I am always looking for SUGGESTIONS. If you think you've got a good one, please either email me or sign my guestbook with your suggestion. I am looking for words of wisdom from an actual episode of The X-Files, either explicitly stated or explicitly implied. I would prefer it if you knew what episode your phrase came from, but I know that's not always possible. If I put your suggestion on my site, I will credit you however you like, next to the entry. Or if you know where any of the following phrases marked "unknown" came from, please let me know! Feel free to spread the wisdom around. As always, you are welcome to take anything from my site. I only ask that you provide a link back to JMXF on your page.

• A dream is the answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask. (Aubrey)
• Even the devil believes in God. (Revelations)
• God never lets the devil steal the show. (Miracle Man) --episode info cleared up by Mel Byers
• Sometimes we have to come full circle to find the truth. (Revelations)
• "They" have something on everyone. The question is when they'll use it. (Ascension)
• "They" have only one policy--deny everything. (Ascension)
• Always keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. (Fallen Angel)
• The answers are there. You just have to know where to look. (The Pilot)
• There are hits and there are misses...and then there are misses. (Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose) --episode info cleared up by Shae
• Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it. (Herrenvolk)
• Most people are idiots. (Tithonus)
• Barney is the most heinous and evil force of the twentieth century. (E.B.E.) --episode info cleared up by Mel Byers
• The fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose. (Herrenvolk)
• One man alone cannot fight the future. (Fight the Future)
• Always respect nature because it has no respect for you. (Quagmire)
• No one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth. (Fallen Angel)
• A lie is most convincingly hidden between two truths. (Deep Throat) --episode info cleared up by Mel Byers
• The best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. (Rain King)
• Every minute of every day we choose. Who we are. Who we forgive. Who we defend and protect. To choose a side or to walk the line. To play the middle. To straddle the fence between what is and what should be. Trying to find the delicate balance of interests that can never exist. Choosing by not choosing. Defending a center which cannot hold. (S.R. 819)
• You'll only win the war if you pick the right battles. (End Game)
• Don't unlock doors you're not prepared to go through. (Herrenvolk)
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (The Blessing Way)
• Motives are rarely unselfish. (The Blessing Way)
• When convention and science offer us no answers, we might finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility. (The Pilot)
• Sooner or later a man's gotta face his demons. (Fire)
• There's a little trouble over at our White House but that'll blow over, so to speak. (Triangle)
• All lies lead to the truth. (Redux)
• If you participate in a murder-suicide pact with your lover on Christmas Eve, the romance is the first thing to go. (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas)
• A man digs a hole, he risks falling into it. (Zero Sum)
• If you want to know the artist, look at the art. (Grotesque)
• Not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate. (According to Scully) (Teliko)
• Survival is the only true ideology. (According to the Syndicate) (Fight the Future)
• People want to believe. (Quagmire)
• There is a world beyond our own--unseen but powerful. (Teso dos Bichos)
• There are powers that should not be disturbed...some things are better left buried. (Teso dos Bichos)
• A man should never live to see his children or his work destroyed. (Two Fathers)
• The bottom of the ocean is as deep and dark as the imagination. (Agua Mala)
• All the nuts roll down to Florida. (Agua Mala)
• The conquest of fear lies in its moment of acceptance. (Irresistible)
• The only thing more fortuitous than the emergence of life on this planet is that, through purely random laws of biological evolution, an intelligence as complex as ours ever emanated from it. (War of the Coprophrages)
• Something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. (The Blessing Way) --submitted by Sarah
• To be a man is to have the heart of a man; integrity, decency, sympathy--these are the things that make a man a man. (The Unnatural)
• In any war there are secrets--truths that must be kept from the public in order to serve the greater good. (Travelers)
• When your partner dies, a piece of you dies with him. (Travelers)
• If we are to defeat the enemy, we must use their tools. We must go further. We must do those things which even our enemies would be ashamed to do. (According to J. Edgar Hoover) (Travelers)
• It is only through strength that we can make our enemies fear us, and thereby ensure our own survival. (According to J. Edgar Hoover) (Travelers)