Someday is not a day of the week

-Henry David Thoreau

Maybe this world is another planet's hell

-Aldous Huxley

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

-Andre Gide

Be the type of person that when your feet hit the floor the devil says "Aww Shit, he's up."

-Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses

-Plato

Teach us to give and not count the cost.

-St. Ignatius Loyola

There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom

-Pearl S. Buck

I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane

-Ray Bradbury

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?  Move outside the tangle of fear thinking.  Live in silence.  Flow down and down in always widening rings of being 

- Rumi

Success consists of going from failure to failure without less enthusiasm 

-Winston Churchill

It is impossible to carry a torch of wisdom through a crowd without singing someone’s beard

-Georg Lichtenberg

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers to the sound of trumpets 

-Voltaire

Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions.  Their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation 

- Oscar Wilde

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are to be socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized

-Noam Chomsky

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box 

- Persian Proverb

The argument that to tell the truth would be “inopportune” or would “play into the hands of” somebody or other is felt to be unanswerable, and few people are bothered by the prospect that the lies which they condone will get out of the newspapers and into the history books 

- George Orwell

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax

-Abraham Lincoln

Better to have them in the tent pissing out, then outside the tent, pissing in. 

-Lyndon B. Johnson

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

- Mother Teresa

They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.

- Pastor Martin Niemöller

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

- Jesus

Those who want to know the truth of the universe should practice the four cardinal virtues. The first is reverence for all life; this manifests as unconditional love and respect for oneself and all other beings. The second is natural sincerity; this manifests as honesty, simplicity, and faithfulness. The third is gentleness; this manifests as kindness, consideration for others, and sensitivity to spiritual truth. The fourth is supportiveness; this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. The four virtues are not an external dogma but a part of your original nature. When practiced, they give birth to wisdom and evoke the five blessings: health, wealth, happiness, longevity, and peace 

- Lao Tse

There was nowhere to go but everywhere.

- Jack Kerouac

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

-The Bible (Timothy 6:7-10 )

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

- Voltaire

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

You must become a light unto yourself. Not the light of Jesus, or the light of the Buddha or Mohammad, or the light of science, or the light of others. You must become a light of yourself...in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

-  Niccolò Machiavelli

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

- Native American Proverb

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

-JRR Tolkein

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)

Be humble, for you are of the earth. Be noble, for you are of the stars.

- Serbian Proverb

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me

-Douglas Coupland

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you

-Walter Payton

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard

-Gaylord Nelson

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

-  John E. Southard

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

-Thomas Jefferson

I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said ‘yes,’ when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to somebody else

-Fred Rogers

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

- Bertrand Russell

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

- Ben Franklin

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

- William Ralph Inge

The predominant fact of modern sexual history is not patriarchy but the collapse of the old extended family into the nuclear family, an isolated unit that, in its present form, is claustrophobic and psychologically unstable.  The nuclear family can work only in a pioneer situation, where the punishing physicality of farmwork keeps everyone occupied and spent from dawn to dusk.  The middle-class nuclear family, where the parents are white-collar professionals who do brainwork, is seething with frustrations and tensions.   Words are charged and real authority lies elsewhere, in bosses on the job.  Marooned in the suburbs or in barricaded urban apartments, upwardly mobile families are frantically over-scheduled and geographically transient, with few ties to neighbors and little sustained contact with relatives.   Two parents alone cannot transmit all the wisdom of life to a child.  Clan elders–grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins—-performed this function once.

- Camille Paglia

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

- Douglas Adams

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. 

-John Kenneth Galbraith

In Peace, Sons bury their Fathers.  In War, Fathers bury their Sons 

- Herotodus

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that, shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.

- Ray Bradbury

The stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

- Bruce Lee

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

- Upton Sinclair

Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

-John Stuart Mill

We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.”

-Teddy Roosevelt

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

-Aldous Huxley

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

-William Hazlitt

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.

-George Bush

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

-Robert Anton Wilson

Care about what other people think of you and you will always be their prisoner

-Lao Tzu

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

-Indian Proverb

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.

-Alexander Zhuravlyov

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

-Buddha

One kills a man, one is an assassin;
One kills millions, one is a conqueror;
One kills everyone, one is a God.

