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Welcome time my fabulous quotes page. Some are from the minds of genius’ some are from those that got lucky with their words. Either way, they each teach lessons on life, and provide me with hours of entertainment. A penny for your thoughts if you can compete. Enjoy.

Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

I value strength and those that have it.

Sterling Sanders

Remember, a soldier who does not believe in his body and spirit cannot defeat his enemies.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

And what is one hand clapping? Even after all these years you're still a mystery. As is Life itself.

I do not fear pain, life is an ocean of pain.

The anticipation of death is far worse then death itself.

The fate of the free world is in the hands of a bunch of hustlers and thieves, why should tonight be any different?

Brother, I was born looking guilty.

We tease because we love...

Sterling P. Sanders

A man is as faithful as his options.

Women need food, water and compliments, and the occasional shoes.

What is it that turns you on? For me, it's words, they're our most precious resource.

Sterling Sanders

A culture is only as great as it's dreams, and it's dreams are dreamed by it's artists.

The way you impress people is through results, success breeds success.

Never get sidetracked by less important tasks. If you do, get right back on the rails, because ultimately, sidetracking kills you.

Do you know what it's like getting up every morning feeling hopeless? Feeling like the love of your life is waking up with the wrong man. But at the same time, hoping that she still finds happiness, even though it’s never going to be with you.

People always say, "I could do that," yeah well you don't, so shut the fuck up.

Sterling Sanders

You'll find that as you go along making do and even doing without, you'll naturally rise to the top. That's your default setting.

The object of war isn't to die for your country but to make the other poor bastard die for his.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its laws had made unlawful.

If you try, you might fail...if you don't try you are guaranteed to fail.

Chris Bannister

It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.

Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.

The gods themselves cannot reclaim their gifts. They may rob us of our future and embitter our present, but our past they may not touch. With all its laughter and delight and glamour it is our eternal possession.

LM Montgomery - The Story Girl

Ever tried? Ever Failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

What I want is what I've not got, and what I need is all around me.

It was once said that is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. This is not entirely true. It is neither better nor worse. Both hurt and both are, in their own separate ways, unbearable.

Cristoph Lamarte

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand & changing a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning & company doesn't mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts & presents aren't promises. And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up & your eyes ahead... & you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans & futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. So you plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong & that you really do have worth... and with every goodbye, you learn...

Veronica A. Shoffstall, After a While

Society has closed all possibilities of a fresh and open mind, if we can control our minds before our brain tells us what it is, surely then we are free

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Some people listen to themselves rather then listen to what others say. These people don't come along very often, but when they do, they remind us that once you set off on a path, even though critics may doubt you, it's ok to believe that there is no CAN'T, WON'T or IMPOSSIBLE. They remind us that it's ok to believe that the only thing that is impossible, is nothing.

Curiosita: An Insatiably Curious Approach to Life and an Unrelenting Quest for Continuous Learning.

Michael J. Gelb

Dimostrazione: A Commitment to Test Knowledge through Experience, Persistence, and a Willingness to Learn from Mistakes.

Michael J. Gelb

Sensazion: The Continual Refinement of the Senses, Especially Sight, as the Means to Enliven Experience.

Michael J. Gelb

Sfumato: A Willingness to Embrace Ambiguity, Paradox, and Uncertainty.

Michael J. Gelb

Arte/Scienza: The Development of the Balance between Science and Art, Logic and Imagination. Whole Brain Thinking.

Michael J. Gelb

Corporalita: The Cultivation of Grace, Ambidexterity, Fitness, and Poise.

Michael J. Gelb

Connessione: A Recognition of and Appreciation for the Interconnectedness of all Things and Phenomena. Systems Thinking.

Michael J. Gelb

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right. And at the end of life, when you get like me[weak/feeble], you need others to survive, right? But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well.

Tuesdays with Morrie

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One of these is Roots; the other, Wings.

I hate the way old people think the world owes them something. All it owes them is a bus pass and a pension book.

If the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies; that's how well the go together.

Even nothing cannot last forever.

Anyone can say the impossible is impossible. It is the gifted individual who can make the 'impossible' happen.

Sterling P. Sanders

Love is like quicksand; easy to fall into, but more more difficult to get out of.

Some people simply accept their weaknesses without an effort to change them, why?

Sterling P. Sanders

Men aren't always men, but fools will be fools.

Sterling P. Sanders

You have to love what you do. You can never give up, you can never quit.

Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

A man who regards his own life and that of his own fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

Never forget.
Use the slow burn.
Information is power.
Never burn bridges.
Make everything their idea.

It is not easy, being god.

What part of "I'm the shit," don't you understand?

Be awed by my prowess; it shines brighter then light itself.

Think you can go toe to toe, but really it'll be more like elephant swatting a gnat, I don't move till I'm provoked.

Sterling P. Sanders

There is no such thing as forever. Everything ends sooner or later. Just as it should. Because now is only now, and this moment is so precious.

Can you hear it? The voice of ambition, it says these times are good.

To experiencing life with your eyes open.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth.

This is nothing to me. Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week.

Jay-Z, Diamonds are Forever

What is Morality?" she asked. "Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. But where does one find it?

The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find: the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

I'll race you to the top of the world; winner gets a free trip to Paris.

Sterling P. Sanders

A wise man once told me: 'Don't argue with fools, because from a distance, people can't tell who's who.'

Jay-Z, 99 Problems

The difference between first and second is like the difference between heaven and hell.

Sterling P. Sanders

Go BIG, or go home.

Baka, watashi wa ichiban des, mada mada dane.

Sterling P. Sanders

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I’ve led a common life. there are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. but in one respect I’ve succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.

I'm a sucker for a short haired girl with a pretty smile.

Music creates order out of chaos; for rhythm imposes unaimity upon the divergent; melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed; and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongrouous.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Never look down on someone unless your helping them up.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If that doesn't work, fuck it!

Always be happy; never be satisfied.

At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination, may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Edward R. Murrow

No person is born great, challenges instill greatness in a man.

You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad. Love what you got, remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from your mistakes, but never regret. People change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity...

Don't take life too seriously,
you'll never get out alive

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I am not perfect. I live on the planet Earth where humans live. Humans aren't perfect. Never have been. Never will be. So I don't always wear the right clothes. And I don't always use the right shoes. My memory sometimes fails me. I don't look like a fashion model. I don't cook like a French chef. I don't always do what people expect of me. I am human. I am imperfect. But there is no one else like me in this whole wide world. I am unique. I am a miracle.

You can escape from liability,
but you cannot escape from regret.

You can escape from school,
but you cannot escape from knowledge.

You can escape from your enemies, but you cannot escape from fear.

You can escape from jail, but you cannot escape from guilt.

You can escape from commitment, but you cannot escape from love.

You can escape from others, but you cannot escape from yourself.

You can escape from life, but you cannot escape from death.

An original is hard to find, but easy to recognize.

A Present from a friend. (Archie Reyes)

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.

Randall G Leighton

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

One thing i've never really given is, a shit....

Archie D. Reyes

You will eventually lose someone you love and love someone you never thought you'd find. People are going to hate you, love you, love to hate you, and hate to love you-but the ones that mean the most will always be there.

Though our memories of today will soon be yesterdays, they will forever live in our tomorrows.

Am I being punk'd?

Enjoy life. Theres plenty of time to be dead.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

You know, there are rules to success my friend? Rule number one is, know what you know, know what you don’t know, and know that I gotta’ know everything you know as soon as you know it.

They’re ready to risk what they can’t afford for what they can’t have. You’re selling the world’s rarest commodity. You’re selling certainty in an uncertain world.

Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back; we have to let go of who we were to become who we will be

In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: it goes on.

Macho Law forbids me from admitting Im wrong.

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not posess it.

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Somewhere people are plotting against you and I am probably among them.

I don't want to just rain on your parade, I want to blow up the floats.

I like you, but I wouldn't like to see you working with sub-atomic particles.

I have found that the majority of the pain in my life is caused by only two things - women and arithmetic errors.

For the slow: I'm saying that you're stupid and wouldn't come up with this idea on your own; pay attention.

You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!

I don't need a girlfriend, I have the Journalism department. It's like the crazy bitch all my friends are dating: demanding, time consuming and evil.

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God; and where can you go from there?

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I no longer want to walk on worn soles

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

If one is not half mad how can one give birth to a dancing star?

Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are.

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman- a rope over an abyss.

The thing that pisses me off more than anything else about life is the 30 second law. It takes so much time and hard work to get anything worthwhile, and all it takes is 30 seconds or less to set you so far back it seems you'll never catch up, or ruin your whole life completely.

That whole "finish your drink when the movie completely ignores the laws of physics thing" is a terrible rule.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it

A *person* is smart. *People* are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

What is a Salmon Day? a day when you spend all your time swimming upstream, only to get screwed.

Corruption + Innocence = Corruption

Innocence is like the zero matrix!

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda cool.

The worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Benjamin Franklin

What's up with all this 'Liquor before beer...' crap? All you need to know is, 'Booze before booze, you never lose.'

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!

People who cry about stereotypes are usually upset because they fall into them. We don't have time to get to know every single person we see. We have to stereotype people in certain ways to know which one of them wants to kill us for our wallet, which ones can't drive, and which ones enjoy the taste of falafel. If we didn't have stereotypes, we'd be doing stupid shit like walking up to bikers and asking who won today's tennis match

People are like Slinkies: not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

I'm like a superhero, with no powers or motivation.

Open-minded people must accept the possibility that being closed-minded is better. Close-minded people can take comfort in knowing that they are right.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country.

Hermann Goering, Prime Minister of Prussia and Hitler's designated successor

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way.

I like you. You remind me of me when I was young and stupid.

She may be the most gorgeous girl in the world, but somewhere, some guy is tired of her shit.

Can an ant move a mountain? Some would say yes, but can that same ant move a mountain with hundreds of other ants pushing the other way?

Isn't it funny how so many people find God only after they have painted themselves into a moral corner and made life a living hell for those around them. Nobody finds Jesus on prom night.

If someone says they have a great sense of humor, they have no sense of humor. If someone says they have a sick sense of humor, they have a great sense of humor.

As it turns out, there are all kinds of useful theorms which we won't prove

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

We're drowning in information, but starving for knowledge

If I actually said what I was thinking, I would either be a guru, or someone would have beaten me to death by now.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

We seek a free flow of information. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and the flasehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Always give your best. It is all we can give, but thankfully all that we need.

Archie D. Reyes

I didn't expect her to counter my plan with nakedness.

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Love your country, yes. Trust your country, never.

Love your country, yes. Trust your country, never.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

I never loved another person the way I love myself.

I only like two kinds of women, domestic and imported.

Sterling P. Sanders

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

It's not the women in my life that count, it's the life in my women.

Sterling P. Sanders

It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

Save a girlfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Sterling P. Sanders

Sex is emotion in motion.

Ten women waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Obstacles canot break me, all walls break to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star shall not fail.

Leonardo da Vinci

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; truth is apt to be neither.

Christmas Humphreys

No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.

Tear: A drop of a liquid or hardened fluid. A very simple definition for the single deepest display of affection, loathing, and anquish.

The dark trials of the night will show true in the morning, the line will be drawn, man and boy divided.

Duane Gavel Jr.

On the path of life we must keep moving, through pain and loss, for the journey provides the true meaning to the final destination.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Douglas McArthur

Love is like a rose, it has thorns every step of the way. But when the rose blooms it is beautiful. And you will cherish it forever.

