Quotes
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.
- Kurt Cobain
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
- Plato
Sometimes we build walls around ourselves, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
- Unknown
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple - Teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - Awaken him.
He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise - Follow him.
- Chinese proverb
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-Aldous Huxley
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
-Heinlein
If it's stupid, and it works, it isn't stupid.
-Murphy's laws of combat.
We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
-Anonymous
Draw a line. Live above it.
-Anonymous
The only people you need in your life are the ones that proved they needed you in theirs.
- Anonymous
Tell me my dreams are unrealistic, and I'll tell you yours aren't big enough.
- Anonymous
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-E.J.Phelps
Far too numerous is the herd of such, who think too little and who talk too much.
-Alexander Pope
CAUTION: Using your brain is NOT endorsed by governments, religious, educational institutions, secret societies and corporations involved with serious power and financial profit obtained from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges your current view of the world. Use your brain, think for yourself and question authority. Reality is an opinion, you determine the reality in which you inhabit.
-Unknown
If you can't say what you mean, you can't mean what you say.
-Unknown
If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
-Sun Tzu
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
- Confucius
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-Blaise Pascal
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
Its Darkest before Dawn.
- I-Ching
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
-Garrison Keillor
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not have it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience.
-Anonymous
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite; The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm not sure about the Universe
-Albert Einstein
Ok, listen Carefully. Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness.
-Randall Munroe (XKCD)
It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
-Anonymous
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- Jean de la Bruyèr
If you don't know, learn. If you already know, apply. If you know and have applied, improve.
-Anonymous
Better alone, than in bad company.
-Unknown
Friendly fire - isn't
-Infantries journal
I am not young enough to know everything.
-Oscar Wilde
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
-Oscar Wilde
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
-Helen Gurley Brown
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
-Marcel Achard
There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.
-Will Rogers
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
-Timothy Leary
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
-Elaine Boosler
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
-Anonymous
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller
One of the lessons of history is that Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-Will Durant
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use being a damned fool about it.
-W. C. Fields
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
-Anonymous
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
-Anonymous
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
-Anonymous
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
-David Burns
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
-Walter Lipman
The less men think, the more they talk.
-Baron Montesquieu
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it.
-Henry Ford
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.
-Charles W. Eliot
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.
-Latin Proverb
There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
-Douglas MacAurthur
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-Voltaire
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
-Victor Hugo
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
Anyone can build a model following the instructions, but to mess it up and make it unique, takes a true artist.
-Kevin Lehtiniitty
If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.
-Bobcat Goldthwait
My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I said, Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.
-Anonymous
In elementary school, in case of a fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
-Warren Hutcherson
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
-Elayne Boosler
Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
-John Mendoza
I haven't taken my Christmas light down yet, they look so nice on the pumpkin.
-Winston Spear
USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
-David Letterman
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight.
-Rita Rudner
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
-Paul Rodriguez
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
-Robert Bloch
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
-Anonymous
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
-Homer Simpson
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-Douglas Adams
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
-Douglas Adams
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
-W.C. Fields
I can resist everything except temptation.
-Oscar Wilde
Spring is nature’s way of saying, Let’s party!
-Robin Williams
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
-Anonymous
I have gone to look for myself, if I return before I get back, keep me here.
-Anonymous
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift; that's why it's the present.
-Anonymous
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
-Marcus Aurelius
Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome.
-Arthur Ashe Jr
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
-Colin Powell
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
-Bill Cosby
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
-John Muir
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-Henry Ford
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
-Beverly Sills
Change isn't easy unless you find it on the ground.
-Kevin Lehtiniity
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-Harry S. Truman
If you care at all, you’ll get some results. If you care enough, you’ll get incredible results.
-Jim Rohn
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
FAIL!
-Modern Society
If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy.
-H. Duane Black
Every artist was first an amateur.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Herman Cain
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
-Tommy Lasorda
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T. S. Elliot
The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
-Marquise du Deffand
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Gagehot
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
-Frank Banks
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
-Michael Jordan
Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
- Dell Crossword
Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other Sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
- Sue Lin Chong
His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
-Chuck Smith
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a Guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
- Joseph Romm
She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
- Rich Murphy
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
- Russell Beland
McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
- Paul Sabourin
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
- Roy Ashley
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
- Chuck Smith
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
- Russell Beland
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
- Anonymous
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
-Jack Bross
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
- Gary F. Hevel
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
-Jennifer Hart
The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
- Wayne Goode
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
- Russell Beland
The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
-Barbara Fetherolf
The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
- Anonymous
He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
- Brian Broadus
Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
- Sandra Hull
The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview portion of "Jeopardy!"
- Jean Sorensen
Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
- Jerry Pannullo
The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
- Malcolm Fleschner
The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
- Malcolm Fleschner
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
- John Kammer
Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
- Barbara Collier
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
- Susan Reese
It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.
- Marian Carlsson
The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton.
- J. F. Knowles
The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
- Jennifer Hart
The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
- Paul J. Kocak
The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.
- Anonymous
He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
- Susan Reese
Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
- Chuck Smith
She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
-Brian Broadus
She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
-Jonathan Paul
Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.
-Sue Lin Chong
It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
-Brian Broadus
