What is done in the public's name is done in our name, every one of us, whether we like it or not.
~ Jebediah Purdy, For Common Things

It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else.
~ Erma Bombeck

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas, Washington Post Magazine

The day the lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.
~ Bern Williams

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Ne invoces expellere non possis. (Do not call up what you cannot put down.)

Bestiae sumus, ut non bestiae simus. (Beasts we are, lest beasts we become.)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
~ Plato

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
~ James Branch Cabell

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~ Isaac Asimov

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
~ Jean Cocteau

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
~ Albert Einstein

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
~ Charles de Gaulle

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
~ Thomas Jones

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli, paraphrasing The Prince

If there were no God it would be necessary to invent one.
~ Voltaire

I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~ Voltaire

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but I've found going through the breastbone is faster.
~ Me

They say if you build a better mouse trap, the world will beat down your door. But usually, it's just one neighbor, and he'll probably quit once you stop throwing dead mice in his yard.
~ Dave James

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Actually, this rule applies to anyone whom you routinely humiliate with saddles, riding whips and involuntary servitude.
~ George MacMillan

Of course the meek will inherit the earth! Did you think they were going to take it by force?
~ Rob Tierney

Eagles may soar... but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.
~ Unknown

Communism will never work because people like to own stuff.
~ Frank Zappa

I wonder if those "Live Free or Die" license plates are made by prisoners.
~ Bob Van Voris

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and before long the whole world will look like hockey players.
~ Jim Rosenberg

Dead men tell no tales, but then, neither do mimes.
~ Wade Kwon

Love conquers all. I should know -- I've been raped, pillaged, sacked, sieged, and razed by it.
~ Pete Sears

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man in an Amsterdam brothel with a diaper on and a rubber chicken on his head who was the victim of a botched sex-change operation in a Tijuana prison. That pretty much shut me up.
~ John H. Crocker

It's easy to criticize. So there's really no excuse for you NOT to do it.
~ Tom Sims

I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
~ Steven Wright

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
~ Voltaire

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
~ Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I wept because I had no shoes, till I met a man who had no head. Guess who's got shoes NOW?
~ Guy Hoyle