Quotes - Ambrose Bierce

Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the
human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
- Ambrose Bierce

Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting
of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
- Ambrose Bierce

Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not
conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by
the conformants [sic] from study of themselves; at odds with the
majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are
pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they
themselves are sane.
- Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious
arrangement of wheels, levers and springs,
and believes it civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes - Sir Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is
the worst form of government except
all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some
days last longer than others.
- Sir Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers
which they dare not dismount. And the
tigers are getting hungry.
- Winston Churchill

Quotes - X-Men

"The Dark Phoenix may have been a threat to all life in
the universe...But she had great taste in costumes."
- Rachel Summers, Excalibur #65

Beast: I exhaused my supply of hope about two o'clock
this morning. All that's left is anger, frustration,
and an overwhelming desire to cram 355lbs. of blue fur
down Stryfe's throat!!!
- X-Men

Rogue: What do you have hank?
Beast: Not alot. But if my calculations are correct, this button should----
Rogue sent flying against a wall. *whoulp*
Beast:--Make things worse... whoops.
- Uncanny X-men # 322

Cecilia Reyes: Theoretical Physics and basic anatomy. I'm impressed.
Beast: You should see me play pictionary.
Cecilia: Sure, maybe after we get it ou--*gasp* You--your an animal...??
Beast: It's not 'animal' miss, it's 'Beast' which happens to know a thing or two about the dynamic application of nano-effusive devices. Animal is a muppet.
- Uncanny X-men # 322

Cecilia Reyes: I'd like to examine you with it later too..
Beast: Why doctor! How forward of you!
Cecilia: Ulp. Examine..it...with you...That's what I said...'it'...
Beast: Whatever the lady says. In the name of scientific research, all parts of me are at your beck and call doctor.
- Uncanny X-men # 322

Quotes - George Santayana

A man is morally free when, in full possession
of his living humanity, he judges the world, and
judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend,
you should endeavor to understand him.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Character is the basis of happiness and
happiness the sanction of character.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth
which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and
enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your
effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

Quotes - Dante Alighieri

Small projects need much more help than great.
- Dante Alighieri

The customs and fashions of men
change like leaves on the bough,
some of which go and others come.
- Dante Alighieri

The darkest places in hell are reserved
for those who maintain their neutrality
in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri

We must overact our part in some measure,
in order to produce any effect at all.
- Dante Alighieri

Quotes - Sir Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but
blood, toil, tears and sweat
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Success is not final, failure is not fatal
it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The Americans will always do the right thing...
after they have exhausted all other options."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

It is better to be making the news than taking
it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may
resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice
may distort it, but there it is.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)