Quotes
"If you seek to understand the whole universe, you will know nothing at all; but seek to understand yourself, and you will come to understand the whole universe."-Druidic axiom
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."-Abraham Lincoln
"Sometimes life is as bitter as dragon tears. But whether life is bitter or sweet depends on how each man percieves the taste."-Chinese proverb
"It's not good enough that I must succeed, but that everyone else must fail."-Alexander the Great
"All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness."-George Bernard Shaw
"Pray,v. To ask that the rules of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy."-Ambrose Bierce
"To live is to like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."-Samuel Butler
"Reality is a delusion created by an alcohol deficiency."-unknown
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."-Truman Capote
"Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave."-Quentin Crisp
"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done easily lying down."-unknown
"listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."-e.e. cummings
"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."-Maxim Gorky
"Pray that your lonliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enought to die for."-Dag Hammarskjold
"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable."-Cyril Connolly
"Human kind cannot bear much reality."-T.S. Eliot
"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse."-Brendan
Behan
"Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything."-Saul Bellow
"You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."-Dean Martin
"Only the insane take themselves seriously."-Max Beerbohm
"Egotism is the anaestetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."-Frank Leary
"Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and
feel."-Amrose Bierce
"There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness
of an oyster."-Saki
"Keep violence in the mind where it belongs."-Brian Aldiss
"Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible."-Confucius
"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad
after."-Ernest Hemmingway
"Even god has been defended with nonsense."-Walter Lippmann
"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."-Thomas Mann
"We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a
slow demise."-Marilyn Manson
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."-Albert Einstein
"Before I sink into the big sleep, I want to hear the scream of the butterfly."-Jim Morrison
"Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most."-Trent Reznor
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder."-My brother, Paul
"Human expectations go beyond humanity."-My sister, Angela
"We begin to live when we have conceived life as a tragedy."-W.B. Yeats
"The fisrt fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of
world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to
be found?"-J.B. Preistley
"When truth is discovered by someone else it loses some of its attractiveness."-Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight aren't important."-Henry
Miller
"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."-T.S. Eliot
"Tyrrany is always better organized than freedom."-Charles Peguy
"Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented."-Henry F. Ashurst
"Truth is so precious that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies."-Winston Churchill
"Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion."-Dorothy Parker
"I hate nature, it's always getting in the way."-Craig Zeigler
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding as a moth brushes a window with
its wing."-Christopher Fry
"For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see
it as it is, a gift of infinite grace."-Albert Camus
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when
it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the
wall."-Colette
"Suicide...is about life, being in fact the sincerest criticism life gets."-Wilfred Sheed
"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation."-Georges Clemenceau
"There is no reason to assume the universe has the slightest interest in intellegence--or even in
life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on
a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them."-Arthur C. Clarke
"What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are."-F.
Scott Fitzgerald
"Vasectomy means never having to say 'Sorry'."-Larry Adler
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men alone are quite capable of
every sort of wickedness."-Joseph Conrad
"To be suprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."-Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Life for each man is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."-Eugene O'Neill
"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense."-Leo Rosten