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