"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. "
-George Matthew Adams
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
-Scott Adams
"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta."
-Brian Aldiss
"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed."
-Buzz Aldrin
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
-Muhammad Ali
"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
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
-Neil Armstrong
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
-Arthur Ashe
"You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents."
-Australian Aboriginal Elder
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
-Richard Bach
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-Walter Bagehot
"Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
-Clive Barnes
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
-Josh Billings
"For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news."
-Gloria Borger
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-Victor Borge
"Feeding the starving poor only increases their number."
-Ben Bova
"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."
-Dick Brandon
"There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience."
-Jacob Braude
"All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent."
-David Brower
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
-Charles Buxton
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
-George Washington Carver
"Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated."
-Cenotaph in Hiroshima
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
-John Vance Cheney
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
-Chinese Proverb
"We find comfort among those who agree with us -- growth among those who don't."
-Frank A. Clark
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God -- but to create him."
-Arthur C. Clarke
"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"
-John Cleese
"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."
-Frederick L Collins
"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."
-Jimmy Connors
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
-Frank Crane
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."
-Salvador Dali
"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."
-Charles Anderson Dana
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
-Clarence Darrow
"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
-Phillip K. Dick
"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."
-R. A. Dickson
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
-Walt Disney
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
-Bob Dylan
"Never judge a book by its movie."
-J.W. Eagan
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives."
-Abba Eban
"He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun."
-Steady Eddy
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
-Havelock Ellis
"The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
-Harlan Ellison
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
-William Faulkner
"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary."
-Jules Feiffer
"Never give a sucker an even break."
-W. C. Fields
"Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either."
-Joseph Fischer
"The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."
-Malcom Forbes
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
-Henry Ford
"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it."
-Stanley Garn
"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying."
-Christian Furchtegott Gellert
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide
"Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture."
-Allen Ginsberg
"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
-Samuel Goldwyn
"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
-Horace Greeley
"As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something."
-Hagar the Horrible
"We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
-Haida Indian saying
"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine."
-J.B.S. Haldane
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
-Robert Heilein
"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."
-Joseph Heller
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
-Frank Herbert
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
-Herman Hesse
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."
-Napoleon Hill
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
-Sir Edmund Hillary
"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."
-Alfred Hitchcock
"So far I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost."
-Frank McKinney Hubbard
"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."
-C. D. Jackson
"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!"
-Peter de Jager
"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
-Jerome K Jerome
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
-Wendell Johnson
"You think that's noise - you ain't heard nuttin' yet!"
-Al Jolson
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
-James Joyce
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