Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
- Albert Einstein
A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman knows.
- Monica Piper
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
- POPULAR MECHANICS article forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh
There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate -- except those in your own mercenary little heart!
- John Wayne, The Quiet Man
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
The difference between truth and fiction: Fiction has to make sense.
- Mark Twain
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
- Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
- Malcolm Forbes
He gives double who gives unasked.
- Arabian proverb
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
- Vince Lombardi
Don't say it's a fine morning or I'll shoot ya.
- John Wayne, Mclintock
You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
- Pee-Wee Herman, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
- Walt Whitman
You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
- Ugarte (Peter Lorre), Casablanca
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
- Anthony Trollop, Bertrams XXXV
Rock 'n' roll, man, it changed my life. It was like The Voice of America, the real America, coming to your home.
- Bruce Springsteen
Pepperland is a tickle of joy on the blue belly of the universe. It must be scratched.
- Chief Meanie, Yellow Submarine (1968)
A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within the secret of human nature.
- Maria Montessori
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought
- Henri Bergson
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
- Ben Johnson
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
- Lin Yutang
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself.
- Walt Whitman
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Edward Fitzgerald, 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
- John Bernard Books (John Wayne), The Shootist
i speak without reservation from what i know and who i am. i do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voice to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance, the worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.
- Ani Difranco
I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
- Lily Tomlin
The beginning is always today.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent van Gogh
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
- Scott Adams
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
An ugly carpet will last forever.
- Erma Bombeck
Do or do not; there is no try.
- Yoda, Stars Wars
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
If you ever need anything, please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
- Nirvana, Milk It
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
- John Lennon, Imagine
Because I could not stop for Death; He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves; And immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.
- The Blues Brothers
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'
- - Erma Bombeck
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
- Woody Allen
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
Predictions are hard, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr
I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
- Tracy Chapman, Unsung Psalms
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
- Woody Allen
You see things; and you say, , 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
- George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
A man is a success if he get up in the morning and does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
The heart can push the sea and land / Farther away on either hand; /The soul can split the sky in two, / And let the face of God shine through.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams
Life moves pretty fast, If you don't take a look around once and awhile, you could miss it.
- Ferris Bueller
If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
- Mario Andretti
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
- Marcus Aurelius
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
- James M. Barrie
I banish fear with two words: You Lead.
- Demetri Kolokotronis
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
- Irving Berlin
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
- Les Brown
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine
Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
- Todd Coomber
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- Albert Einstein
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
- Stephen Hawking
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
- Woody Allen
Updated 09 December 2003 12:25