Misc Quotes

Rehab's for quitters and nobody likes a quitter!

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Rivers of truth taste the same.
- Tibetan Saying

It is better to be pissed off, than to be pissed on.
- Eddie Vedder

To win, you must know and fear your enemy. To begin, you must know and fear yourself.
- General Panette Jorkon

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.
- Justice Earl Warren

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking as we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.

I always wanted to be somebody. I realize now that I should have been more specific.
- Lily Tomlin

It's a mighty poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
- Andrew Jackson

Looking for the quotes. Gotta check the quotes. Love a good quote.
- George Costanza

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

If you think that nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
- Earl Wilson

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German proverb

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
- Polish proverb

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron

It is no accident that 'stressed' spelled backwards is 'desserts.'

You never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
- Lou Holtz

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
- Erasmus

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- Abigail Van Buren

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
- Charles F. Kettering

My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night, But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

What is real? How do you define real? If your talking about what you can feel, what you can taste, and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
- Morpheous

What matters Deafness of the ear when the mind hears. The one true Deafness, the incurable Deafness, is that of the mind.

Sign Language is God's noblest gift to the Deaf man.

Life moves pretty fast sometimes. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
- Ferris Bueller

A relationship of any sort, friendship included, can't survive when only one sided.
- Jon the Kralizec (me)

It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around.
- Thoreau

Politics: Poli (many) - tics (blood sucking parasites)

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone

Most people never listen.
- Hemingway

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Fred Brooks

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
- David Tyson Gentry

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Descartes

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
- Aldous Huxley

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

I want to remember it the way I remember it in my mind, not necessarily the way it really happened.
- Bill Pullman from The Movie Lost Highway

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
- Socrates

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
- Albert Einstein

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- Neil Armstrong

He who laughs last thinks slowest.

If at first an idea does not seem absurd, there is no hope for it
- Albert Einstein

Eagles may soar, but weasel don't get sucked into jet engines.

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
- Plato

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Does killing time damage eternity?
- George Carlin

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and then used against you.

Did the chicken cross the road? or did the road move beneath the chicken?
- Albert Einstien

thinking is one thing few people really do. they follow, they regugitate, and they memorize but few think.
- Kralizec

Some think its funny. Others just think.
- Hazard

It’s a morbid observation, but if everyone on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.
- Newsweek Senior Writer Jerry Adler, Dec. 31, 1990 issue

Things always work out...it is just a matter of how they work out.
- Kralizec

I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when 'The Simpsons' are on TV.
- Anita, age 6

If she died tomorrow, I wouldn't shed a tear. She's a very evil person.
- Trent Reznor refering to Courtney Love

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the galaxy, and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it, and he'll have to touch to be sure.
- Murphy's Technology Law #13

All actual heroes are essential men and all men possible heroes.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
- William Blake

Everyone can think they just don't want to or others lead them into not wanting to.
- Kralizec

Success is a journey...Not a destination
- Anonymous

Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden

veni vedi vici
- julius cesar

Never underestimate the power of denial.
- Ricky Fitts from American Beauty

when your good friends with two people and they fight. your often torn between 'em.
- Kralizec

Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking?
Yes absolutely--input and output at the same time
- Jecieyn's choosen one.

There is one pain I often feel, which you’ll never know. It’s caused by absence of you.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

Most people are slow to change, slow to take advantage of an opportunity (unless it leads to imeadeate results), but quick to complain.
- Pyrosis and Kralizec

I... am... from... uh... ka-na-da... ... dey... think.. I... am... slow... eh....

Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause kids.

The language of truth is simple.
- Euripides

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
- Victor Hugo

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

my hurts like a beotch
- SillySnake

life, for lack of a better word is crap
- Maynardo

A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian

"But some people are unique in that they're utter asses."
- lucy "miserere"

part of a interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails:
What would you like to do with Britney Spears?
"I'd like to see how small a Tupperware container I could fit her dismembered body into."

G-Spot (ahh, they love it when I call it that)
- billy "wicked" wilson in referance to ZDnet: gamespot

The nights have been colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra, but the days are just dandy.
- billy "wicked" wilson

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is a spiritual war. Our depression is our lives.
- Tyler Durden (brad pitt) in Fight Club

This is your life. Its ending one minute at a time.
- Narrator (Edward Norton) in Fight Club

In the end we had peices of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them gaps remained. oddly shaped emptyness maped by what surrounded them like countries we couldn't name.
- narrator in virgin suicides

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering
- brandon lee

In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled.
- Daniel Defoe

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature, it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
- Werner Karl Heisenberg

Even a small star shines in the darkness.
- Finnish Proverb

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean; who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
- Raymond Chandler

Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Noam Chomsky

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi

Zechariah 5:1-2
1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
- Confucius

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.
- Jack Handey

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule, Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
- William Blake

Capt. Wallace B. Binghampton: Did we wake you up?
Willie: No sir, we've been up since the crack of noon.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
- Louisa May Alcott

such is life
- ned kelly as he is hung to death

next time your driving around with your mom stop in front of a strip joint, and say I will be right back. I just have to pick up my check
- judy gold

mostly having flashbacks of concerts I haven't been to yet.
- Armando

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate that's my philosophy.
- Thornton Wilder

It's too bad stupididty isn't painful. Then maybe some of these people would go get some help.
- unknown

It's better to be hated for something you are then loved for something you aren't.
- unknown

A good man has few enemies. A ruthless man has none.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
- William Shakespeare

A true friend can tell you exactly what you need to hear, precisely when you don't want to hear it, and still remain your friend afterwards.
- Amanda Bowen

Too many bricklayers make a lopsided house.
- Chinese Proverb

In home-sickness you must keep moving it is the only disease that does not require rest.
- Henry de Vere Stacpoole

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
- Anonymous

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
- Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilites.
- Aristotle

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
- Tallulah Bankhead

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
- George Berkeley

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
- Georges Bidault

The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended.
- Aristotle

I have spent a lifetime dancing with love, and what has it given me? A compass when I was lost. Safety when I was in danger. The will to go on when everything was saying give up. When I was young, love teased me. Now that I am old, love sustains me.