.
['Art is in the Eye of the Beholder'] isn't true, by the way, Beholders keep their art on the walls of their lairs, just like people do. No Beholder would sacrifice an eye to store art in the socket, they need their eyes for stuff like seeing, and death rays. -Jennifer Diane Reitz
If you're not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination. -Joe Tye
Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting "All gods are bastards." -Rincewind
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again. -Mike Myers
There never was a good war or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. -Samuel Johnson
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt
Point of order: Bugger! -Jennifer Diane Reitz, in her first session of the card game "Mao."
Though no one can go back in time and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. -Joseph Campbell
Some would say "a microchip is not a toy, unless it is burnt out." Given how my lab sessions in EE tend to go, I would rather "a microchip is not a toy, until it is burnt out." -Alfador
Shoot the red wigglers! -Stephen Lepisto
True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -Jason Jordan
I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. -Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday
A baker is a mixture of chalk and clay used for hearing, and it converts sound into electrical impulses that are fed to the right and charge your sword. Then, whilst facing right, walk to the right by the power you and me. -MegaHAL
You know you're an engineer if you have no life & can prove it mathematically.
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates. -Thomas Szasz
One of the greatest surprises you'll experience is when you discover that you can do what you were afraid you couldn't do. Your obstacles will melt away, if instead of cowering before them, you make up your mind to walk boldly through them. -Max Steingart
Fear is a loaded gun squarely aimed to slay all your potential. You need to be on-guard every waking moment to deflect the invisible bullet. -Rick Beneteau
Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. -Warren Buffet
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. -John A. Simone, Sr.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere -Tim McGraw
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. -Mary Anne Radmacher
We think adversity itself is darkness, but the reality of the darkness is that it can serve to illuminate the light. Without pain there is no pleasure, without valleys there are no mountain tops and without struggle there is no sense of achievement. -Max Cleland
I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folk are like leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. -The Scarecrow of Oz, from 'The Marvelous Land of Oz' by Frank L. Baum
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois
After the game, the king and pawn go back in the same box.
Dimensional causality on a stick! -Sparksol
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. -Francesca Reigler
There are two ways of spreading light--to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. -Isaac Asimov
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations. -Zig Ziglar
Work is effort applied toward some end. The most satisfying work involves directing our efforts toward achieving ends that we ourselves endorse as worthy expressions of our talent and character. -William J. Bennett
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path, without brightening our own. -Ben Sweetland
In the beginning the dream makes the person, but in the end the person makes the dream. -John Maxwell
Far too many people fill themselves with worry about the future and regret about the past. What you really oughtta do is plan for the future, learn from the past...and LIVE in the present. -Alfador
That which does not kill me, makes me stranger. -Old dragon axiom
Time has no conscience...it doesn't judge...it only mirrors...what you have put into your time... it mirrors back as your life. -Doug Firebaugh
Never suspect conspiracy if incompetence could achieve the same result.
We should have no regrets. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know. -Rebecca Beard
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -Bertrand Russell
The pen is only mightier than the sword at a range greater than five feet. -Kerry Thornley
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. -Alan Cohen
You sold my lightsaber for 500 credits to a twenty-three year old noble pyromaniac, in public, WITH AN IMPERIAL IN THE ROOM, and you're offering your services to track him... FOR A FEE?!?
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -Dale Carnegie
We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. -Anaïs Nin
If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. -Brian Tracy
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shut your noise tube, taco human! -Invador Zim
There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know! -Linda Staten
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin
I will live forever or die trying.
I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun. -Kirstie Alley
What's possible exceeds what's impossible. Think about it. Do all you can do that is possible today, and in your tomorrow, what was impossible will be possible. -Mark Victor Hansen
When the voices in your head start calling you by the wrong name, is that a bad sign?
Like taking a morning shower, make the planting of positive thoughts a daily practice. -Neil Eskelin
I will give you tacos. Oh, such tacos will I give! -Invader Zim
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall long be surprised to find out how little remains that we cannot do. -Samuel Butler
Religion is about dead things. Dead people, dead spirits, dead wisdom, frozen in both time and in books.
Science is about life. Living knowledge that changes and grows and develops and seeks, changing, shifting, never completely certain, it always approaches but never completely reaches, which is proper, for life cannot remain still, lest it become dead itself. -Jennifer Diane Reitz, Oct. 30th, 2002
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. -Jim Rohn
And I ask you, bulb or parrot?
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. -George Lucas
There are only 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that don't. -Fallwind
To dream is to see beyond the horizon and to know that we are capable of anything our hearts desire.
