quotables

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

IamMine wrote:

Hey, rargh... loved those Helen Keller quotes... I got one inscriped (sp??) on an Angel christmas ornament (I'll have to find it to quote her).

I wish I remembered who said this, but I LOVE this quote!

"A great parent is one who remembers what it's like being a child"

Shes my hero!


Yeah i dont know who said that one either......hmmmmmm

I never feel age . . . If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
~ Louise Nevelson


Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
~ Douglas MacArthur


It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
~ Adlai Stevenson


The best part in the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
~ Eric Hoffer


I've always been proud of my age. I think people should be proud they've been around long enough to have learned something.
~ Frances Moore Lappe

In youth we learn, in old age we understand.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


Age is an opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Grow along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which first was made.
~ Robert Browning


I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
~ Katherine Hepburn


Live your life and forget your age.
~ Frank Bering

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
~ Thomas Fuller


Hope, the best comfort in our imperfect condition.
~ Edward Gibbon


Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
~ Emily Dickinson


Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith


There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
~ Orison S. Marden

I would cut and paste a few, but instead i'm just going to give a link because that's where i'd be getting them anway....


http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/atheism/ath_qots.htm

My favorite is probably:

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Stephen Roberts

or "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
Cardinal Bellarmine

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

non religious:

Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. - Mark Twain


I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing
on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop!
Don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" "He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist
Church of the Lord?" He said, "Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
---Emo Philips

Giving is the highest expression of power.
~ Vivian Greene


You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute.
~ Dag Hammarskjold


We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~ Mother Theresa


A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
~ Jackie Robinson


Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
~ Jim Rohn

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer


There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
~ Henry Drummond


You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~ Kahlil Gibran


The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
~ Leonard Nimoy


It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that you cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just read this on the net:


" A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting next to you saying, ‘damn, we screwed up’. "



and an old fave from Mr Zappa:

"..The Modern day composer refuses to die!.."

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it is sometimes happens that light and frivilous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
~ Walter Scott



Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
~ James Russell Lowell



If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
~ Kitaro Nishida