- Jean Rostand

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

-Stephen Leacock

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it

-Mary Wilson Little

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

-Victor Hugo

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

- James M. Barrie

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live

-Henry David Thoreau

You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea.

- Kahlil Gibran

Be kind whenever possible.  It is always possible

-Dalai Lama

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

-Jewish Proverb

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

-Thomas Szasz

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy

-Henry Kissinger

So long as you long
you idolize longing;
but become the beloved
and no being longs

-Rumi

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast

-Epictetus

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

-Sam Levenson

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete

-Buddha

People fall in love at the moments in their lives when they are most terrorized by possibilities

-Adam Phillips

But who prays for Satan?  Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most

-Mark Twain

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

-Henry Ward Beecher

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

-Karl Marx

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time

-Leonard Bernstein

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

-Laurence J. Peter

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness

- Sir Robert Hutchinson

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

- Dan McKinnon

Charity sees the need not the cause.

-German Proverb

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the  poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other

- Oscar Ameringer

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

- Bette Davis

Be a fountain, not a drain

Rex Hudler

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

-John Stuart Mill

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselvesin their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first that in relation to wrongs embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government.

-Abraham Lincoln

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

-Susan Sontag

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

-Andrew W. Mathis

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change

-Jane Goodall

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it

-Napoleon Bonaparte

The light in the world comes principally from two sources, — the sun, and the student’s lamp.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking. If all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed, and why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of what pro-life is.

-Sister Joan Chittister

My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking

-Ferdinand Foch

The slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

-Mark Twain

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck

- James Garfield

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

-Horace Walpole

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

-Sir Arnold Bax

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

 - Jeannette Rankin

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

 - Alvin Toffler

I swore never to be silent whenever wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.

 - Elie Weisel

“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

 - Chris Hedges

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

 - Arthur Schopenhauer

The atheist is free to concentrate on the fate of this world — whether that means visiting a friend in a hospital or advocating for tougher gun control laws — without trying to square things with an unseen overlord in the next. Atheists do not want to deny religious believers the comfort of their faith. We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

- Susan Jacoby

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

- Tom Waits

The average person thinks he isn't.

-Father Larry Lorenzoni

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't

-David Shore

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week

-Evan Esar

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

-Anais Nin

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast / To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak

- William Congreve

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind

-Austin O'Malley

Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re born.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

-Adlai Stevenson

Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are

-Kurt Cobain

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they might come to be stamped as ‘necessities of thought,’ ‘a priori givens,’ etc. The path of scientific progress is often made impassable for a long time by such errors.

- Albert Einstein

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

- Alfred North Whitehead

The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

-Johann van Goethe

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and invariably fatal

-Neil Gaiman

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

- Friedrich Neitzsche

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

-Barack Obama

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

-Albert Einstein

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity

-Lois McMaster Bujold

All movements go too far.

-Bertrand Russell

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

- Rod Serling

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

-Randy K. Milholland

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

- Pete Seeger

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking

-John Kenneth Galbraith

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy

- Louise Bogan

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

- Jackie Robinson

In one school year a child spends 7800 hours at home and 900 hours at school.  Which teacher should be most accountable?

-Jim Trelease

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies

-Thomas Jefferson

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

- Friedrich Neitzsche

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time

-Abraham Lincoln

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

-Edmond de Goncourt

The past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness

-Pierre Trudeau

He went to bed and slept in an easy grace he hadn't felt in years.  No 6:30 AM alarm clock to startle him into a false and beastly humanity

-Charles Bukowski

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

- E.M. Forster

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

-Sen. Patrick Leahy

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture

Anatole France

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

-Christian Nevell Bovee

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

-Michel de Montaigne

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

-Khalil Gibran

I awoke only to find the rest of the world was still asleep

-Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

-Carl Sagan

“I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to. I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any of the artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and infinite.”

- Anonymous

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

-Maureen Dowd

Love is not about finding someone perfect, it's about changing your definition of perfection

- Kenneth Nate

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

-Alan Corenk

I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.

-Anonymous

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.

