Okay, Here ya go! A whole bunchalottaheapa quotes accumulated over a lifetime. Some will inspire, some will offend, some are so stoopid you'll be astoundificated. Kind of something for everyone here. From the sublime to the stupid; the sagacious to the incomprehensible; from pellucid to ludicrously abstruse; from philosophy to blasphemy. Yep, we've run the gamut here, folks. Just deal with it, okay?

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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." -Leonardo DaVinci

"Oh, lonesome’s a bad place to get crowded into." -Kenneth Patchen

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a
lump of sugar!" -Pablo Picasso

"God is the shortest distance between zero and infinity…in either direction."
   -Alfred Jarry

"All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that God sent into the human body" Hildegard of Bingen

"God is a practical joker with unlimited resources." -Wanda Simpson

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." -Jalal Ud-Din Rumi

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin; A grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak." - James Russell Lowell

"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzbyski

"An awful lot of people can't see the trees for the forest." - Jack Ridl

"The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra

"Only out of deep experience of
love, sweet and bitter, pleasant
and painful, high and low,
heaven and hell,
only out of deep experience of
pain and pleasure
through love does one become aware.
They are needed to make you aware." - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss
it, but that it is too low and we reach it". - Michelangelo

"Our greatest need & most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives. When we expose our hearts and minds to the fruitful contemplation of life experiences (ours and those of others), we become gifted with an invaluable measure of vision and understanding that can ultimately dazzle the imagination and stir the passions..."  -Bruno Betelheim

"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that
succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception." - Harold Lokes

"The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions…" -Thomas Szasz

A Nazi soldier meeting Picasso said "So you’re the one who did that", (referring to his painting, Guernica.) "No, you did!" replied Picasso

"Sages who have abandoned learning come to rest in spontaneity" - Huang Po

"Every form correctly seen is beautiful" - Goethe

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."     -Edgar Degas

"A drawing is the nervous system made visible." -John Perriault

"Civilization is a transient sickness." - Robinson Jeffers

"Few people have the imagination for reality." - Goethe

"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which
each of us represents." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
  -Oscar Levant

"it is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence.
the noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to God.
It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man."   - Kenneth Patchen

"Welcome o life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." -Stephen Daedalus from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world. " - Mahatma Ghandi

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." -Collette

"Love and death are the two great gifts that we pass on, and we usually pass them on unopened"  - Rilke

"Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the
uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love." - Bengali Hymn

"Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it
any other way."  - Yogi Desai

"We who live in the metallic world must consider the birds not only the geese and the herons and the hummingbirds but also the theoretical birds which cruise in our veins passionate death defying birds which possess us. Because our music and our art originate from the birds.Our great great grandparents were birds. The electric currents in our brain are flying lessons. Our thoughts take flight." - Peter Schumann - from Bread & Puppets Theater

"Train rides/trainwrecks, notta lotta diff', 'ceptin' fer one crucial detail, n'est ce pas?" - Admiral Pluto Krozabeeep

"Breathe in soil, ground. Human being walk, make alive..." -Chinese proverb

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."    - Will Durant

"The future keeps telling you what the past was about." -Tammy Skleerna

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists" -Martin Luther King

‘We pray for circumstance, deal with happenstance, and accept consequence…" -Admiral Pluto Krozabeeep

"The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love." - Richard Edwardes

"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go." -Theodore Roethke

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand" -Baruch Spinoza

"Denial is a creative opportunity..." -Adja-Pelly-GoBoomdamn

"The Devil craps on the big pile" -Albert Einstein

"The gravity of the situation requires levity and brevity."
-Adja/Pelleye/Nicki/Wrench

"I am lost. I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait." -Ida Hopt

"No doubt the world is an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world." -Isaac Bashevis Singer

"My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this." Ashleigh Brilliant

"I'd rather know some of the questions than all of the answers." -James Thurber

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."- Benjamin Disraeli

"Wait, Lucidity…Lemme ‘splain!" -The existentialist Ricky Ricardo

"Yes but I cry easily. I cry at the movies. I cry over television ads. I blame the Modernist movement - it took the sentiment out of art, so we’re left to cry at junk." -Lenny Krenka

