Random Quotes

[SirRichardBear]

Sanjûrô Tsubaki: You tired of being stupid yet?

[Raibeart OShea]

From a book I read in the '80's (I believe) entitled 'Things People will never Say':

"It's like the 20 second elephant with heated valves in Space...BARK...Hand me that Piano!"

[Rani Zemirah]

The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.

~Julian Grenfell~

[Demetrius]

Night does not fall at sea. It rises, rather, toward the still pale sky, from the depths of waters an already drowned sun gradually darkens with its thick ashes. For a brief moment, Venus shines alone above the black waves. In the twinkling of an eye, stars swarm in the liquid night.


       -Albert Camus

[Luciana]

The secret of physical and mental health is not in crying for the past, worry for the future or look for solutions for the upcoming problems, but to live healthy and fully now.

~ Buddha ~

[Rani Zemirah]

But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

~Waiter Rant~

[Harbinger]

"yeah, I saw a yard gnome once, it didn't scare me" - Space Ghost

[Eric the Ugly]

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." -Ayn Rand


"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long." — Thomas Sowell

[Rani Zemirah]

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

~Claud Debussy~

[Grov]

"What science finds to be nonexistent, we must accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter.  ...It is quite clear that there are many, many, mysterious things."

Dalai Lama

[Rani Zemirah]

The primary matter of all things is the "great mystery" ... Like children are born to the mother, from the "great mystery" issues all things, with or without feelings, as well as the other things, all in the same manner. The "Great mystery" is the only mother of all mortal things.

~Paracelsus (1490-1541), Swiss spiritual alchemist~

[Tom]

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. - Omar N. Bradley

[Luciana]

" Do not be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about you appreciating others."


~ Confucius ~

[SirRichardBear]

The American people are wise enough to run their own affairs. The do not need Fuehrers, Strong Men, Technocrats, Commissars, Silver Shirts, Theocrats, or any other sort of dictator.  Robert Heinlein

[Eric the Ugly]

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein