"Reality favors symmetries and slight anachronisms." -Jorge Borges
"I am a leaf on the wind; watch how I soar." -Wash
"'Normal' is the average of the oddities." -Kyle
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." -Richard P. Feynman
"Act so that the maxim by which you act could be made into a universal law." -Kant
"Never play an ace when a two will do." -Red Dragon, "Bone"
"Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps." -Charles Goodyear
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." -Frank Tibolt
"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser." -Robertson Davies
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." -Albert Einstein
"I like a man who grins when he fights." -Winston Churchill
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." -Albert Einstein
"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." -Zaphod Beeblebrox, "HHGTTG"
"Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man." -Jack Handy's "Deep Thoughts"
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." -Fred Allen
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does." -Christopher Morley
"In God we trust, all others bring data." -Dr. W. Edwards Deming
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." -Dr. Samuel Johnson... sorta
'Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." -Thomas Szasz, M.D.
"God is dead." -Friedrich Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead." -God
"Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?" -Obi-Wan Kenobi
"Even a broken clock is right twice a day." -Anonymous
"You don't have to use something correctly to use it wrong." -Kyle
"Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage." -Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." -Robertson Davies
"The downfall of man is not the end of his life." -Written on side of a bus in Lagos, Nigeria
"Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her home." -Mal
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity." -Christopher Morley
"Velocity squared is like shipping and handling: it will get you every time." -Edward Tufte