have been before.
19. The other line always moves faster until you get in it.
20. Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
21. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
22. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
23. It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
24. I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
25. To live forever, acquire a chronic disease and take care of it.
26. Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.
27. If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.
28. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
29. One seventh of your live is spent on Monday.
30. The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
31. "Life is hard. Then you die." -- Mrs. Patsy Rue
32. "Live a good life and you'll live forever." -- Melanie Blanchard
33. It's a good thing that life is not fair, because if it were, then that would mean that all the bad things that happen to us are because we actually deserve them. Therefore we should take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. -- Babylon 5 (TV)
34. Existence is suffering. -- The Buddha's first law
35. "Isn't sanity just a one trick pony, anyway? All you get is one trick--rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy, the sky's the limit!" -- The Tick (TV)
36. Greatness is doing what other men believe is impossible.
37. "From sorrow the sweetest things will grow like flowers in the rain." -- Anonymous
38. "Let haste not be the ruler lest we forget whence we are headed." -- Babylon 5 (TV)
39. "When one is in the presence of the seemingly impossible, that which is merely unlikely becomes plausible by contrast." -- Black Sun Rising (C. S. Friedman)
40. Absence makes the heart grow fonder; familiarity breeds contempt.
41. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? If you wrong us, do we not revenge?"
42. A journey of a thousand miles starts with but a single step.
43. Blindness cuts you off from things. Deafness cuts you off from people.
44. "You shall have joy or you shall have power. You shall not have both." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. -- Anonymous
46. A pessimist is a man who, given the choice of two evils, chooses both. -- Anonymous
47. For all sad words tongue or pen, the saddest of all are these: it might have been. -- Anonymous
48. "That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful." -- Ninon de L'Enclos
49. "Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky." -- Charlemagne
50. After each storm of Life there's a rainbow of hope, for 'tis not the whole of Life to live nor all of Death to die.
51. The Rollerskate Despair
"Life is hard...can't find happiness no matter what you do...can't get to heaven on rollerskates...can't take a taxicab to Timbuktu." -- Timbuk 3
52. The Rollerskate Resolution
"You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd. But you can be happy if you've a mind to..." -- Roger Miller
53. "'In every person there is a soul and in every soul an intelligence that may think either good or evil. And out of good comes life. And in every life there is God.' 'And evil?' he asks. 'There is no evil which is not a greater good.'" -- The Dragon and the Unicorn (A. A. Attanasio)
54. "The unexamined life is not worth living." -- Socrates
55. Better to curse the darkness than to light your hand on fire.
56. "Silence is a text easy to misread." -- The Eagle and the Sword (A. A. Attanasio)
57. "Knowledge is power, but ignorance is bliss for, as Emerson said, 'You shall have joy, or you shall have power. You shall not have both.'" -- The Wise Triple T.
58. "Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. Therefore ignorance must be the epitome of innocence while innocence itself is the very semblance of bliss." -- The Wise Triple T.
59. "The essence of courage is not that your heart should not quake but that nobody else knows that it does." -- B. B. Brown
60. "Sometimes, the sole path for the redemption of an evil lies within its embrace." -- The Wise Triple T.
61. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and purify the heart." -- Washington Irving
62. "A friend is a gift you give yourself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
63. "God said, 'Let there be Light.' And the light shineth into the darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth not."
64. "In darkness clarity can be found." -- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV)
65. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -- Yogi Berra
66. "Often, the briefest flame burns the brightest." -- The Wise Triple T
67. "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." -- Thomas McCaulay
68. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars." -- Anonymous
69. "All love is unrequited." -- Babylon 5 (TV)
70. "You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it." -- Babylon 5 (TV)
71. "Life is tough. Life is tougher when you're stupid." -- John Wayne
72. "But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good." -- Thus Spoke Zarathustra part I, chapter 19 (Nietzsche)
73. "In the end, we all stand alone." -- Babylon 5 (TV)
74. "Let them hate me, as long as they fear me." -- The Mad Roman Emperor Caligula
75. "You think my fallacy is all wrong?" -- Marshall McLuhan
76. "You can get more with a kind word and a 2 X 4 than you can with just a kind word." -- Babylon 5 (TV)
77. "Better the illusions that exhalt us than 10,000 truths." -- Alexander Pushkin
78. "The greatest gift a father can give his daughter is to love her mother." -- A priest
79. "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." -- Ho Chi Minh
80. "Though I disagree with everything you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
81. "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing else to lose." -- Babylon 5 (TV)
82. "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B.S." -- Randy A Crump
83. "The World doesn't always think the way you do, so you have to invite yourself to think the way the World does." -- Randy A. Crump
84. "When your back's against a wall, you've got two choices. You can either go to your knees, or you can take a step forward." -- Randy A Crump
85. "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it." -- John Cage
86. "Excuses are like armpits: everybody has two and they all stink." -- Randy A. Crump
87. "What defines sanity? If the world were populated by madmen, would not madmen be counted sane and the sane be counted madmen?" -- The Wise Triple T.
88. "I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eye." -- Norman Mac Ewan
89. "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." -- Unknown
90. "The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes." -- Unknown
91. "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy." -- Unknown
92. "If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." -- Unknown
93. "The Universe is an evil place, but luckily, it seems to have a sense of humor about the whole thing." -- Babylon 5 (TV)
94. "The friend of everyone is the friend of no one." -- Roman Proverb
95. "Nothing will change yesterday. So now you must deal with today." -- Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (Anne McCaffrey)
96. "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." -- Old saying
97. "All lies in jest. Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." -- Paul Simon "The Boxer"
98. "We can't change who we are, but we can change who we're going to be." -- The Outer Limits (TV)
99. "I don't know much, but what I know, I know I know I know." -- Randy A. Crump
100. "Stupid is...what stupid can't do." -- Randy Fields
101. "Do not let any man drag you so low as to make you hate him." -- George Washington Carver
102. "Existence precedes essence." -- Jean Paul Sartre's definition of Existentialism
103. "Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?" -- Artemis Ward
104. "It is a principal of human nature to hate those whom we have injured." -- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
105. "A man says to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replies the universe, 'The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'" -- Stephen Crane
106. "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." -- Dante Alighieri (Inferno: Canto 3, line 9)
107. Hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned.
108. "Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things." -- Death Comes to the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
109. "Religion is not only to go to God forsaking the world but to find Him in it." -- Soyen Shakyu
110. "I thrive on your personal humiliation." -- Randy Fields
111. "Anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless." -- The Madness Season (C. S. Friedman)
112. "That's definitely iffy." -- Kent Collier
113. "Life is full of choices. You make them and hope for the best. Sometimes you're right and sometimes you're not." -- StarTrek: Deep Space Nine
114. "The Law of the Unintended Consequences--
Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant." -- The Path of Daggers (Robert Jordan)
115. "Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." -- Albert Camus
116. "'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days/Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays/Hither and thither moves and mates and slays/And one by one in the Closet lays." -- Omar Khayyam
117. "Without passion a man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." -- Henri-Frederic Amiel
118. "People can be defined by their smells." -- Claire Kiefer
119. "In the absence of public respect and hard earned cash, sadism is probably a character builder." -- Tiffany Merriman
120. "The reason for living is getting ready to stay dead." -- As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
121. "Remember: wherever you go, there you are." -- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (movie)
122. "All the truths I am about to tell you are shameless lies." -- Kurt Vonnegut
123. "Men willingly believe what they wish." -- Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, III, 18
124. "Alea iacta est." [The die is cast.] -- Julius Caesar upon crossing the Rubicon
125. "The most beautiful maidens are also the most cruel!" Rhialto the Marvellous (Jack Vance)
126. "The battle of wits has begun." --The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
127. "It's a fact that it's a rumor." --Amber Whitener
128. "In the right tone of voice, you can reason with anyone." --Jill Youngblood
129. "For all we ought to have thought and have not thought, for all we ought to have said and have not said, for all we ought to have done and have not done, I pray thee, God, for forgiveness." --The Thirteenth Warrior (movie)
130. Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.
131. "It's not who wins or loses--it's who takes the worse beating that counts." -- The X-Files
132. Women are a maze through briars in the night." -- Winter's Heart (Robert Jordan)
133. "What if I were to tell you that evil is itself a dispensation of good? And that good has no authority without evil?" -- The Serpent and the Grail (A. A. Attanasio)
134. "Non omnia voluptatibus denegentur." --Pro Caelio (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
135. "Trust is a luxury to those in power, and those who indulge for no better reason than a hunger to taste its sweetness will know the full power of its poison." -- This Alien Shore (C. S. Friedman)
137. "The dogs bark, but the caravan passes on." -- Ancient Chinese proverb
138. "For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix, rise above its own ashes." -- The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
139. "With poetry, it never ends, if it's real poetry. It's an abyss: the whole world is in the poetry." -- Dr. Karl Maurer
140. "Foh!" -- Dr. Karl Maurer
141. "In a way, what you said was sort of right." -- Dr. Karl Maurer
142. "I can think of no greater reward at day's end than that you saved someone's life." -- Courtney Spicer
143. "Since you've stuck your neck out, we may as well try to hack it off." -- Dr. Karl Maurer
144. "Sin embargo, su pensamiento seguía estándo frío y duro como el mármol." -- Juan José Millás
"Nevertheless, his thoughts ran on and on, cold and hard as marble."
145. "Tierra Amarilla está llena de cenizas, secretos, y esqueletos de algo luminoso y vivo que fue y ya no es." -- Sabine R. Ulibarrí
"Yellow Earth is full of ashes, secrets, and skeletons of something luminous and alive that existed once, but no longer."
146. "omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori." -- Vergil, Eclogue X.69
"Love conquers all things: and let us yield to Love."
147. Words you always wanted to hear: "This bra just won't stay on me." -- Kelly Reeves
148. Words you hope you never hear: "It came too quick; I kinda missed it." -- Kelly Reeves
149. "The more you steal, the more you...possess." -- Dr. Karl Maurer [in reference to Romans writing poetry]
150. "There's so much of this stuff that could be edited out." -- Paula Chalko [on the Bible]
151. "Once you lose that 4.0, you can never get it back...kinda like your virginity." -- Liz Bouis, [on GPA]
152. "In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and--let us hope--we remember how to change back." Dune: House Atreides (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)
153. "He wasn't the smartest man, or the nicest, or the funniest, or even the best at anything. But he said 'Here. Here's twenty years of my life. Take it, and be happy.'" -- Caroline Caspar and Liz Armour [on Norm, the technical director of CCT]
154. "That's the thing about syrup: you find it in places you wouldn't think it could go." -- Kari Peck
155. "Everything on earth is just trash and s-h-i-t except what comes from love...that's the only thing that makes my heart beat faster, not ability, not intelligence, not skillful organization of reality, but love." -- DKM
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