Quotes - Favorites

To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

"Nature is never finished."
- Robert Smithson

"Integrity without knowledge is weak
and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
- Samuel Johnson

Remember that the solitary mortal
is certainly luxurious, probably
superstitious, and possibly mad.
- Samuel Johnson

The only good is knowledge and
the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey

Quotaria - Favorites

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected
questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in
a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the
prejudices of their education.’
- John Locke

People have enough ideas. The real question is
“Which ideas are you going to use?”.’
- Michael Ray

"What people think of as the moment of discovery
is really the discovery of the question.’
- Jonas Salk

"The only true wisdom is in
knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the
direction of the wind. But the goodness of a
person spreads in all direction.
- Chanakya

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated
with firmness, can be trained to do most things."
- Jilly Cooper

Quotes

Let him that would move the
world first move himself.
- Socrates

No man really becomes a fool
until he stops asking questions.
- Charles Steinmetz

Originality does not consist in saying what
no one has ever said before, but in saying
exactly what you think yourself.
- James Stephen

We are all travelers in the wilderness
of this world, and the best we can find
in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We are more ready to try the untried when what
we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that
many inventions had their birth as toys."
- Eric Hoffer

"If all else fails, immortality can always
be assured by spectacular error."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotaria

Remember what is unbecoming to do
is also unbecoming to speak of.
- Socrates

Light travels faster than sound
so some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.
- Joe Messmore

I love Thanksgiving turkey...it's the only time
in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money won't buy happiness, but it will
pay the salaries of a large research
staff to study the problem.
- Bill Vaughan

"I was going to buy a book on hair loss,
but the pages kept falling out."
- Jay London

"There is nothing more
uncommon than common sense."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotaria

"Defining and analyzing humor is
a pastime of humorless people."
- Robert Benchley

"In times like these, it helps to recall that
there have always been times like these."
- Paul Harvey

When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
- Lao-Tzu

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to
write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their
sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

"Everybody likes a kidder,
but nobody lends him money."
- Arthur Miller

"The opposite of the religious fanatic
is not the fanatical atheist but the
gentle cynic who cares not whether
there is a god or not."
- Eric Hoffer

Quotes

"I'm kidding about having only a few dollars.
I might have a few dollars more."
- James Brown

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"It is a matter of shame that
in the morning the birds should
be awake earlier than you."
- Abu Bakr

"Part of being sane, is
being a little bit crazy."
- Janet Long

"A true conservationist is a man who knows
that the world is not given by his fathers,
but borrowed from his children."
- John James Audubon

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates

Quotes

"By all means marry; if you get a good
wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad
one, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa.
Somebody forgot the corkscrew and
for several days we had to live on
nothing but food and water."
- W. C. Fields

"Be kind whenever possible.
It is always possible."
- Dalai Lama

"We think in generalities,
but we live in detail."
- Alfred North Whitehead

"I didn't really say
everything I said."
- Yogi Berra

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet;
adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
- John Ciardi

Quotes

Fizzbin - The Rules of the Game
Kirk: The name of the game is called... Fizzbin. Each player gets
6 cards, except for the player on the dealer's right, who gets 7.
Thug: On the right.
Kirk: Yeah. The second card is turned up, except on Tuesdays.
Thug: Tuesday.
Kirk: Ohh! Look what you've got 2 jacks. You got a half-fizzbin already.
Thug: I need another jack?
Kirk: No. If you got another jack, why you'd have a shralk.
Thug: A shralk?
Kirk: Yes, you'd be disqualified. No, what you need now is either
a king and a deuce, except at night, of course, when you'd need a
queen and a four.
Thug: Except at night.
Kirk: Right. Oh, look at that, you've got another jack! How lucky
you are! How wonderful for you! Now if you didn't get another jack,
if you had gotten a king, why then you'd get another card except
when it's dark , when you'd have to give it back.
Thug: If it were dark on Tuesday.
Kirk: Yes, but what you're after is a royal fizzbin, but the odds
of getting a royal fizzbin are astron - Spock, what are the odds
on getting a royal fizzbin?
Spock: I have never computed them, Captain.
Kirk: Well, they're astronomical, believe me. Now, for the last
card, we'll call it a kronk. You got that?
Thug: What?
(chaos ensues)
- Star Trek The Original Series: A Piece of the Action

Don't accept rides from strange men,
and remember that all men are strange.
- Robin Morgan

The state has no business in
the bedrooms of the nation.
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau

"There is still no cure
for the common birthday."
- John Glenn

Do not do to others what angers
you if done to you by others.
- Socrates

One of the first duties of the physician is
to educate the masses not to take medicine.
- Sir William Osler