Quote (#495)

"Life is half spent before
we know what it is."
- George Herbert

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven played
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to
say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible;
there is no way of taking advantage of them."
- Anatole France

"I don't have a photograph, but you can have
my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks."
- Groucho Marx

Every subject at some phase of its development
should possess, what is for the individual
concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
- John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure
an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey

Quotes (#490)

"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
- Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Darkness cannot drive out darkness,
only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate, only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, prepare to die."
- Klingon Proverb, Star Trek

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope
still lives and the dream shall never die.
- Ted Kennedy

"They say time is the fire in which we burn."
- Dr. Tolian Soran, Star Trek: Generations

"No heirloom of humankind captures
the past as do art and language."
- Theodore Bikel

Quotes (#488)

In the end, we will remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The uncertainties of the present
always give way to the enchanted
possibilities of the future.
- Kirkland

A true friend is the most precious of
all possessions and the one we take
the least thought about acquiring.
- La Rochefoucauld

"Nobody has ever measured, not even
poets, how much the heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov

"An empty canvas is full."
- Robert Rauschenberg

Quotes (#487)

"Death and love are the two wings
that bear the good man to heaven."
- Michelangelo

"If you find someone you love in your
life, then hang on to that love."
- Princess Diana

"Entertainment is in art
like color in pictures."
- Martin Kippenberger

There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but wee were to make the effort to be the best.
- Robert F. Kennedy, talking about his father, Joseph Kennedy

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't
have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make
your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart
full of grace, a soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quotes (#486)

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes
the worst are your own fears.
- Rudyard Kipling

"Plans are only good intentions unless they
immediately degenerate into hard work."
- Peter Drucker

"I know a lot about cars. I can look
at a car's headlights and tell you
exactly which way it's coming."
- Mitch Hedberg

Our lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What I wanted to do was to paint
sunlight on the side of a house."
- Edward Hopper

Quotes

"If there were in the world today any large number
of people who desired their own happiness more than
they desired the unhappiness of others, we could
have paradise in a few years."
- Bertrand Russell

A place for everything,
everything in its place.
- Benjamin Franklin

Good advice is something a man gives when
he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent
life on other planets. Why should other planets
be any different from this one?
- Bob Monkhouse

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and
ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams,
the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Aldous Huxley

Quotes

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"I must study politics and war that
my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy."
- John Adams

A good many young writers make the mistake of
enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope,
big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner

I do not believe in
the creed professed
by the Jewish Church,
by the Roman Church,
by the Greek Church,
by the Turkish Church,
by the Protestant Church,
nor by any church that I know of.
My own mind is my own church.
- Thomas Paine

There is no passion like that of
a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau

People are difficult to govern because
they have too much knowledge.
- Lao-Tzu

Quotes

"I want to put a ding in the universe."
- Steve Jobs

"Knowledge is power."
- Francis Bacon

"Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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."
- Jack Handey

"The sea complains upon a thousand shores."
- Alexander Smith

"I love to go to Washington - if
only to be near my money."
- Bob Hope

Quotes

"Injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"You can't wait for inspiration. You
have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

"I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll
doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'"
- Oscar Levant

"I hope that when I die, people say about me,
'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'"
- Jack Handey

"The only thing I like about
rich people is their money."
- Nancy Astor

"It's not true that I had nothing
on. I had the radio on."
- Marilyn Monroe

Quotaria

"Life doesn't imitate art, it
imitates bad television."
- Woody Allen

A hat should be taken off when you greet a
lady and left off for the rest of your life.
Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
- PJ O'Rourke

There's so much pollution in the air now that
if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place
to put it all.
- Robert Orben

"If opportunity doesn't
knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle

"We are not makers of history.
We are made by history."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Batman: Commissioner Gordon?
Dr. Chase Meridian: He's at home. I sent the signal.
Batman: What's wrong?
Dr. Chase Meridian: Last night, at the bank, I noticed something about Two-Face. His coin. It's his Achilles' heel. It can be exploited.
Batman: I know. You called me here for this? The Batsignal is not a beeper.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Well I wish I could say that my interest in you was... purely professional.
Batman: You trying to get under my cape, doctor?
Dr. Chase Meridian: A girl can't live by psychoses alone.
Batman: It's the car, right? Chicks love the car.
Dr. Chase Meridian: What is it about the wrong kind of man? In grade school it was guys with earrings. College, motorcycles, leather jackets. Now, *oh*, black rubber.
Batman: Try firemen, less to take off.
Dr. Chase Meridian: I don't mind the work. Pity I can't see behind the mask.
Batman: We all wear masks.
Dr. Chase Meridian: My life's an open book. You read?
Batman: I don't blend in at a family picnic.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Oh, we could give it a try. I'll bring the wine, you bring your scarred psyche.
Batman: Direct aren't you?
Dr. Chase Meridian: You like strong women. I've done my homework. Or do I need skin-tight vinyl and a whip?
Batman: I haven't had that much luck with women.
Dr. Chase Meridian: Maybe you just haven't met the right woman.
- Batman Forever

Quotes

Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
- WH Auden

"Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

I love quotations because it is a joy to
find thoughts one might have, beautifully
expressed with much authority by someone
recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich

You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Basic research is what I'm doing
when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher von Braun

"Democracy means government by discussion, but it
is only effective if you can stop people talking."
- Clement Atlee