Consistency is highly over valued. don't be afraid to change your mind
for fear of being branded an inconsistent hypocrite.
Punctuality, regularity, discipline, industry, thoroughness,
are a set of slave virtues. - G. D. H. Cole
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home,
but unlike charity, it should end there. - Clare Boothe Luce
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely
insane every night of our lives. - William Dement
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. - W.C. Field
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. - Errol Flynn
Nothing is more despicable than respect based upon fear. - Albert Camus
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. - John Milton
Oh you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about. - Willy Wonka
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants
as to conceal them. - Oliver Goldsmith
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. - Nathaniel Lee
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. - R. D. Laing
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick
Assimilation is futile. You will be resisted. - Bishop
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself,
and dies of all others. - Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward,
but he who has hope for it is a fool. - Albert Camus
We never live, but are always in the expectation of living. - Voltaire
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. - Irene Peter
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Malachy McCourt
Talking about music is like dancing to architecture. - Frank Zappa
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary. - Franz Kafka
Forgiveness is not essential and forgetting is impossible;
one simply decides to move on and to choose to be happy. - Dean Koontz
We are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful about who we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. - Tolkien
Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.
judge the music, not the politics - Sascha K.
Everything in art seems cruel, because reality is cruel. - Francis Bacon.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. - Muad'Dib (Frank Herbert)
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159 - MIT Cheer for their favorite irrational number
I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. - Elvis Costello
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. - Noelie Altito
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. - Woody Allen
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - St. Augustine
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have
ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe
A specification that will not fit on one page
of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. - Mark Ardis
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. - Russell Baker
I don't care how secure you feel in a relationship. You're never more than one
menstrual cramp away from getting flushed down the toilet. - from Souler Opposites
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Tallulah Bankhead
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed
to be doing at the moment. - Robert Benchley
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children - book title by Lewis B. Frumkes
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. - Elaine Boosler
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent
of an out of body experience. - Calvin and Hobbes
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. - Evan Davis
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Ghandi
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Hemingway
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. - Mick Jagger
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Kierkegaard
Everything you can imagine is real. - Picasso
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. - Elias Schwartz
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W Somerset Maugham
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
First things first, but not necessarily in that order. - Dr. Who
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wild
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one:
be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. - Elbert Hubbard
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is
the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with
borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. - Warren Bennis
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Henri L Bergson
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
Style is a fraud. - Willem de Kooning
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think. - A. E. Housman
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment --
and nothing more corrupting. - A. J. P. Taylor
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost
insatiable hunger for the irrational. - A. N. Wilson
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. - Albert Camus
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. - Ogden Nash
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. - Frank Lloyd Wright
My friend, thou art good and cautious and wise;
nay, thou art perfect -- and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously.
And yet I am mad. But I mask my madness. I would be mad alone. - Kahlil Gibran
Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you.
But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you. - Kahlil Gibran
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide,
let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live. - Kahlil Gibran
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. - Kahlil Gibran
Frogs may bellow louder than bulls, but they cannot drag the plough in the field nor turn
the wheel of the winepress, and of their skins you cannot make shoes. - Kahlil Gibran
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. - Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. - Kahlil Gibran
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved,
as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. - Eugene V.Debs
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and thus clamorous to be led to safety --
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Barn's burnt down
now
I can see the moon - Masahide
Nothing is True; Everything is Permitted
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. - Theodore Roosevelt
Believe the world to be a bleak cesspool of violent idiocy, it will certainly oblige your vision.
I prefer bleak cesspool of joyous naked possibility. - Mark Morford
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? - Edward Young, poet (1683-1765)
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. - Mark Twain
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
- Simon Firth
When I play with my cat, who knows whether
I do not make her more sport than she makes me? - Michel de Montaigne
You can always find someone willing to embarrass the hell out of their religion. - Mark Morford
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire
The crucial requirement for maintaining growth and progress is that
successful experiments be continued and unsuccessful experiments be terminated. - Milton Friedman
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. - Hungarian proverb
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. - Livy
He that promises most will perform least. - Gaelic Proverb
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. - Gasset
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton
Understanding a person does not mean condoning;
it only means that one does not accuse him
as if one were God or a judge placed above him. - Erich Fromm
To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. - e.e. cummings
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies,
in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. - Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. — H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell - Edward Abbey
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts,
and that is where all our battles should be fought. - Mahatma Gandhi
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. - anonymous
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. - Martin Buber
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. - Mae West
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? - James Thurber
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime
so heinous that the public will not forgive it. -Tom Robbins
No time for your health today;
no health for your time tomorrow. - Irish Proverb
Never borrow for what you don't need.
Never think you need what you have to borrow for. - Irish Proverb
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on
silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise
and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and
trilling bolster his ego. -Jean Arp, artist and poet (1887-1948)
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto von Bismarck
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 1955
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all
the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to
think sanely under the influence of a great fear. -Bertrand Russell
