Quotes

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
Albert Einstein

"Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein

"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one."
Albert Einstein

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Sir Winston Churchill

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Sir Winston Churchill

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Sir Winston Churchill

"Assassins!"
Arturo Toscanini

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
Yoda

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
George Bernard Shaw

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
Unknown

"Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards. Coincidence? I think not!"
Unknown

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
Ian L. Fleming

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
Aldous Huxley

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Isaac Asimov

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
Warren Zevon

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Mark Twain

"Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't."
Mark Twain

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
last words of Pancho Villa

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."
Robin Williams

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
Henry Louis Mencken

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
Paul Valery

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Wernher Von Braun

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."
David Searls

"Earth is the right place for love."
Robert Frost

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Teddy Roosevelt

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way."
Leo Tolstoy

"You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a long time you are old."
Sylvia Townsend Warner

"To say that man is made up of strength and weadness of insight and blindness, of pettiness and grandeur, is not to draw up an indictment against him: it is to define him."
Denis Deiderot

"[Fantasy]...must be understood not as an escape from reality but as an investigation of it."
T.E. Apter

"The more extravagant a prediction sounds, the more likely it is to come true."
Robert A. Heinlein

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
Helen Keller

"Poetry is the breath and fire spirit of all knowledge."
William Wordsworth

"I'm not going to pull a Janet Jackson. I'd probably kill about four people in the front row."
Dolly Parton

Remember This: "Your brain is not a museum for the past, or a lunber room for the present; it is a labotatory for the future, even if the future is only five minutes ahead of you."
John Frederick Charles Fuller

"Never inturrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Women may be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
Sharon Stone

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's begin with typewriters."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
George Washington Carver

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Alva Edison

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
Vince Lombardi

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
Ambrose Bierce

"The true messure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Samuel Johnson

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
Elbert Hubbard

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
Frank Zappa

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
G. B. Burgin

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Jimi Hendrix

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Xenocrates

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi

"A good name , like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one."
Lord Jefferey

"I believe in looking reality right in the eye and denying it."
Garrison Keillor

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
Jane Wagner

"Imaginaation is the one weapon in the war against reality."
Jules de Gaultier

"Reality is something you rise above."
Liza Minnelli

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick

"The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart."
Benjamin Franklin

Other

"I Did Not Die"

Do not stand at my grave and forever weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and forever cry.
I am not there. I did not die.

Melinda Sue Pacho

"Dead Men Tell No Tales"

They say that dead men tell no tales!
Except of barges with red sails
And sailors mad for nightingales;
Except of jongleurs stretched at ease
Beside old highways through the trees;

Except of dying moons that break
The hearts of lads who lie awake;

Except of fortresses in shade,
And heroes crumbled and betrayed.

But dead men tell no tales, they say!
Except old tales that burn away
The stifling tapestries of day:

Old tales of life, of love and hate,
Of time and space, and will, and fate.

Haniel Long

Emily Dickinsons

"Because I could not stop for Death"

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then ’tis centuries;
but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.


I measure every grief...

I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.

I wonder if they bore it long,
Or did it just begin?
I could not tell the date of mine,
It feels so old a pain.

I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die.

I wonder if when years have piled--
Some thousands--on the cause
Of early hurt, if such a lapse
Could give them any pause;

Or would they go on aching still
Through centuries above,
Enlightened to a larger pain
By contrast with the love.

The grieved are many, I am told;
The reason deeper lies,--
Death is but one and comes but once
And only nails the eyes.

There's grief of want,
and grief of cold,--
A sort they call 'despair,

There's banishment
from native eyes,
In sight of native air.

And though I may not
guess the kind
Correctly yet to me
A piercing comfort it
affords
In passing Calvary,

To note the fashions of the cross
Of those that stand alone
Still fascinated to presume
That some are like my own.