shamelessly pilfered from random sources. I think the quotes are attributed correctly, but don't quote me on it... We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. - Duke Francois de la Rouchefoucald No 'Dear', no 'Love, Mom.' Just a new toothbrush, new tube of of toothpaste, new bottle of cologne. Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind. -Stephen King (The Stand) How can I be substantial if I fail to cast a shadow? I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole. - Jung I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the first prayer of our hearts, but we dare not utter our longing: we are too shy - George Bernard Shaw Do you know how much it's costing me not to spank you silly? -my horoscope :) What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. - Alexander Pope I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. - Mark Twain We do not recieve wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. - Marcel Proust Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude ryths for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert Men go crazy in congregations But they only get better One by one - Sting The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. - William shakespeare Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. - Euripides But if the while I think on thee (dear friend), all losses are restored and sorrows end. - William Shakespeare In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Solitude brought out the worst in me. It gave me time to brood over the nature of things. I wondered how some people can be such a necessary part of one's life one day, and simply vanish the next. . . Isn't it supposed to last? - from Threesome I think the surest sign of life in outer space is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Calvin & Hobbes I have spent my life in idle longing, without saying a word, in the presence of those whom I love the most. - John Jacque Rousseau True love is friendship set on fire. - French proverb When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell An egotist is a person of low taste--more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence. - Sue Atchley Ebaugh If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out and dance with it. - Carolyn MacKenzie I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. - Errol Flynn Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. - Josh Billings The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. - Joan Borysenko To love is also good, for love is difficult. For one human being to love another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome, the ultimate test. It is that striving for which all other striving is merely preparation. - Ranie Maria Rilke "Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Carroll Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. - Noam Chomsky The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. - ??? My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. - Ashleigh Brilliant When one loves, nothing is too much trouble, and there is always time. - Abdu'l-Baha From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. - Arthur C. Clarke Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare, but they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. - E. W. Faber If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. - John Wheeler I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. - Gilda Radner When you have nothing to say, say nothing. - Charles Caleb Colton Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. - Danny Kaye Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton It takes a long time to understand nothing. - Edward Dahlberg Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. - Stephen King It is hard to begin. - Stephen King It's still about first seeing the impossible ... then saying it. It's still about making you believe what I believe, at least for a little while. .... First, repeat the catechism after me: I believe a dime can derail a freight train. I believe there are alligators in the New York City sewer system, not to mention rats as big as Shetland ponies. I believe that you can tear off someone's shadow with a steel tent-peg. I believe that there really is a Santa Claus, and that all those red-suited guys you see at Christmastime really are his helpers. I believe there is an unseen world all around us. I believe that tennis balls are full of poison gas, and if you cut one in two and breathe what comes out, it'll kill you. Most of all I DO believe in spooks, I DO believe in spooks, I DO believe in spooks. - Stephen King I wants to make your flesh creep. - Charles Dickens How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. - Marva Collins When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - E. W. Howe What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot The truth that many people never understand until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton Love doesn't sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. - Ursula K. LeGuin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. - Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne) Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. - Nietzsche Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. - Tallulah Bankhead Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. - Madeleine L'Engle Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, and what we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, you see us as: a brain, an athlete, a basketcase, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7 o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed. - from the Breakfast Club I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. - Isaac Asimov The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy ... in a jar on my desk. - Steven King I think to be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfation is to burn. - Anne Rice You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons. - Douglas Adams One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. - Mark Twain A half truth is a whole lie. - Yiddish proverb Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion. - John Jay Chapman One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. - Joseph Campbell True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. - Henry David Thoreau Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death. - Betty Bender Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know 50,000 things that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ??? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. - ???