Succeeding in adversity makes success all the sweeter. At the end of the day, it's not how far you fall but how high you bounce. -Sheila Wellington
Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.
Forsooth!
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. -Karen Kaiser Clark
It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it. -Wally "Famous" Amos
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. -Dr. Seuss
The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time. -Dan Millman
...And you can be stronger than any fear you know. [...] Come out of the darkness and find out who you are! -"Reach for the Light" from Balto
Famine is a political problem in this modern world, one created by civil wars and juntas destroying crops, disrupting trade, and preventing the flow of food to where it is needed. We have the output, the technology, the distribution system, and the economic incentives to feed the world--we lack only the stability in certain regions of the world for these factors to operate. -Naeta Waismulo
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. -Plutarch
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. -Pietro Aretino
Anything that can't laugh at itself is eventually doomed. -Crowfrog
The more sacred something is, the more arbitrary it is likely to be. -Jennifer Diane Reitz
The fox smiles widest when it has the most to hide. -Chou Yaru Kazemahou
Don't ever be afraid...to show the world who you are! -Richard Sebastian
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. -Ugo Betti
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. -John L. Spalding
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -Robert H. Goddard
People are destined to change. We are designed to grow mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. If you convince yourself that change is bad, you are poisoning your future. When you learn to embrace change with optimism and enthusiasm you will endure. Start capitalizing on your ability to change. -Dr. Susan Mendelsohn
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. -Serbian Proverb
Any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson. -Emmet Fox
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -Lazarus Long
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. -Maurice Setter
The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -Ivy Baker Priest
You live and learn. Or you don't live long. -Lazarus Long
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. -Bernard Baruch
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. -Sir Thomas Browne
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. -Yoda
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it? -Lazarus Long
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life. -Henry David Thoreau
If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life. -Josephine Rathbone
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man--man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him. -Lazarus Long
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive...and begin to act accordingly. -Shakti Gawain
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience. -Sonia Croquette
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. -Christopher Reeve
Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal, and urges toward new pleasures. -Fulton J. Sheen
The truth is there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with ... and remember that time waits for no one. -Doris Dobkins
Learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time--often just one baby-step at a time--and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4AM is a terrible time. Hunters and fishers get up at 4AM. That's why they want to kill things. -Mike Neun
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. -Humphry Davy
It's time for me to make a change, because fighting for our dreams often demands transformation. And, when we get too set in the way we sit and stand, that's exactly when we need to move. -Jim Warda
The gifts you have belong to no one else. If you think your gifts are insignificant, or if you think they aren't as valuable as your neighbor's, your talents will wither and cease to exist. Your job is to use your gifts, to let them take you as far as they are able. Keep your unique channel of energy open--there is no telling where it might lead you.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock
Home is where the heart is. More importantly, it's where the bathroom is.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela
In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -Albert Camus
If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within. -Dan Millman
To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire. -Nido Qubein
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. -Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. -Whitney Young
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. -Samuel Johnson
There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one. -Elmer G. Leterman
We can only learn to love by loving. -Iris Murdoch
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset in part by Brewster's Factor: that's engineering. -from "The Number of the Beast," by Robert A. Heinlein
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. -Plato
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. -Lin Yu Tang
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. -William Durant
If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -Maori Proverb
Don't be afraid, just keep on trying in your way! ... Get the courage to open the door, and soon you'll be free! -from "The Breeze", Final Fantasy 3 Yuukyuu no Kaze Densetsu (Legend of the Eternal Wind)
Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -Sarah Bernhardt
Dare to be what you ought to be; dare to be what you dream to be; dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare! -Norman Vincent Peale
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. -Shakti Gawain
Don't try to make things happen faster than they should. Swimming with the current is as unproductive as swimming against it; in the former case, you may pass by what you wanted to see all too fast, in the latter, you may never get to it.
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. -Louis L'Amour
Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -John Muir
It doesn't matter what path in life you take, so long as YOU take that path. Don't let anyone else lead you by the hand.
Two roads diverged within a wood, and I / I found a way to take both paths.
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.
It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile. -Hubert H. Humphrey
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. -Norman Vincent Peale
I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better than when I got here. -Jim Henson
Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing. -Bart Conner
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. -H.W. Dresses
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. -Brooke Foss Westcott
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. -William Arthur Ward
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. -Eskimo proverb
As long as you know what it is you desire, then by simply affirming that it is yours - firmly and positively, with no ifs, buts, or maybes - over and over again, from the minute you arise in the morning until the time you go to sleep at night, and as many times during the day as your work or activities permit, you will be drawn to those people, places, and events that will bring your desires to you. -Scott Reed
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. -Rabindranath Tagore
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death. -Betty Bender
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. -Foster C. McClellan
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -Sydney J Harris
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. -Florence Shinn
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -George Bernard Shaw
We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day. -Mario Andretti
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. -Richard Cushing
Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Q: What do you get when you drop Thanksgiving dinner?
A: The downfall of Turkey, an uprising in Grease, and the breakup of China.
Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal. -Les Brown
Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the vast radiance and the secret wonders that fill the world. -18th-century Chasidic saying
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -Leo Burnett
Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow, it empties today of strength. -Corrie Ten Boom
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. -Maurice Chevalier
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. -Samuel Johnson
If Microsoft built a car, and you bought it, and you got in a crash, then it would ask "Are you sure?" before setting off the airbag.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong. -Thomas Carlysle
In all things, be willing to listen to people around you. None of us is really smart enough to go it alone. -John Clendenin
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. -Deepak Chopra
Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: Fortune is full of fresh variety; constant in nothing but inconstancy. -Richard Barnfield
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. -Mark Victor Hansen
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
There is no action, comment, or joke which can't be taken out of context and shown in the worst possible light by a properly motivated person. -Gene Breshears
There is no cause so pure, no organization so noble, that a reporter can't find a raving lunatic who purports to be an adherent. -Larry Niven
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. -Bernard M. Baruch
If someone with multiple personalities tries to commit suicide, do the police consider it a hostage situation?
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. -Garson Kanin
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream might be. -Pearl S. Buck
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A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision. -Nido Qubein
There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. -Laurence J. Peter
If we lead good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. -St. Augustine
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. -Richard Moss
If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind. -Jeffrey Gitomer
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. -Helen Keller
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain
Nothing is worth more than this day. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Null pointer this!
Change your thoughts and you change the world. -Harold R. McAlindon
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
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Life naturally evolves in the direction of happiness. We must constantly ask ourselves if what we are doing is going to make us, and those around us, happy. Because happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals. -Deepak Chopra
In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, the true neighbor will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. -Robert Collier
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. -Og Mandino
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. -Hanmer Parsons Grant
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. -Sandra Biereg
Discretion is the better part of being a bard.
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with. -Dale Dauten
Never moon a werewolf. -Mike Binder
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. -M.C. Escher
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -Abraham Lincoln
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. -Albert Einstein
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. -Jack Handey
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara. -Arthur C. Clarke
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. -Simon Dach
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France
Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed. -Brian Tracy
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. -Aldous Huxley
When I think of how quickly time flies, I am always sorry that I did not do better yesterday or last year, because that particular opportunity will never come again. But I comfort myself with thinking that the opportunity to do better next time lies before me. -Edward Chipman Guild
"I passed! ...But I failed!" 'Well, then, I'm happy and sad for you.' -from Real Genius
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. -Horace
Oh, for the love of cheese fries!
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia
Human beings have this built in inertia called the human spirit, that just keeps them going no matter what the circumstances. -Emile Wamsteker
A rose only becomes beautiful and blesses others when it opens up and blooms. Its greatest tragedy is to stay in a tight-closed bud, never fulfilling its potential.
I want scissors! 61! -A virus-infected AI in Metal Gear Solid 2
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. -Henry Ward Beecher
I believe that a person's true happiness comes from being able to look back in their past and feel they worked hard to achieve something and, in fact, achieved it. -Hirofumi Daimatsu
Persistence takes a focus that doesn't see the obstacles but only sees the opportunity. -Doug Firebaugh
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. -Herman Melville
"I like doughnuts." 'Duly noted.' -"Kiki" and 'Riff', Sluggy Freelance
Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect...and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances. -Abraham Tucker
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy
Faith is leaping across the gaps between the known and the unknown, the proven and the unproven, the actual and the possible. -Dr. Robert H. Schuller
If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself, the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but YOU are just a dirty liar. -Groucho Marx
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. -Ivan Turgenev
Fish walk over the moose in the bright rain. -Howled by Logan, Dakota's Ridge
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust
If truth is available to us at all, it's definitely a whisper. You're never going to hear it if you can't stop yelling. -D.C. Simpson
I was young. If I had been more experienced, I would have turned off the heat and covered the saucepan...but I was a fool. The bouillon was summoned, but it was not beef, nor chicken, nor any meat known to polygon. It was a dark, lumpy broth, a broth of pain and confusion. -from Triangle and Robert
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. -Henry Miller
What's the point in arguing when you're all alone?
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. -Agnes Repplier
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. -Herbert Gasser
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness; and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. -Aristotle
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. -T.S. Elliot
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. -Sir John Lubbock
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. -Oscar Wilde
You can lead a horse to water, But[sic] a crossbow doesn't use gunpowder. -MegaHAL
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke
I really wish i[sic] could jump out of things to talk about something interesting. -MegaHAL
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them. -William Hazlitt
My hovercraft is full of eels. -MegaHAL
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. -Horace
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. -MegaHAL
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
A house is a vicious telemarketer. Please leave your brain at the door and come play with us in the sky. -MegaHAL
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life. -Barbara Walters
Don't tell anyone I saw you!
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance. -Og Mandino
Where do you get the minus sign you stupid fool?
To dream anything that you want to dream - that is the beauty of the mind.
To do anything you want to do - that is strength of will.
To trust yourself to test your limits - that is the courage to succeed.
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. -James F. Bell
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. -Alan Alda
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. -Walter Benjamin
All is not as it may seem, life is little but a dream.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. -Thomas J. Watson
I wanted to become an axe murderer, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't seem to drown that damn axe.
"One false move and you're geography!" 'That's history, you dolt! History!' "You obiously do not grasp the function of this weapon."
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. -Albert Schweitzer
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. -John Muir
How much ham could a hamster stir if a hamster could stir ham?
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. -Sufi Epigram
I never get to have a coherent train of thought, so why should anyone else? -Millie
Isn't it wonderful?
When you are completely at the bottom, the future can only look up.
How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. -Simone De Beauvoir
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. -Robert F. Kennedy
You know you've been online too long when.... you see underlined text in a catalogue and press it to see what it links to. -Ytaya
Another reason why cannibalism isn't widely accepted. Because why would you eat a nasty person that tastes like a sock when you can eat factory-processed and delicious chicken? -Thorain
A sandwich is a sandwich but a man-witch is a warlock. -Algus
You're just upset because you're lower on the food chain.
Winning a war is just as possible as winning an earthquake.
Did you hear about the schizophrenic who sued himself for copyright violation?
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. -Samuel Smiles
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. -Og Mandino
If Pac-Man ate 3/4 of a waffle, would it be considered cannibalism?
My ability to integrate arcsine strikes fear in the heart of all mortals. -Scott
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy
The next time someone walks by and asks "Hey, how are you doing?" break the trend; tell them how you really feel.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. -Samuel Johnson
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -Maya Angelou
You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.
Once cosmetic genetic engineering becomes available, Japan will have an entire generation of girls with "naturally" purple hair.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. -Laura Ingalls Wilder
Warning! The Surgeon General warns that summoning ancient, blasphemous Gods from before human history may have detrimental effects on your sanity, health, and may even cause cancer and/or death!
Down deep in every soul is a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you. -Grenville Kleiser
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Darn it, what's the point of starting a corporation if it doesn't annoy your mom? -Millie
Stress is the by-product of resisting the urge to throttle someone who really needs throttling.
Zen master Ikyoto said, "The world is vast and wide. Why, then, do you wear pants in which you could smuggle Volkswagons?" -Ozy
This is your life, and it's ending one random battle at a time. -from "Fighter Club" courtesy of 8-Bit Theater
Most of the shadows in this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always proactively untwist octagonal hippopotamus pants. -Millie
Everything has a manual. -Riff
Oh, give me a clone, yes give me a clone,
With the Y chromosome changed to X.
My clone and me, and me and my clone,
We'll think about nothing but sex... -Isaac Asimov
You're all friends. None of you want to hurt each other! Just be happy with the knowledge that eventually you will own a Playstation 2! -Torg-Conscience-Angel
Gossip's worth its weight in gold... -Monsieur Firmin
And quit picking at my cheese. -Torg
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.
How about ghost stories? I know this great one about this guy who had a deviled egg shaped like Janet Reno for a hand! And he only spoke in iambic pentameter! -Torg
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. -Aldous Huxley
You will never know what you are capable of until you try. If you fail to try, all you will ever know is what you were NOT capable of. Stop settling for less. -Julia Griggs Havey
Honour. Valour. Gloury. Dourks. -From the trailer for "The Gamers."
We can make excuses all day long as to why we can't do something or we can allow our strength of conviction to propel us to action and let our minds find a way to overcome any obstacle. -Julia Griggs Havey
A preposition is no word to end a sentence with.
I believe in trust on the Internet--but I still use 128-bit encryption.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to support you long enough to enable you to reach for something higher. -Thomas Henry Huxley
If at first you don't succeed, cheat. If that don't work, RUN!