Sterling P. Sanders

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Those who do not dream only experience a fraction of what life has to offer.

I have always loved the time before dawn because there is no-one around to remind me who I am supposed to be, so it is easier to remember who I am.

Sterling P. Sanders

In all forms of nature there exists an equilibrium that will be maintained at all costs. So why is it that people must question the origins of evil, of pain, of corruption. They are the balance to what is good and just, and without them there is a polar disarray of emotion that would consume the world.

The humble greatness of seemingly ordinary men is often forgotten in the hum-drum of every day life.

William G. Weissman III

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Most of the important things in this world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goehte

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Bertland Russell

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

John B. Sheerin

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

William H. Sheldon

Happiness is not given but exchanged.

The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Charity sees the need & not the cause.

The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The instant you have lost hope in tomorrow, is the instant you lose meaning for today.

A quote has both the capacity to capture a lifetime of ideals and inspire those ideals in others.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

He that sets out upon the road of vengence should begin by digging two graves.

Chinease Proverb

Never risk yourself unless you know to whom you risk with.

The truth is not in the words we speak. It is not in the actions that we present before others. The truth is in our hearts and in no way can it ever be fully explained.

It is better to be not rewarded and deserve it than to be rewarded and not deserve it.

Marcell Ledbetter

It isn't how you speak the word; it's how you stand behind the word you speak.

Sterling P. Sanders

Those who only rejoice in the sunshine, have never danced in the rain.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Henry Emerson Fosdick

Talents are best nutured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Better go to heaven in rags, than to hell in embroidery.

ach of us is the enemy to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.

Frank Herbert's Under Pressure

All we have to believe with are our senses, the tools we have to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.

I will prepare; and someday my change will come.

To believe with certainty we must begin to doubt.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be, not all that could be said.

La Rochefoucauld

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

He who hath many friends, hath none.

The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.

Sterling P. Sanders

War is sweet to those who have not known it.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be too.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Even the greatest of men cannot rejoice in a friend's triumph without envy.

Dr. Frank Pittman

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country, and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I have great faith in fools; my friends call it self-confidence.

Edgar Allen Poe

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

The friend of all humanity is not to my taste.

I ask not for a lighter burden, I ask for broader shoulders.

Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. Its the transition between them thats difficult.

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Phillip K. Dick

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.

unger is the best seasoning for meat, and thirst for drink.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.

Albert Einstien

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

Before jumping to a conclusion, measure the distance. It is a long dark drop if you're wrong.

To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting.

Sterling P. Sanders

Too often do people who want to offer sound advice offer more sound than advice.

Alfred E. Neuman

Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive.

Sterling P. Sanders

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without order nothing can exist; without chaos nothing can evolve.

Sterling P. Sanders

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.

Spock, "Amok Time" stardate 3372.7

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Captin Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror"

History tends to exaggerate.

Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain" stardate 5906.4

Men of peace usually are brave.

Spock, "The Savage Curtain" stardate 5906.5

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain" stardate 5906.5

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- with a tremendous whack.

Sterling P. Sanders

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Sterling P. Sanders

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

Enjoy life every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Sterling P. Sanders

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Giacomo Leopardi

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.

I have often regretted my silence, never my speech.

Sterling P. Sanders

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

No guts, no glory. No pain, no gain.

Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law, Baseball pitcher

Show me a good loser in professional sports and I'll show you an idiot.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescenzo

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

John G. Riefenbaker

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Bryan Singer, Director

The world needs more Heroes.

Sterling P. Sanders

It often takes more courage to change ones opinion than to keep it.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Admittedly, there are a lot of things that are better than sex, and a lot more that are worse; but there's nothing quite like it...

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"

Lonely is a man without love.

Sterling P. Sanders

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.

Where there is love, there is pain.

Spanish Proverb

It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Winston Churchill

Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.

Sterling P. Sanders

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

"Where are we going?" "Nowhere." "So what's the rush?"

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they would be married too.