- Voltaire, War
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being; not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
- C.S. Lewis
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- Jean de la Bruyere
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot tempt fate without eventually getting scorched by it.
- Ana Veciana-Suarez
The fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing more to lose.
- (forgive me, but i wanted to put this one up) X-files
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
- Italo Svevo, The Confessions of Zeno
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
- George Santayana
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
- David Sarnoff
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
- Warren G. Harding
Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to extinction. Let us pray we choose correctly.
- Woody Allen
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave...
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Progress is a comfortable disease.
- E. E. Cummings
Piss off Satain, and don't take me for dumber than I look.
- William S. Burroughs
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- Aldous Huxley
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Toulouse-Lautrec
Die on a hilltop...eyeing the crows...waiting for your lids to close...but you want to watch as they peck your flesh...Ironic that they go for the eyes first...
- Eddie Vedder, Vitalogy: The Study of Life
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
- Muhammad
What is to give light must endure burning.
- Viktor Frankl
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
- William Blake
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
- Heinrich Heine, Morphine
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
- M. C. Escher
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
- Dion Boucicault
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der abgrund auch in dich hinein.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Bose IV 146
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
- Jewel
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
- Andy Rooney
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I asked, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" Then a voice comes to me out of the dark, and says, "We hate to tell you this, but life is a thousand word essay."
- Charlie Brown, Peanuts
We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.
- Ray Bradbury
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycliing it for more than it's worth.
- W. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
- Woodrow Wilson
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Ghandi
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretense of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you loose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they supress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
- Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden
A man with the humblest of means will cling to life like a leech on a pig's ass. But a man with nothing cannot know fear.
- Malachi ex Sanguinius
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
- Stanislaw J. Lee
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming of platitude.
- Karl Marx
People the world over sleep peacably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoise the black flag and start cutting throughts.
- Henry Louis Mencken
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
- Dante, Inferno
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
- Giovanni Falcone
As in pinball, old video games -- can extra lives be earned/found?
Would it be desirable?
I suppose the difficulty in the second question is:
perhaps in this existence, but you can't use extra lives after the current one has run out. Ever uncertain as to what you may or may not be missing on the other side.
- Mike Vazquez
We cannot assert the innocence of anyone, whereas we can state with certainty the guilt of all. Every man testifies to the crime of all otheres - that is my faith and hope.
- Albert Camus
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
- George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedst of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greates good of everyone.
- Keynes
We protest unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
- J. Narosky
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Wald Emerson (hmm sounds very familiar? HDT stealing ?)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
- Albert Einstein
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain