-me

Strength of mind plus strength of body equals strength of heart.

-me

"Don't worry about going too fast. Be your own judge of how fast you want to go."

-Bill Cosby

"If some British scientist didn't say 'what is that fungus?' then we wouldn't have penicillin today, would we?"

-"The Exorcist II: The Heretic

"Lesson one of surviving Hell: Never call him "Lucy"

-me

"No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

-Abraham Lincoln

There should be an addition to the fifth commandment - honor thy children

-me

"God could not be everywhere so he created mothers."

-Lew Wallace, "Ben-Hur"

Women have as much honor as men. They are the mothers of our children and our partners in battle.

-me

Music seems to take on a whole different meaning when you play instead of listen.

-me

If you have to kill something with a gun, its not worth killing.

-me

"Sex is more fun than logic, one cannot prove this, but it is, in the same sense that Mount Everest is, or that Elmer Cogan isn't."

-John Cleese

"I think I can, I think I can't, either way, I'm right."

-Jim Tuchscherer

If the core is weak the surface will crumble.

-me

If it's one thing I learned it's that you don't 'dis the president.

-me

Don't fight fire with fire, fight fire with water.

-me

"Stay off my back,
or I will attack, 
and you don't want that."

-SNAP!

Special note: Get a house with a shower head above you.

-Dave Ryan

"They don't make girls the way they used to."

-Lynn Johnston

"It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken."

-unknown

Nobody doesn't like a good barbershop.

-me

Cursing is just an excuse for a lack of creativity.

-me

"If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it."

-anonymous

"How hollow is the sound of victory without someone to share it with. Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home… and in his heart."

-General Martok

Everybody is immortal until they die.

-me

You shouldn't mess with a guy who worships universal destruction.

-me

Heretics need love too.

-me

"You have to go into the cave to fetch a diamond."

-Arthur Miller

"When life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own."

-Calvin

-me

"He who travels fast, travels alone."

-unknown

"No work of art is ever completed, only abandoned."

-Leonardo Da Vinci

Humans are no different than snowflakes

-me

"'I get no pleasure from being ruler other than that no one can contradict what I say'
If what he says is good and no one contradicts it, that is fine. But if what he says is not good and no one contradicts it, isn't that almost a case of one maxim bringing about the ruin of a state?"

-Confucius

You have to substitute a lot of constants for X before you find something that equals Y

-me

"Pain is your friend, your ally. It will tell you when you are seriously injured. It will keep you awake and angry and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain? It lets you know you're not dead yet." 

-G.I. Jane

"Reading maketh a full man
Conference a ready man
And writing an exact man"

-Library of Congress

"If you think about it, you can't do it"

-Charles Schulz

"I wholly disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."

-Voltaire

"His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are."

-Walter Lippmann

-me

"If you're going to shoot an elephant, Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job."

-Gary Larson

Which is worse? What people think about you, or that they don't think about you.

-Jennifer Trussell-Bagley

"There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that easily."

-Lewis Grizzard

"Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better."

-Bruce Lansky

"You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic."

-Loveline

You know you're older when the artist is more important than the title.

-me

If it doesn't hurt, you're not doing it right.

-me

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

-Roald Dahl

"Rumor - the news service of the weak."

-C.W. Cecum

"Do not throw the arrow which will return to you."

-Kurdish proverb

"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price."

-Moses Iba Ezra, Shint Yisrael

"You know those guys who say 'danger is my middle name?' I bet if you looked on their driver's license, it would probably say 'Melvin' or something."

-Lee Entrekin

"When we cannot get what we love, we love what is within our reach."

-French proverb (proximity theory) 

"It's not an ego problem when you know you're the best."

-unknown

"Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a hundred."

-Japanese proverb

"Beware of dragons! For you are small and crunchy and good with ketchup."

-Mark Hoelscher

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

-Oscar Wilde

"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."

-Fudd's First Law of Opposition

"What goes in, must come out."

-Teslacle's Deviant

Only the pure will be immortal.

-me

"The fatter the pig, the more likely it will end up in the pot."

-Chinese proverb

"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."

-Stephanie Fields

If it doesn't hurt, you're not doing it right.

-me

"We are the people our parents warned us about."

-Jimmy Buffet

"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

-Baronne Anne Louise Germaion Necker de Staël Staël

"Ignorance is the mother of fear."

-Harry Homes

"Stress is like an iceberg.  We can see 1/8th of it above, but what about what's below?"

-Patrick O'Connor

"A bikini is like a barbaed-wire fence.  It protects the property without obstructing the view."

-Joey Adams

"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer."

-Amanda Grier

"There are two kinds of people in this world, good people and bad people. The good people sleep better, but the bad people tend to have more fun during the waking hours."

-Woody Allen

"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."

