Even More of my Favourite Quotes
As nightfall does not come
at once, neither does oppression.... There is a twilight when
everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight
that we must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight --
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness ~~ William
O. Douglas (Associate Justice US Supreme Court)
Our lives begin to end the day
we become silent about things that matter ~~ Martin Luther
King
If you do not care about the
pain of others then you do not deserve to be called a human being ~~ Saadi
(12th century Persian poet)
Don’t judge each day by the
harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~~ Robert
Louis Stevenson
As long as you live, keep
learning how to live. ~~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is unbecoming for young men
to utter maxims. ~~ Aristotle
Every man dies. Not every man
lives. ~~ Tim Robbins
All truth passes through
three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed;
and third, it is accepted as self-evident. ~~ Arthur
Schopenhauer
Disbelief in magic can force a
poor soul into believing in government and business. ~~ Tom
Robbins
Happiness is as a butterfly
which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will
sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~~ Nathaniel
Hawthorne
He is no fool who gives what
he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ~~ Jim Elliot
There are 10 types of people
in this world......those who understand binary and those who don't. ~~
Anon
I don't think we will survive
another thousand years without escaping beyond our fragile planet. ~~ Stephen
Hawking
Oscar Wilde:
The only thing that sustains
one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of
everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
No man is rich enough to buy
back his past.
Thirty-five is a very
attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest
birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for
years.
A little sincerity is a
terrible thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
There is only one thing in
the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked
about.
A cynic is someone who knows
the price of everything and the value of nothing
It is better to be beautiful
than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Work is the curse of the
drinking classes.
The true hypocrite is the one
who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
Woody Allen:
My one regret in life is that
I am not someone else.
Sex without love is an empty
experience, but as empty experiences go, it's a pretty good
experience.
I'm very proud
of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this
watch.
How can I
believe in God when only last week I got my tongue caught in the roller
of an electric typewriter?
If there is
reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's
fingertips.
The only time my
wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the
divorce papers.'
The good people
sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad
people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Sex between a man
and a woman can be wonderful - provided you get between the right man
and the right woman.
I'm short enough
and ugly enough to succeed on my own.
Is sex dirty? Only if it's
done right.
Sex alleviates tension. Love
causes it
Its not that I'm
afraid to die. I Just don't want to be there when it happens.
On the plus
side, death is one of the few things that can be done Just as easily as
lying down.
The difference
between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one
is going to make fun of you.
I don't want to
achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it
through not dying.
Money is better
than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Ninety four
point five per cent of all statistics are made up.
Laughter is the closest thing
to the grace of God. ~~ Karl Barth
Never doubt that
a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it
is the only thing that ever has. ~~ Margaret Mead
I never generalise; I merely
extrapolate from selected partial data sets. Anon
Although the world is very
full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~~ Helen
Keller
Did you ever walk in a room
and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their
lives. ~~ Sue Murphy
The statistics on sanity are
that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay,
then it's you. ~~ Rita Mae Brown
Now they show you how
detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think
if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry
isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before
you do the wash.
~~ Jerry Seinfeld
I ask people why
they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such
a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but
I have photographs of her. ~~ Ellen DeGeneres
I always wanted to be
somebody, but I should have been more specific. ~~ Lily
Tomlin
The Swiss have an interesting
army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty
lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to
fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers.
'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's
got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.' ~~ Jerry
Seinfeld
Why does Sea World have a
seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh
my God....I could be eating a slow learner. ~~ Lynda
Montgomery
Sometimes I think war is God's
way of teaching us geography. ~~ Paul Rodriguez
If your feet smell and your
nose runs, you were built upside down. ~~ Anon
The cure for boredom is
curiosity, there is no cure for curiosity - Dorothy
Parker
We are going to deprive you of
an enemy ~~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Pas de Lieu Rhône que nous! ~~ Anonymous (English speaking
person)
Only the winners decide what
were war crimes. ~~ Gary Wills
It is better to die on your
feet than to live on your knees! ~~ Emiliano Zapata
Let us consider, my lords,
that arbitrary power has seldom or never been introduced into a country
at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and, as it were, step
by step, lest the people should see it approach. The barriers and
fences of the people's liberty must be plucked up one by one, and some
plausible pretense must be found for removing or hoodwinking, one after
another, those sentries who are posted by the constitution of a free
country, for warning the people of their danger. When these -
preparatory steps are once made, the people may then, indeed, with
regret, see slavery and arbitrary power making long strides over their
land; but it will be too late to think of preventing or avoiding the
impending ruin. ~~ Lord Erskine in 1792 defending Thomas Paine in
London
Good judgement comes from
experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. ~~ Jim
Horning
Remember when life's path is
steep to keep your mind even. ~~ Horace
If you ever see me getting
beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me. ~~
Bobcat Goldthwait
I have six locks on my door
all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter
how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always
locking three. ~~ Elayne Boosler
I'm half-Italian and
half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself. ~~ Judy
Tenuta
Ever wonder if illiterate
people get the full effect of alphabet soup? ~~ John Mendoza
Relationships are hard. It's
like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your
boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two
weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave
you, they should have to find you a temp. ~~ Bob Ettinger
I don't know what's wrong with
my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network
on the same station. I actually bought a congressman. ~~ Bruce
Baum
POLITICS The accumulation of
all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands
... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. ~~ James
Madison, Federalist 47
The price good people pay to
their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil
men. ~~ Plato
Liberty can not be preserved
without general knowledge among people. ~~ John
Adams(August 1765)
Those who control the past,
control the future; and those who control the present, control the
past. ~~ George Orwell
If a nation expects to be
ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never
was and never will be. ~~ Thomas Jefferson
They that give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty
nor security. ~~ Benjamin Franklin, 1759
If you make peaceful change
impossible..... you make violent revolution inevitable. ~~ John
F Kennedy
I'm living so far
beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living
apart.
~~ E E Cummings
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Violence
Anyone who has proclaimed
violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ~~ Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
The state represents violence
in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as
the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence
to which it owes its very existence" ~~ Mahatma Mohandas K.
Gandhi
We cannot be both the world's
leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the
weapons of war. ~~ President Jimmy Carter
I am not only a pacifist, but
a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end
war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ~~ Albert
Einstein
The release of
atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more
urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ~~ Albert
Einstein
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