Sorry, decided to do a bit of culling... this page has become way to cluttered... hopefully it'll be left with less random crude, and more thing that are either a) actually meaningful and not trite or over used or b) really damn funny

• "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

• "When the world around me goes insane, you're here to remind me that a few good things remain."

• "If tears could build a stairway, and emotions a bridge, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again!"

• "Never knock on Death's door, ring the doorbell and run. He hates that."

• "Never argue with an idiot. He'll bring you down to his level, then beat you with experience."

• "That which does not kill me better run pretty god damn fast."

• "Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. "

• "When hell freezes over, it will be a pretty cool place to snowboard."

• "...a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing."

• "Entropy alone is the only enemy worth challenging, to conquer entropy is to reach a compromise with death, always the ultimate victor in our conflicts."

• "I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas."

• "Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out."

• "I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away."

• "I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system."

• "nobody's perfect...well, there was this one guy, but we killed him..."

• "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

• "There are too many mediocre things in life that we have to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them."

• "The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it."

• "Conserve energy -- make love more slowly."

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

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

• "The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."

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

• "You live and you breath and then you die. In between, if your lucky, you fall in love. Some loves stay forever, others are lost in only a day. But its still there, underneath all the hurt and pride and years. If its true love, its never forgotten. So when someone says their in love, don't tell them they can't be. Don't say their too young, or its too soon. Love knows no age or length of time. Love is a feeling, deep in your heart, that squeezes you tight and you never want to let it go."

• "Saying you'll never fall in love again is like saying you'll never smile again. No matter how much you don't want to, someone is eventually going to come along and make you."

• "Even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I am forever changed because of who you are and what you meant to me."

• "We don't have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our plante is the mental institute of the universe."

• "Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time." -Motto of the National Speleological Society

• "When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead." -Herbert Achternbusch

• "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." -Abigail Adams

• "The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss." -Douglas Adams

• "I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocketlaunchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string." -Scott Adams

• "Religions change; beer and wine remain." -Hervey Allen

• "If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." -Kingsley Amis

• "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." -Janos Arany

• " I don't believe in an afterlife, so I do not have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredmom of heaven would be even worse." -Isaac Asimov

• "The whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "Reality is divinely indifferent." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifce boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you are alive, it isn't." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they are yours." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "We see just one little fleck of the whole that is life, and that one fleck is fake. Everything balances, and noboyd suffers and nobody dies without their consent. Nobody does what they don't want to do. There is no good and there is no evil outside of what makes up happy and what makes us unhappy." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You are always free to change your mind and chose a different future, or a different past." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is impossible." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is neccessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." -Richard Bach, Illusions

• "Do what you think and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Richard Bach

• "It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost ..." -Richard Bach, Spoken by Leslie Parrish, The Bridge Across Forever

• "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought." -Matsuo Basho

• "I have no memory of my earlier life... so I don't know what kind of person I was really like. Life itself remains undefined to me... whether it is ugly or beautiful... a sin or a great gift to cherish- I don't know. But I'll find out! I need a sense of purpose- being a bounty hunterlets me search for myself through battle! The money you speak of is meaningless to me! I walk in faith!The faith that we chose who we want to be... and grow into that identiry, ugly or beautiful." -From Battle Angel Alita

• "I live! I kill! As a destroyer, I use my strength with maddening joy! And compared to that, a creator's power is no more than child's play!" -from Battle Angel Alita

• "I was watching the sky....since dawn I've been watching the sky turn from the darkness of night ti a deep blue I've never seen so clear...transfixed by the beauty of the atmosphere passing through its infinite gradations of colour. Then, like magic, the blue from the sky fell upon me. My body, it burst into shards... and my heart, left alone, climbed into the heavens, accelerating... and for a few seconds -or hours, I don't know- I experienced something bizarre and powerful. I think maybe I understand now. All the people I've met, the things I've done.... I could never fully comprehend it before.... the sadness... but now I know. Nothing in this life is without meaning.... and Death hides the angels it makes behind blue sky...." -From battle Angel Alita

• "The past carves the path one must travel into one's flesh and blood." -from Battle Angel Alita

• "I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!!" -Bruce Baum

• "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." -Henri Bergson

• "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." -Yogi Berra

• "Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at." -Josh Billings

• "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." -William Blake

• "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." -William J. H. Boetcker

• " Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart." -Erma Bombeck

• "There is probably no hell for authors in the next world...they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this." -Christian N. Bovee

• "Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." -Ashleigh Brilliant

• "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." -A. Whitney Brown

• "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. Whiteney Brown

• "As you journey through life, take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something." -Dik Browne

• "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." -Buddha

• "Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing--it was here first." -Robert Burdette

• "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." -Leo Buscaglia

• "Follow Your Bliss." -Joseph Campbell

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

• "In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion..." -Albert Camus

• "...But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart." -Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

