Quote (#568)

"God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact

"The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice, I.iii

"Not only is there no God, but
try finding a plumber on Sunday."
- Woody Allen (1935-)

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"All for one; one for all."
- Alexander Dumas (1824-1895)

"You laugh at me because I am different, but
I laugh at you because you are all the same."
- Unknown

Quote (#558)

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservative."
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

"I like to play poker with politicians. They’re
easy to beat. Sometimes in poker it’s smarter to
lose with a winning hand so that you can win later
with a losing hand. Politicians can’t accept that."
- Havana (1990)

"The worst part about politics is that you're
always right and no one ever knows it."
- Unknown

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they
had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy
and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
- Orson Welles (1915-1985)

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight,
its the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain

"When the only tool you own is a hammer,
every problem begins to resemble a nail."
- Abraham Maslow

Quote (#555)

The only fool bigger than the person who knows
it all is the person who argues with him.
- Anonymous

"Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition
that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is
unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
- G. K. Chesterton

The truly educated man is that rare individual
who can separate reality from illusion.
- Anonymous

"I hate women because they
always know where things are."
- James Thurber

"An opinion should be the result of
thought, not a substitute for it."
- Jef Mallett

Quote (#554)

The greatest hindrance to
freedom Is inert people.
- Anonymous

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important
principle of life that the most likely way to reach a
goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at
some more ambitious goal beyond it."
- Arnold Toynbee

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are
too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
- Charles De Gaulle

The haves and have nots can often be
traced back to the dids and did nots.
- Anonymous

"Speech is conveniently located midway
between thought and action, where it
often substitutes for both."
- John Andrew Holmes

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not
unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what
we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
- Richard Feynman

Quote (#553)

Some people are like a callus; they always
show up when the work is finished.
- Anonymous

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot
live without and know we cannot live within."
- James A. Baldwin

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing
long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
- Andy Warhol

The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is that little extra.
- Anonymous

"That's the motivation
of an artist - to seek
attention of some kind."
- James Taylor

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he gets to know something."
- Wilson Mizner

Quote (#552)

Practice random beauty and
senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

"Setting a good example for children
takes all the fun out of middle age."
- William Feather

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only
sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
- Fred Allen

Short change your education now and you may
be short of change the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

"Love dies only when growth stops."
- Pearl S. Buck

"A good film is when the price of
the dinner, the theatre admission
and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

Quote (#551)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Anonymous

"I don't give a damn for a man that
can only spell a word one way."
- Mark Twain

Education is the instruction of the
intellect in the laws of the nature.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Opportunity: A good chance that always
looks bigger going than coming.
- Anonymous

"We love but once, for once only are
we perfectly equipped for loving."
- Cyril Connolly

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quote (#501)

"The best defense against the atom bomb
is not to be there when it goes off."
- Anonymous

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon

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

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
- Henrik Ibsen

Favorite Quotes

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust,
we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned
in the distance by an invisible player.
- Albert Einstein

Jack Napier: Have you ever danced with
the devil in the pale moonlight?
- Batman (1989)

The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious; It is the source of all
true art and science
- Albert Einstein

St Jerome - the patron saint of librarians and
scholars. St. Jerome is probably the correct
saint to pray to when your computer seems to
have evaporated a 25,000-word manuscript.
- Unknown

Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.
Gillian: Whoever said the human race was logical?
- Star Trek - The Voyage Home

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Favorite Quotes

Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass.
A library is just a genteel black hole that can read
- Mort by Terry Pratchett

"The most dangerous creature in all the world is not a woman
scorned, rather an experienced Dungeon Master rallied to a cause."
- Annonymouse...

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of
darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity

Human subtlety...will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than
does nature, because in her inventions nothing
is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"In my profession all sorts of odd knowledge comes
useful, and this room of yours is a storehouse of it."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Quotes - Favorites

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

"What you are will show in what you do."
- Thomas A. Edison

"Last night I dreamed I ate a
ten-pound marshmallow, and when
I woke up the pillow was gone."
- Tommy Cooper

"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien
menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
- Unknown

Don't kick the monster!
Program a robot to smash it, Shoot it,
Spear it or even Throw something at it
(preferably a grenade), but NEVER kick the monster!
NOTE: does not apply to BLACK BELTS.
- Unknown.

