Quotes and Sayings

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

Practice, the master of all things.

Augustus Octavius

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

Jello Biafra

History repeats itself historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

Golf is a good walk, ruined.

Mark Twain

Plato is boring.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

William Shakespeare

The law neither does nor requires idle acts.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty - One, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

The only bad thing about keeping on burning your bridges Behind you, is that the world is round..

Unknown

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - For credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

Lester R Bittel

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

John Owen

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

Jerry Coleman

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

We must hang together, gentlemen... else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Author Unknown

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

George William Curtis

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Carl Jung

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

From the last episode of "Cheers".

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?

James Joseph Sylveste

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

Author Unknown

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

Hannah Whitall Smith