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. -Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
To a dragon, knights are just food in a can.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. -Katherine Mansfield
What you say? No rubbish or Ayla, head go boom! -Ayla, Chrono Trigger
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H. P. Lovecraft
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Next time put yourself on a diet before you die! -Roger, CRFH!!!
Jesus saves. Allah forgives. Cthulhu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
"Here is my resume. I believe you will find everything in order." 'Why does this look like a character sheet?' -"Red Mage" and 'Black Mage', 8-Bit Theater
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. Dangelo
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. -James Allen
Lot 666 then: a chandelier in pieces.
Success is finding and doing to the best of your ability, in each moment of your life, what you enjoy most doing and what you can do best. -Nido Qubein
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. -Jean Shinoda Bolen
I got fangs!
Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game. -Harvey Mackay
Life is like a bowl of cherries: When things are just the pits, you can always try something else.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. -Stephen Covey
Man must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of your life is a miracle and a mystery. -H.G. Wells
Foso Lusec Fexos Vinosec.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -Jimmy Dean
Courage is being afraid, but doing it anyway.
American components, Russian components...All "Made In Taiwan"!!! -Cosmonaut from Armageddon
When will people understand that castration is a much bigger deterrent than the death penalty? -Professor Ashfield, "?"
Looking to the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map? -Vincent Van Gogh
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. -Og Mandino
The distance doesn't matter, only the first step is difficult. -Madame Marquise du Deffand
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. -Art Buchwald
Regenerate that, ugly. -Bun-Bun
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. -Og Mandino
From the Top Twenty Things Never To Say To A Dragon: Your momma was a flamethrower!
Do not eat me, chupacabra!
Soylent Green is people!
Yea verily, my Links page links to many comics. Forsooth, if thou shouldst emaileth me, be certain that thy settings are such that I can email thee back.
Roses are red, violets are violet, Here's the Zorgon spies, Yo momma's a harlot. -Lodoze
Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or abused. Why? Of course...because habit is an easy place to hide. -Tom Rusk
You cannot go back and make a new beginning. But you can start today and make a new ending.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. -Art Linkletter
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius
This is the lost city of Tetris. The game was loosely based on the legend. The Tetreans were said to have built their vast city of prefabricated cubes, until the cubes were packed so densely into rows that the city sank under its own weight and vanished from the earth. -Cube, Triangle and Robert
Step away from the tub of happiness. -Sergeant Schlock
To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wildflower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour. -William Blake
Oasis's wedding is ruined, knives are flying, Gwynn's pupils have ominously vanished and she's having clothes-issues. There are just so many reasons to run for my life, I'm having trouble settling on just one! -Torg
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. -S. I. Hayakawa
One man's "birds of a feather" is another's "muscling in on my territory." -Bun-Bun
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner. -Tallulah Bankhead
Did you just see a drunken rabbit hop by with my bottle of 151-rum? -Riff
If you think you must have kicked a Chinese Philosopher to earn your interesting life style; I must have done something unspeakable to the Dalai Lama with a fishfork. -Olletho
The robot is fully armored in heat-treated, triple-folded titanium. It can resist high-powered artillery blasts or a point-blank Senate ethics committee hearing. -Riff
The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn. -James Allen
A most unseemly specter. Who was this rude shade? -Mandorallen
Plunge boldly into the thick of life. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
These wires...they're all blue! -Weasel Boy, Supermegatopia
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness--simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. -George Sand
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. -Robert H. Schuller
"What about Captain Death?" 'He's dead, sir.' Captain Amazing and his publicity agent, Mystery Men
Your destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. Many people have the right aims in life--they just never get around to pulling the trigger. When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it. -John Mason
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. -Andre Maurois
Success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward. -Bruce Jenner
Dragonoix rumbles, "I think the wizzes want this place to be Disney G rated."
Shal'Nath howls, "No, they just want you to be. ;)"
-Heard in the Park
On election day, I stay home. I stay home. I say if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around, though. People say if you don't vote you have no right to complain. Bullshit! You, who have elected the incompetent official, have no right to voice your complaints while I, who have innocently remained in the comfort of my home on Election Day, have every right to complain as loudly and as frequently as I like. -George Carlin
The problem with making something foolproof is that fools are so damn clever.
Take the time to come home to yourself everyday. -Robin Casarjean
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain
Sometimes I think your train of thought is carrying a shipment of toxic waste. -Ozymandius J. Llewellyn, Ozy and Millie
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. -George Orwell
The trouble with finding your place in the eye of the storm is, you're basically surrounded. -Ozymandius J. Llewellyn, Ozy and Millie
"Normal?" If we're all freaks and you're normal, you're the freak. -Roger, CRFH!!!
