Famous Quotes

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

"All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football." Albert Camus

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

[Jasman0717 9]

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I love quotes....have a book with hundreds of them

[Jenn! 918]

"Goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. Yet the two combine to form the most noble of character."

- John Phillips

[almaty 19]

Fear less, hope more;

Whine less, breathe more;

Talk less, say more;

Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours."

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."

[Jasman0717 9]

"Goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. Yet the two combine to form the most noble of character."

- John Phillips

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

[Scott & Lai 12]

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. Al Gore

One thing I'll say for Al Gore, he does have an excellent self-deprecating sense of humour

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

--C.S. Lewis

[one...two...tree 2,762]

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

That quote would make Spock wince.

[LuzyC 0]

Fear less, hope more;

Whine less, breathe more;

Talk less, say more;

Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours."

Good one bro. Dean..

[almaty 19]

for vjers...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

[almaty 19]

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Fear less, hope more;

Whine less, breathe more;

Talk less, say more;

Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours."

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."

Awesome!

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

"Life is Tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid"

John Wayne as Sergeant John M. Stryker, USMC

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This one definitely fits VJ...

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

~ Robert McCloskey