-Chinese proverb

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

-Albert Schweitzer

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark-raving mad."

-Norm Papernick

"We are not bodies with souls, we are souls with bodies."

-Kevin R. Bean

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage... Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

-Thomas Mann

"A kiss is the highest form of betrayal."

-Ally McBeal

"There's a reason to hit everybody, just don't do it."

-Chris Rock

"When you're mad enoguh to screa,, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom."

-Eminem

"A man without hope is a man without fear."

-Rorshach

"In your lifetime, if you can come up with an original idea you have accomplished a great deal."

-Max Roach

"Alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems."

-The Simpsons

"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."

-Lord Chesterfield

"Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.

-Herodotus

Never piss off the locals.

-me

"The greatest thing about poetry is no one will admit what a bunch of crap it is."

-Tom Shaloub

"Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who try to find it."

-unknown

"It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events."

-Patricia Moyes

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative."

-H.G. Wells

"You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the compression it made on your mind."

-Joan Walter Collaso

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free."

-Ralph Ellison

"In no order of things is adolescence the time of simple life."

-Janet Erskine Stuart

"The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first."

-French proverb

"Some of my best friends are illusions.  Been sustaining me for years."

-Sheila Ballantyne

"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."

-Robin Williams

"Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand."

-Zululand proverb

"Wise [persons] learn by others' mistakes, fools by their own."

-Henry George Bohn

"Effective speech is stronger than all fighting."

-Husia proverb

"In a great romance, each basically plays a part that the other really likes."

-Elizabeth Ashley

"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."

-Rita Mae Brown

"You mustn't force sex to do the work of love to do the work of sex."

-Mark McCarthy

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking."

-H.L. Mencken

"If a sane dog fights a mad dog, it's the sane dog's ear that is bitten off."

-Burmese proverb

"When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes.  Better accept them as incurable and save your strength to fight against the effects."

-George Sand

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain, ...

I shall not live in vain."

-Emily Dickinson

"If the rich could hire others to die for them, the poor could make a nice living."

-Yiddish proverb

"Do you bury me when I'm gone?

Do you teach me while I'm here?

Just as soon as I belong

That's the time I disappear."

-Metallica, "I Disappear"

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.  I want to achieve it through not dying."

-Woody Allen

"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

-Antonin Arlaud

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; bad girls never have the time."

-Talullah Bankhead

"When one door closes, another opens.  But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."

-Alexander Graham Bell

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

"There's so much comedy on television.  Does that cause comedy in the streets?"

-Dick Cavett

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

-Frank Crane

"Blushing is the color of virture."

-Diogenes

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

-Albert Einstein

"All the girls I had ever loved were mine.  Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take."

-Hermann Hesse

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.  It is already tomorrow in Australia."

-Charles Schultz

"Sometimes I lie awake a at night and I ask, 'where have I gone wrong?'  Then a voice says to me, 'this is going to take more than one night'."

-Charles Schultz

"I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young."

-Caroline Yawn

"I've never understood why so many people are concerned with other peoples' opinions.  I have enough trouble with my own."

-me

"Soldiers fight because someone orders them to fight... Fighters fight to achieve their selfish desires... Warriors fight to protect the weak from both the soldiers and the fighters."

-unknown

"The Seven Deadly Sins:

• Truth, if it becomes a weapon against persons

• Beauty, if it becomes vanity

• Love, if it becomes possessive

• Loyalty, if it becomes blind, careless trust

• Tolerance, if it becomes indifference

• Self-confidence, if it becomes arrogance

• Faith, if it becomes self-righteousness"

-Ashley Cooper

"Defense is good, but offense gets your picture in the paper."

-unknown

"If you didn't know history, you didn't know anything.  You were a lead that didn't know it was part of a tree."

-Michael Crichton, "Timeline"

"The art of love... is largely the art of persistence."

-Albert Ellis

"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity.  Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

-Robert Frost

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

-Lord Chesterfield

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious."

-André Gide

"Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."

-Willa Cather

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."

-Brenda Francis

"We are sentenced to die the day we are born."

-Roger Caras

"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."

-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."

-Baltasar Gracian

"[Theology] is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there."

-Robert A. Heinlein

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship -- never."

-Charles Caleb Cotton

"The difference between a bos and a leader: a boss says 'Go!' -- a leader says 'Let's go!'"

-E.M. Kelly

"The truth is the sharpest blade of all."

-me

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics: I can assure that mine are still greater."

-Albert Einstein

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

-Wilheim Steker

"The art of war is not to die for your beliefs but to make the other bastard to die for his."

-unknown

"Not all those who wander are lost."

-J.R.R. Tolkien

"Love alone can sustain a relationship.  Love alone cannot sustain a marriage."

-me

"Slumps are like a soft bed.  They're easy to get into and hard to get out of."

-Johnny Bench

"If your body is telling you to slow down, listen to it.  If your body is saying you should keep going... then keep going."

-Lynn Swan

"I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do."

-Midori Ito

"There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, woulda.  If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it."

-Pat Riley

"Success is measured by levels of happiness.  When you are truly happy with yourself, then you have become successful."

-unknown

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

-unknown

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

-Stephen Chbosky

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

-Benjamin Jowett

"It's not your blue bood, your pedigree, or your college degree: It's what you do with your life that counts."

-Millard Fuller

"An activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."

-John Updike

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

-Anita Freud

"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."

-William Blackstone

"I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.  Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.  I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.  And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.  Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.  Only I will remain."

-Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Against Fear"

"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."

-Virgil, Aenid

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

-Maxwell Planck

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

-Jules de Gautier

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

-William Blake

"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."

-Minor White

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."

-David Russell

"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."

-Richard Nixon

"Why don't you write books people can read?"

-Nora Joyce, to her husband James

"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove.  But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child."

-Forest Witcraft

"If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

-Christopher Morley

"The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week."

-Voltaire

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

-Aldous Huxley

"In the first place, God made idiots.  That was for practice.  Then he made school boards."

-Mark Twain

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the binding."

-Stephen King

"Honk if you love peace and quiet."

-unknown

"Everyone must believe in something.  I believe I'll have another drink."

-W.C. Fields

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

-unknown

"I'd rather dig my own grave than rot in the sun."

-Maritza Campos

"Nobody likes cynics because they're always right and nobody wants to admit it."

-me

"I was looking at all the names carved into this table... I was looking at where it said 'Jenna + Guy' in a heart here.  And for a moment, I felt really sad that I'd never carved my name into a table or a tree, or anywhere else in a heart with someone else's name.  But then I looked closer, and noticed that the grafitti had been grafittied.  See right here?  Someboyd put the word 'any' in front of Guy's name."

-unknown

"Nobody's perfect... until you fall in love with them."

-unknown

"Life's a bitch.  This is true.  But she's my bitch."

-Tatsuya Ishida

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the widsom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off."

-unknown

"Quoting one is plagiarism.  Quoting many is research."

-unknown

"Killing is easy -- when your victim is unfit to be living in the first place."

-unknown

"Do you know what the scariest thing is?  To not know your place in this world.  To not know why you're here.  It's... it's just an awful feeling."

-Elijah Price, "Unbreakable"

"Drama is typical people in atypical situations.  Comedy is atypical people in typical situations."

-me

"The glass is neither half-empty or half-full.  The glass is totally full; one half is water, one half is air."

-unknown

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life.  Unless I buy something."

-Jackie Mason

"I choose to love you in silence, because in silence, I find no rejection.  And I choose to love you in my loneliness, because in loneliness no one owns you but me."

-unknown

"'Tis better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven."

-Lucifer

"'Tis better to rot on Earth than to rule in Hell."

-me

"To the living we owe respect but to the dead we only the truth."

-Voltaire

"Infatuation: when your brain falls in love and your heart doesn't."

-me

"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."

-George Burns

"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."

-Russel Lynes

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."

-Robert Benchley

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."

-Swedish proverb

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."

-Honore de Balzac

"Christ died for our sins.  Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them."

-Jules Feiffer

"I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!"

-anonymous

"You can't expect him to notice things.  Women dress for other women.  Men look at clothes and think 'Can I see breasts?  Then it's good.'."

-unknown

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."

-Chinese proverb

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."

-Socrates

"Conviction is a luxury of those on the sidelines."

-unknown

"When you grow up, your heart dies."

-The Breakfast Club

"If I follow the crowd, that means I'm right."

-me

"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them."

-unknown

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

-Henry Van Dyke

"I am a student.  Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me."

-unknown

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."

-Nan Fairbault

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.  You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

-Naguib, Mahfouz

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.  Everyday sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

-unknown

"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."

-Fran Lebowitz

"A poet is someone who is astonished by everything."

-unknown

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

-Eden Phillpotts

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

-Elbert Hubbard

"Opportnity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."

-unknown

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

-Albert Einstein

"Only two classes of books have universal appeal.  The very best and the very worst."

-Ford Maddox

"I respected women a lot more before I started dating one."

-me

"Whenever you feel suicidal, always remember: there is alwasy someone who has it worse - the person next to you."

-me

"It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."

-Vone

"Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly - why, they are simply doomed."

-Aohem Dro'hm

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist.  Children already know dragons exist.  Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-G.K. Chesterson

"Fight like a soldier, die a hero.  Fight like a hero, die a legend."

-unknown

"The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips with it."

-Robert McNeil

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."

-Dennis Wholey

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-unknown

"Never worry about a book corrupting a child.  Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books."

-Richard Peck