One mage, two mage, Red Mage, Blue Mage.
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure. -Roger Crawford
Win and live. Lose and die. Rule of life. No change rule. -Ayla, Chrono Trigger
How could an outsider like you yank out the sword and bring doom to us all!! -Village Elder, Secret of Mana
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -Aldous Huxley
Set theory: When you have three people in a room, and five come out, then two have to enter, to make the room empty.
Accusations I can handle. I know what to do when threatened with violence. But a hug? How am I supposed to counter a hug? -Sam, Freefall
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. -Dale Carnegie
It's not the net result of one's life that's important, it's the day-to-day concerns, the personal victories, the celebration of life--and love! It's enough if people are able to experience the joy that each day can bring! -Terra, FFVI
What was it Wolf used to say? When life gives you lemons, kick 'em in the nuts and say, "I wanted a beer, bitch!"
Do you think, I said, that I am crazy enough to try to shave a lion or trick Thrasymachus?
All this fuss over a sixteen-bit game system.
Even chickens have guts.
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little, and, as a result, they get little. -Ben Sweetland
Up next: "When animals you shouldn't keep as pets but do anyway and they proceed to do what they do and kill your sorry ass III"! -Tee Vee, Random Access
I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscle can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man and until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the market place. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. -Og Mandino
A picture is worth a thousand words but takes longer to download.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. -Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. -Robert X Cringely
Lawyer's Rule: When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, call the other lawyer names.
If life were fair, we would never be thirsty and have to pee at the same time.
If infinite rednecks fired infinite shotguns at an infinite number of road signs, they'd eventually create all the great literary works of the world in braille.
Diplomacy(Noun): The art of telling someone to go to Hell in such a way that they actually look forward to the trip.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Many races believed that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. -Douglas Adams
If you feed a dog, they will look at you and think, "YOU are MY God!" If you feed a cat, they will look at you and think, "I am a GOD." -Devi the little grumpy cat lover
The air is sweet, and fragrant, and NONE MAY PASS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!
Try diplomacy first--you can always invade them later.
You know, just once I'd like to walk into an engineering building and not see calculators pointed in a threatening manner.
Don't ask what your country can do for you. Ask how much it's going to cost them to do it.
Incompetence is a double-edged banana. -John Perry Barlow
Odd, shouldn't there be a big giant fireball and the sound of a million voices crying out only to be silenced? You don't suppose I hit another pillow factory? -Dark Iguana, Supermegatopia
No lions are ever caught in mousetraps. To catch lions you must think in terms of lions, not in terms of mice. Your mind is always creating traps of one kind or another, and what you catch depends on the thinking you do. It is your thinking that attracts to you what you receive. -Thomas Dreier
Those who can, do. Those who can't, write the instructions.
Reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy can be hobbit forming.
Somebody set up us the bomb!
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -Benjamin Franklin
Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest S.O.B. of them all.
Goodnight. And the bad knight. They fought on little ponies. And when they fell off the ponies, they fought with little swords. Cling cling, the end.
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. -Tom Robbins
That's your horoscope for today...
I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes. -Dave Barry
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish. -Darrell Royal
Sticks and Stones may break my bones...But whips and chains excite me! -Demon Cat
The squirrels! The squirrels are freakin' me out! -Cormidax
We are each only one drop in a great ocean--but some of the drops sparkle!
There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
I got my mind on my MP and my MP on my mind. Word. -Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. -George S. Patton
Feeping Creatures are the avatars of creeping features.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -Sir Cecil Beaton
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. -Elizabeth Bibesco
Now look! I have this non-squid-like tentacle suction cup stuck to my head! Are you all happy? -Lord Horribus, Sluggy Freelance, "The Hunter" storyline
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. -Mary Pickford
Everything in excess! To enjoy life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. -Lazarus Long
I sometimes confuse Santa and Satan. Not only are their names anagrams of each other, they're both big, red, and they both enjoy scaring small children and bringing gifts, which they exchange for promises of certain behaviours. -Blackfaer
When you die, the first thing you will see in heaven is the high scores list.
Smaug is induced by pollution. Do you resist poison?
All your base are belong to us.
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure.
Where your treasure is, there is your heart.
Where your heart is, there is your happiness. -St. Augustine
alt.cellular.phone.tech?
alt.fan.jigglypuff?
Or...alt.games.final-fantasy.aeris.boo.hoo.hoo?
Where...did the YAK come from?!
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed. -Erastus Wiman
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (~300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. -"Applied Optics", vol. 11, A14, 1972
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.
As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I think he's from the CIA.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. -Tomorrow
You can drive a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries to kill it. -Tomorrow
Everyone *knows* cats are on a higher level of existence. These silly humans are just to big-headed to admit their inferiority.
Just think what a nicer world this would be if it were controlled by cats.
You wouldn't see cats having waste disposal problems. They're neat.
They don't have sexual hangups. A cat gets horny, it does something about it.
They keep reasonable hours. You *never* see a cat up before noon.
They know how to relax. Ever heard of a cat with an ulcer?
What are the chances of a cat starting a nuclear war? Pretty neglible. It's not that they can't, they just know that there are much better things to do with ones time. Like lie in the sun and sleep. Or go exploring the world.
A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule. -Tomorrow
Beer me!
Jim! Demo tape!
I am so spooned.
What else is there to life?
There is intelligent life on Earth, but I'll be heading home next Monday.
How far can you open your mind before your brain falls out?
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. -Theodore N. Vail
Next time someone shows me pictures of their baby daughter in the bath I'm going to say: "Look here, toddlers don't interest me. Wait 18 years, then photograph your daughter in the bath and I may be interested in looking at it." -Tomorrow
There's nothing very mysterious about you, except that nobody really knows your origin, purpose, or destination.
Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming. -Tomorrow
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
He's a moogle, I tell ya. A demented, pot-smoking, gun-toting, sexist, womanizing moogle. He's my hero.
[L] I am a thief! T-H-I-E-F! Not a treasure hunter! Thief!!
[A] You don't need to be modest.
[L] Look. This is your wallet. I am STEALING your wallet.
[A] Nice treasure.
[L] This is not treasure! This is your wallet! I am TAKING money out of YOUR wallet, WITHOUT your permission! I am STEALING your money!
[A] What wonderful treasure hunting skills.
[L] I AM A THIEF! I TAKE OTHER PEOPLE'S THINGS, WITH NO THOUGHT OF COMPENSATION OR RETURN! THIEF, I TELL YOU!!! AUGH!!!
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? -T. Pratchett, The Truth
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. -Mary Wilson Little
Simulations are like miniskirts, they show a lot and hide the essentials. -Hubert Kirrman
10th enemy has the bomb.
Wasaaaaaabi!!!
Dondongo dislikes smoke.
The opposite of progress is Congress.
It's not the inital skirt length, it's the upcreep.
'Alone for a--' "Shut up!!!" -Alfador/qtar, then Seroth.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
The world is full of mentally unsound people together in one place. Look at Congress. -Kibbles
Only fool play leapfrog with unicorn.
God requireth not a uniformity of religion. -Roger Williams
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
I eat you, you eat me, happy carnivores are we... -Barney the purple meat-eating dinosaur
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Ashleigh Brilliant
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason. -Wayne Dyer
Deja vu: French., already seen; unoriginal; trite.
Psychol., The illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
Psychol., The illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
If God meant for me to eat vegetation that wasn't triple washed and came in plastic bags, he would have made me dumb like you! -Bun-Bun
Cut the chatter, Silent Jim! -Gabriel, "Demon Hunters"
Who wants human? I do! I do! -Duamerthrax the Indestructible
When life gives you a lemon, say, "Lemons? I like lemons. What else have you got?"
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. -Douglas MacArthur
'Aaahh! The Quotez! I cannot do them over Christmas Break! If I get a quote, I might put it up, but for now, I can't update them until I come back. So for--' "Cut the chatter, Brian! Or do you want me to summon He Who Brings Icy Water In A Plastic Bottle?" 'Aaah! Anything but the Icy Water In A Plastic Bottle!' -'Brian' and "Alfador"
[insert name here] has slipped off the hook. -Worms: Armageddon
Neuga, zeiber, zeiner, zom. Now the chosen time has come. Exchange this world for...! -Magus
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. -Dereke Bruce
You can be a dreamer and a doer too if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible! -Robert H. Schuller
Younger...brother? At first I thought he was some bodybuilder who had strayed from his gym... -Terra, talking about Sabin
Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have! -W. Clement Stone
Oh no, not again. -A bowl of petunias
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! -Amanda Bradley
No ticket! -Indiana Jones
The point is, you see, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. -Douglas Adams
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot
One person's overused joke is another person's running gag.
Can't I have just a little bit of peril? -Sir Galahad, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
If being a coward means running away at the first sign of danger, tripping and screaming and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave Man, I guess I'm a coward.
Man who stand on toilet is high on pot.
To err is human, but I can REALLY foul things up.
Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code!
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -St. Francis of Assisi
College is easy. Life is hard. But life keeps going on while you're at college...
