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The following are just some quotes that probably mean nothing to
anyone but me. I keep them in a little txt file on my computer,
but thought I would share them. I collect them randomly, either by
overhearing them, reading them, or finding them on the internet. There
is no general theme, but each one means something to me, mostly for
reasons I do not understand.
The strong do what they have the power to do
and the weak accept what they have to accept.
- History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
When an ordinary man attains knowledge,
he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
- Zen Saying
May
my morals, good or not, give me the strength to know right from wrong,
good from ill, and see my entertainment as a light and not a way.
- Blackhorde
This statement is false.
- unknown
Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance.
The other half comes from intelligence.
- Bonar Thompson
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
- E. M. Cioran
The Trouble with Being Born, 1973
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown, Washington Post, January 26, 1977
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France
I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
Let yourself be heard! Do not hide your lamp under a bushel.
It is likely to catch fire and burn your house down.
- Joseph Tudor
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
I think; therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Unknown
We are a
lucid lot, are we not? <s>
- Fred
Ellis
You feel your life is empty
And you hate to face this world alone
So you're searching for an angel
Someone who can make you whole
I cannot save you
I can't even save myself
So just save yourself
- Stabbing Westward, "Save Yourself"
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to.
- Unknown
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
- Unknown
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
[Genesis 3:5]
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin
We are all fools.
Some of us are just funnier. <Smile>
- Fred Ellis
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
- Anonymous
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- Aldous Huxley
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
- Holden Caulfield
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
- William Shakespeare
It may not take a blind person to hear the timbre of a butterfly's flutter, but it might take one to notice it.
- millie
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decepiatur - Latin: The world wants to be fooled, thus it is fooled. Like
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