Quotes

The following is a list of random quotes that I have either come across and found amusing and/or insightful or just wanted to remember. I caouple sites I’ve used to get some are: Brainy Quote and WikiQuote. I’ve gotten some really good ones from them and they have an extensive collection.

Now on to the quotes:

  • A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. - Winston Churchill 1874-1965
  • A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.. - Winston Churchill 1874-1965
  • All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire 1694-1778
  • All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allen Poe 1809-1849
  • Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. - Voltaire 1694-1778
  • Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. - William Shakespeare 1564-1616
  • But we’re talking about the *American* public. The same public that elected GW Bush (or not) and the Govenator. The same public that watches Survivor. Yes, they are too dumb. - Jack Auf [Talking about why a "pure science channel" would probably flop]
  • Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
  • Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the son doth move; doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love cookie. - Hamlet Act two, scene two, as interpreted by Cookie Monster (source unknown)
  • El sueño de la razón produce monstruos. (The dream of reason produces monsters.) - Francisco de Goya 1746-1828
  • Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. - from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 1797-1851
  • Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. - Francisco de Goya 1746-1828
  • Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. - Chili Davis
  • Humor is reason gone mad. - Groucho Marx 1895-1977
  • I don’t have any solution but I certainly admire the problem. - Ashleigh Brilliant
  • I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. - Edgar Allen Poe 1809-1849
  • I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allen Poe 1809-1849
  • I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don’t just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. - Author Unknown
  • I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. - Sylvia Plath 1932-1963
  • I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. - George Carlin 1937-?
  • I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone? - from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 1797-1851
  • I was grateful for all those times I didn’t stab my brain with a key, and listened to it. - Wil Wheaton
  • I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx 1895-1977
  • If there is a bedrock principle on the first amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simple because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. - Justice William J. Brennan Texas vs. Johnson, 1989
  • If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. - Mohandas Gandhi 1869-1948
  • Insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result. - Albert Einstein 1879-1955
  • Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. - Jennifer Yane
  • It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Sammuel Clemmens (Mark Twain) 1835-1910
  • It is not death that is macabre; it is living death. - James B. Twitchell
  • It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680
  • Just remember that politicians are like diapers and need to be changed often for the same reason. - Fireweaver Slashdot.org
  • Love thyself last: Cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle cookie, to silence envious tongues. - King Henry VIII Act three, scene two, as interpreted by Cookie Monster (source unknown)
  • My reaction to intelligence is the same as my reaction to pornography, I can’t define it but I like it when I see it. - Hugh Loebner
  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein 1879-1955
  • Outside of a dog, a book’s a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx 1895-1977
  • People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. - Anne Rice 1941-?
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx 1895-1977
  • Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.- Linus Torvalds 1969-?
  • That’s why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. - Gregory Maguire Elphaba from “Wicked”
  • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller 1880-1968
  • The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult - Mme. Da Deffand
  • The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it. - Linus Torvalds 1969-?
  • The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it’s you. - Rita Mae Brown 1944-?
  • There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. - Author Unknown
  • There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.. - Winston Churchill 1874-1965
  • They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
  • To deny those rights, to any citizen, to any people, is to cast a great shame on us and lead us back to another dark period. - Harry Belafonte October 2002
  • Too often we go through life…unsure of what is real and what isn’t…afraid to speak the truths we do not know… - Elizabeth Sherwood from “Louisiana Rose”
  • We know what we are, but know not what we may become. - William Shakespeare 1564-1616
  • What reality denies us, fantasy gives us! - Author Unknown
  • Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? - Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
  • Where there is religion, there are sacrifices and war…and if not for war for this reason, then ‘twould be for profit or power - Melanie Jackson from “Amarantha”
  • You can’t change the past so concentrate on changing the future. - Author Unknown
  • You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the United States of arrogance, and Germany doesn’t want to go to war. - Author Unknown