May those that love us, love us. And those
that don’t love us, may God turn their hearts. And if God doesn’t turn their
hearts, may He turn their ankles, so that we will know them by their limping.
-- Anon.
A good lawyer knows the law. A
great lawyer knows the judge.
-- Anon.
I am not my brother’s keeper. I am my
brother’s brother.
-- Anon.
I can only please one person
per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.
-- Anon.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher.
It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.
-- Anon
Hate is not a family value.
-- Anon
Cats are like Baptists. They raise hell but
you can’t catch them at it.
-- Anon.
When all else fails, manipulate the data.
-- Anon
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of
the wise. Seek what they sought.
-- Basho
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to
ourselves, and good fortune to others.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more
interested in himself than in me.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy
religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths
are based.
-- Ambrose Bierce
If the doors of perception were cleansed
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
-- William Blake
We who seek knowledge shall not be satisfied
in life, for knowledge-- truth--is limitless. Those who choose to cling to one point in the
infinity of knowledge may be satisfied, but are so because they blind themselves to the
remaining truth.
-- The Book of the Living
Every day people are straying away from
church and going back to God.
-- Lenny Bruce
The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires
a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
-- Samuel Butler
An intellectual is a person whose mind
watches itself.
-- Albert Camus
-- Albert Camus
History will be kind to me for I intend to
write it.
-- Winston Churchill
A faith that cannot survive collision with
the truth is not worth many regrets.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
America is the only nation in history which
miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval
of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau
Nature is the art of God.
-- Dante
A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no
heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
He who isn't busy being born, is busy dying.
-- Easy Rider
No amount of experimentation can ever prove
me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-- Albert Einstein
1. Out of clutter; find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
And thou shalt have dominion over all the
beasts...except, of course, for cats.
-- Felines: 12-15
I always keep a supply of stimulant on hand
in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
-- W.C. Fields
A woman drove me to drink, and I never even
had the courtesy to thank her.
-- W.C. Fields
A person often meets his destiny on the road
he took to avoid it.
-- Jean de La Fontaine
Beer is proof that God loves
us and wants us to be happy.
-- Benjamin Franklin
In three words I can sum up everything I've
learned about life. It goes on.
-- Robert Frost
One cannot step twice into the same river.
-- Herakleitos
The only completely consistent people are
the dead.
-- Aldous Huxley
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce
Vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit: Bidden
or not bidden, God is present.
-- Carl Jung
The map is not the territory.
-- Alfred Korzbyski
Life is what happens while you are making
other plans.
-- John Lennon
No good deed goes unpunished.
-- Clare Boothe Luce
A man is as old as the woman he feels.
-- Groucho Marx
The purpose of freedom is to create it for
others.
-- Bernard Melamud
Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he
knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
-- H. L. Mencken
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian
any more than going to a garage makes you a car.
-- Laurence J. Peter
Republicans understand the
importance of bondage
between a mother and child.
-- J. Danforth Quayle
Life is judged with all the blindness of
life itself.
-- George Santayana
From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Those who want the fewest things are nearest
to the gods.
-- Socrates
I drank what?
-- Socrates
A single death is a tragedy; a million
deaths is a statistic.
-- Joseph Stalin
We have just enough religion to make us
hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
-- Jonathan Swift
If you spend your time judging people, you do
not have time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't
handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
-- Mother Teresa
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who
drinks as much as you do.
-- Dylan Thomas
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a
nice letter saying I approved of it.
-- Mark Twain
If Christ were here now, there is one thing
he would not be--a Christian.
-- Mark Twain
The easy confidence with which I know
another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
-- Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some
people, and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was
so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be
twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come
to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-- Mark Twain
If God created us in his own image we have
more than reciprocated.
-- Voltaire
Between two evils, I always pick the one I
never tried before.
-- Mae West
I used to be Snow White...but I drifted.
-- Mae West
There are two tragedies in life. One is not
getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde
We think in generalities, but we live in
detail.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
What is the color of the wind?
-- Zen koan
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he
is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
-- Zen saying