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I'm a quote-a-maniac and these are some of my favorites. The first numbered ones are part of my personal philosophy.

1. Go throught the gate.

2. You do or do not.

3. Do Right and Fear Not

4. To know and to act are one and the same.

5. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

6. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

7. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerent of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these things.

8. It is good that war is so terrible, else we should grow fond of it.

9. You can not forgive someone for how they treat another, only for how they treat you.

10. In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan

11. 'Brawley' is the 6824th most popular surname in the United States.

12. They looked the same, but each human life was individual, the most valuable posession of its owner.

13. The first duty of the strong is to ever protect the weak.

14. What a glorious day it will be when our schools have all the money the they need, and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber.

15. That which you dislike in others, be sure to first correct in yourself.

16. Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all its students.

    To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

    All the hours wound you, the last one kills.

    Do not regret growing older. It's a privelage denied to many.

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.

    The unreasonable man insists on adapting the world to himself.

    Therefore all progress is the result of unreasonable men.

    If we forget what we did, we'll forget who we are.

    Those who forget the past are condemed to repeat it.

    The saddest thing in the world is a mind that will not change.

    There are only two things we can hope to give our children, one is roots and the other is wings.

    Scars are proof that man can survive his own stupidity.

    The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

    -- Robert A. Heinlein, on censorship.

    If a man is deep in the forest, and there isn't a woman within 500 miles. When he has a thought, is he still wrong?

    I love my country, but I fear my Government.

    Nine tenths of wisdom is appreciation.

    Music is the passion of my soul.

    May all of your travels find happiness where ever they go without any effort.

    May you accomplish what you set out to do.

    And having reached your destination, may you joyfully be reunited with your relatives.

    Climb mountains to see lowlands.

    And the fox said the the little prince:

    Men have forgotten this truth but you must not forget it.

    You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

    Only when your can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

    No deeper lonliness than the Samurai's exists. None but the tigers in the jungle perhaps.

    Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it. - Plato

    Listen and I will impart wisdom.

    Air cut through steel.

    The blade stops: from silent stone.

    Death is preordained. -Fudo 1654

    Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

    Gratitude flows from a grateful heart.

    Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.

    Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossum that opens in the snow.

    I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I don't think.

    The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly swatter.

    Whoever gossips to you, gossips about you. -Spanish proverb.

    Faliures are divided into two groups; those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

    Nothing is so firmly believed as which we know least.

    Learn to understand imperfect gifts.

    The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to always be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. -Thomas Jefferson

    Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Who shall I send, and who shall go for us?" Then said I, "Here I am Lord, send me."

    If you always give, you will always have. -Chinese Proverb

    What really flatters a man, is that you think him worth flattering. -Isiah 6:8

    "It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - "The Man in the Arena"

    If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -Spencer Silver, the originator of Post-it Notepads

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not to sure about the first.

  Whatever isn't nailed down or white hot is mine, whatever I can pry loose isn't nailed down.

  "Oh bother!" exclaimed pooh, as he slapped another clip into his AK-47.

  That which doesn't kill me, better leave me incapable of returning fire.

  I'm not a meglomaniac I'm just better than everyone else.

  I've never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

  Good health is just the slowest possible rate of death.

  Instead of mousetraps, what about babytraps? Not to hurt them, but to hold them down until they can be removed.

  Live within your income and you'll live without worry - among other things.

  Work hard and save your money, and when you are old you'll be able to afford things only the young can enjoy.

  Patriotism is the willingness to kill or be killed for trivial things.

  Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly angle.

  Everyone's out there to F&$#@ you, it's just who you're willing to bend over for.

  Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere.

  Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

  To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

  Just remember two things: You aren't fast enough or smart enough to get away with it.

  With what??

  Anything.

  Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

  You cannot be more sensitive to pleaseure without being more sensitive to pain.

  Talk doesn't cook rice. - Chinese proverb.

  When there are more sick ones than well ones, by golly, the sick ones will lock up the well ones.

  There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams

  If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

  Pick battles big ehough to matter, but small enough to win.

  Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

  The more original a discovery, the obvious it seems aftarwards.

  A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  In order to first make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan.

  A good christian soldier is just a klick away from death.

  Your favorite band sucks.

  There is no math problem so large of so complex it cannot be run away from.

  Dante's Peak is the stupidist movie ever made; right after ID4.

  All lies lead to the truth.

  If I ever become an Evil Overlord:

  Rule #6. I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.

  Home is where you hang your hat/blaster/broadsword.

  And Jesus said unto them, "And who do you say that I am?"

  They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very being and selfhood revealed."

  And Jesus replied, "What?"

  From alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die

  'Another similarity between Rush Limbaugh and Barney is that they are both purple, or would be if someone would have the good sense to wrap a piano wire around Rush's neck."

  The lords prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg address is 286 words, the Declaration of Independence is 1,322 words, but a government regulation on the sale of cabbage is 26,911 words...

  Fribeetarianism: n, the belief that when you die your soul gets stuck up on the roof.

  Death: v, to suddenly stop sinning.

  Happiness: n, the agreeable sensation of contemplating the miseryof others.

  Some rise by sin, and others by virtue fall.

  I enjoy work, it fascinates me, I can sit and watch it for hours.

  Every purchase has its price.

  The only sin love can commit is to be joyless.

  The weed of crime bears bitter fruit.

  Don't have stress, cause stress.

  Drive defensively; tackle an import.

  The best prophet of the future is the past.

  My attempt at spontaniety fell through at the last moment.

  Regret is an inevitable consequence of life.

  Nothing vanishes without a trace.

  Something only lives as long as the last person that remembers it.

  Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.

  Everyone complains of his memory, never of his judgement.

  If you always do, what you always did, you'll always get, what you always got.

  Doing your best is more important than being the best.

  Time is passing, are you?

  Your future has a way of creeping up on you.

  There is a fine line between a hunk, and a pile.

  It's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple.... as a pack of wild dogs.

  Dad always said that laughter was the best medicine; I guess that's why some of us died of TB and pneumonia.

  When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

  It's better to wear out than to rust out.

  Never believe anything until it has been offically denied.

  The world isn't worse; the news coverage is just so much better.

  Freedom is not free.

  I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind.

  Confucius: Show off always shown up in a show down.

  Confucius: A bird in hand make hard to blow nose.

  Confucius: Man trapped in pantry have ass in jam.

  Confucius: Those who quote me are fools.

  War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who's left.

  Confucius: House without toilet is uncanny.

  Confucius: He who sails across ocean twice is dirty double crosser.

  Machines will never be able to model the thought process, since machines are not alive. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain and value of meaning is the fact that we die.

  I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong.

  Having children will make you a parent.

  Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad, people are either charming or tedious.

  Misery loves company, but company doesn't reciprocate.

  Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. Excuse me, I repeated myself.

  Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

  You are magnetic in your bearing.

  Lisfe is not so much a matter of position, as disposition.

  Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses a light pole, for support rather than illumination.

  God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.

  Lend money to a bad debtor and he will hate you for life.

  It's not a matter of where you stand, but where you're headed.

  Your lucky number is 48662106783541967634, watch for it everywhere.

  The purpose of life, is a life of purpose.

  My fates not in god's hands as long as there's a weapon in mine.

  Reality is for those who can't handle drugs.

  The point of our lives is to raise children who are healthier and wiser than we are.

  My intrest lies in the future becuase I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

  You won't be happy with more, until you're happy with what you've got.

  I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

  There are two ways to do things; my way and the wrong way.

  If I go to heaven you had all better be there; becuase paradise isn't without your best friends.

  When you make your mark on the world watch out for guys with erasers.

  Cynacism is a disease of the mind.

  There can be no great love where there is no great dissapointment.

  Why kill time when we can employ it.

  Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that somehting else is more important that fear.

  It's not the load that breaks you down, but the way that you carry it.

  When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember that it's still evil.

  If everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. (i.e. everything should go your way.)

  Gravity kills.

  There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count and those that can't.

  Two rules for success:

  1.) Don't tell people everything you know.

  The trouoble with most people is that they would rather be ruined by praise that saved by criticism.

  All rights left. All lefts reserved. All reserves removed. All removes right.

  In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small maters as they are.

  Thesaurus: n. Ancient reptile with a large vocabulary.

  People who think they know everything are annoying those of us that do.

  Do not condemn the judgement of another becuase it is different from your own. You may both be wrong.

  It's better to be an optimist and a fool, than a pessemist and right.

  Every man has one thing that he can do better than any other; usually it's reading his own handwriting

  The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

  Sign on Bank: We can load you enough money to get you totally out of debt.

  And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Keeping an open mind is a virtue, but not so open your brain falls out.

  Better the hard truth than comforting fantasy.

  It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

  All our science measured against reality is primitive and childlike, and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

  Insight, untested, and unsupported is an insufficient guarantee of truth.

  Q: What do you call a clairvoyant midget that just escaped from prison?

  A: A small medium at large

  One cannot always be a hero; but one can always be human.

  Accept the challenges of the day so you can feel the exhiliration of vistory.

  It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Work to become not to acquire.

  More people would learn from their mistakes, if they weren't so busy denying them.

  During war the devil makes more room in hell.

  The window to ones true self is through one's friends, for they will show you who you truly are.

  Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enought ot get money from it.

  Politicians are as instrumental in starting wars as soldiers are in ending them.

  Its easier to get forgivness than permission.

  History can only be written in a free country.

  Friend, n. One who knows all about you and still likes you just the same.

  You can't direct the wind, but you an adjust your sails.

  Everybody is kneaded out of the same bread, but not baked in the same oven.

  Nothing except a battle lost can be half as meloncholy as a battle won.

  Nationalism is an infantile desease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Education is the best tonic we have against ignorance, hatred, and racism.

  As soon as there is life there is danger.

  Excess ins't rebellion.

  To dream of liberty is dangerous.

  Chance favors the prepared.

  If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress.

  Words pay no debts.

  Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I'll conquer the world.

  History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note about another.

  The past is intelligble to us only in the light of the present; we can fully understnad the present only in the light of the past.

  To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

  I've found it better to carry a gun and not need it, than need a gun and not have it.

  The first job of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

  Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time, serenity that nothing is.

  Patience is the key to contentment.

  A single word often betrays a great desire.

  To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

  The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

  Draft beer; not people.

  Character Density: n. number of very wierd people on staff/in the office.

  Save the whales; collect the whole set.

  The moon may be smaller than the Earth, but it is further away.

  Jesus saves.... but Roddman gets the rebound! he shoots... HE SCORES!!!

  Sex between a man and a woman can be a wonderful thing, provided you are between the right man and woman.

  Life is a sexually transmited disease, and it's 100% fatal.

  Hindsight is an exact science.

  Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

  If all you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like nails.

  Hail to the sun god. He sure is fun.... Ra! Ra! Ra!

  There has been an alarming increase in the things you know nothing about.

  Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.

  Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.

  Now, lets all repeat the non-comformist oath....

  If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

  Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching.

  When men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness upon their eyes.

  It is very hard to win an argument when the other side isn't bothered by telling untruths.

  Education has produced a vast population that is unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  Half of analysis is anal.

  Journalism is mearly histories first draft.

  Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak at all.

  Nothing is so strong as greatness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

  This sentence no verb.

  God is love; Satan is 30 and up one set.

  If a wrench won't work get a bigger hammer.

  "But besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

  Remember that you are a completley unique and different individual; just like everybody else.

  Birds take off at sunrise. On the opposite side of the world they land at sunset. This causes the Earth to spin on its axis.

  Warning: Dates on calander are closer than they appear.

  What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

  Teach a man to fish, he'll fish for the rest of his life.

  Teach a fish to think and they'll all be running around in schools.

  With every passing hour our solar system comes 43,000 miles closer to the globular cluster M13 in the constellation Herculaes, and still some misfits insist there is no such thing as progress.

  A science grad asks, "Why does it work?"

  A engineer grad asks, "How does it work?"

  An accountant grad asks, "How much does it cost?"

  A liberal arts grad asks, "Would you like fries with that?"

  Out the 10-bastT, through the router, down the T3, over the leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall... nothin but net.

  Half the people in the world are below average.

  The number you dialed is imaginary. Please divide by zero and try again.

  I still miss my ex-, but my aim is getting better.

  Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Life without you all would be like a broken pencil.

  How's that?

  It'd be pointless.

  On a tombstone: "I told you I was sick."

  A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect. That would make you very unpopular with what is left of your squad.

  I prefer my lovers to be female, human and breathing, but I'll take two out of three in a pinch.

  It's hard to make programs foolproof, because fools are so ingenius.

  Democracy is mob rule, but with income tax.

  The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

  Why are our days numbered and not say lettered?

  The dumber people think you are, the more suprised they'll be when you kill them.

  Time's fun when you're having flies. -Kermit

  Is the glass half full, half empty, or twice as big as it needs to be.

  Never hit a man with glases. Hit him with a bseball bat.

  There's an old proverb that says whatever you want it to.

  If you hear an onion ring, answer it.

  Thought for the day: What if there were no hypothetical situations.

  Quantum Particles: The dreams stuff are made of.

  I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal labotomy.

  Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  If we put men on the moon, why can't we put metal in the microwave.

  The human spirit is hard to kill, even with a chainsaw.

  Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance.

  If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

  If you judge, investigate.

  If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.

  Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

  No wonder nobody comes here! It's too crowded.

  You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think theres any oxygen, I think they're just to muffle the screams.

  The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, so see those who loves him shrouded in tears, and to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.

  -- Ghengis Khan

  The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.

  Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God.

  Information is the currency of demcracy.

  Those the gods would destroy, they first make proud.

  The old believe everything, the middle age suspect everyting, and the young know everything.

  When cryptography is outlawed, baly bhgynjf juvy unir cevinpu!!

  Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want done, and they'll suprise you with their ingenuity.

  If I listen I have the advantage. If I speak others have it.

  Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not to sure about the former.

  Everything that can be invented has been invented.

  An imperfect plan executed immeadietly and violently will always succeed better than a perfect palan.

  Stop animal testing! They get nervous and screw up the answers.

  I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist.

  Some people are alive simply because it is against the law to shoot them.

  Trust is for the gullible.

  Betray your friends, crush your enemies, control the world, drink some coffee.

  Someone's mother once told them, "You were born paranoid."

  They promptly responded, "Who told you to say that."

  Faith goes out the window when beauty comes in the door.

  These opinions are mine. No one else wants them.

  Politics should be limited in scope to war, protection of property, and the occasional precuationalry beheading of a member of the ruling class.

  If you can't dazzle them with style, riddle them with bullets.

  Eyes are vocal, tears have touges,

  Not all words are made with lungs.

  Button seen at the con: "Shoot first, answers aren't that important."

  Don't think there are no crocodiles becasue the water is calm.

  After dark, all cats are leopards.

  After victory tighten your helmet chord.

  After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

  Be prepared.

  The best armor is to keep out of range.

  Be not afraid of growing slow, but of standing still.

  Don't speak unless you can improve the silence.

  Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sores.

  He who knows little, quickly tells it.

  Don't hide your talents. Whats a sundial in the shade.

  Never advise anyone to marry or go to war.

  The reverse side also has a reverse side.

  Those who have free seats at a play will hiss first.

  To decieve a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

  Man only counts his troubles, but never his joys.

  When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable must be the truth.

  Results! Why man, I have gotten alot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

  The surest way to hit a womans heart is to take aim kneeling.

  It is damn poor mind which can't think of at least two spellings to any word.

  If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

  Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

  I like children. Properly cooked.

  You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.

  The scientific theory I like most is the rings of saturn are composed of lost airline luggage.

  There's nothing wrong with a average person that a good psychiatrist can't exagerate.

  To live is to take the risk of dying.

Copywight - 1994 Elmer Fud Inc. All wights weseved.