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

Quotes (#489)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to
be understood. Now is the time to understand
more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

"Love is composed of a single
soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle

"There it was, hidden
in alphabetical order."
- Rita Holt

"Honor is not the exclusive property
of any political party."
- Herbert Hoover

"Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some
few to be chewed and digested."
- Francis Bacon

"Waters are distilled out of Herbs,
Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."
- Nicholas Culpeper

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

"The seas are the heart's blood of the earth."
- Henry Beston

"It takes a long time to become young."
- Pablo Picasso

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes
overcome, seldom extinguished."
- Francis Bacon

"The man who is swimming against the
stream knows the strength of it."
- Woodrow Wilson

"The flower in the vase smiles,
but no longer laughs."
- Malcolm De Chazal

"Nancy Reagan fell down
and broke her hair."
- Johnny Carson

Quotes

"The first time I see a jogger
smiling, I'll consider it."
- Joan Rivers

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness;
there is also the success of others."
- Jules Renard

"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut
our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!"
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"We cannot command Nature
except by obeying her."
- Francis Bacon

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It is better to be hated for what you are,
than to be loved for what you are not!
- Andre Gide

Quotes

We must let the contradictions stand as they
are, make them understood as contradictions,
and grasp what lies beneath them.
- Hannah Arendt, Love and Saint Augustine.

Poison Ivy: He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me...
Mr. Freeze: NOT! Surprise, I am your new cell mate. And I'm here to
 make your life a living hell. Prepare for a bitter harvest.
 Winter has come at last.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

"Fall not in love, therefore;
it will stick to your face."
- National Lampoon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath
not some strangeness in the proportion."
- Sir Francis Bacon

"The nice thing about egotists is that
they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

"It isn't necessary to have relatives
in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."
- Groucho Marx

Quotes

"So this is how liberty dies.
With thunderous applause."
- George Lucas

"We have, I fear, confused
power with greatness."
- Stewart L. Udall

"I don't have a bank account because I
don't know my mother's maiden name."
- Paula Poundstone

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get
up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In
between, I occupy myself as best I can."
- Cary Grant

A wise man will make more
opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon

Each day comes bearing its
own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
- Ruth Ann Schabacker

Quotes

If a man will begin with certainties,
he shall end in doubts; but if he will
be content to begin with doubts he shall
end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody
I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
- Jimmy Breslin

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were
laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
- Dorothy Parker

The creator of the universe works
in mysterious ways. But he uses a
base ten counting system and likes
round numbers.
- Scott Adams

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and
fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom
fighters fight? They never mention that
part to us, do they?"
- George Carlin

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things,
but most of the things they make it easier to do
don't need to be done."
- Andy Rooney