"If you're strong enough, there are no precedents." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You'd better let somebody love you before it's too late." Eagles, "Desperado"
"Save the whales. Collect the whole set." Anonymous
"A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents." Adm. Hyman Rickover
"It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off." Woody Allen
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy
"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." Anonymous
"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language." Joyce Carol Oates
"I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, and here is a note from my shrink. He says I'm getting better. Last week I thought I was a toaster oven!" Dot Warner in The Animaniacs
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." Henry Ford
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Albert Schweitzer
"The trick is to grow up without growing old." Frank Lloyd Wright
"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." George Carlin
"All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood." Dr. Benjamin Spock
"Fame is a colored patch on a ragged garment." Aleksander Pushkin
"It is hard to follow somebody home when you are walking side by side." Andy in Lakewood, OH
"You've got to the top of the ladder and found it's against the wrong wall." Joseph Campbell
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." Arthur Ashe
"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence." William Jennings Bryan
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." Nelson Mandela
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." David Brin
"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better." Malcolm Forbes
"Man, they just don't make books like Where's Waldo anymore." Bucky in Get Fuzzy, Nov. 30, 2003
"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers." Frederick the Great
"Bruce Stutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's 35 years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is." Ron Fairly, San Francisco Giants broadcaster
"A girl phoned me the other day and said .... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home." Rodney Dangerfield
"Pretend not to that of which thou art ignorant, lest thine actual knowledge be discredited." Arabic proverb
"I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman." California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
"People are strange when you're a stranger, Faces look ugly when you're alone." The Doors, "People Are Strange"
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." Henry Miller
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." Giorgio Armani
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Dan Quayle
"I am not denying anything I did not say." Brian Mulroney
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." John Lehman, US Secretary of the Navy (1981-7)
"Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art." Virgil
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution." Werner von Braun
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." Moli�re
"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world." Albert Camus
"The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice." Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare), Babylon 5
"If you wake up and don't want to smile, If it takes just a little while, Open your eyes and look at the day, You'll see things in a different way." Fleetwood Mac, "Don't Stop"
"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to." P. J. O'Rourke
"Memory is the iron that sears but from which we cannot draw away." Thomas Cook, Elena
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach." Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"A friend is someone who, out of love or loyalty, chooses to understand behavior in another human being that is incomprehensible, indefensible and maddening." Herman Raucher, There Should Have Been Castles
"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable." Aldous Huxley
"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." Sun Tzu
"I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence:, Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
"I fight authority, authority always wins." John Mellencamp, "Authority Song"
"The only people who haven't sold out are those who haven't been asked." Norman Mailer
"If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?" Anton Chekhov
"Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell." Clint Murchison Sr., Texas financier
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Voltaire
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." Helen Keller
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo
"When you first meet people all you notice are the differences between you and them, but as time passes you start noticing the similarities. I guess that's how all friendships begin." Brian Kessler (David Duchovny) in Kalifornia
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Emile Zola
"The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." Dr. Jonas Salk
"Just make a simple cake. And this time, if someone's going to jump out of it, make sure to put them in after you cook it." Leela (Katey Sagal) on Futurama
"And so, may Evil beware and may Good dress warmly and eat lots of fresh vegetables." The Tick
"A person should not believe in an '-ism,' he should believe in himself." Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy
"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation." Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in Gone With The Wind
"I've felt that the only way to survive was with dignity, pride and courage." Eric Clapton
"I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent." Maya Angelou
"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." Henrik Ibsen
"There's so much I don't know about running a house. For example, on these frozen dinners, when they say preheat the oven, do they mean the whole oven or just the space inside it?" Earl Sinclair (Stuart Pankin) on Dinosaurs
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." William Butler Yeats
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." Jane Austen