Quotes
The newer quotes are closer to the top. I'm sorry I haven't updated this very often. Come back and check it every once in a while. I occasionally do pirate some new quotations.
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
         - Emo Phillips

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
              -Nathaniel Borenstein

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
               -Jeff Raskin

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.
             - Stephen Baker

Cats know how we feel; they just don't give a damn. -Unknown

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
              - Anonymous

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
              - Anonymous

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
             - Rainer Maria Rilke

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
       - Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein

Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
      - Shakespear, King Lear

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
                 - William Congreve

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
                 - Saint Jerome

Never judge a book by its movie.
                 - J.W. Eagan

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
                - Matt Groening

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safetly. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
              - J.R.R. Tolkien

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
              - Robin Morgan

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
              - Robert Fripp

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
              - Aristotle

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
             - Moshe Dayan

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
              - Mahatma Gandhi

Great spirits have always found violent opposiition from mediocraties. The latter cannot when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices and corageously uses his intelligence.
              - Albert Einstein

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at the close of day, Rage, Rage against the dying of the light.
             - Dylan Thomas

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
             - Albert Einstein

Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. Anything not fitting into these categories causes cancer in rats.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
               - Anne Dillard

Life is wasted on the living.

Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
               - Karl Marx

As you journy through life take a minute every now and then to spare a thought for the other fellow. He may be plotting something.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
               - Carl Gustav Jung

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is always making exciting discoveries.
              - A. A. Milne

Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it.
              - Steven V. Thulton

All that we see is but a dream within a dream.
              - Edgar Allen Poe

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
             - Earnest Hemmingway

Why love if losing hurts so much...I have no answers anymore...only the life that I have lived...The pain is now part of the happiness [then].
             - Anthony Hopkins,
Shadowlands

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
             - Steven King,
The Shawshank                                                    Redemption

A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
              - Amanda Gier

Only as high as I reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I go
Only as deep as I look can I see
Only as much as I dream can I be.
              - Karen Ravn

Procrastination--I'll deal with it sooner or later.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
but people will never forget how you made them feel

It is as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you.

Losers are the
coolest people!

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
                  - Jimi Hendrix

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
                  - Steven Wright

He is one of those people who would be enormously imporved by death.
                   - H. H. Munro

I like you, but I wouldn't want to see you working with sub-atomic particles.

I don't have a solution, but I admire the problem.

Space and time are not conditions in which we live, they are modes in which we think.
                  - Albert Einstein

Every man has secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
                  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All natural goods perish
Riches take wingl fame is breath;
Love is a cheat, youth, health and pleasure vanish.
                 - William James

Curiosity is one of the most permantent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
                 - Samuel Johnson

Death: to stop sinning suddenly.
                 - Ambrose Bierce

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

A poem is never a put up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
                 - Robert Frost
Beer is the proof that God loves us and wants us happy.
          - Benjamin Franklin

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
         - Voltaire

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
       ---Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last                 Temptation of Christ

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
           - Alexandre Dumas

It never does to leave a live dragon out of the equation.
         - The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
         - Friedrich Nietzsche

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
            - W.L. George

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
           - Will Rogers

There are two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
           - Hippocrates

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
          - Stewart's Law of Retroaction

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
          - Erica Jong

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
          - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
           - H.G. Wells

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
           - Shakespeare

Imagination is the one weapon on the war against reality.
           - Jules de Gaultier

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
          - Voltaire

Sanity calms, but madness is more intersting.
          - John Russell

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

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
           - Douglas Adams

He hasn't an enemy in the world- but all his friends hate him.
            - Eddie Cantor

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
           - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
            - Sir Winston Churchill

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
            - Garrison Keillor

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
           - Ernest Benn

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
          - J.R.R. Tolkein

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
          - Napoleon Bonaparte

My definition of a free society is a society where it is save to be unpopular.
           - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
            - Arthur Brisbane

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
            - Henrik Tikkanen

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
           - Pablo Picasso

Twilight has always seemed like God's indrawn breath, a pause in the progression of time.
            - Emilie Richards

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
            - Bill Cosby

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
            - Ruth E. Renkel

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
            - Jennifer Tyler

Forgive your enemies--if you can't get back at them any other way.
            - Franklin P. Jones

Aritficial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.
            - Thomas Jones

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
             - Dorthy Parker

Order is for idiots, genius can handle chaos.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
             - Ernest Hemmingway

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.
             - Kirsten Dunst

Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?
             - Shakespeare

Wisdom begins in wonder.
            - Socrates

People tend to be afraid of what scares them.

In nonsense is strength.
           - Kurt Vonnegut

I want to beloved and accepted by all facets of society, and not be this loudmouth, lunatic, poet-musician...but I cannot be what I'm not.
          - John Lennon

I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung.
          - Grateful Dead
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