Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

- Roger Zelazny

Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy.  But the Bible says to love your enemy 

- Frank Sinatra

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”


- Shel Silverstein.

When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all

-God (Futurama)

Pity the meek for they shall inherit the world 

- Don Marquis

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother 

- Voltaire

Religion is to spirituality what porn is to sex 

- Grant Morrison

Anything or anyone that doesn’t bring you alive is too small for you. 

- David Whyte

As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed
 
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It’s later than you think 

- Evan Mandery

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. 

- Tyron Edwards

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh … And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new

- e. e. cummings

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see

-Henry David Thoreau

"I must do something.” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.” 

- Terry Kurtzer

Peace comes from within.  
Do not seek it without.
 
-Buddha

In 20 years you will be more disappointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did 

- Mark Twain

The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away 

- Joy J. Golliver

He who is greedy is always in want. 

~Horace

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

- H. L. Mencken

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. 

- Dalai Lama

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. 

- Confucius

Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence

-Anonymous

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Lou Holtz

Camping is not fun. It’s just something poor people do for vacations.

  - Daniel Tosh.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

- Voltaire

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That – with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word ‘success’ – is our national disease.”

- William James

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
 
- Alice Walker

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. 

- Aristotle

They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.

 - Howard Zinn

If a man has an apartment stacked floor to ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy.  If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts.  But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish an entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune Magazine and pretend that they are role models  

- B. Lester

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.
 
― Howard Zinn

Freedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that “Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,” as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers The government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn’t insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

- Bill Maher

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them 

- Ray Bradbury

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

 -Alfred North Whitehead

When I was five years old my mom always told me happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote “happy,” they told me I didn’t understand the assignment, I told them they didn’t understand life 

- John Lennon

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and live by what they have.  Such people become crazy...or they become legend 

- Jim Harrison

Reputation is what others know about you.  Honor is what you know about yourself 

- Lois McMaster Bujold

The most dangerous phrase in our language is “we’ve always done it this way” 

-Grace Hopper

A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk forward 

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.  The less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement on anything new.

 - Galileo Galilei

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages 

- William H. Maudlin

Work it like a Chinese Gymnast, wear something tight, force a smile and lie about your age.  

- Tina Fey

Do you know how it feels to hate the person you love most in the world, and all you can do to ease the pain is get smacked?

-Chuck Palahniuk

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. 

-Jules (Pulp Fiction Ezekiel 25:17)

After all is said and done, more is said than done. 

- Aesop

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
 
-Dr. Seauss

“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.” 

- Joseph Pulitzer

Nice guys finish last but we get to sleep in 

-Evan Davis

If there was any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have paradise in a few years 

- Bertrand Russell

I used to think the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.  Then I realized who was telling me
 
- Emo Phillips

I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting 

- Amelia Earhardt

Martyrdom...is the only way in which man can become famous without ability 


- George Bernard Shaw



*obviously this pre-dates reality TV*

It’s not the size of the Bible but the motion of the devotion.

“Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching,” attributed to an Assyrian stone tablet of about 2800 B.C.

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
 
- G. K. Chesterton

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
 
- Niels Bohr

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” 

- John Steinbeck

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

 - Thich Nhat Hanh

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
 
- Robert Heinlein

No one falls in love by choice.  It is by chance
No one stays in love by chance.  It is by work
No one falls out of love by chance.  It is by choice

There is no pain without, at it’s end, an echo of joy

Now is the Autumn of our ennui

I’m just an invisible monster, incapable of being loved by anyone

 - Chuck Palahniuk