Miscilaneous Quotes
"After Prom Lubathon." -Sign outside of a car place... uh-huh.
"Would you like to have fun in bed with three pigs, a monkey, and a wolf?" -NBC, The More You Know commercial... please tell me it isn't just me that finds this quote.. well, wrong.
"Avoid teen pregnancy, stay in school." -Sign in our home ec. room. Yep. Scientists now say staying in school is the best form of birth control. You drop out of school and you are automatically pregnant I tell ya!
"To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, is the ultimate tragedy." -Leonardo Die-crapio.. gosh I hate that guy. Is that not heartless?!
"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come." -Montesquieu
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." -Bertrand Russell
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." -Anon
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gautier
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." -Kahlil Gibron
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." -Josh Billings
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and now we cannot live within." -James Baldwin
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." -Bernard Bailey
"Words without thought are dead sounds; thoughts without words are nothing. To think is to speak low; to speak is to think aloud." -William Watson
"It is with words as with sunbeams,--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." -Southey
"No noble or right style was ever yet founded but out of a sincere heart." -Ruskin
"A good phrase may outweigh a poor library." -Thomas W. Higginson
"Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." -Byron
"Life is the slowest form of suicide." -Charm sent me this and she just said it was on someone's profile on aol, but she didn't remember who. If you know who, please tell me. If you are who, and want it taken down, just e-mail me.
"If God had meant us to fly, he would have made our bones as hollow as our heads." -Don't know who said it, just heard it on TV and it was funny.
"Find something you are willing to die for and live for it." -on a graduation announcement
"Don't rush me--I'm screwing up as fast as I can!" -this little thing... I can't describe it
"... these messages have been known to cause pregnancy in labratory rats. So read at your own risk!" -Message at the end of g-mail (Garfield mail)
"Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested..." -Francis Bacon (Echo: Woah, I think he ate one too many books... I always thought you were supposed to read them.)
"...if you do not have internet access, please reply to this e-mail." -E-mail from Yahoo
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." -George Bernard Shaw
"Do not do unto others as they would you should do unto them. Their tastes may not be the same." -George Bernard Shaw
"The man who listens to reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her." -G.B. Shaw
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." -G.B. Shaw
"A lifetime of happiness; no man alive could bare it; it would be hell on earth." -G.B. Shaw
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." -G.B. Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -G.B. Shaw
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse me for having such a thing." -G.B. Shaw
"Not bloody likely." -G.B. Shaw
"Fish don't walk and Jesus lives!" -keychain
"By now even Darwin is convinced." -keychain
"Some call it evolution, And others call it God." -William Herburt Carruth
"Stand up--stand up for Jesus!" -George Duffield
"I do not want to be a fly! I want to be a worm!" -Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
"Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble!" Duke of Gloucester (Echo: Thick and square?! No way! Books are square! They're triangular!)
"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." -Earnest Hemingway
"'Boys will be boys-'
'And even that... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.'"
-Anthony Hope
"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation." Anthony Hope
"The minority is always right." -Henrik Ibsen
"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come." -Philander Chase Johnson
"You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks." -Al Johnson
"I have not yet begun to fight." -John Paul Jones
"Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry
"We have all been mad once." Johannes Matuanes
"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportions." Francis Bacon (On Poe Gate at West Point)
"Breath!" -Sign in my school
"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we don't use." -poster in English room
"Always be an angel-on-call for a friend." -Anonymous
"God will send his angel. Heart, this hour may seem like some dark dungeon of dispair, But locks are bars are useless when the power Of angel hands is working for you there. Look up and out beyond your prison bars--There is a stir of wings among the stars." -Grace Noll Crowell
"Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel." -Moses Maimonides
"To pretend angels do not exsist because they are invisible is to believe we don't sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping." -Thomas Aquinas
"Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato." -Anonymouse (Translation: If it is not true, it is a happy invention.)
"Give me but one firm spot to stand and I will move the earth." Archimedes
"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility." -Aristotle
"One man that has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven't and don't." -G.B. Shaw
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." -G.B. Shaw
"He who has never hoped can never despair." -G.B. Shaw
"A man with good common sense and great taste,-meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage." -G.B. Shaw
"Do you think the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real or true than the things they behave sensibly about." -G.B. Shaw
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." -Henry Wheeler Shaw ("Josh Billings")
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