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

Cockroaches and socialites are
the only things that can stay
up all night and eat anything.
- Herb Caen

We confess our little faults to persuade
people that we have no large ones.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One reason I don't drink is that I want
to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor

Riley: These spells...these really work? I mean, can you really turn your enemies inside out? Or...learn to excrete gold coins?
Anya: That one's not so much fun.
Willow: They work, Riley, but they take concentration. Being attuned with the forces of the universe.
Xander: Right. You can't just go "librum incendere" and expect...[the page of Xander's book bursts into flame. Shocked, he slams the book closed, extinguishing the fire.]
Giles: Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Then there was the man who drowned crossing
a stream with an average depth of six inches."
W.I.E. Gates

One of the indictments of civilizations is that
happiness and intelligence are so rarely found
in the same person.
- William Feather

Quotes

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and
joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
- Joseph Wood Krutch

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration
and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there
is less cleaning up to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut

The more you find out about the world, the
more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
- Bill Nye

The penalty for success is to be bored
by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the
abyss also looks into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The right to be heard does not automatically
include the right to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey