"My mom is going to get the best old folk's home money can buy." - Marianne Walsh
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head," - Sally Kempton
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." - Albert Einstein
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." - Malcolm X
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." - Agnes Repplier
"Musicians don't retire. They stop when there's no more music in them." - Louis Armstrong
"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins." - Mae West
"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another." - Tom Robbins
"Inner peace and outer peace are synonymous in the sense that without one, the other wouldn't happen." - Yoko Ono
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
(This might be the most stupid thing that John Wesley ever said; it reminds me of Pat Robertson)
"Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell." - John Wesley
"If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had ten apostles." - Jesse Helms
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train" - Oscar Wilde
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe." - Peter de Vries
"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." - Albert Einstein
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up." - Pearl S Buck
"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything." - Evelyn Waugh
"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson
"I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency." - T S Eliot
"I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." - Steve McQueen
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." - Bernard Meltzer
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." - Leslie Lamport
"Money can't buy happiness, money IS happiness" - from the teleBision show 30 Rock
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - George S. Patton
"I have never been so flattered in my life than to think it would take three hundred men to kill me." - Richard Francis Burton
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.” - Terry Pratchett
“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.” - Carl Zwanzig
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” - supposedly from Mark Twain
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head," - Sally Kempton
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." - Albert Einstein
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." - Malcolm X
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." - Agnes Repplier
"Musicians don't retire. They stop when there's no more music in them." - Louis Armstrong
"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins." - Mae West
"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another." - Tom Robbins
"Inner peace and outer peace are synonymous in the sense that without one, the other wouldn't happen." - Yoko Ono
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
(This might be the most stupid thing that John Wesley ever said; it reminds me of Pat Robertson)
"Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell." - John Wesley
"If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had ten apostles." - Jesse Helms
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train" - Oscar Wilde
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe." - Peter de Vries
"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." - Albert Einstein
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up." - Pearl S Buck
"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything." - Evelyn Waugh
"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson
"I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency." - T S Eliot
"I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." - Steve McQueen
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." - Bernard Meltzer
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." - Leslie Lamport
"Money can't buy happiness, money IS happiness" - from the teleBision show 30 Rock
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - George S. Patton
"I have never been so flattered in my life than to think it would take three hundred men to kill me." - Richard Francis Burton
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.” - Terry Pratchett
“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.” - Carl Zwanzig
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” - supposedly from Mark Twain
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"Sometimes it is very difficult to verify the authenticity of quotes on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln
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