• "Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you." -Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box

• "I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves." -Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

• "Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of." -Orson Scott Card, Flux -- I Put My Blue Genes On

• "We have to go. I'm almost happy here." -Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

• "This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours." -Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

• "If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty." -Orson Scott Card, Wyrms

• "Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon." -Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

• "If they were servants by nature," said Colon, " you wouldn't have to beat them to get them to obey. It's a brave man who beats a little child. They'll no doubt write songs about your courage." -Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch

• "Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back." -Orson Scott Card, Treasure

• "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

• "...but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer." -Orson Scott Card, Lovelock

• "Good people do not let others suffer needlessly" -Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch

• "The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them." -Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

• "Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet." -Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

• "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be." -Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

• "I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending." -Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

• "Trying to shock nuns is not much sport. There is no trophy." -Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

• "Know, think, choose, do." -Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

• "�I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy." -Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

• "Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive." -George Carlin

• "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." -Chinese Proverb

• "The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers

• "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill

• "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -Winston Churchill

• "I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -Winston Churchill

• "There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result." -Winston Churchill

• "Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men." -Joseph Conrad

• "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." -Fr. Jerome Cummings

• "You've decided to love me for eternity and I'm still deciding who I want to be today." -Ani Defranco

• "Writing is the only socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." -E.L. Doctorow

• "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." -Charles Du Bois

• "I'm a prohibitionist. What I propose to prohibit is the reckless use of water." -Bob Edwards

• "Smile, and get it over with." -Eeyore

• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -Albert Einstein

• "Only two things are infinite- the universe and human stupidity- and I am not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

• "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -Albert Einstein

• "I'm not denying the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men." -George Eliot

• "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." -George Eliot

• "If you love someone, you don't want them to suffer. You want to take their sufferings on yourself. If even I feel this way, why dosen't God?" - T.S. Elliot

• "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." -Gene Fowler

• "I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank

• "Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees." -J.J. Furnas

• "Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up these defenses, you build this whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own any more. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darknes, so working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." -Neil Gaiman

• "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo Galilei

• "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." -Ghandi

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed." -Gandhi

• "Live as if to die tomorrow. Learn as if to live forever." -Gandhi

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." -Kahlil Gibran

• "Although, so far there's no known treatment for death's crippling effects, still everyone can acquaint himself with the three early warning signs of death: one, rigor mortis; two, a rotting smell; three, occasional drowsiness." -Henry Gibson

• "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." -Andr� Gide

• "We all enter this world the same way: naked, screaming, and covered in blood... but if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there." -Dana Gould

• "If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them." -Sue Grafton

• "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." -Bruce Graham

• "I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me." -Grampa, The Simpsons

• "History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." -Philip Guedalla

• "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am tempted to ask, 'compared to what?'" -Sydney Harris

• "Gore hailed as construction begins on gerbil wheel power plant. Critics fear cheese shortage." -Evan Hartman

• "I'm not saying it's safe for humans. I'm not saying it's unsafe for humans. All I'm saying is that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs." -Tyrone Hayes

• "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." -Joseph Heller, Catch22

• "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -Heraclitus

• "We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerine. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like." -Alfred Hitchcock

• "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion." -William R. Inge

• "What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for." -Irish proverb

• "I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone." -Javan

• "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -Erica Jong

• "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." -Mary Ellen Kelly

• "That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate." - Laurie R. King

• "Peace: a short pause between wars for enemy identification." -Clemens Kirchner

• "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." -Lao Tzu

• "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." -Doug Larson

• "I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." -Stephen Leacock

• "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 you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" -Stephen Levine

• "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln

• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it." -Lazarus Long

• "Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth." -Lazarus Long

• "A 'pacifist male' is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described 'pacifists' are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger." -Lazarus Long

• It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired." -Lazarus Long

• "Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place." -Lazarus Long

• "A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate." -Lazarus Long

• "It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier." -Lazarus Long

• "An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications." -Lazarus Long

• "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity in not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." -Lazarus Long

• "Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing- and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely." -Lazarus Long

• "Whever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should bever settle merely for equality. For women, 'equality' is disater." -Lazarus Long

• "To be 'matter of fact' about the world is to blunder into fantasy- and a dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." -Lazarus Long

• "Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect." -Lazarus Long

• "A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved." -Lazarus Long

• "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." -Lazarus Long

• "Your enemy in never a villian in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate- and quickly." -Lazarus Long

• "There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk." -Lazarus Long

• "Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary." -Lazarus Long

• "Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse." -Lazarus Long

• "Democracy is based on the assumption that a milllion men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something." -Lazarus Long

• "The more you love, the more you can love- and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of the majority who are decent and just." -Lazarus Long