"This is no time to panic! ... Start panicking." Aladdin, Aladdin
"This is no time to panic!" 'This is a perfect time to panic!' -Buzz and Woody, Toy Story
The Computer made me do it!
To be or not to be. -Shakespeare
To do is to be. -Nietzsche
To be is to do. -Sartre
Do be do be do. -Sinatra
The world is a mirror that reflects our own face. Frown at it and it will show you a sourpuss. Laugh at it and it will be your jolly friend.
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. -Michael Altshuler
Don't get even -- get odd!
The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. -G. K. Chesterton
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -Tom Clancy
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all it's pupils. -Hector Berlioz
Backward conditioning: Putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring.
Schizophrenia beats being alone.
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
Oooooh...gurururu... -Terra, FFVI
If life gives you the short end of the stick, sharpen it and make a tool out of it. -Colin Powell
Emergency!! The Empire cometh!! -Narshe Guard, FFVI
In Heaven, the cooks are French, the cops are British, the mechanics are German, the bankers are Swiss, and the lovers are Italian. In Hell, the cooks are British, the cops are German, the mechanics are French, the bankers are Italian, and the lovers are Swiss. -Assinio
Who the heck am I... -Galuf, FFV
Mix Propecia and Viagra, and you wind up with hair that just won't go down! -Roon
I'm a GENERAL, not some opera floozy! -Celes, FFVI
The easiest weapon for you to sneak in is the one the first guard is carrying... -Asagwe
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. -Chief Seattle
Who is this puffed up aerobics instructor, anyway? -Relm, FFVI, about Sabin
And why, if Deja Vu is so damn common, do only the FRENCH have a word for it? -Roon
"If God's prerequisites for entrance to paradise include belief in him," the zebra said, idly chewing a mouthful of grass, "Well, let's just say that I'm not going to believe in a God with such a self-esteem problem." -Robert Tobias, "The Conscious Beast"
What's another word for 'synonym?' -Karma
Yoiks and away! -Dingbat
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
What's another word for 'thesaurus?' -Roon
Oh, do not you guys dare me, for I will do it!
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you tried to do nothing and succeeded.
The sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws.
A planet is a planet, but a manwich is a meal. -Cormidax
When you're in class, listening to a CD player with the headphones hidden under your hair, you have to remember not to start singing along. -Kitkala
Run! Run! Or you'll be well done! -Kefka, FFVI
Dirk was also, he denied, a psychoassic vampire bat. -Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Woe unto the hexapedal cretins. -Tony, The Class Menagerie
There were only 5 great men. And 3 of them were hamburgers. -Dingbat
You call me psycho like it's a bad thing.
If life gives you lemons, squeeze the juice into a watergun and shoot people in their eyes.
Heaven didn't want me, and hell was afraid I'd take over... -AngryDave
There must be millions of insane people in this world...I should know, I'm two of them.
Can't wage war on an empty stomach! -Sabin, FFVI
The FUNKY horror!
I bring death and destruction! And pirogis. -Dingbat
No, I'm afraid I don't have any raspberry-swirl ice cream, or, as you would say, As segundas-feiras sou um sapato! -Torg, Sluggy Freelance, 'The Wrong Torg' Storyline
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
What? A quadlaser bazooka? For ME? That's so SWEEE- ZAAAAAAPPPPPP!!!!
I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness. - Calvin.
Beware of GEEKS Bearing Gifts!
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
You spoony bard! -Tellah, FF2/4j
"Life is like a fly on the toilet seat, at some point or other, you're going to get pissed off."
If all the humans are annihilated, that's OK. It's their destiny. -Volcanon, SHF2
Ni! -Monty Python
Updating web pages regulary is the second hardest thing in the world--the hardest thing is a diamond.
I'm going mad! Mad, I tell you!
Hey! Call me a treasure hunter or I'll rip your lungs out! -Locke Cole, FFVI
Resistance is not futile...but capacitance is.
Is it not nifty?
The geek shall inherit the Earth.
This is a test of the Emergency Quotez System. This is only a test.
I'm baaack!
Zat's all folks!
Friends, rabbits, countrymen, lend me your ears!
Alrighty then.
Why must they torment us so?!
Cry 'Cheeble' and let slip the Hamsters of War!
The Midnight Motie strikes again.
Don't Panic.
Is ignorance really bliss, or are you just faking it?
Your Mayonnaise May Vitrify.
I'm not a god. I was just misquoted. -David Lister
Ipso Facto! Meeny Moe... MAGICO!!! -Spekkio
Why are the words "abbreviated" and "acronym" so long?
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