"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet." Ernest Bevin, former UK Foreign Minister
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." Sigmund Freud
"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy." Marshall McLuhan
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." George Shultz
"Sometimes a memory, Only sees what it wants to believe, And what's filled in between, Are days and nights that don't mean a thing." The Black Crowes, "Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye"
"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with." Marty Feldman
"I'm not wild about these high-risk ventures. They sound a little risky." Marge Simpson
"So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth." Tim the Enchanter in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." Charles Kuralt
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." Marcus Aurelius
"Crossroads seems to come and go, the gypsy flies from coast to coast. Knowing many, loving none, bearing sorrow having fun." The Allman Brothers Band, "Melissa"
"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." Robin Williams
"Once trust is out of a relationship, it's not so much fun lying any more." Norm Peterson (George Wendt) on Cheers
"You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'." Homer Simpson
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness." Christopher Marlowe
"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." Agatha Christie
"Remember, attraction is a three-way street. Or is it a one-way tunnel? Hmm, in any case, I do know it's a four-lane highway, but it takes two to use the car-pool lane. I guess what I'm trying to say is, what the younger generation has learned is that there's nothing for us to watch on CBS, and you've got to be yourself. A man has to love you for you, not some costume. He's gotta love who you are." Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate) on Married With Children
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway." Eleanor Roosevelt
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievich Tartakower
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." Andrew Carnegie
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man." Socrates
"The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars." Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Finally! My stupidity pays off!" George Costanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Seen on a t-shirt
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." Ann Landers
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981
"This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." Douglas Adams
"People will pay more to be entertained than educated." Johnny Carson
"I am returning the echo of a point in time, Distant faces shine, A thousand warriors I have known, And laughing as the spirits appear, All your life, Shadows of another day." Deep Purple, "Perfect Strangers"
"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." Aristotle
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." Cicero
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape." William S. Burroughs
"There's a fine line between participation and mockery." Scott Adams
"Don't stop at the top, touch the sky before you drop." Scorpions, "Don't Stop At The Top"
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning." Carl Sandburg
"If we take matrimony at its lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police." Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." Edmund Burke
"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." Bluto (John Belushi) in Animal House
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured." Anton Chekhov
"It's unlucky to be superstitious." Dave Enteles
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water." Miguel de Cervantes
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." Niels Bohr
"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." Alan Minter, boxer
"No, at that time I was not the mental giant that you see before you. I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98 pound weakling. I go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face." John Charles Keating (Robin Williams) in Dead Poets Society
"There is a Chinese curse which says may he live in interesting times. Like it or not, we live in interesting times." Robert F. Kennedy
"How long is eternity? Imagine that there is a solid steel ball the size of the sun. Not the earth but the sun. Every thousand years a bird flies up to this massive steel ball and flicks its wing against it. When that bird wears that steel ball into nothingness, eternity is just beginning." John Powers, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
"Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting." Burmese proverb
"Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact." Willa Cather
"When asked to describe the famous glass of water, there can only be 4 answers and they will reflect the character of the person, they are: a) half empty b) half full c) half empty, no...half full, ...I mean empty, ...what was the question? d) hey, I ordered a cheeseburger!" Gary Larson
"You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are." Edward Albee
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside." Dag Hammarskjold
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." James Baldwin
"Behind every great fortune, there is a crime." Honore de Balzac
"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." George Bernard Shaw
"Worse than being born blind is the fact that many are born with sight but have no vision." Helen Keller
"He who laughs last obviously did not get the joke." Anonymous
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." Douglas Adams
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." Ursula K. Leguin
"An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white." Ambrose Bierce
"One man's sunset is another man's dawn." Fievel Mouskawitz in An American Tail
"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong." Andy Rooney
"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." J.D. Salinger
"If we were blind and had no choice, would we hate each other by the tone of our voice?" Anthrax, "Schism"
"Some say to me: 'History? What does it mean? What are you concerned about the past for?' And my answer to that is a simple one - he who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future." John George Diefenbaker
"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life." Thomas Henry Huxley
"The forest is the poor man's overcoat." New England proverb
"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself." Johann von Goethe
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." Isaac Asimov
"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, itimpales itself upon the longest sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend." Colleen McCullogh