February 16, 2025
Favorite Quotes
- "Oh, the human mouth is a disgusting place."
- Gurgle (Finding Nemo)
- "You do not truly know someone until you fight them."
- Seraph (The Matrix Reloaded)
- "There are shop boys, and there are boys that just happened to work in a shop for the time being. And trust me Tristan, you are no shop boy."
- Yvaine (Stardust)
- "I think growing up is really code for realizing you don't know everything"
- Shelley (MSN Messenger)
- "Don't tell people how to do something, rather tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
- General George S. Patton
- "One of the best ways to win any game is to write the rules."
- (Michael S. Malone)
- "Friendship is the quality of trust expressed in action."
- (Eugene Lyfehurtz)
- "The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot."
- (Rolf Hochhuth)
- "In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."
- (Cynthia Ozick)
- "The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not
waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- (Jack London)
- "Looking foolish does the spirit good."
- (John Updike)
- "Man is not only of this world but of another world, not only of
necessity, but of freedom."
- (Nikolai Berdyaev)
- "The gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the
comfortable."
- (Garrison Keillor)
- "To accomplish a life time, one must live a life."
- (Eugene Lyfehurtz)
- "It is better not to express what one means than to express what one
does not mean."
- (Karl Kraus)
- "The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."
- (Thomas Morell)
- "Life is not about the past, what has happend CAN NOT be changed. Its
not about the future, your plans WILL CHANGE. It is only about this moment,
what you decide right now WILL effect the rest of your life."
- (Eugene Lyfehurtz)
- "Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a
painting which is heard but not seen."
- (Leonardo da Vinci)
- "Don't get mad. Get smart."
- (Willie Dixon)
- "In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what
you finally accomplish."
- (Donald Trump)
- "It's not perfect, but to me on balance Right Now is a lot better than
the Good Old Days."
- (Maeve Binchy)
- "The love we give away is the only love we keep."
- (Elbert Hubbard)
- "Chance favors only the prepared mind."
- (Louis Pasteur)
- "When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
- (Joseph Louis Lagrange)
- "The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself."
- (Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi)
- "Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on
with it and see if it works."
- (Ken Iverson)
- "It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
- (A. N. Whitehead)
- "A career is born in public--talent in privacy."
- (Marilyn Monroe)
- "Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."
- (Michael Jordan)
- "To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the
universe."
- (Carl Sagan)
- "I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I
have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling."
- (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
- "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's
conscience."
- (Harper Lee)
- "An idea is an archetype of which a corresponding being in phenomenal
reality is an imperfect replica."
- (Plato)
- "The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only
as deep as its power to expand and lose itself."
- (G. W. F. Hegel)
- "None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct."
- (Luigi Pirandello)
- "Creation comes before distribution--or there will be nothing to
distribute."
- (Ayn Rand)
- "Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness."
- (Dodie Smith)
- "What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it!"
- (Denis Diderot)
- "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- (Carl Gustav Jung)
- "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind."
- (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about
other people."
- (Virginia Woolf)
- "If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice."
- (Tom Stoppard)
- "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."
- (John Archibald Wheeler)
- "Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity."
- (George Santayana)
- "The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is
ignorance."
- (Kurt Tucholsky)
- "Laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a
strained expectation into nothing."
- (Immanuel Kant)
- "Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art
of life."
- (Peter Altenberg)
- "Improvisation is the touchstone of wit."
- (Moli�re)
- "Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for."
- (Tennessee Williams)
- "We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."
- (Jesse Jackson)
- "To think is to differ."
- (Clarence Darrow)
- "Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can
never fulfill its promises."
- (Arianna Huffington)
- "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
- (Jules Henri Poincar�)
- "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth."
- (Thomas Mann)
- "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
- (Martina Navratilova)
- "That alone is significant and fruitful which gives free play to the
imagination."
- (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
- "I reckon one entrepreneur can recognise another at 300 yards on a
misty day."
- (Sir Peter Parker)
- "The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological
needs of his followers."
- (David Ogilvy)
- "A true smile doesn't fit your face."
- (Eugene Lyfehurtz)
- " ...first to clear your mind, then to free your spirit. This brings focus."
- (Eugene Lyfehurtz)
- "A man always has two reasons for what he does -- a good one and the
real one."
- (John Pierpont Morgan)