2008

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife....”
— douglas adams

“What is the difference between unethical and ethical...”
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 -...

“The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look...”
— Jim Bishop

“Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not...”
— howard scott

“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do...”
— Betrand Russell

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no...”
— carl jung

“If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame...”
— Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine,...

“My mother loved children — she would have given...”
— Groucho Marx

“You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased...”
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...

“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them...”
— Otto von Bizmarck

“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000...”
— unknown, Popular Mechanics,...

“There are several good protections against temptations, but...”
— Mark Twain

“Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large...”
— Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914),...

“It is a common delusion that you make things better by...”
— Dame Rose Macaulay

“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic...”
— G. K. Chesterton

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and...”
— Sir Francis Bacon

“Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former...”
— Chilo

“It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn’t...”
— Randy K. Milholland, Something...

“He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next...”
— Ian McEwan

“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart’s...”
— Lois McMaster Bujold

“I never know how much of what I say is true.”
— Bette Midler

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising...”
— jack nicklaus

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it...”
— Oscar Wilde

“I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t think...”
— Northern Exposure, Northern...

“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed...”
— Gandhi

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”
— Abraham Lincoln

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of...”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not...”
— Paul Eldridge

“Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the...”
— Anna Quindlen

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
— Alfred Hitchcock

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a...”
— Mark Twain (1835 - 1910),...

“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who...”
— Robert Benchley

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of...”
— Abraham Lincoln

“Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how...”
— Amy Sedaris

“There is no trade or employment but the young man following...”
— Walt Whitman

“We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or...”
— Sir Winston Churchill,(1874 -...

“If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
— John Atkinson

“Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what...”
— Noah Porter

“Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind...”
— Sidney J. Harris

“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be...”
— Woody Allen

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It...”
— Alfred North Whitehead (1861 -...

“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds...”
— Cicero

“A smiling face is half the meal.”
— Latvian Proverb

“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled,...”
— Charles Dickens

“She was conscious that the things she did were the things...”
— Zelda Fitzgerald

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
— Josh Billings

“What’s on your mind, if you will allow the...”
— Fred Allen

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the...”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”
— Amelia Burr

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and...”
— Chuck Sigars, The World...

“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the...”
— Don Marquis

“Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else....”
— Jim Hightower, The New York...

“Live always in the best company when you read.”
— Sydney Smith

“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to...”
— Margaret Fairless Barber

“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort...”
— Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865),...

“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and...”
— Johnny Carson

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything...”
— Oscar Wilde

“Count not him among your friends who will retail your...”
— Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they...”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A strong conviction that something must be done is the...”
— Daniel Webster

“Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get...”
— Evan Esar

“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are...”
— Henry George

“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get...”
— Charles Austin Beard (1874 -...

“Complain to one who can help you.”
— Yugoslav Proverb

“Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as...”
— Dr. Karl Menninger

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much...”
— Henry David Thoreau

“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before...”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our...”
— Mark Twain

“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before...”
— Robert Graves

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What...”
— Seneca

“Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it...”
— Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007),...

“I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.”
— Gilda Radner

“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time...”
— Cory Doctorow, Little Brother,...

“The best way to keep children home is to make the home...”
— Dorothy Parker

“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”
— Dan Zadra

“We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”
— Albert Camus

“So little time and so little to do.”
— Oscar Levant

“One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural...”
— Jane Austen

“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to...”
— William Wirt

“Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when...”
— Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant...

“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas...”
— Emile Chartier

“The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing...”
— Anna Quindlen

“There is no such thing as “fun for the whole family.”
— Jerry Seinfeld

“Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an...”
— Aphra Behn

“We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space -...”
— Norman Fischer

“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with...”
— Wernher von Braun

“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.”
— Alan Dean Foster, “To...

“Ever heard Victoria’s REAL secret? Too much support...”
— R. Stevens

“Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and...”
— The Talmud

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never...”
— Ernest Hemingway

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to...”
— Horace Walpole

“Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just...”
— Bill Nye

“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever...”
— Jane Austen

“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the...”
— Bette Davis, The Lonely Life

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the...”
— Emily Dickinson

“There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that...”
— Sir Thomas Browne

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is...”
— Daniel J. Boorstin

“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my...”
— Ayn Rand, Anthem

“Son, always tell the truth. Then you’ll never have to...”
— Sam Rayburn quoted...

“My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling...”
— Kevin Smith

“It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it...”
— Evan Esar

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you...”
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art.”
— Ward Jenkins

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
— AJ Liebling

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul...”
— George Carlin

“The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of...”
— Ellen DeGeneres

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and...”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we...”
— Blaise Pascal

“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
— Eric Hoffer

“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching...”
— David Letterman

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you...”
— Bertrand Russell

“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two...”
— Nora Ephron

“Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are...”
— Cyril Connolly

“I have lost friends, some by death… others through...”
— Virginia Woolf

“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be...”
— Walker Percey

“By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we...”
— Thomas Moore

“The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter...”
— Art Spander

“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t...”
— Dr. Who

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle...”
— Helen Keller

“I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than...”
— Evelyn Rodriguez

“Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when...”
— Tommy Cooper

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder,...”
— e e cummings

“Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better...”
— Spike Milligan

“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the...”
— George Santayana

“Regimen is superior to medicine.”
— Voltaire

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our...”
— John Adams

“It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow...”
— Robert E. Lee

“A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business....”
— Northern Exposure

“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not...”
— Peter McWilliams

“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him...”
— Jonathan Swift

“Do or do not. There is no try.”
— Yoda in The Empire Strikes...

“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.”
— Henry Kaiser

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get...”
— Joseph Conrad

“About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old...”
— Gloria Pitzer

“We would worry less about what others think of us if we...”
— Ethel Barrett

“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”
— Mikhail Bakunin

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is...”