Quotable Quotes

Random Phenomena

The world is after all one big repetition. - Me

For I am a bear of very little brain, and big words bother me. - Winnie the Pooh

Maybe I don't know what love is, but I think it's close to me no matter how far away you are; you're in my heart and sometimes that's just enough for me. - Me

Could you tell my heart it can let go? It no longer listens to me. - Me

Never express yourself more clearly than you think. - N. Bohr

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Cornelius Tacitus

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. - Confucius

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. - Dykstra

The superior man is distressed by the limitation of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has. - Confucius

There's no government like no government. - Bumper sticker, seen in Berkeley, CA

It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong, and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he's right. - Jim Fiebig

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. - Edward Abbey

In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons. - Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. - Chinese Proverb

Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand. - Confucius

Ability is nothing without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. - Chinese Proverb

O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Dilbert's Words of Wisdom

I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?

I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.

Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again.

I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the heck is the ceiling?!"

My Reality Check bounced.

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier.

You're slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, 'cuz, like, you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.