Quotes are fun -- aren't they? I mean if you keep a stock handy back in the ol'cerebellum you can really zap somebody with a well timed quote. Throughout all the pages here I have salt and peppered quotes -- explore. So following are some of my fav's -- if you have some of your own don't hesitate to share -- click on my e-mail link and contribute.
Updated: January 1, 2003
"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening,the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others" -Solomen Ibn Gabirol
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always" --Mahatma Gandhi
"There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck" - Euripides
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people" - Virginia Woolf
"All profoundly original work looks ugly at first" - Clement Greenburg
"You can kill a man but you cannot kill an idea" - Medgar Evers
"It is better to protest than to accept injustice" - Rosa Parks
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way" - Marvin Minsky
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation" - Voltaire
"Despair is the conclusion of fools" - Benjamin Disraeli
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Only the shallow know themselves" - Oscar Wilde
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Too much awareness is a sickness; it keeps me awake all night" - Yi Cho-nyon
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy
"If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem--it is reality" - Barbara Coloroso
"The civilized world represents the victory of persuasion over force" - Plato
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them" - W. Somerset Maugham
"Cling to nothing for its loss is pain" - Dhammapada
"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right" - Jules Renard
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you" - Carl Jung
"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and found out what I really believed" - Walter Lippman
"Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - J.F. Kennedy
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing" - Elbert Hubbard
"He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else" - Benjamin Franklin
"When one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior" - Henry C. Link
"He who has a Why to live can bear almost any How" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds" - William Shakespeare
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on" - Samuel Butler
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education" - Wilson Mizner
"Predjudice not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument" - Samuel Johnson
"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in" - James Baldwin
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty" - George Bernard Shaw
"You know the rule: If you are falling, dive" - Joseph Campbell
"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past" - James Joyce
"Chastity is no more a virtue than mal-nutrition" - Alex Comfort
"It is impossible to love and to be wise" - Francis Bacon
"For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these: It might have been" - Whittier
"My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it" - Henry David Thoureau
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence" - H.L. Mencken
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough" - Frank Crane
"The course of true love never did run smooth" - William Shakespeare
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet" - Plato
"Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do." -- William Safire
"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra
"I believe deeply in foolishness. But not exclusively." -- Steve Martin
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely." -- Unknown
"Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal." -- Lionel Trilling
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means." -- Albert Einstein
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." -- Oscar Wilde
"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life it to enjoy it." -- Samuel Butler
"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos." - I-Ching
"Remember the best relationship is the one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other." -- Unknown
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