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"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you, I
never answer letters and you don't like my tie."
- The Doctor, Doctor Who

"You cannot slander human nature; it
is worse than words can paint it."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Tradition is what you resort to
when you don't have the time or
the money to do it right."
- Kurt Herbert Alder

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But
because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
- Rabbi Julius Gordon

"If two men agree on everything, you may be
sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
- Lyndon B. Johnson

"There is an evil tendency underlying all
our technology - the tendency to do what
is reasonable even when it isn't any good."
- Robert Pirsig

Favorite Quotes

There will come a time when you believe everything
is finished. That'll be the beginning.
- Louis L'Amour

"When love and skill
work together, expect
a masterpiece."
- John Ruskin

"Perpetual optimism is
a force multiplier."
- Colin Powell

Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every time you pick up a grain of sand you
hold a universe in the palm of your hand.
- Dr. Lao, "7 Faces of Dr. Lao"

Albus Dumbledore: "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts!
Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few
words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling.

Favorite Quotes

Grown men may learn from very little children,
for the hearts of little children are pure,
and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show
to them many things which older people miss.
- Nicholas Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa]

Books, the children of the brain.
- "A Tale of a Tub, Sec. 1" (1704), Jonathan Swift

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- "Henry V" by William Shakespeare

Abu: Does the world have a roof?
Genie: Of course! Supported by seven pillars, and
the seven pillars are set on the shoulders of a genie
whose strength is beyond thought, and the genie
stands on an eagle, and the eagle on a bull, and the
bull on a fish, and the fish swims in the sea of eternity.
- Thief of Bagdad

MacGyver: The great thing about a map: it gets you
in and out of places in a lot of different ways.
- MacGyver (Episode: The Gauntlet)

Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

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

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 - Oneliner

"Yes, you're very smart. Shut up."
- "The Princess Bride" (movie)

For a moment I allowed myself to dream.
- Beauty and the Beast

"Fortune favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
- Carl Sandburg

"Good government is good politics."
- Richard J. Daley

"The groves were God's first temples."
- William C. Bryant

Quotaria

"Impossible is a word only to be
found in the dictionary of fools."
- Napoleon I

"Never confuse people with what they don't need to know."
- Highlander: The Series, "The Revolutionary"

"The only people who find what
they are looking for in life
are the fault finders."
- Foster's Law

"Trees love to toss and sway;
they make such happy noises."
- Emily Carr

"I am certain there is too
much certainty in the world."
- Michael Crichton

"Success is doing ordinary things
extraordinarily well."
- Jim Rohn

Quotaria

Chris Rhodes: Not bad. You look like James Bond.
MacGyver: I feel like...James Bond.
- MacGyver: The Heist

Tiffany: I am Tiffany.
MacGyver: Bond...James Bond.
- MacGyver: The Heist

"You're either in the loop, or you're out of the loop.
But more likely you don't know where the loop is, or
even if there is a loop."
- Robert Reich

"Let your plans be as dark and impenetrable as
night, and when you act, fall like a thunderbolt."
- Sun Tzu

The detective spoke. "Ever see a dead person before?"
"No"
"They're the same as the live ones. Only they sleep better."
- "Skinhead" by Jay Bennett

"to have ones individuality completely ignored
is like being pushed quite out of life. like
being blown out as one blows out a light."
~ Evelyn Scott

Quotes

"Half of the modern drugs could well
be thrown out of the window, except
that the birds might eat them."
- Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend."
- Emo Phillips

"Silence propagates itself, and the longer
talk has been suspended, the more difficult
it is to find anything to say."
- Samuel Johnson

Scully: "Should we arrest David Copperfield?"
Mulder: "Yes. But not for this."
- The X-Files

"In every walk with nature one
receives far more than he seeks."
- John Muir

"If your parents never had children,
chances are you won't either."
- Dick Cavett

Quotes

"If you want to know what God
thinks of money, just look at
the people he gave it to."
- Dorothy Parker

"I do not know which makes a man more
conservative - to know nothing but the
present, or nothing but the past."
- John Maynard Keynes

"Few people can see genius in
someone who has offended them."
- Robertson Davies

"It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own
version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of
those great universal mysteries, which will either never be
explained or which would drive you mad if you ever learned
the truth."
- G'Kar, Babylon 5

"it is healthier to see the good points of
others than to analyze our own bad ones."
~ Francoise Sagan

"All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy and Jill a rich widow."
- Evan Esar

Quotaria

"There are more
of them than us."
- Herb Caen

"Vampires have their stakes and werewolves have their
silver bullets, but there is nothing man has yet devised
that can kill a government program."
- Bob Krumm

In the last analysis, man may be defined as a parasite on a vegetable.
-- Hans Zinsser Rats, Lice and History

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath
that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family
man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Bad people should have a big scar or an
eye patch so you can recognize them.
- Kitty, That 70’s Show

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where
I'm going, but I'm on my way."
- Carl Sandburg