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"Sanity possesses a constellation of defining characteristics which are at first sight unrelated. In this it resembles other, more widely accepted, psychological syndromes... A sane person believes firmly in the uselessness of thinking about what he does not understand, and is pathologically interested in other people. These two symptoms, at first sight independent, are actually inextricably related. In fact they are merely different aspects of that peculiar reaction to reality which we shall call The Human Evasion," - Celia Green.

"At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos." - Timothy Leary

"The contemporary World War on Drugs is nothing more nor less than the modern manifestation of the millennial struggle between state power and individual freedom; between the proselytizers of purely symbolic simulacra of religion - propagandists of what Blake called "pale religious lechery" - and the practitioners of the real thing - for religion is an experience, not merely a "social activity with mild ethical rules." This War on Drugs originally started as a War on Religious Experiences, and it is nothing new..." Jonathan Ott

"The Young Man who has not Wept is a Savage, and the Old man who will not laugh is a Fool" -Confucius

"If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him."

-George Carlin

"A lunatic may be 'soothed,' as it is called, for a time. But in the end, he is apt to become obstreperous. His cunning too is proverbial and great. If he has a project in view, he conceals his design with a marvelous wisdom; and the dexterity with which he counterfeits sanity presents to the metaphysician one of the most singular problems in the study of the mind. When a madman appears to be thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straightjacket."

-E.A. Poe "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether"

"Try explaining Hitler to a kid."

-George Carlin

"Violence without thought is like brutality without fear -- the one without the other is just a balls-up attitude." -Barrett Serjent

"To distinguish the real from the unreal, one must experience them both."

-Erehwon

"If life gives you lemons, squeeze the juice into a watergun and shoot other people in the eyes." -Prizm

"Sometimes I lie awake at night in my bed and I watch the Stars, and I wonder, where the fuck is my ceiling?" -Tiffany-Joanne

"Love is the most refined form of madness." -Unknown

"At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote."

-Emo Phillips

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. But give a man a stick of dynamite and at least he'll die with his stomach full." -Puck

" 'We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you? No? You must hurry on? Ah, he's gone. Pity.' He turned to McMurphy. 'Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, POWER. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become.' "

-Ken Kesey, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

"Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change." -Unknown

"If you take a frown and turn it upside-down, the person you are holding by the ankles will probably pass out after a while." -Patton Moonstone

"Insanity in Sanity, or is it, In Sanity Insanity. Oh well. Either way is insanity." -Daelen Paul Armegaeddon, Prince of Daytona, Florida

"Sanity is relative. For some of us, it's just a distant cousin."

-B.J. Zanzibar

"Personally, I think prolonged periods of sleep deprivation along with gallons of caffeine gives you a buzz like you wouldn't believe, and later you remember everything, but not exactly why you did those things to that cat or why it was so damn funny." -the late dentarthurdent

"This means that we have to invent new conceptual artificialities in order to give an account of what we see when we meet somebody who looks and behaves like a human being. How do we know he is one?"

-Prof. Niklas Luhmann

"When you're in agreement with the sane they're a great comfort and protection, but when you disagree with them it's another matter. Then they're dangerous. Then they'll do anything. The sinister thing that struck the most fear in him was what they'd do in the name of kindness. The ones he cared about most suddenly, all of them, turned against him the same way they had against Ellen. They kept saying, 'There's no way we can reach you. If only we could make you understand.'"

-Robert M. Pirsig, "Lila"

"School makes the eyes useless but oh the pretty things I can see when I stop looking." -Nightshade

"I choose to be a lunatic because we are the one non-conformist group where the members aren't all the same."

-Rev. Omnicynic, Phoenician Life Cabal

"All mad men see all other men as mad." -J.Lenius

"Whenever you find that you are a member of the majority, it's time to reform."

-Mark Twain

"Sanity is a cozy lie." -Susan Sontag

"There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased that line."

-Oscar Levant

"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad."

-R.D. Lang

"Of course I'm sane! The voices told me so." -Michael DeRosa

"As I was walking up the stair,

I met a man who wasn't there.

He wasn't there again today.

I wish, I wish he'd go away." -Hugh Mearns

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be mowed down in the crossfire."

-The Nanotech Chronicles by Michael Flynn

"For a while the reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing."

-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Be wary when you find yourself walking down a path towards knowledge -- all such roads inevitably lead to madness." -Erehwon

"Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People don't have that much vision." -Pablo Picasso

"When you find yourself falling into madness, dive!" -Malkavian saying

"An object at rest cannot be stopped! Yeah, baby, yeah!"

-The evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight

"Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you." -Carl Jung

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with mud and seaweed and unidentifiable chunks of fish." -Joe Chew

Jesus is coming, everyone look busy.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

Horn broken, watch for finger.

My kid had sex with your honor student.

If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.

Help wanted - telepath: you know where to apply

I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.

Jesus loves you... everyone else thinks you're an asshole.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Friends don't let Friends drive Naked.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

Sex on television can't hurt you… Unless you fall off the set.

A man and a woman were waiting at the hospital donation center. Man: "What are you doing here today?" Woman: "Oh, I'm here to donate some blood. They're going to give me $5 for it." Man: "Hmm, that's interesting. I'm here to donate sperm, myself. But they pay me $25." The woman looked thoughtful for a moment and they chatted some more before going their separate ways. Several months later, the same man and woman meet again in the donation center. Man: "Oh, hi there! Here to donate blood again?" Woman: [shaking her head with mouth closed] "Unh unh."

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?

Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money.

The only stupid question is the one that is never asked, except maybe "Don't you think it is about time you audited my return?" or "Isn't is morally wrong to give me a warning when, in fact, I was speeding?"

Once, I wept for I had no shoes. Then I came upon a man who had no feet. So I took his shoes. I mean, it's not like he really needed them, right?

I gaze at the brilliant full moon. The same one, I think to myself, at which Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato gazed. Suddenly, I imagine they appear beside me. I tell Socrates about the national debate over one's right to die and wonder at the constancy of the human condition. I tell Plato that I live in the country that has come the closest to Utopia, and I show him a copy of the Constitution. I tell Aristotle that we have found many more than four basic elements and I show him a periodic table. I get a box of kitchen matches and strike one. They gasp with wonder. We spend the rest of the night lighting farts.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film

Diplomacy is saying "nice doggy" until you find a rock.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

This man of the future, who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell-stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and antinihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day...

Fredrich Nietzsche

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. - William Lloyd Garrison

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

~ Georges Bernanos ~

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

~ Jules Feiffer ~

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

~ Anne Frank ~

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

~ Eric Hoffer ~

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

~ Aristotle ~

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

~ Sigmund Freud ~

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

~ Dennis Hopper ~

I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.

~ Waylon Jennings ~

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.

~ Samuel Levenson ~

Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

~ Yiddish Proverb ~

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

~ Mark Twain ~

"One useless man is called a disgrace. Two or more are called a law firm." -- John Adams

"Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?" - George Carlin

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Anger is only one letter short of danger." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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