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"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

Benjamin Franklin

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.


-Buddha

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"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When humor goes, there goes civilization.


-Erma Bombeck

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"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."

Sigmund Freud

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“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

Lord Byron

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"The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of."

Blaise Pascal

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.


-Albert Einstein

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"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.


-Adam Smith

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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

George Bernard Shaw

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

-Oscar Wilde

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"Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children."

Patrick Buchanan

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

-Phyllis Diller

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"Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house."

Bruce Barton

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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

-Henry David Thoreau

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"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

George Orwell

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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.


-Erma Bombeck

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"I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not."

Mark Twain

Sorry I cant stay and play anymore, Im really tired... Its been a long day =(

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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

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"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."

Thomas Carlyle

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

-Helen Keller

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"Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."

Philip Massinger

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

-Edward Abbey

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"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise."

Henry David Thoreau

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Long quote, sorry...

"Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?"

Chuck Palahniuk

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"Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health."

Thomas Tusser

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”

--Mark Twain

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"It's not the end of civilization, but you can see it from there!"

Robin Williams

(edit) I found another one (Which i like more =/)

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Hi Kiljo Have to pick Stephen I liked it :arms:

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?


--Laurence J. Peter

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"At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education."

Lyndon B. Johnson

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"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

John W. Gardner

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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

-Terence McKenna

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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

Charles R. Swindoll

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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

--Zig Ziglar

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"'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'"

Menander

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Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.


-Amelia Earhart

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"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

Jedi Master Yoda

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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.


W. C. Fields

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"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."

George Orwell

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Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.


-Cary Grant