Jaye's Quote Collection(s).

As I previously mentioned, I love to collect quotes. I have a very good auditory memory, and much to my friends' dismay, I can recite long passages from Mel Brooks' films. So I thought I'd make a quote page. This will wind up being rather large, and I will be continually adding to it. (NOTE: "A book of quotations...can never be complete." -- Robert M. Hamilton) It contains quotes from books, music, television, and movies. Enjoy!

There are some areas where I have collected pages upon pages of quotes, so they have become separate pages in the interest of space. These pages include a few of my obsessions, those being Babylon 5 and Xena. I'm currently resisting the urge to start a Buffy or West Wing quote page.

I'm also looking for a way to organize these quotes. The page is becoming unwieldy. I'm open to organizational suggestions. I'm rather literal-minded, so the only thing coming to mind is alphabetized by author, which is rather boring. At the moment they are organized, roughly, in the order in which I collected them. Please pass any ideas on to me.

New Quotes

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

-- Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods

Earth is the lunatic asylum of the Solar System.

-- Samuel Parkes Cadman

There are only two ways to live your life - one is as if everything is a miracle, the other is as though nothing is a miracle.

-- Albert Einstein

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

-- Wilson Mizner

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

-- George Bernard Shaw

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

-- George Bernard Shaw

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

-- Andre Maurois

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

-- Nick Diamos

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

-- Anonymous

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

-- W. C. Fields

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

-- Fred Hoyle

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Men have become the tools of their tools.

-- Henry David Thoreau

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

-- Georges Clemenceau

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

-- Joan Klempner

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

-- Laurence J. Peter

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

-- George Will

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

-- Don Marquis

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

-- A. Whitney Brown

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

-- Olin Miller

Jaye's Favorite Quotes

Jaye's all-time favorite quote:

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exist because of their silent consent.

-- Bruno Jasienski

And now for the rest...

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

-- Ghandi

Who's the more foolish - the fool or the fool who follows him?

-- Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

-- Egyptian blessing

Love will die if held too tightly.
Love will fly if held too lightly.
Lightly, tightly, how do I know
Whether I'm holding, or letting love go?

-- Anonymous

I thought I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
Oh, how I wish he’d go away.

-- Anonymous Nursery Rhyme

Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

-- Paradise Lost by John Milton

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

-- John 8:32

The truth will set you free, but first it will be a pain in the neck.

-- Vito Russo

The truth is out there.

-- The X-Files

The Force will be with you, always.

-- Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

-- Anonymous

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

-- "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Niebuhr

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

-- Chinese Proverb

This above all: to thine own self be true.

-- Hamlet, Act I, scene iii by William Shakespeare

With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

-- Captain Picard in Star Trek:The Next Generation

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

-- Stendhal

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

-- Galileo Galilei

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

-- Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

-- Anonymous

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

-- Adlai Stevenson

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

-- Dalai Lama

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

-- Isaac Newton

Never underestimate the power of one.

-- Anonymous

She who tells the truth shall surely be caught.

-- Joan of Arc

She speaks to the ten greatest American women: The anonymous farmer’s wife, the anonymous clubbed picket, the anonymous Negro woman who held off the guns, the anonymous prisoner, anonymous cotton-picker trailing her robe of sack in a proud train, anonymous writer of these and mill-hand, anonymous city-walker, anonymous organizer, anonymous binder of illegally wounded, anonymous feeder and speaker to anonymous squares.

-- Ann Burlak by Muriel Rukeyser

The dogma of woman’s complete historical subjection to man must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

-- Mary Ritter Beard

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

-- Alice Paul

It doesn’t pay well to fight for what we believe in.

-- Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

-- Lillian Hellman to the HUAC, 1952

And it came to pass that after a time the artist was forgotten, but the work lived.

-- The Artist’s Secret by Olive Schreiner

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

-- James Thurber

You should never start writing a work until you have finished it to your satisfaction.

-- Mark Twain

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

-- Friedrich Nietzche

I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

-- Voltaire

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

-- Abraham Lincoln

It's not that life is so short. It's that we're dead for so long.

-- Anonymous

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.

-- Anonymous

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-- Benjamin Franklin

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

-- Ninetythree by Victor Hugo

They are able because they think they are able.

-- Virgil

If you don’t understand my silence, you will never understand my words.

-- Anonymous

Just when I finally begin to accept that life's passed me by, it laps me again.

-- Ziggy

I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb; it is a device which is exploding.

-- Jacques Le Blanc, describing France's nuclear testing

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

-- Scott Adams

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

-- Yassir Arafat

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

-- John Atkinson

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

-- Aaron Burr

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.

-- Monta Crane

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

-- Baltasar Gracian

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

-- Robert Heinlein

No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be run away from.

-- Linus in Peanuts

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

-- Richard Nixon

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.

-- Miss Piggy

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

-- Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth.

-- Mark Twain

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

-- Oscar Wilde

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

-- Henny Youngman

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

-- Mame in Auntie Mame

Yeah, but when the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.

-- Jurassic Park

'Tis but a scratch.

-- Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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

-- Albert Einstein

Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right.

