"I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a
later and more convenient hour." -- Henry David Thoreau
"The problem isn't sin, it's stupidity…" -- Frank Stack
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have
we then to depreciate imagination?" -- Carl Jung
"[Whatcha gonna do?] Whatever it takes; whatever the party calls for…" --
George Clinton
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become
a monster. And when you gaze into the abyss, take care that the abyss does not
gaze into you." -- Freidrich Neitchze
"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of
youth for those of age." -- Ambrose Bierce
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." -- Oscar Wilde
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." -- Oscar Wilde
"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf." -- Robert
Bloch
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm
beginning to believe it." -- Clarence Darrow
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been." -- Gerald
Ford
"For the mind of man
is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things
should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an
enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered
and reduced." -- Francis Bacon
"I'm experiencing a totally
new sensation -- and frankly, I like it!" -- Tom Servo (MST3K)
"I think it would
be a good idea." -- Mahatma Ghandi, when asked what he thought about
western civilization.
"Man is the only
animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat
until he eats them." -- Samuel Butler
"Mankind differs from
the animals only by a little and most people throw that away." -- Confucius
"If you don't know
where you're going, any road will take you there." -- Anonymous
"Belief unconfirmed by
experiment is vain." -- Francisco Redi (c1626-1697)
"Shake off all the
fears and servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched.
Fix reason firmly in the seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every
opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God, because if there be
one, he must approve of the homage of reason rather than that of blindfolded
fear...Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are
answerable not for the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision." --
Thomas Jefferson (in letter to Peter Carr)
“Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly – right
now.” -- Buckminster Fuller
"The hour is very
late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door." -- Bernard of
Cluny, ca 1140 A.D.
"For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places." -- Ephesians 6:12
"If gold rings started
raining down from the heavens, some folks would complain that they couldn't
find one that fit." -- Anon.
"If you tell a lie big
enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually believe it." -- Joseph
Goebbels
"We had suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at
glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in His
splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul
of man" -- Ernest H. Shackleton
“I’m a bear of very little brain.” -- Pooh
"It’s different this time." -- Sir John Templeton
"I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your
friends.” -- Mickey Spillane
