Quotes, quotes, quotes!

Post Reply New Topic

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
-John Wayne

[url=http://[URL=http://s1091.photobucket.com/user/Mrreid2/media/imagesCAFS9601_zps052c33bf.jpg.html][/url]

[url=http://[URL=http://s1091.photobucket.com/user/Mrreid2/media/imagesCAM8321V_zpsa61ae7e9.jpg.html][/url]

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
-Mark Twain

"I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable"
-Sam Harris

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
-Ted Turner

more from my personal collection:

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
-Kahlil Gibran
“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.”
-Epictetus
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
-Alan Wilson Watts
“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
-Fulton J. Sheen
“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
-Voltaire
“No man was ever wise by chance”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”
-Haruki Murakami
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
-Henry David Thoreau
“We live in deeds not years, in thoughts not breaths, in feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
-Philip James Bailey
“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”
-Terry Pratchett
“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
-Joyce Carol Oates
“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
-Stephen King
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
-Baruch Spinoza
“Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.”
-Plato
“The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.”
-Graham Parke
“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."
-Terry Pratchett
“Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.”
-Peter Kreeft
“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”
-Daniel C. Dennett
“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.”
-Peter Singer
“I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.”
-Ilyas Kassam
“If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else”
-Benny Bellamacina
“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”
-Henry Miller
“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”
-Joshua Emmet
“I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.”
-Tibor Fischer
“The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations”
-Cynthia Sue Larson

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
-Leonardo da Vinci

[url=http://[URL=http://s1091.photobucket.com/user/Mrreid2/media/e89bf839-b7f6-44a2-882a-91b46537b654_zpscb0f5c0b.jpg.html][/url]

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you." - A.A. Milne

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
-Bill Watterson

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
-Betty White

“Be kinder than necessary for everyone is fighting some kind of battle”
-Philo of Alexandria
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar." - Drew Carey

Albrectsberger! What I sh*t is better than any of the music that comes from his pen!--Beethoven

We call it digestion--Hector Berlioz, after listening to that blowhard composer Richard Wagner expounding on Schoenhauperian philosophy.

Ives, must you hog ALL the keys?--C. S.Chadwick, commenting on a composition of his pupil, Charles Ives.