-- Henry Ford

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

-- Golda Meir

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

-- Gene Brown

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

-- Doug Larson

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell

Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

-- Gen. John Sedgewick, last words

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

-- Yoda in Empire Strikes Back

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

-- Chinese Proverb

Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass.

-- Anonymous

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

-- Maori proverb

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

-- The Silver Stallion by James Branch Cabell

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

-- Garfield

A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

-- Elbert Hubbard

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

-- Groucho Marx

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

-- Mark Twain

I don't want to join the kind of a club that accepts people like me as members.

-- Groucho Marx

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

-- Indira Gandhi

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

-- Grace Hansen

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

-- Delores Ibarruri

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

-- Erica Jong

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

-- Mary Wilson Little

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

-- Margaret Mead

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

-- Golda Meir

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

-- Maria Mitchell

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

-- Dorothy Parker

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

-- Maryon Pearson

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

-- Anne Sexton

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

-- Mother Teresa

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

-- Marlo Thomas

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

-- Lily Tomlin

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-- Ellen Parr

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

-- Anonymous

To every complex problem, there is a simple, easy-to-understand wrong answer.

-- Albert Einstein

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

-- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

-- Lillian Carter (at age 85)

"What are we going to do today?" asked the child.
"What are we going to do today?" the adult echoed. "Tell you what, boy...I leave it to you. What would you like to do on this fine day?"
The boy considered a moment under the adult's watchful eye. And then he said...
"I want to understand."
"Understand what?"
"Everything," said the boy.
"Everything?" The adult was momentarily taken aback. "Everything as in...?"
"Everything as in everything," said the boy firmly.
"Everything," echoed the adult once more. "Very well, then...everything it is."
"And what shall we do after we understand everything?"
The adult did not hesitate. "Die, most likely."

-- Q-Squared by Peter David

Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been.'

-- John Greenleaf Whittier

That's great! I'm only seven wins away from my first grand slam title.

-- Justin Gimelstob, UCLA freshman, ranked 1,154 in the world, upon gaining a wildcard bid to the US Open Tennis Championships, 1995

There are only four questions of importance in life. What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same...Only love.

-- Juan de Marco

Is it a bad sign if you spend the day wondering why there are no laws against what you do for a living?

-- Dilbert

My motto is: "They can't break you if you don't have a spine."

-- Wally of Dilbert

Woman was God's second blunder.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to make the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

-- The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroad. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

-- Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

-- Woody Allen

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

-- Woody Allen

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.

-- As You Like It, Act II, scene vii by William Shakespeare

Ah, a bear in his natural habitat...a Studebaker.

-- Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Movie

"I want to go to Bombay, India to become a movie star."
"You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we're going: Hollywood."
"Sure, if you want to do it the easy way."
"We picked up a *weirdo*."

-- Gonzo and Fozzie in The Muppet Movie

If you get that tongue fixed, you could make million of people happy.

-- Bernie the Agent to Kermit in The Muppet Movie

Go home! Go home! Bye-bye!

-- Animal in The Muppet Movie

Bad man! Bad man!

-- Animal in The Muppets Take Manhatten

You are *all* weirdos.

-- Sam the Eagle in The Great Muppet Caper

And after that there will be still more deaths because of you, woman like a flame.

-- The Story of Deirdre

I'll do my best to take it in my stride.
The pain I feel at being cast aside
Time and forgetfulness may put an end to.
Or if I can't forget, I shall pretend to.

-- Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

First seek an object worthy of your flame;
Then strive, with art, your lady's mind to gain.

-- The Art of Love by Ovid

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

-- Roseanne Barr

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

-- Carrie Snow

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

-- Groucho Marx

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

-- Groucho Marx

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

-- Groucho Marx

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

-- Groucho Marx

Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honour; which is probably more than she ever did.

-- Groucho Marx

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

-- Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

-- Groucho Marx

When I'm good, I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

-- Mae West

I used to be Snow White...then I drifted.

-- Mae West

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to prevent intimate oral-genital contact, unless it in some way obstructs interstate commerce.

-- J. Edgar Hoover

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.

-- MacBeth, Act V, scene v by William Shakespeare

Trying to make a private bond a public one is like trying to turn water to wine when you prefer water to wine.

-- The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

-- Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot

Let not thy divining heart
Forethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part.
And may thy fear fulfill.

-- Song by John Donne

Here the light doth never cease
Endless spring and endless peace.

-- Prayer to the Holy Trinity by Hildebert of Lavardin

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation;
On you depends my bliss - or my desolation;
I bide your judgment and, as you think best;
I shall be either miserable or blest.

-- Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Having done what men could, they suffered what men must.

-- The Quarries of Syracuse by Thucydides

Dangerous too, and danger makes you delay for all you're worth.

-- Antigone by Sophocles

I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.

-- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats

I don't know who I am
But life is for learning.

-- Joni Mitchell

Without regard to what the world may say.
What! Shall the fear of being misunderstood
Prevent our doing what is right and good?

-- Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

And, though exceeding guilty, I am, as thou knowest, exceeding innocent. For it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

-- Farewell, My All by Heloise

It is, I know, presumptuous on my part
To bring you this poor offering of my heart,
And it is not my merit, Heaven knows,
But your compassion on which my hope repose.

-- Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Error of opinion maybe tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.

-- Neils Bohr

What I can not create I can not understand.

-- Richard Feynman

And what we dare not speak, love bids us write...

-- Robert Herrick

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

-- Anonymous

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

-- John Stossel

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

-- Vernon Howard

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

-- Joseph Addison

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

-- John Hendrick Bangs

As long as we look forward, all seems free,
Uncertain, subject to the Laws of Chance,
Though strange that chance should lie subject to laws,
But looking back on life it is as if
Our Book of Changes never let us change.

-- The Western Approaches by Howard Nemerov

How much am I then what I think, how much what I feel...

-- In the Night by Elizabeth Jennings

Every forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

-- John Lancaster Spalding

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

-- Dale Carnegie

She just wore enough for modesty; no more!

-- Robert Buchanan

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

-- Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot

The facts were somewhat different, but no one was interested in the facts.

-- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

You misjudge us because you do not know us.

-- The Talented Tenth by W.E.B. Du Bois

To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

-- Hyrum W. Smith

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

-- Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene ii, by William Shakespeare

It is no sign of good health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

-- Krishnamurti

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

-- Horace

This innocence is not responsible for the harm it does, and innocence is lost when guilt enters the scene.

-- At Eighty-Two by May Sarton

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

-- Carl Sagan

I love people, I really do, and yet, in viewing the future, I am forced to be guided by a certain cynicism because so many people, however, lovable, seem immune to reason.

-- The Stars in their Courses by Isaac Asimov

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic.

-- Notebooks by Wallace Stevens

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that is bears a very close resemblance to the first.

-- Ronald Reagan

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

-- T.S. Eliot

No man can be a conservative until he has something to lose.

-- James Paul Warburg

The Human Race has improved everything except the Human Race.

-- Adlai Stevenson

I am astonished by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

-- Woody Allen

I'm looking for loopholes.

-- W.C. Fields, explaining why he was reading the Bible

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

-- John F. Kennedy

And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

-- The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

For I have dipt into the future,
far as human eye could see;
Saw the Vision of the World,
and all the wonder that would be.

-- "Locherly Hall" by Alfred Lord Tennyson (And, by the way, this was my yearbook quote.)

I'm addicted to placebos. I'd give them up, but it wouldn't make any difference.

-- Steven Wright

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

Accursed from their birth they be
Who seek to find monogamy,
Pursuing it from bed to bed,
I think they would be better dead.

-- Dorothy Parker

The only real blasphemy is the refusal of joy.

-- Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

-- Niels Bohr

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

-- W.B. Yeats

I'm a wanna-be inventor. I'm still working on my perpetual motion machine. Ironically, I can't seem to stop.

-- Scott Adams

Just because something is an anthropomorphism of ultimate evil, that doesn't mean it hasn't your best interests at heart.

-- Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff

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

-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy script by Douglas Adams

All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.

-- The Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley

A mathematician is a device for converting coffee into theorems.

-- Paul Erdos

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

-- Stephen Levine

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.

-- Don Juan

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

-- The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

-- Claude Pepper

Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

-- Anonymous

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

-- Eden Phillpotts

A year and a half ago I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can't even hurt his feelings.

-- Anya in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

-- Victor Hugo

She walks in beauty
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies
The best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

-- Lord Byron

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone.

-- "To J.S." by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

-- Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, caving society

I do not want to die until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

-- Kathe Kollwitz

You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

They knew. I heard them. I just didn't listen.

-- Clark Kent in Superman II

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of figure skating", 1994

You're in charge but don't touch the controls.

-- Russian cosmonauts to Shannon Lucid

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

-- Lady Dorothy Nevill

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

-- James Thurber

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

-- Jean-Louis Barrault

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, the week after JFK Jr.'s death

Hey, Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton. Historically, this is the calmest reaction we've had to this kind of thing.

-- Congressman Barney Frank, regarding the 2000 presidential election

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

-- Robert Frost

Darn your sinister attraction.

-- "Buffy" to Spike in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

-- Proverbs 16:18

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

-- Winston Churchill

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

-- Cary Grant

Fate protects fools, small children and ships named Enterprise.

-- William Riker in Star Trek:The Next Generation

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

-- Mark Twain

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.

-- Matt Groening

You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the well-being of others. We don't want to spread evil; we just see no point in bothering to spread good.

-- Richard M. Mathews

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

-- Winston Churchill

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

-- Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

-- Mark Twain

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

-- George Orwell

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

-- Andre Gide

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

-- Denis Diderot

Before God we are all equally wise...and equally foolish.

-- Albert Einstein

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

-- Georges Clemenceau

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

-- Henry David Thoreau

Only fools are positive.

-- Moe Howard

Never fight an inanimate object.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." -- Simeon Strunsky
Bearing this in mind, if you think I've misquoted something, let me know. Also, feel free to pass on any cool quotes you know.

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