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." -Voltaire

"Shock comes – Oh - Oh! Laughing words – Ha - Ha!
Terror for a hundred miles, but he doesn’t drop the chalice."     -Aquarian Tarot

"The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here."   - Robert G. Ingersoll

"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way." - Topo Gigio

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"   - Leroy Satchell Paige

"Is do is did to do as is do is did to did." (The Golden Rule of Is and Do) -Zando Booch

"Why don't you put on a wooden beak and pick shit with the rest of us chickens?"   - Mabel Domitio

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited
while imagination embraces the entire world." -Albert Einstein

"If, upon observation, you realize that you are an imperfect person, stop,
acknowledge your cosmic trespass, ask that your slate be wiped clean, believe that it has, redirect your energies to change the identified imperfections, and move on. Repeat these steps as often as necessary." Paolo Pontificatti (Excerpt from Chicken Scagadda for the Soul)

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." Carl Sagan

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
     - Mahatma Gandhi

"They've said all they can say about me, except that I'm dead" - Georgia O'Keefe

"Depravity is its own reward..." -BeBeBobo

"The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed." - Franz Kafka

"Creativity in the form of art may be a whore unto the ego in the denial of mortality.
Or creativity in the form of being may be a cry of mortality to go on as conscious expression beyond the chains of theism. Consciousness is the stake that evolves into the brightness of all man and nails mortality to the color doors of time." - David Mullen

"You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, "you must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?" -Andy Warhol (in his diary on what it takes to make it in the art world.)

"They've said all they can say about me, except that I'm dead" - Georgia O'Keeffe

"If it's sour, throw it out! Ver Hassestak Orta! Dona mel da fees Hinkpool! Tok eeena eet! Tok eena eet! TOK EENA EET!!!" -Salvatore Martirano (from L's g.a.)

"Having vision means seeing with the heart." -Lucie Marty

"the illusion is that you are simply
reading this poem.
the reality is that this is more than a poem."  - bukowski

George Bernard Shaw's epitaph reads:
"I knew that if I lived long enough, something like this would happen."

"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born... Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens...just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity. -Ranier Maria Rilke

"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet." - Former British foreign minister, Ernest Bevin

"If I don't see you no more in this world, I'll meet you in the next one; & don't be late. (Don't be late..) -James Marshall Hendrix

"God does not play dice with the universe" - Albert Einstein

"Man exists in a twilight zone between beast and Buddha"  Wesczbo Dopaeenalotz

"I'm drinkin' TNT, I'm smokin' dynamite, I hope some screwball start a fight. ('Cause I'm ready...)"-McKinley Morganfield

"Many of the things you can count don't count. Many of the things you can't count really count." -Albert Einstein

"Strive for abject & total ludicrosity. Only when critical mass of the psyche AND soul has been achieved through incessant devotion to the realm of the absurd, can we begin to fathom the energy and beauty (and ultimate dignity) in our ongoing quest for spiritual fulfillment, ya know what I mean? Huh? do ya? OK, then." -Admiral Pluto Krozabeeep, Prime Minister of Eternal Combustion

"No, no, no..the one beHIND Maple Nut Crunch...." -Al Pacino

"For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we
understand. We will understand only what we are taught."  - Baba Dioum

"Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are
the rags of time." - John Donne

"Yo' Momma's ass!!" - Calvin Witherspoon

"Don’t be afraid of mistakes; there are none." - Miles Davis

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain

"When artists do the real work found deep inside themselves, it is a way of becoming their true size" -Harriet Griffith

"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people..." -Walter Winchell

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides..." Henri Frederic Amiel

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second." - Bernard Berenson

"Errors, like Straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for Pearls must dive below."
- John Dryden

"If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new."
- Voltaire

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give." -Norman
MacEwan

"Never forget that those who bring happiness to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." - Maurice Maeterlinck

"It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes."   -A. Favre

"An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure." Shelda Parsnip

"Don't just stammer...DO something!" Delda, Shelda Parsnip's older sister

Savor the warmth of every sun filled day, the chill wind of every raging storm, weeds as much as flowers, the bitter and the sweet." from "dark rivers of the heart"
- Dean Koontz

"Loving someone deeply gives you strength; while being deeply loved gives you courage." -Lao Tzu

"I don't like work- no man does- but I like what is in work- the chance to find yourself." -Joseph Conrad

"I don't like work, work don't like me; we'll stay away from each other, that's the way it ought to be- I ain't doin too bad, I ain't doin too bad at all..." -Morris Holt (Magic Slim)

"No man who obsesses about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence about how often it has been told before) you will likely become original without ever having noticed." -C.S. Lewis

"I am running for president in the year 2000 because I think I can beat
Bill Clinton." - Dan Quayle

"Garfield Goose the puppet, went around with Frazier Thomas' hand up his ass. He
liked it!" -Ray Rayner

"Never eat anything bigger than your head." - B. Kliban

"The shit just got past the waders" -K. Angelwood

"Wine is proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy" -Ben Franklin

"YOWW!! I am having fun!" -Zippy, that lovable pinhead

"Oh NO!!! I forgot to have fun!" -Little Lulu (at age 67)

"There are two ways to wash the dishes-the first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes." -Thich Nhat Hanh from "The Miracle of Mindfulness"

"Nothing's more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have..." -Emile Chartier

"People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end." -Malcolm Kushner

"Try? There is no try. There is only do or not do". -Yoda

"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist." -Eric Gill

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -Pablo Picasso

"If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail." -Heraclitus

"Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport." -Robert Weider

"Every rule here may be broken except this one!" -Karl Pomar

"Here Podie! Yho toe zhan! Yho Toe Zhan!" -Oblio Roman Boraldi

"The terrorist engrossed in his efforts to blow up a car, will sometimes burn his lips on the exhaust pipe." -Coelbard Coronado

"Is do is did is did is done so if is do. Is!" -Zando Booch

"With the power of soul, anything is possible. With the power of you, it's anything that you want t'do." -James Marshall Hendrix

"I am very fond of picking up chestnuts, old rags, and particularly pieces of paper. I like to hold them in my hands, to close my fingers over them; I could almost put them in my mouth, like a small child might." -Roquentin from Sartre's "La Nausee"

"Why don't yer shut yer gob yer big fat get or I'll kick your face in. Yer all the same you rich fat Bourgies, workin' uz poor workers to death and gettin all the gelt and going to France for for yer 'olidays." -Scruddy Tadddpill (from "Scene three Act one" in John Lennon's "In his Own Write"

"With freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and moulder of yourself, you may fashion yourself in whatever shape you shall prefer. You shall have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life which are brutish, or to, out of your soul's judgement, be reborn into the higher forms which are divine."
   -Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong"
       -Joseph Chilton Pearce

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love." - Pearl Bailey

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
     -Virginia Woolf

"Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right."
    -Joey Abzo Croemboza

"We buy, sell, & trade this, them, those, these and that." -Ray Melinder

"We are not here to create disorder, we are here to preserve disorder."
   - Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley Sr. (during the 1968 Democratic       Convention riots)

"Ahh, indubitably. I wanna raise my flag & say 'hi', I'm from the U. S. of A; (yeah, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout), and to all you bill collectors, y'all have a nice day.(send me some candy so I can lick the wrapper, baby)" -William "Bootsy" Collins

"I am not a crook!" -Richard Milhouse Nixon

"I am not a dumbfuck!" -Spiro T. Agnew

"I just can't imagine what happened to the tape." -Rosemary Woods

"I lost my coat, so whaddaya worryin' about?" -Dale Maddox

"Y'all people got to know 'bout yer rightful place in the back of the bus." -Lester Maddox

"You Goddamma kids'a, I catcha you, I cutta you fuckin'a balls off! -Alfredo Lazzari

"I don't know,; I just don't feel normal..." Bruce Joel Cutean

"I shut my eyes in order to see." -Paul Gaugin

"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." -Shakti Gawain

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and wrote some blues..." -Mercer Duke Ellington

"We've howdied but we ain't shook." -Tom Nicholson

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." -Claude Bernard

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin

"Be really whole and all things will come to you." -Lao Tzu

"A painting is never finished- it simply stops in interesting places." -Paul Gardner

"There is nothing more depraved than a man in the throes of an ether binge." -Dr. Hunter S. Thompson from "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"

"You ain't got to go home, but you sure got to get the Hell outta here!" -Morris Day

"Shuttup and play yer guitar!" -Frank Zappa

"Oh no, that is just baloneyshit!" -Xiangquang "Shawn" Yu

"Wisdom is to be crazy when circumstances warrant it."
  -Calvin Celeste, man of interesting

"It is better to look good than to feel good; you know what I mean? (You look mmmahvelous!)." -Fernando

"You say I go on all the time 'bout all the beautiful ladies even tho' I can't see 'em. Well I'm here to tell you, I can do a whole lot mo' wit' my hands than you can wit' your eyes!" -Ray Charles

"Oh Mister Egg Man! You're the nicest man I ever met!!"
-Edie Massey in John Waters' "Pink Flamingoes"

"Let me talk to you slightly- jus ast any woman you see; you can be as ugly as ugly can be, but if you got the money, you look allright! (an' if you don't look allright, well then, jus' keep on steppin')." -Pervis Spann, yo' all day, yo' all night bluesman

"A-wopbop-a-loo-wop a wop bam boom!" -Richard Penniman

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."
  - St. Francis De Sales

"Physician, heal thyself and the rest of you motherfuckers get the Hell outta my way or buy me a drink!" -Dr. Marcus Welby

"Boom boom boom boom..." -John Lee Hooker

"In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy
persons. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. - Victor Hugo

"Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm." - Idries Shah

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." -Thomas Alva Edison

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -Franklin Roosevelt

"If you can't poke fun & laff heartily (at/with/to) yourself, then for god's sake let someone else do it for you." -Al Toesax

"I refer to the blues as the national anthem." -McCoy Tyner

"What do YOU think?" -Judith Seales

"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love." - Kahlil Gibran "Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly".  - Louis Ginsberg "If I love you, what business is it of yours?" - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."     - Vincent Van Gogh "Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." - Rabbi J. Gordon "Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."  - Baltasar Gracian "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"We gonna have a funky good time!" -James Brown

"Man, that's how long it took!" John Coltrane when quizzed by Miles Davis about why he soloed for so long...

"Good grief! This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has got to go!" -Oscar Wilde's last words

"Why is a mouse when it spins? The higher the fewer..." -Reverend Paul Glick

"That bag don't hold no shit with me!" -Nicholas P. Cutean

"There's only two kinds of people in this world. People like me and ASSHOLES!" -Connie Marvel in John Waters' "Pink Flamingoes"

"The artist is not a different kind of person; but every person is a different kind of artist." -Eric Gill

"The consequence of our media-driven society, is that we have a lot of people who are not only ignorant but who are ignorant and don't care; who really believe their way to success is through sports and rock 'n' roll." -Dean Kamen

"Art gives us the presence of the mystery without losing the mystery." -Thomas Moore

"Well yes I did try marijuana one time but I didn't inhale..." -Bubbabill Clinton

"dorkydorkydorkydorkydorkydorkydorkydorky..." Horse Badorties

"Is not piety the illegitimate son of guilt?" Ed Skellie

"I'd love to turn you on..." -John Lennon

"Just when you think it's safe to watch "Soul Train" again; we elect Ronald Reagan president!" -Don Cornelius

"That's the way (uh-huh uh-huh) I like it." -Kool & the Gang

"If there's a Hell below, We all gonna go..." Curtis Mayfield

"Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world." -Bill Cosby

"When the well goes dry, you have to wait & let it refill itself."
-Roger Miller

"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity." - Oscar Wilde

"If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic." -Wille Nelson

"The alkaline side is the healthy side. Feast without fear!" - Nicolay-Dancey Inc., makers of NEW ERA potato chips, 1961

"Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
        -Rollo May

"It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of the one who
has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems
not coffee, but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from
the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness." - Coleman Dowell

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is
feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."
  - George Eliot

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen
or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you
more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara De Angelis

":No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness." - Georges Bernanos

" It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely." - Albert Einstein

"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."     - Janis Joplin

"I would walk twenty miles to listen to my worst enemy if I could learn something." -Leibnitz

"My dear Mr. Heifitz, I was overwhelmed by your concert. If you continue to play with such beauty, you will certainly die young! No one can play with such perfection without provoking the jealousy of the gods! I earnestly implore you to play something badly every night before going to bed!" -George Bernard Shaw to Yasha Heifitz

"Do not go gentle into that good night; old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas

"And now, into the Bardo of rebirth, man. The door is stuck, man. I am trapped in my booth!" -Horse Badorties, from William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man"

"Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow." -Dilbert

"Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire." -Bruce Sterling

"Leave only footprints. Kill only time. Take only knowledge." -Linzo Albatroza(or someone like him)

"Art imitates nature and is therefore the grandchild of God." -Dante

"It all comes back to you-it's just like sewing a bicycle." -Marvella

"The arrival of a good clown is worth twenty asses laden with drugs." - quote from ancient Alexandria found by Norman Cousins

"Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles; sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of the intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime; ever-enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world." -John H. Augley

"Sitting silent and looking wise cannot be compared to drinking wine and making a racket." - Manyoshu, 8th century Japanese poet

"Hi-ho Silver! Away-y-y-y!" -The Lone Ranger

"As the grass grows green so bends the twig. And watch out for those flying monkeys-those bastards'll pee on your parade every chance they get." -Calvin Celeste, man of interesting

"Denial is a creative opportunity." BeBe Bobo

"Reality is for people who can't handle drugs..." -Rifno Boone

"Opposites are a product of fragmentary understanding." -Abe Maslow

"Holy War is a contradiction of terms..." -Elie Wiesel

"Attempting to curb depression by replacing it with obsession is akin to cutting off your Gramma's nose to spite your Uncle's yen for eating peach cobbler and lighting beerfarts." -Joey G. "Abzo" Croemboza

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind..."
-Thomas Hewitt Key

"It has been demonstrated that some amphibians are able to use celestial bodies for navigation" -Encyclopaedia Brittanica

"The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel." -Horace Walpole

"Progress is the victory of laughter over dogma." -Benjamin De-Casseres

"With renunciation life begins." - Amelia E. Barr

"Rats is like sausages only they got fur an' stuff". -Tolo Borko

"Always strive not to bleed on your work." J. Guill

"Vyizder Zomenimor Orziz Assiz Zanzer R. Orziz..." -Terry Erwin

"Kloorta bruunda lagaza prempo; insczekro legga-legga-oortah!" -Tony Bazhi "Li'l Oscar" Oleomegazondala

"God Help us. AgaInst stupidity, even the gods contend in vain." -Schiller

"Against boredom, even the gods contend in vain." -Nietzsche (in response to Schiller)

"Don’t ever let something as mundane as gravity keep you down."
Craig Convissor

"Someone’s got to talk about accountability, someone’s got to raise some Hell, it might as well be me." -Jimmy Buffett from the song, Cultural Infidel

"A life well-spent is indeed long." Leonardo daVinci

"Adventure is not outside a man; it is within" -David Grayson

"I have made this letter somewhat longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short." -Blaise Pascal

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me." -Pensees

"In art, economy is always beauty." -Henry James

"A word spoken in due season; how good it is!" -Proverbs 15:23

"I have done it again." Lady Lazarus

"Airing one’s dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece." -Francois Truffaut

"Time is:
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But, for those who love; Time is not…" -Henry Van Dyke

"Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it". - Curtis Judalet

"Hoozagonnabeezagonnadoot? Weezagonnahaftagottadoot!!"
       -Ray "Pinche Gabacho" Olo

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar!" -Pablo Picasso

"Anyone with a memory must have tremendous humility" -Eric Johnson

"I just want to live happily ever after every now and then…"
- Jimmy Buffett from the song Every Now & Then

"The answers are never elsewhere, the questions you sometimes buy, the secrets are inside you in castles a mile high…" -Vince Mariani

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Marianne Williamson

"Am I ignorant or apathetic? I don’t know and I don’t care! Does that sum it up for you? " -Linzo Albatroza

"So tell me, why DID the Kamikaze pilots wear helmets anyway?"
-Sandra VanAndrakranda

"Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives." -Louise Nevelson

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination…" -John Lennon

"Ambivavlence fosters new tangents. The rest we make up as we go along." -Annunzio Optimo Diducce

"Reality is hopelessly inaccurate…" -Douglas Adams

"I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?" -Andy Warhol

"Humans aren’t much more than monkeys with car keys." Leena Tolo
    
"Painting and copulation are not compatible - it weakens the brain."     -Vincent Van Gogh

"May you have wonderful things thought of to do!"  -Signpost on Venus Isle

"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
       - Kahlil Gibran

"The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life would be tolerable but for its amusements." - George Bernard Shaw

"If one had to worry about one’s actions in respect to other people’s ideas, one might as well be buried in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime Minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or, a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon. -Aleister Crowley

"Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it.
 Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it.
Today is ready cash: Use it!." -- Edwin C. Bliss

"All of the things I am about to tell you are shameless lies." -Preamble to the book of Bokonon

"What if the protein that works in the brains of ‘mad cows’ did nothing other than cause an abrupt increase of lucidity? The behaviour of the cows would be fully explained. That would also explain why the authorities are so concerned about the risk of such a syndrome in human brains…" -Alberto "Baby-Doc" Tondalini

"Je veux peindre comme si aucun peintre n'avait peint avant moi."
("I would like to paint as if no painter had ever painted before me.") -     - Paul Cézanne

"When you look closely at the concept of soulfulness, you see that it is tied to life in all its particulars - good food, satisfying conversation, genuine friends, and experiences that stay in the memory and touch the heart. Soul is revealed in attachment, love, and community, as well as in retreat on behalf of inner communing and intimacy"
- Thomas Moore from Care Of The Soul

"Nihilism is best done by professionals." -Iggy Pop

"Though I’ve forgotten what I’ve set out to do, I’ll stand by my efforts regardless!" Either Karl Pomar, Milton Berle or maybe Soupy Sales

"If the idea of rolling around in the river muck with a bunch of otters strikes you as a potential good time, you ought to try being an artist with something of your own to say in these dismal times. It’s more fun being pissed on by a rabid Rottweiler! - Krel Marmada

"Good taste is the enemy of creativity. " - Pablo Picasso

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." -Bokonon

"People hope that if they scream loudly enough about ‘values’ then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity." -Marshall McLuhan

"Replacer le Reel dans l‘Absolu et le Vecu dans l’Irremediable (Replace what is real in what is absolute and what is lived in what is beyond repair)" - Mylene Catel

" You know how it is whenya take the credit for something. Pretty soon it turns to blame." - George Combs

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
       - Charles Dickens

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and
water." - W. C. Fields

"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief for to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commision of every other crime." - Thomas Paine

‘The seven principles for effective networking (or, living, for that matter! -ed.) are, talk to anyone about anything, develop a high tolerance for ambiguity, be willing to look stupid, give more than you take, cultivate fearlessness, go on gut instinct, and, expand your sense of humour. -Christopher "Rageboy" Locke

"Quantitative analysis works wonders when all the assumptions are accurate and the variables selected are the right ones. This happens approximately once every million years. - Rageboy

"Delusions of self-importance are usually harbingers of early senility." - Rageboy

"Work less, play more, dream always." - Rageboy

"Just because I don't know what I,m talking about, it doesn't mean I am going to shut up..." -Michelle Shocked

"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
  - Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
   - Michael Leunig

"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge." - Stephen Levine

"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that
succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception." - Harold Lokes

"Sentimentalists adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I didn't say I didn't say it. I said I didn't say I said it. I want that to be perfectly clear. - George Romney

Nurture unhinged hallucinations that everything's A-OK to shield yourself from suddenly wising up. Neither be distressed you are imagining things: the recurring fear that fatigue and loneliness are merely prologue. Beyond a wholesome discipline, slip fully into voluntary mental bondage. " - Christopher "Rageboy" Locke

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars and you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever
you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Commonly attributed as Found in Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore: Dated 1692. Also credited to Max Ehrmann, written in 1927: Washington Post, November 27, 1977

"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him." -Italo Calvino

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
      - General William Westmoreland

"Language is a form of human reason that has its own internal logic of which man knows nothing." - Claude Lévi-Strauss

"Belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light." - Franz Kafka

"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..." - John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one."       - William Penn

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector."
     - Ernest Hemingway

"Be not too liberal; it doth belong to dogs alone to fuck the whole day long."
     - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The French bourgeois doesn't dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time. " - Jean Paul Sartre

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.." Dr. Mark Vonnegut

"Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth keeps him from demonstrating his power over error." - Mary Baker Eddy

"every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man… " - ZZ top

"F/3.8+ d} r-3 = fuck you" - Newton Tourette

"The wind calls your name as I pass it." - Mr Bean

"It's easier to get forgiveness after than permission before."
   - Raul Tupenalo

"If it's a bloodbath, then let's get it over with. No more appeasement."
     - Ronald Reagan, April 7, 1970

"I love the smell of Nepal in the mourning…" - Col. Mao

"Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing." GEORGE ORWELL

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." SIR RICHARD F. BURTON

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation." - St. Augustine

"Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders." - AMBROSE BIERCE

"Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?" Roland "Jitters" Hasbofreen

"God put me on this Earth to do a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die." -Johnny Strumba

"The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
   - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all ." MICHELANGELO

"To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
  - Quentin Crisp

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft

"Truth; n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance."
   - AMBROSE BIERCE

"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false." PAUL VALÉRY

"Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them ." Willliam Jefferson Clinton

"At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded ." LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

"Just as the human eye sees only a small part of the light spectrum and the human ear can detect only a fraction of nature's sounds so that which is comprehensible to the human mind is only a small fraction of our reality." Rollbeaza Formicah

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding ." FRANCIS BACON

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose." JOHN HALDANE

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge." CICERO

"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful ." EDWARD GIBBON in "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. " -MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

" The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." LORD CHESTERFIELD

"Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or to the precipice." ROBINSON JEFFERS

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." E. W. DIJKSTRA

"The 'Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it ."
 - JOHN GILMORE

"The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual." EARL WARREN

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
- RONALD REAGAN

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. " CARL SAGAN

"I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him." LUTHER LASSITER, pool hustler

"I was a stricken deer that left the herd long since." WILLIAM COWPER

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I..... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
ROBERT FROST The Road Not Taken

"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up." - Dorothy Day

"The will and high permission of all-ruling heaven
Left him at large to his own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might heap on himself damnation." - John Milton

"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination." CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity." SCHOPENHAUER

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." VOLTAIRE

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." OSCAR WILDE

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
JONATHAN SWIFT Thoughts on Various Subjects

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."     JASSAMYN WEST

"I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare ." T.S. ELLIOT

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Winston Churchill

"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action ." GOETHE

"What more felicitie can fall to creature than to enjoy delight with libertie ." -EDMUND SPENSER

"While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty." CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Supreme Court Justice

" Society attacks early when the individual is helpless." B. F. SKINNER

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself ." ALEXANDER HAMILTON in The Federalist Feb.8, 1788

"Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise ."
- FRANCIS BACON

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." VOLTAIRE

"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked." ROBERT D. SPRECHT

"To live outside the law you must be honest ." BOB DYLAN

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness ." TACITUS

"Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself." FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality ." ALBERT SCHWEITZER

"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other." ERIC HOFFER

"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." MARK TWAIN

"If I die, I forgive you; if I live, we shall see...." Spanish Proverb

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Crack-Up

" . . .the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free." MENCKEN

"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface ." ALDOUS HUXLEY

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind ." ELIZABETH BIBESCO

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding ." AGNES REPPLIER

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices ." WILLIAM JAMES

"Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you ." F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"Those who cannot think for themselves are emotionally unequipped to spend time alone ." -Wescbo Doppaeenalotz

"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent" . JOHN DEWEY

". . . the inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation ." ELI KHAMAROV

"...Two and two are four . Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane." - GEORGE ORWELL 1984

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your
house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain." - Epictetus

"Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel
the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves
as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us." - Guy De Maupassant

" Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.     - AMBROSE BIERCE

"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen." ALDOUS HUXLEY

" The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently ." NIETZSCHE

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting ."
E. E. CUMMINGS

"A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach ." SENECA

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!" GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do." BERTRAND RUSSELL

