Quote (#578)

"I used to think that the brain was
the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this."
- Emo Phillips

"When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide
Web.... Now even my cat has its own page."
- Bill Clinton

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"The problems that exist in the world
today cannot be solved by the level
of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution,
and I don't know what can be done to fix it.
This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
- Kurt Vonnegut

Latine loqui coactus sum
- I have this compulsion to speak Latin

Quote (#491)

If there is no wind, row.
- Latin Proverb

Friendship is born at that moment when
one person says to another: "What! You,
too? Thought I was the only one."
- C.S. Lewis

"Love has reasons which
reason cannot understand."
- Blaise Pascal

"The last time I saw him he
was walking down lover's
lane holding his own hand."
- Fred Allen

"I don't want life to imitate
art. I want life to be art."
- Ernst Fischer

"Every charitable act is a
stepping stone toward heaven."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Quotaria - Favorites

"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth...
Tame the dragon and the gift is yours."
- Noela Evans

"A joke's a very serious thing."
- Charles Churchill

"A bookstore is one of the only
pieces of evidence we have that
people are still thinking."
- Jerry Seinfeld

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est
Yes, that is a very large amount of corn

It does not do to leave a live dragon out
of your calculations, if you live near him.
- J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit

Favorite Quotes

"You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled.
"Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened.
"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!"
Holmes chuckled heartily.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

[Geordi and Data are discussing Data's attempts to train Spot.]
Data: I suppose I must accept that possibility. It may be that Spot lacks the intelligence necessary to learn the appropriate responses to my commands.
[Spot looks up at Data and meows.]
Data: Mmm?
[Spot meows again.]
Data: Ah.
[Data takes a ball of yarn from his cabinet and lets Spot begin to play with it.]
Geordi La Forge: I don't know about Spot, but your training is coming along just fine. Let's go.
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode:Force of Nature

"Eliminate all other factors, and the
one which remains must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
Translation: "Add little to little and there will be a big pile"
— Ovid.

"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the
matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the
inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
- Sherlock Holmes: "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my
disguise must be able to strike terror into their
hearts! I must be a creature of the night, black,
terrible... A... A... A bat! That's it. It's an
omen... I shall become a BAT!"
- Batman #1

Favorite Quotes

Once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid’s music.
- Oberon, Scene I, Act II, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but if we covered the world in
salad dressing wouldn't the aspargus feel left out?"
- Pinky and the Brain

Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Whoof, oh, I'd have to say the odds of that are terribly slim, Brain.
Brain: True.
Pinky: I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering? Brain: To my knowledge, never.
Pinky: Exactly. So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're pondering?
Brain: Next to nil.
Pinky: Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too.
Brain: Therefore, you are pondering what I'm pondering.
Pinky: Poit, I guess I am!
- Pinky and the Brain

"Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but isn't a cucumber that small called a gherkin?"
- Pinky and the Brain

Tattoo: Da plane. Da plane.
- Fantasy Island

"Candor dat viribus alas"
Sincerity gives wings to strength

Quotaria - Favorites

"Never get a mime talking. He won't stop."
- Marcel Marceau

"Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso

To err is human, but to really
foul things up requires a computer.
- Paul Ehrlich

Prepare for trouble, and make it double
To protect the world from devastation,
To unite all people within our nation,
To denounce the evil of truth and love,
To extend our reach to the stars above
- Team Rocket (Pokémon)

Amor est vitae essentia
Love is the essence of life.
- Robert B. Mackay

I should warn you that underneath
these clothes I'm wearing boxer
shorts and I know how to use them.
- Robert Orben

Quotes - Favorites

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of
opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Mark Twain

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

"The trouble with the rat race is that
even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin

Words ought to be a little wild for
they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

There is nothing new under the sun but there
are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes

"Boys will be boys, and so will
a lot of middle-aged men."
- Kin Hubbard

"the only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say commonplace things, but burn,
burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
spides across the stars"
- Jack Kerouac

"we could never learn to be brave and patient
if there were only joy in the world."
~ Helen Keller

One has a greater sense of intellectual
degradation after an interview with a
doctor than from any human experience.
- Alice James

Hodie mihi cras tibi - Sic transit gloria mundi.
(My turn today--yours tomorrow.
Thus passes the glory of the world.)

Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit
He has left, absconded, escaped and disappeared

Quotaria - Latin Proverbs

Vita sine libris mors est
Life without books is death

Imus ad magum Ozi videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum.
We are going to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.

Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

Un idea perplexi na
- The idea is strange to us

Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur
- Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out

Magnus frater spectat te...
Big Brother is watching you....

Intelligenti pauca
- few words suffice for he who understands

Quotes

We can only learn
to love by loving
- Iris Murdoch

Shoot for the moon. Even if you
miss, you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like
burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
- E. O. Wilson

"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical
processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far
in our understanding of the physical world. One might
as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely
by the use of the mathematics of probability."
- Vannevar Bush

"I think that one possible definition of our modern
culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of
our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
- Randall Jarrell

Illiud Latine dici non potest
- You can't say that in Latin

Quotes - Unknown

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed
and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that
nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for
which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than
his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance
of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men
than himself."
- Unknown

He who laughs last thinks slowest.
- Unknown

Latin: In vino veritas.
English: In wine there is truth.
- Unknown

There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his
desire to become a great writer. When asked to define great
he said, I want to write stuff that the whole world will
read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional
level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain
and anger! He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
- Unknown

I don't know how it's going to
end. I just don't want it to.
- Unknown

Everything is always okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Unknown

Quotes - Latin Proverbs

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

Tempus incognitum.
Time unknown.

Vacca, vacca, vacca. (fozzie bear)
Cow, cow, cow.

Cogito Ergo Doleo
I think therefore I am depressed

Id certum est quod certum reddi potest
That is certain that can be made certain

Licentia liquendi
Liberty of speaking

Quotes - Latin Proverb

Prehende uxorem meam, sis!
- Take my wife, please

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi
A precipice in front, wolves behind
(between a rock and a hard place)

Quandoquidem inter nos sanctissima divitiarum maiestas,
esti funesta pecunia templo nondum habitas
Among us, the god most revered is Wealth,
but so far it has no temple of its own

Luke sum ipse patrem te
Luke, I am your father.
(Star Wars)

A verbis ad verbera
From words to blows

A capite ad calcem
From head to heel

Quotes - Latin Proverb

Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
- Anything said in Latin sounds profound

Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit
He is doubly destroyed who perishes by his own arms.
- (Publilius Syrus)

mendacem memorem esse oportet
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory
(liars should have good memories)

favete linguis - Favour me with your tongues [ be silent ]
(If you think it mean something else than wishing somebody to be silent then you might have twisted and/or dirty thoughts) ::Giggles::

bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

Historia est vitae magistra
The history is the tutor of life

Quotes - Latin Proverb

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
- If you can read this you're overeducated

Believe nothing and be on your
guard against everything.
- Latin Proverb

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
(How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?)
- Latin Proverb

si post fata venit gloria non propero
If glory comes after death, I'm not in a hurry
(If one must die to be recognised, I can wait)

stultorum calami carbones moenia chartae
Chalk is the pen of fools, walls (their) paper
(Grafitti is the work of idiots).

parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
Mountains will be in labour, and an absurd mouse will be born
(all that work and nothing to show for it)