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"There's nothing worse than the human race... except the fRench."
~Mark Twain

640K ought to be enough for everybody. -Bill Gates

"Go gargle with rogaine! Go gargle with rogaine, grow a beard on your tongue, and don’t call talk shows, go buy Dixie chicks records!"

"...Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it. Get trichinosis!"

-- Michael Savage on MSNBC

"It'sa me, Mario!"-Super Mario, various Mario games.

"I used to be a Democrat, but then I grew up" - Me, as far as I know.

"anything written/spoken/et cetera by a human being is inherently inaccurate" - Me again, but I'm positive someone has said something like this at one time or another.

"Charlie don't surf!" - Robert Duvall.

Saying their are no atheists in foxholes is deeply insulting to foxholes! - Myself

If I may quote T.S. Eliot

"Save the Texas Prarie Chicken". Mike Nesmith of The Monkees.

"Oh dear god, it's Lampshade-Head-Man from the 'Quiet Hill' series!"-Cactuar, Resident Cactuar.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
-Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, The Bad Seed, 1992

I wish for the serenity to accept the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the INability to distinguish the one from the other. - Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes, words to live by.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon


Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon


We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon


When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
John Lennon

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John Lennon

I like this thread. It needs a BUMP.

"I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
Theodore Roosevelt (after having just been shot in the chest)

"Feminism is the radical idea that women are people."

"Hang in there, sweetie. It just keeps getting better." -- my mom, on growing up

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do" - Oscar Wilde, on his deathbed (allegedly)

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“All generalizations are false, including this one.”

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.”

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

Mark Twain