• "The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful." -Lazarus Long

• "You live and you learn. Or else you don't live long." -Lazarus Long

• "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." -Lazarus Long

• "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficently, die gallently. Specialization is for insects." -Lazarus Long

• "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of--but do it in private, and wash your hands afterwards." -Lazarus Long

• "A 'critic' is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased- he hates all creative poeple equally." -Lazarus Long

• "Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before her is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep you children short on pocket money- but long on hugs." -Lazarus Long

• "Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills." -Lazarus Long

• "Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For the first offense that is." -Lazarus Long

• "The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: 'Of course it is none of my buisness but- ' is to place a period after the word 'but.' Don't use excessive force in supplying such moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about." -Lazarus Long

• "A man does not insist on physical beauty in a woman who builds up his morale. After a while he realizes that she is beautiful- he just hadn't noticed it at first." -Lazarus Long

• "Natural laws have no pity." -Lazarus Long

• "Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are only invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful- just stupid.)" -Lazarus Long

• "The church says that the earth is flat, but I know it is round. For I have seent he shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." -Ferdinand Magellan

• "...suicide is our way of saying to God, "You can't fire me. I quit." -Bill Maher

• "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." -Goucho Marx

• "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." -Herman Melville

• "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -H. L. Mencken

• "Life is pleasant and I have enjoyed it, but I have no yearning to clutter up the Universe after it is over." -H.L. Mencken

• "Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they would be married too." -H. L. Mencken

• "Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you to forget the question." -Henry Mon

• "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God...I could be eating a slow learner." -Lynda Montgomery

• "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting" -Christopher Morley

• "I drink to make other people interesting." -George Jean Nathan

• "Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

• "Sometimes I get the feeling that the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral." -Robert Orben

• "Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf." -Sir William Osler

• "Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these." -Ovid

• "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -Ellen Parr

• "We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it." -Lester B. Pearson

• "Those who dream by day are cognizent of many things which escape those who only dream by night." -Edgar Allan Poe

• "You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look." -Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

• "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?" Death thought about it "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

• "There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret or life is yours to miss.... There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today." -RENT, Jonathan Larson

• "Wherever I travel, I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere." -Mordecai Richler

• "Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life." -Jean Paul Richter

• "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." -John G. Riefenbaker

• "The more of the past you carry around, the less of the present there is room for." -Dalton Roberts

• "We who are about to die are going to take one hello of a lot of the bastards with us." -Joel Rosenberg, The Silver Crown

• "Don't stick your tongue out unless you intend to use it." -David Lee Roth

• "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." -Joseph Roux

• "I love being married. Its so great to find the one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." -Rita Rudner

• "The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." -David Russell

• "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." -Mark Russell

• "No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by." -Franz Schubert

• "Death ends a life, not a relationship" - Morrie Schwartz

• "They talk of my drinking but never my thirst." -Scottish proverb

• "And once again we enter the valley of death, but we do not fear, for we are the baddest motherfuckers in this valley." -Seals, team 6, Grenada

• "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." -Chief Seattle

• "Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." -George Bernard Shaw

• "I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum." -George Bernard Shaw

• "A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern." -Edgar A. Shoaff

• "Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?" -Solomon Short

• "I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again." -Bart Simpson

• "You thought you knew what pain was. You thought that whatever happened, you could handle it. You thought that you were in control. You thought wrong. Now you've lost it all. She's gone. All that's left is the numbing pain. You have to let go to stop the pain, but you can't. It's like a drug to you now. You don't want to need it, but it has become a part of you, and it won't loosen its grip on you. The control you once fought for, is gone. You have no control. And you just don't care." -Sanjay Singh

• "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." -Sophocles

• "Now son, what did I say about playing with your food; up here you don't need to keep multiplying the fishes and loaves, and we have wine so quit wasting perfectly good water." -Steve Spolarich

• "Man is a complex being; he makes deserts bloom--and lakes die." -Gil Stern

• "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -Jonathan Swift

• "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854),V, Solitude

• "Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness." -James Thurber

• "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." -Mark Twain

• "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." -Mark Twain

• "Don't call someone a bad name if they have a loaded pistol, and don't call your girlfriend Tina if her name is Vivien." -George Underwood

• "When insects take over the world, we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics." -Bill Vaughan

• "The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week." -Voltaire

• "Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." -Voltaire

• "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward

• "Go away... I'm alright" -Last words of H.G. Wells

• "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it and the frog generally dies as a result." -E. B. White

• "I must go on from here: I have nowhere else to go." -E.B. White

• "One should always be a little improbable." -Oscar Wilde

• "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde

• "Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong." -Oscar Wilde

• "You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves." -Michael Wilding

• "Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet." -Robin Williams

• "We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams." -Willy Wonka

• "A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal." -Yiddish Proverb

• "A wise man hears one word and understands two." -Yiddish Proverb
  
  
  

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