"books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn't pay..so if you keep reading, you'll go broke".
" I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
G.K. Chesterton
"If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination."
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?"
- Robert Browning
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
- Woody Allen
Women. Can't live with them. Can't shoot them.
-- Steven Wright
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
-- Also Steven Wright
"The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes AND POSITIONS IN INTERCOURSE."
John Ketas (The Insolent Chariots, Ch.1) ----
but the capital letters were mine all mine LOL Susan x x x
"The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored."
- Chandon Seldon (whoever that is)
The past and the future are one.
The present is a gift.
-Alizee ( a forum bot )
Read it several ways, but it's still my favorite:
"A person who would give up a little freedom for a little safety deserves neither."
Benjamin Franklin
"Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?"
One word is said to free us from the weight and pain of life; Love. - Sophocles
I have no idea who said it but I love it because it's SOOOO true!
"Be careful of the feet you step on today as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!"
Ling
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last."
- Winston Churchill
"Stand by for action! We are about to launch Stingray! Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
Commander Shore
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life”
"The Devil is in the details."
-Anonymous
I like this one, which I am using as my signiture at the moment. It is the opening line in the the movie Pulp, an early 70s spoof detective film by Mike Hodges (the guy who did Get Carter)
"The day started quietly enough, then I got out of bed"
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson
I say to Billy, "Your Mom is hot! What did you say her name is?"
Billy replies "Rachel Hunter."
He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Scaramouche-Raphael Sabatinini
Erotica is writing that is intended to arouse and excite sexual feelings and desires in the writer. We read erotica to get turned-on, to get hot and bothered, to get hard and wet. Admit it. Enjoy it.
'You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love... I love... I love you.'
Matthew MacFayden in Pride and Prejudice.
Oh be still my beating heart, I love this scene in the movie.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything.
The Dalai Lama: "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times)
News is a scratch version of history.
Benjamin Bradlee, Journalist
Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.
Life is like riding a bicycle
You have to keep moving
To stay balanced
(seen on the back of the tshirt of a bike courier)