"To think is to differ ." CLARENCE DARROW

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth ."
   OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him ." JOHN F. KENNEDY

"The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom ."
    - Garfield Goose, First King of the united States

"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one." FRANCIS BACON

"Nature loves a burst of energy ." -Chelveston the Duck

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." -- Will Durant

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd ." VOLTAIRE

"The superfluous is very necessary." VOLTAIRE

"You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth ." ODYSSEUS ELYTIS

"I'm a self-made man, but I think if I had it to do over again, I'd call in someone else ." ROLAND YOUNG

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards ."
SPANISH PROVERB

" It is not what you know that gets you into trouble. It's what you think you know that isn't so! ." Rhomburg Rabbit

"Great minds..discuss ideas. Average minds... discuss events. Small minds... discuss people ." Solly Ensczekroe

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so
forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love." - Sigmund Freud

"Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable." -- Ambrose Bierce

"Life IS pain...anyone who says differently is selling something"
    - Westley in The Princess Bride

"Not everyone can be an orphan." -- Andre Gide

"The earth laughs in flowers." -- E.E. Cummings

"WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness." -- Ellie Katz

"Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek." - Benjamin Franklin

"Don't sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things." Toby Frogpants

"Early to rise, Early to bed, Makes a man healthy but socially dead." - Joshua Warner

"How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you're doing it?" - Dennis the Menace

"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained." -- Abraham Lincoln

"I'd stop eating chocolate, but I'm no quitter." Clutch Cargo

"I'm so poor I can't even pay attention." - Bozo the Clown

"You're never too old to do goofy stuff." -- Ward Cleaver and/or Idi Amin

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today." -- James Dean

"Go away, I'm alright!" -- Last words of H. G. Wells

"I always knew that I'd look back at my tears and laugh, but I never thought that I'd look back at my laughter and cry." -Rudy Kazootie

"In youth we learn; in age we understand." -- Von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." -- Vittorio Alfieri

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but that may well be because we have made fiction to suit ourselves." -- G. K. Chesterton

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. -George Bernard Shaw -Maxims for Revolutionists(1903)

"Human beings were invented by water as a means of transporting itself from one place to another." - Tom Robbins

"I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier." - Lina 'Squiggles" Pucinski

"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous." Captain Hook

"You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." - Frank Zappa

"I looked into their eyes and do you know what I saw? The smell of death.--Cliff Clavin

"Just remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai

It is much easier to apologize than to ask permission.
- Grace Murray Hopper, Admiral, U.S. Navy

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word? " - Salvio Innuzzace

"Does there not pass over man a space of time when his life is a blank?"
  - The Koran -sura 76

"Woe on that day to the disbelievers! Begone to that Hell which you deny!
  - The Koran -sura 77

"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard." - John Steinbeck

"The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie." - Lord Byron

"...ain't no life nowhere..." - Jimi Hendrix

Q: How many Zen masters does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two; one to change it and one not to change it.

"Self-luminous, fixed, yet known as moving in the secret cavity of the heart. That is the great support. Herein abides all that moves and breathes and winks." -- Mundaka Upanishad

"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."
- Bertolt Brecht

"A pot put on the back burner for too long may forget how to simmer" -Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Reality I can handle in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I find it a bit too confining."  -Tony Prentiss

"Global Peace can not occur all at once. All of us, every member of the world community, has a moral responsibility to help avert immense suffering…No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve our problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our human family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient. We must assume responsibility. Since periods of great change such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each one of us to use our time well to help create a happier, more peaceful world."     - Dalai Lama

"The leaves never know which leaf will be first to fall…Does the wind know?" - Soseri

"The impossible is often the untried." -Jim Goodwin

"Pataphysics is the science of laws that govern exceptions. The so-called ‘laws" of science are not really laws at all but merely exceptions that occur more frequently than others. The Pataphysician rejects all scientific explanation of any kind because everything can just as well be its opposite. -Alfred Jarry

"Yabba Dabba Dooo!!" - Fred Flintstone

"I can swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell."David Clayton Thomas

"T-T-T-T-T_That's All F-F-F-F-Folks!!" - Porky Pig