People who quote others have small minds
Winston Churchill.
Ridicule is the only weapon
which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be
distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct
idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling
themselves the priests of Jesus.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, July 30, 1816
After receiving a Minute issued by a
priggish civil servant, objecting to the ending of a sentence with a
preposition and the use of a dangling participle in official documents, (Sir
Winston) Churchill red penciled in the margin: "This is the sort of pedantry
up with which I will not put."
“Forgive him Theodotus: he is
a barbarian and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws
of nature.”
- Caesar and Cleopatra, George
Bernard Shaw
If tyranny
and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a
foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps
the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every
other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and
armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many
under the domination of the few.
The loss of
liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or
imagined, from abroad.
— James Madison (father of the
US Constitution)
Beauty is indeed a good gift
of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it
even to the wicked. ~Saint Augustine
Beauty isn't worth thinking
about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut
on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor
I'd
rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I
hate. - George Burns
Let me tell you the secret
that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis
Pasteur
"One word frees us of all the
weight and pain in life. That word is LOVE."
Sophocles
"You can't make a woman happy.
That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the
symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness." - Wanda Sykes
1) I wanted to kill romance with this film. The romance that people attach to love has really become a sickness that is in many ways distracting and destructive. We all know heaps of relationships and we all know that they fail-most of them. And you want to rebel because it's such a favorite illusion.
2) I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
-Jane Campion
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. ~ Isadora Duncan ~
I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules. - Ozzy Ozbourne.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
Experience is the only true knowledge ...Einstein
Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results ...Einstein
Imagination is more important than intelligence ...Einstein
Visionary thinkers will always receive violent opposition from mediocre
minds - Einstein
The foolish man seeks happiness at a distance. The wise man seeks happiness at his feet. - Chinese proverb
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. - Gloria Leonard
May the light of the universe be bright enough to warm your soul, but dim enough to not spoil the hunt for your prey. -DF 2K3
I am God in your universe, you are the universe in my Godlessness - DF 2K1
(These are from a member of a mailing list I belong to, I only know him as Darkness Fallen)
Catwoman is all things feminine. Was she a feminist? Hell no! She was
feminine. That's way above feminist. - Julie Newmar.
If there is a God, he is a malign thug. Mark Twain
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone" --Bill Cosby
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky
Don't be so humble, you're not that great. - Golda Meir
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.—Chris Rock
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
—Noam Chomsky
In heaven all of the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche
…the crowd, is in fact, composed of individuals; it must therefore be in ever man's power to become what he is, an individual. From becoming an individual no one , no none at all is excluded,except he who excludes himself by becoming a crowd.
- Søren Kierkrgaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. -Søren Kierkegaard
To the artist, art is a verb. - Bayles & Orland, Art and Fear
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. - H. L. Mencken
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds -- that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. - Justice Robert H. Jackson
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. - Chomsky
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. - Carl Schurz
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten. - Frances Wright
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. . .but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
- Mary Kay Ash
Security is a superstition-it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
- Helen Keller
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. - E.E. Cummings
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Button/Bumper Sticker/Fridge Magnet Wisdom
These're quotes I found from the above sources, if you have attribution for them please let me know!
"Religion is an abomination.
With or without it, good men will do good things and evil men will do bad
things. For good men to do bad things ... THAT takes religion."
Spiritual people inspire me. RELIGIOUS people frighten me.
Believe those who speak the truth. Doubt those who "find" it.
Do you
really think your maniacal "Biblical" ramblings are going to change my beliefs?
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
When life gives you lemons...squeeze those fuckers into a water gun and shoot people in the eye
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Consider doubt as an invitation to think.
Fighting on the internet is like the Special Olympics...Whether you win or lose, you're still retarded.