~ Favorite Quotes ~
Aesop (c. 620 BCE - 564 BCE):

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955):

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I get most joy in life out of music.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790):

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961):

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996):

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Charles A. Beard (1874 - 1948):

When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870):

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Mingus (1922 - 1979):

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Chinese Proverbs:

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Curt Cobain (1967 - 1994):

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Cyrus Ching (1876 - 1967):

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969):

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962):

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Orestes (408 BC):

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Frank Dane (1885 - 1957):

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Frank Scully (1892 - 1964):

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900):

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950):

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Larry Hardiman:

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910):

If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968):

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Mother Theresa (1910 - 1997):

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

God loves the world through us.

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC):

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Riley B. King (B.B. King 1925 - 2015):

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

Robert Byrne (1930 - 2016):

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004):

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.


Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004):

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832):

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.

Steven Wright (1955 - ):

What's another word for Thesaurus?

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Tom Lehrer (1928 - ):

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Will Rogers (1879 - 1935):

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Yogi Berra (1925 - 2015):

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

B. B. King