"The Quote Thread"

List some of your favorite quotes....

" I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago. I've divorced myself from it emotionally. I think the human race has squandered its gift and this country has squandered its promise. I think people in America sold out very cheaply, for sneakers and cheeseburgers. And I don't think it's fixable"

George Carlin

"If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.

If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.

If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?

If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?"
--Epicurus

"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry." --Mark Twain

"Quotation, a serviceable substitute for wit." ~Oscar Wilde

"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with." ~Anais Nin

"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles." - John Adams

"Theology: The effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." ~Francois Marie Arouet "

"Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
That is why they call it the present"



Bonus points to whoever points out where I got most of these.

"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?" - Dali



When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace -
Jimi Hendrix



The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop -
P. J. O'Rourke



I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art -
Ernst Fischer



A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people -
John F. Kennedy



America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves -
Abraham Lincoln



Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - MLK



Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less -
Marie Curie



Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee -
John Donne

"I'm too old for this shit"

Roger Murtaugh

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." 

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." ~Confucius

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."  
Samuel Adams

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack" .. Patton

"We become what we think about"... Earl Nightingale

"Don't push others around if you have no blisters on your own feet"... Napoleon Hill

"The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket"... Andrew Carnegie

"Everyone's a Democrat until they get a little bit of money."

- Dad from Freaks and Geeks

"If money will fix it, you don't have a problem"

My Dad

"Everything in moderation"

-Socrates

"You are what you repeatedly do"

-Aristotle

" The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom "

"Everything in moderation, including moderation" ~Oscar Wilde

“If you’re not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at 40 you have no brain.”

-Winston Churchill

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The Road to success is always under construction

"If bitching would fix it, I'd keep doing it"

-My Old Man-

Joey!  Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.  ~W.C. Fields

"would you like me to lick that clean before we do it again?"

- the woman in my dreams

"Be Reasonable, Demand the Impossible"

Always liked that one...

I would rather have a bottle in front of me..... than a frontal lobotomy!

Wise bastard, that Oscar Wilde  

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
-Bob Dylan

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.


A.E.