A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. God is dead. - Nietzshce Nietzshce is dead. - God A religion can no more afford to degrade it's devil, than it's God. "If one person is opressed, then none of us are free." "We all believe in something, though we give it different names, you can search the world for that one thing, but it's all the same." (Alana Davis) "If that which you seek you cannot find without, in the world, know only that you need look to yourself, for there lie the answers to all of the world's greatest mysteries." (Hugein the Bard) "The only thing the non-conformist hates more than a conformist, is another non-conformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity." Transalation: Don't be a white sheep, and don't be a black sheep. Just graze in the pasture that has the kind of flowers you like to eat. I realized a long time ago that a belief that does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is not belief at all. Ralph Waldo Emerson - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. To be great is to be misunderstood. It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. - Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. Maynard;Tool;AEnima; 15:1:11 - "Today a young man on acid realized that all life is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one concienceness, experiencing ourselves subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and that we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.-Volataire Live every day like it's your last because someday there won't be a tomorrow to regret those yesterdays that weren't all they should have been. Steve Martin: I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith. -- Thomas Paine Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): "Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule Friedrich Nietzsche: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster." Friedrich Nietzsche: "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." Friedrich Nietzsche: "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche: "How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life." Friedrich Nietzsche: ""Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others." Brendan Gill: "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." Frederick L Collins: "There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." Mahatma Gandhi: "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) when asked what he thought of Western civilization: "I think it would be a good idea." Indira Gandhi: "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." Larry Niven: "Everything starts as somebody's daydream." W. Somerset Maugham: "An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." Charles Steinmetz: "No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions." Walter Bagehot: "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." J.P. McEvoy: "Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming." Kurt Vonnegut: "I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." Will Rogers: "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." Gandhi: "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Mahatma Gandhi: "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." Gandhi: "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress Thomas Edison: All Bibles are man-made. Will Rogers: "You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way." P.J. O'Rourke: Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. Heinrich Heine: Experience is a good school, but the fees are high If ignorance is bliss, then knock this smile off my face. -Rage Against the Machine The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles of road before I sleep, and miles of road before I sleep. -Robert Frost You never lose by loving, only by holding back. Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? -Edward Abbey Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. - Douglas Adams No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry B. Adams This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it. - John Adams Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. - Roy Adzak Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. - Muhammad Ali He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds. - Dante Alighieri There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. - Woody Allen I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down. - Woody Allen The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. - Woody Allen Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri Frederic Amiel Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. - Ancient Proverb Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. - Walter Anderson If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like there's nobody watching. -Anon. All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. - Arabian Proverb Women like silent men. They think they're listening. - Marcel Archard The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. - Hannah Arendt You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. - Dick Armey In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - Janos Arnay Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing the right thing. - Isaac Asimov The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm.... that's funny...' - Isaac Asimov Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh. - W.H. Auden And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. - Marcus Aurelius A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked, "Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me." - Andrea Ayvazian The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. - Cornelius Tacitus Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. - Frederick W. Taylor Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. - John Templeton The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. - Bodie Thoene In the beginning, there was nothing. Then God said "Let there be light," and there was still nothing, but you could see it. - Dave Thomas Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. - Bonar Thompson - Quotes from Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear. The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation. - I hate women because they always know where things are. - James Thurber One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough. - James Thurber Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry S. Truman Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper - Quotes from Mark Twain Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything. When in doubt, tell the truth. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. Don't let school interfere with your education Be good and you will be lonesome. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. The best way to chear yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. If there are no cigars in Heaven, I shall not go. Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Virtue was never as respectable as money. You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.