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"The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide."

Aristotle

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If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

- Steve Allen

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"Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."

Swami Sivananda

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."

Pablo Picasso

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I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Robert McCloskey

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(Thank you, Zarah! :))

"And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors."

Lewis Carroll

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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

M.C. Escher

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"I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?"

Humphrey Carpenter

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You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants

Stephen King

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"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace."

Chief Joseph

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There was never a good war or a bad peace


Benjamin Franklin

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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The majority believed that the same shot struck both President Kennedy and Governor Connally, but the report ended by saying, whatever was the fact, that it did not alter the conclusion of the Commission that Oswald was the sole assassin and there was no conspiracy.

John Sherman Cooper

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"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."

John Buchan

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"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

Marilyn Monroe

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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."

Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)

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"A liar should have a good memory."

Quintilian

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Memory is the oldest disease known to mankind

Citizen Kane

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"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty."

John Adams

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"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."

Henry David Thoreau

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"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."

Emily Bronte

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Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.
Drew Carey

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"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately."

Henry A. Kissinger

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I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

Richard Ernst

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"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."

Ted Nugent

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*Yeah, he LOVES his guns...

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."

Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 9/15/88

*YUP...he ACTUALLY said that...is it just me...?...LOL!

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What a goof!

"In the nineteenth century by far the most distinguished heat-resister was Chabert, who deserves and shall have a chapter to himself."

Harry Houdini

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A jazz man needs to express himself in terms of sound. But in blues, if you find the right sound, it's justifiable to keep it exactly the same every time.

Alexis Korner

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"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

William Penn

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I think that's the worst thing when you go in the cinema and you sort of know what's coming and that's what you get. I find that always a little deflationary. Whereas I remember that when you don't quite know what's going to come, it's fantastic.

Danny Boyle

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"The dream is that there is going to be a fantastic cataclysm. That's not going to happen. Overthrow is not possible."

Cass Elliot

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A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

Jay Leno

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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry"

William Shakespeare

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Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

Kristen Dunst

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What's wrong with some people? Do they not think before they speak or what?

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Charles Dickens

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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Mahatma Gandhi

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"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

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"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed."

Ray Goforth

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"To succeed, however, in anything at all, one should go understandingly about his work and be prepared for every emergency."

Joshua Slocum