Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why

-Bernard Baruch

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never sit in

-Greek Proverb

We're all someone else to everyone else

-Bill Watterson

Before you talk to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people;  Before you tell me how much you love your God show me how much you love all His children;  Before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors.  In the end, I'm not interested in what you have to tell or sell as in how you choose to live and give.

-Cory Booker

There are no foreign lands.  It is the traveler only that is foreign.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Why should the Arabs make peace?  If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel.  That is natural:  We have taken their country.  Sure, God has promised it to us, but what does that matter to them?  Our God is not theirs.  We come from Israel, it's true, but that was two thousand years ago and what is that to them?  There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler and Auschwitz, but was that their fault?  They only see one thing; We have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?

-David Ben-Gurion

Sometimes me think "What is Friend?" and then me say "Friend is someone to share last cookie with."

-Cookie Monster

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotations

-Diogenes

It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.  But it ain't about how hard you're hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward.  That's how winning is done

-Rocky Balboa

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself

-Thomas Harris (Dr. Hannibal Lecter)

You religious right-wingers are the worst.  You don't want the government to tell you what to do, but you want your church to tell others what to do.  You're Pro-Life, but Pro-Death Penalty.  You don't want contraceptives, but no abortions either. You want unfit parents to have children they can't afford, yet cut social funds that would help these people.  Then you want to punish people who knew they couldn't raise a baby for not raising their baby.   You are a confused and scary group

-Anonymous

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy.  Because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that

-Robin Williams

To be honest, the best tea tastes delicious whether it comes in a porcelain pot, or a tin cup...There is a simple honor in poverty

-Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell

-George Orwell

Be not ignorant of any thing in a great matter or small 

-Apocrypha 5:15

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

-Quintillian

Post coitum omne animal triste (After sex every animal is sad)

-Latin Proverb

The devil can cite scripture for his purposes

-William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)

An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.

 -Chuck Palahniuk

He who gives to the poor will never want, but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.

-Proverbs 28:27

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong 

-Voltaire

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

-Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

-Marcus Aurelius

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

-Cicero

The present you ignore eventually becomes the past you cling to.

 - Magnificent Ruin

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

-Casanova

Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

-Fred Rogers

She never felt like she belonged anywhere, except for when she was laying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.

- Eleanor and Park (Rainbow Rowell)

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being

-Martha Beck

If you can't handle me at my diddliest, you don't deserve me at my doodliest

-Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)

I don't care they stole my idea.  I care that they don't have any of their own.

-Nikola Tesla

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.

- Pierre Charron

She had blue skin.
And so did he.
He kept it hid.
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through.
They passed right by -
and never knew

-Shel Silverstein

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

-Laurence J. Peter

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder

-Andre Maurois

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day

- Douglas Adams

All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness can and do promote inner values.  But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate.  This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond Religion altogether

-Dalai Lama

Everyone in the world is on the same great ship called Earth.  If part of the ship goes into disrepair, if part of the crew is not fed and sustained, well, the whole vessel is threatened

- Marshall Vian Summers

She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.

-Anthony Delano

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting

-George Orwell

I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one. 

- Chinese proverb

When I was a child, my mother said to me "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.  If you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope."  Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

-Pablo Picasso

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers 

- African proverb

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

-Cyril Connolly

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious

-Albert Einstein

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority

-Georg Lichtenberg

Let silence take you to the core of life 

- Rumi

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. 

- James Madison

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. 

- Thomas Jefferson

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

-McLandburgh Wilson

He is not only dull himself but causes dullness in others 

- Samuel Johnson

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it 

-Mark Twain

 You build your reputation by being attacked when alive and praised when you’re dead

-Chuck Palahniuk

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

-Dante Alighieri

There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

-Kurt Vonnegut

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without

-Ernest Hemingway

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

-George Orwell

Only the shallow know themselves.

-Oscar Wilde

Love is a word that has been hijacked by greeting card companies, cult leaders, sentimentalists, pop singers, false profits, pedophiles, romcoms, McDonalds, and a million other unsavory types, who transform the most incredible thing that humans can experience into an inflatable, gaudy imitation of itself that they use for their selfish desires and nefarious marketing campaigns.  These bastards have made the highest and most intense experience accessible to humans almost impossible to talk about without feeling embarassed.

-Duncan Trussell

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

-Jean Jacques Rousseau

Earth laughs in flowers.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

-Herb Shriner

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

-Mark Twain

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it— namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

-Mark Twain

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

-Boris Marshalov

Out beyond the fields of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field...
I'll meet you there

-Rumi

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

-John F. Kennedy

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

-Plato

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

- Will and Ariel Durant

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

-Japanese Proverb

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

-Andy Warhol

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

-Karl Kraus

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

-Henri Frederic Amiel

You know children are growing ups hen they start asking questions that have answers.

-John J. Plomp

You don’t know how much you don’t know until your children grow up and tell you.

-S. J. Perelman

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

-Duke of Windsor

When kids hit one year old, it’s like hanging with a miniature drunk. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

-Johnny Depp

People who say they sleep like a baby seldom have one.
-Leo Burke

Chase her. Chase her even when she’s already yours. That’s the only way you’ll be assured to never lose her.

-Anonymous

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

-Confucius

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

-Voltaire

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

-Sun Tzu

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

-Will Rogers

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...

- Isaac Asimov

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

-Joann Friedrich Von Schiller

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything

-Susan Rice

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

-Brendan Francis

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

-Dorothy Parker

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear
But Ive a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

-Alan Seeger

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

-Casanova

I have an honorary degree...which is kind of like having a Nerf vibrator

-Robin Williams

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

-Aaron Burr

The first to apologize is the bravest.  The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.

-Anonymous

I found your essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

-Samuel Johnson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to change

-Mark Twain

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

-Alexander MacLaren

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees

-Pablo Neruda

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day

-Charles Baxter

For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

-Sir Walter Raleigh

I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.

-Rumi

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

-Robert Wilson Lynd

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

-Mortimer Adler

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

-Abraam Lincoln

Stop quoting the laws to us. We carry swords

 -Pompey The Great