These are some quotes I have collected over the years. I guess one could say that the majority of them reflect my feeling towards life, living, and the world in general. Others I just thought were cool. Hope they inspire everyone to greatness.
Quoting is plagearism.
Quoting many is research.
Some words of wisdom from Bruce Lee.
Without respect, love can't go long.
It is later than you think! Know yourself!
Patience and gentleness is power.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Keep quiet and people will think you are a philosopher.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
True refinement seeks simplicity.
I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.
If I knew the cause of my ignorance, I would be a sage.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
To float in totality, to have no technique, is to have all technique.
Various quotes from various sources. In no particular order.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
--Old Japanese Proverb
Everybody is a book of blood; Wherever we're opened, we're red.
--Clive Barker
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
--H.G. Wells
How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is suprised at anything which happens in life.
--Marcus Aurelius
I found Rome brick and I left it marble.
--Augustus Octavian Caesar
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
--Confucius
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
--Edger Allan Poe
You can't say that civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way.
--Will Rogers
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulger, it will cease to be popular.
--Oscar Wilde
No goverment has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
--Rita Mae Brown
Sweet is revenge, especially to women.
--Lord Byron
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
--Henrik Tikkanen
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
--Alexander Penney
Any fool can make a rule and any fool can follow it.
--H.D. Thoreau
The most important things in life aren't things at all.
--A.J. D'Angelo
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
--Edgar Allan Poe
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
--R.W. Emerson
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
--Thomas Paine
What is it the Bible teaches us? rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? to belive that the Almighty commited debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belif of this debauchery is called faith.
--Thomas Paine
The world is my country, all mankind my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
--Thomas Paine
A cult is a religion with no political power.
--Thomas Wolfe
Behind every successful man is a woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
--Sim York Soo
The differnce between a man and a child is the price of their precious toys.
--Sim York Soo
A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.
--Old Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
--Old Chinese Proverb
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
--Charles de Gaulle
Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, and the neglected opprotunity.
--Omar Idn Al-Halif
The first duty of love is to listen.
--Tillich
The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
--Augustine
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
--Old Japanese Proverb
Who gossips to you will gossip of you.
--Old Turkish Proverb
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
--Roland, The Last Gunslinger
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
--Thomas Fuller
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
--Goethe
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
--Confucius
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
--Plato
One word. Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is Love.
--Sohpocles
Nothing in all the world is more danderous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.
--Oscar Wilde
If you belive everything you read, better not read.
--Old Japanese Proverb
A good rest is half the work.
--Yugoslav Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
--Old Chinese Proverb
Only two things are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the former.
--Albert Einstien
Women like silent men. They think they are listening.
--Marcel Archard
He who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
--Old Chinese Proverb
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of 18.
--Albert Einstien
Talk sense to a fool and he(or she) calls you foolish.
--Euripides
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
--W.C. Fields
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
--John F. Kennedy
Religion...is the opium of the masses.
--Karl Marx
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
--Napolean Bonaparte
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
--Francois
Poverty is no sin, but terribly inconvenient.
--Old Japanese Proverb
A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs work best when we don't realize they are hilping us breathe. It is when we are constintly aware of our lungs that we know we have come down with an illness.
--Lao Tzu
A person needs only two tools in life: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should use WD-40. If it moves and it should't use duct tape.
--Unknown
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
--Don Marquis
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
--Andy McIntyre
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strage protein, it rejects it.
--P.B. Medawar
There was once a time when we expected nothing of our children but obidience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
--Anatole Broyard
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
--William Safire
What's money? A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to sleep at night and in between does whatever he wants to do.
--Bob Dylan
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
--Midori Koto
There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
--Dr. Who
A nation is a society united by delusions aobut it's ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.
--W.R. Inge
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
--Aseop
Mercy, N. - An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Resposibility, N. - A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Joss sticks, N. - Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Do or do not. There is no try.
--Yoda, "Star Wars"
Don't control, be in control.
--Quai Chang Caine, "Kung Fu"
Saint, N. - A dead sinner revised and edited
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Closeminded people should keep their mouths closed also.
--Unknown
It's not the pollution thats harming the enviroment. It's the impuities in the air and water that are doing it.
--George W. Bush
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol is a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
--George Carlin
Love is a matter of chemisty, but sex is a matter of physics.
--Unknown
In every man a child is hidden that wants to play.
--Nietzsche
When a man has pity on all living creatures, only then is he noble.
--Buddha
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
--Ran, by Akira Kurosawa
Live, Love, and Eat.
--Wolfgang Puck
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.
--Dan Rather
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
--Laurence J. Peter
Be a good listener. Your ears will never ger you in trouble.
--Frank Tyger
If you hate what you see you call it "sex and violence". If you like it you call it "romance and adventure".
--Joe Bob Briggs
A pessimest is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
--Laurence J. Peter
....More to come, so come back soon!