 "And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails
to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
"Chi Wen Tzu used to think thrice before acting.
The Master hearing of it said, twice is quite enough."
"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact
that I am right."
"One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
"Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is really finished. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his bachelor's degree and the woman gets her master's." -Unknown- (submitted by Shaylaine) "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and
half shut afterwards."
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig
and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine-gun."
"Love is not the same as desire, for they live
in different dwellings: Virtue nourishes the first, while the
second is nourished by vice."
"Life is one fool thing after another where as
love is two fool things after each other."
"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." -Polish proverb- "I either want less corruption, or more chance
to participate in it."
"Politics is the art of preventing people from
sticking their noses in things that are properly their business."
"It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." -C.W. Leadbeater- "We don't read and write poetry because its cute.
We read and write poetry because we are members of the human
race. And the human race is full of passion. Medicine, law, business,
engineering: these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life but
poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive
for."
"We read to know we are not alone."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire
to be kindled."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world
to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no
one thinks of changing himself."
"History teaches us that men and nations behave
wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
"The end of the human race will be that it will
eventually die of civilization."
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect
everything and the young know everything."
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what
it is made by the friends whom we choose."
"There is no distance too far between friends,
for friendship gives wings to the heart."
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece
of nature."
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
"A friend is someone who will tell you when you
are wrong, and you love them all the more for doing so."
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent
it."
"Fate makes our relatives, choice makes our friends."
"God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose
our friends."
"If you think that nobody cares if you're alive,
try missing a couple of car payments."
"God's commandments - Thou shall not kill. Thou
shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. What was that last one??
Don't eat pork. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to
outsmart everybody."
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and
look around once in a while you could miss it."
"Being bad feels pretty good, huh?"
"You do not have to understand a subject to argue
about it."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others
whenever they go."
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