QUOTATIONS

Truth

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. - Mark Twain

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide

People

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippmann

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. - Carl Jung

Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. - Socrates

Family/Children

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you are going to have. - Ring Lardner

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
- Peter De Vries

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. - Anonymous

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. - Peter Ustinov

Love

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. - John Harrigan

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose Franken

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

The love we give away is the only love we keep. - Elbert Hubbard

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. - Joey Adams

War/Violence

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann

Our chiefs are killed... The little children are freezing to death. My people... have no blankets, no food. My heart is sick and sad... I will fight no more forever. - Chief Joseph

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. - Tom Robbins

War would end if the dead could return. - Stanley Baldwin

We look forward to the time when the power of love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. - William Gladstone

Ponder These:

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Anonymous

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. - Calvin Coolidge

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. - Gandhi

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. - Benjamin Disraeli

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. - Vernon Law

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda, in the movie The Empire Strikes Back

Minds are like parachutes--they only function when open. - Thomas Dewar

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy

Humorous/Ironic

Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
- Anonymous

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. - Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live"

The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
- Richard Braunstein

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
- George Armstrong Custer

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. - Brendon Behan

Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. - Charles Pierce

When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. - Mae West

A Wish from Me to You

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. - Irish Blessing