“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." Jim Carrey
"Burnt toast and a rotten egg? Whatta ya want that for?" "I got a tapeworm and that's good enough for him!" Curly and Moe
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela
Abbott: Well, let's see, we have on the bags, Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third...
Costello: That's what I want to find out.
"Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king."
--Bob Dylan
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
― Reba McEntire
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
Bill Waterson authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and therefore ranks among the great thinkers of the age.
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
― Henry Miller
“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
― Dave Barry
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
― George Eliot
“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.”
― Herman Melville
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that cannot be questioned.
--Ricard Feynman
“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.”
― Phil Ochs
Why on Earth are we here?
Surely not to live in pain and fear.
Why on Earth are you there,
When you're everywhere.
Come and get your share.
Lennon
