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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

--Douglas Adams


An eye for an eye will only make the world go blind.

--Gandhi


May you live all the days of your life.

--Johnathan Swift


Men develop appetites when they're twelve, develop muscles when they're sixteen, and develop principals only after they are married.

--Winifred Wolf (When A Man Answers)


640K ought to be enough for anybody.

--Bill Gates, 1981


Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

--Andre Gide


Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.

--Henry Gilmer


We will either find a way, or make one.

--Hannibal


Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man.

--Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey [SNL]


No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace. For in peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

--Herodotus


Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

--C. G. Jung


Life is short; live it up.

--Nikita Krushchev


The universe is an intelligence test.

--Timothy Leary


Gravity doesn't work.
The Earth sucks.

--Anonymous


If you eliminate the possible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

--Albert Einstein


Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace;
Both put together
Make a very pretty face.

--Anonymous


The average person thinks he isn't.

--Father Larry Lorenzoni


I think the world is run by C students.

--Al McGuire


Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

--Golda Meir


One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

--Jinx Milea


One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

--A. A. Milne


Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

--Angela Monet


There are things known,
and there are things unknown,
And in between are the Doors.

--Jim Morrison


Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

--Motto of the Baltimore Grotto


He is one of those people who would be enourmously improved by death.

--H. H. Munro


In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

--Antonio Porchia


Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

--Theodor Reik


Art is "I",
Science is "We".

--Claude Bernard


Fortune lost, nothing lost;
Courage lost, much lost;
Honor lost, more lost;
Soul lost, all lost.

--Anonymous


Force may subdue,
But Love gains.
Let us then try
What Love will do.

--William Penn


In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

--Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Always remember that while it is wrong to use too few words, it is often far worse to use too many.

--Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)


Murphy's Golden Rule:
 Whoever Has The Gold Makes The Rules


Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone, and more fragile than a rose.

--Turkish Proverb


Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

--Doug Larson


Life is made up of marble and mud.

--Nathaniel Hawthorne


It is more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it.

--Malcolm S. Forbes


All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when when hope is gone.

--Jane Austen (Persusasion)


God must have loved plain people: He made so many of them.

--Lincoln


It is cowardice to commit suicide.

--Napoleon


As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

--Socrates


Brilliant ideas have often met violent opposition from mediocre minds.

--Albert Einstein


When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

--Kathleen A. Sutton


Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

--Scott Adams


There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

--Annie Dillard (The Writing Life)


The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

--Mark Russel


Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.

--Russian Proverb


...And living was just a way of passing time until he died.

--Hamish Sankov


George Saunders' Dying Words:
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.


There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

--Peter Sellers


We must laugh at Man, to avoid crying for him.

--Napoleon


Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

--James Stephens


We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

--Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)


It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

--James Thurber


There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

--Frank Tyger


There is a loftier ambition than
merely to stand high in the world.
It is to stoop down
and lift mankind a little higher.

--Henry Van Dyke


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

--Gore Vidal


Pancho Villa's Last Words:
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.


Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

--Earl Warren


Daniel Webster's Last Words:
I still live.


Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

--George Will


Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

--Carl Zwanzig


I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

--Jane Austen


Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

--Dion Boucicault


I am not a Marxist.

--Karl Marx


I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

--Mark Twain


America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

--Oscar Wilde


A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid.

--Anonymous


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