-Benjamin Franklin

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

-George Patton

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

- Laurence J. Peter

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors

-Rudyard Kipling

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

-Bertrand Russell

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

A short saying oft contains much wisdom

-Sophocles

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater

-Gail Goodwin

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

- Blaise Pascal

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read

- G.K. Chesterton

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

-George Bernard Shaw

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

-Carl Sagan

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

-Abraham Lincoln

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation

-Howard Scott

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

-Ellen Goodman

The shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

-Sidney J. Harris

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work

-Aristotle

Should we all confess our sins to one another, we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.

- Kahlil Gibran

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

-Robert Frost

If Tetris has taught me anything it is that errors pile up and accomplishments dissapear

-Anonymous

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.

-Cicero

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.  They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you're one of the facts that needs altering

-The Fourth Doctor (Dr. Who)

We never decided to become dissidents. We have been transformed into them, without quite knowing how. Sometimes we have ended up in prison, without precisely knowing how. We simply went ahead and did things that we felt we ought to do, and seemed to us decent to do, nothing more nor less.

-Vaclav Havel

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others

-Diogenes

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm

-John F. Kennedy

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

- Michelangelo

If actions speak louder than words, I'm the most deafening noise you've ever heard

-Touche Amore

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage

-Anais Nin

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

- Heinrich Heine

Do not spoil what you have by desiring that which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.

-Kahlil Gibran

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people

-Eugene V. Debs

If you think that women are the "weaker sex," try pulling the sheets back to your side of the bed

-Stuart Turner

I asked her what she wanted to be, she said "alive"

-Andre 3000 (The Art of Storytellin' Pt. 1)

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good; run for your life

-Henry David Thoreau

There are three things a wise man fears:  A sea in storm, a night with no moon and the anger of a gentle man

-Patrick Rothfuss

If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people

-Tony Benn

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm.
Yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new.
In city and in forest they smiled just like me and you.
But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye

-Leonard Cohen

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

- Frederick Douglass

The oppressed are allowed, every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are too represent and repress them

-Karl Marx

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck

- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

-Sir Arthur Eddington

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

-Tennessee Williams

The true man wants two things: danger and play.  For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything

- Friedrich Neitzsche

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like

-William Feather

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices

-William James

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds

-A.A. Milne

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

-Lewis Mumford

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it

-Harry S. Truman

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Before you speak let your words pass through three gates.  At the first gate, ask yourself, "Is it true?" At the second ask, "Is it necessary?"  At the third gate ask "Is it kind?"

-Sufi Proverb

Aspire not to have more, but to be more

- Oscar Romero

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

- Hesketh Pearson

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

- Franklin P. Adams

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

-Arthur Koestler

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own

-Johann van Goethe

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling

-Paula Poundstone

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.

-Carlos A. Urbizo

It is possible to commit no mistake and still lose.  That is not weakness; that is life

-Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents

-Winston Churchill

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

- Oscar Levant

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

-Sylvia Plath

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing.  So be careful what you get good at

-Rust Cohle (True Detective)

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying anywhere but here

-e.e. cummings

I really don't know what "I love you" means.  I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."

-Neil Gaiman

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

- George Orwell

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation

-William Hutton

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

- Evelyn Waugh

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

-Prayer of St. Francis

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

– G.K. Chesterton

Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter, unendowed with will. The dead are not even things. The particles of matter which composed their bodies, make part now of the bodies of other animals, vegetables, or minerals, of a thousand forms. To what then are attached the rights and powers they held while in the form of men? A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

– Thomas Jefferson

I'll always need to chase after you

-Rumi

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

- Wilma Askinas

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room

-Jeph Jacques

A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.

-Evan Esar

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

- John Updike

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.

 - Mark Twain.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.

 - Mark Twain.

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength

-Eric Hoffer

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

- Frank Herber

The point of public relations slogans like “Support our troops” is that they don’t mean anything… That’s the whole point of good propaganda.You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about.

 - Noam Chomsky

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

- Charlie Chaplin

We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.

- Rod Serling

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

- H. P. Lovecraft

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.

- Oscar Wilde

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

-Aldous Huxley

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois

-Gustav Flaubert

Libertarian: (noun) One who believes that oppression is best handled by the Private Sector

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

- George Bernard Shaw

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life exists in the delicate balance between not enough coffee and too much whiskey

-Tiffany Duening

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful

-Edward Gibbon

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

-Ashley Montagu