"Nothing is fool proof to a
sufficiently talented fool."
- Unknown

Quotaria - Favorites

"The pine stays green in
winter... wisdom in hardship."
- Norman Douglas

Change is the constant,
the signal for rebirth,
the egg of the phoenix.
- Christina Baldwin

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but
should not set limits to imagination."
- Bertrand Russell

"When you have a dream, you've got
to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett

If you are planning for a year, sow rice;
if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese Proverb

"You know you've read a good book
when you turn the last page and
feel as if you've lost a friend."
- Anonymous

Quotes - Favorites

"A poem is no place for an idea."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"The whole problem with the world is that fools
and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference."
- Tom Brokaw

There's only one way to
fail, and that is to quit.
- [no attribution]

Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
- Lao Tse

Perfect is achieved, not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de St. Exupery

Quotaria - Anonymous/Unknown

"Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac,
you can always take something for it."
- Unknown

He who thinketh he leadeth
and hath no one following
him is only taking a walk.
~ Anonymous

Minds, like parachutes,
only work when open.
- Anonymous

"Nobody knows the age of the human
race, but everybody agrees that it
is old enough to know better."
- Anonymous

"The wages of sin
are unreported."
- Unknown

185. My bard does not need roadies for a dungeon crawl.

Quotes - anonymous-unknown

My Karma ran over your dogma.
- Unknown

"Fashion is something that goes
in one year and out the other."
- Unknown

"Reality is for those
who lack imagination"
- Unknown

"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as
taking candy from a baby' has never
tried taking candy from a baby."
- Unknown

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's
anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings
but silence breaks your heart.
- Unknown

I do know everything, just not all at
once. It's a virtual memory problem.
- unknown

Quotaria

"Is sloppiness in speech caused
by ignorance or apathy? I don't
know and I don't care."
- William Safire

"A signature always reveals a man's
character - and sometimes even his name."
- Evan Esar

"I have noticed that the people who are
late are often so much jollier than the
people who have to wait for them."
- E. V. Lucas

Politicians are like diapers; they should be
changed frequently and for the same reason.
- Anonymous

The real leader has no need
to lead - he is content
to point the way.
- Henry Miller

Originality is the fine art of remembering what
you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter

Quotaria

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how
many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
- Susan George

"Even in winter an isolated patch
of snow has a special quality."
- Andy Goldsworthy

"God is not dead but alive and well and
working on a much less ambitious project."
- Anonymous

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV,
you can only be one of two kinds of human
beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"Middle age is when you've met so many
people that every new person you meet
reminds you of someone else."
- Ogden Nash

"Thieves respect property. They merely wish
the property to become their property that
they may more perfectly respect it."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotes - Anonymous/Unknown

"We [the human race] do not have much time to prove
that we are not the product of a lethal mutation."
-- Science 263: 181, 1994

The harder you fall,
the higher you bounce.
- Anonymous

"Time is that quality of nature which
keeps events from happening all at once.
Lately it doesn't seem to be working."
- Anonymous

"He's the kind of a guy who lights up
a room just by flicking a switch."
Unknown

"A little nonsense now and then,
is relished by the wisest men."
- Anonymous

Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going.
- Anonymous

Quotaria - Anonymous/Unknown

There are only 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
- Anonymous

"I am a Marxist--of
the Groucho tendency."
- Anonymous

Don't anthropomorphize
computers -- they hate it.
- Anonymous

Some days you're the dog - some
days you're the hydrant.
- Anonymous

One fic to rule them all
One fic to find them
One fic to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them...
- Unknown

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common
people to attain uncommon results.
- Anonymous

Quotaria

"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by
quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday."
- Sir William Bragg

"A lawn is nature under
totalitarian rule."
- Michael Pollan

"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the
rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."
- Peter Benchley

I have no witty remarks or quotes to share at the moment.
- unknown

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out
the trees, then names the streets after them."
- Bill Vaughan

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Harold Wilson