Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #quote

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.  ~ Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe #quote

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. ~ Dave Barry #quote, "The Taming of the Screw"



Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.  ~ Author Unknown #quote

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. ~ Douglas Adams #quote, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte  #quote

A different language is a different vision of life. ~ Federico Fellini #quote

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be. I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. ~ Joseph Conrad #quote, heart of Darkness

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself. ~ Rodney Dangerfield #quote

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ~ Joseph Conrad #quote


There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. ~ Will Rogers #quote

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.  ~ Oscar Wilde #quote

God forbid that any book should be banned.  The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.  ~ Rebecca West #quote

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. ~ Chuck Smith #quote

Carrots were originally purple, but patriotic Dutch vegetable growers bred orange colour into them to match their national flag. #Factoids

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken. ~ Bob Dylan #quote,  Everything Is Broken

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~ Lao-Tze #quote

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought:  If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.  ~ Edie Cantor #quote

Kneeling over a trickling mountain stream and pumping every ounce of water you use though a filter can really change your perception of turning on a faucet. ~ Eric Voorhis #quote

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. ~ Joseph Conrad #quote


When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. ~ Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha #quote

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #quote,  Asfixia

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.  ~ Tacitus, Annals #quote

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.  ~ Michel de Montaigne #quote

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote, Tremendous Trifles

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.  ~ Wendell Phillips #quote

White is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. ~ Albert Camus #quote

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. ~ William Faulkner #quote

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.  ~ Claude-Adrien Helvétius #quote

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.  ~ Albert Camus #quote

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.  For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.  ~ John F. Kennedy #quote

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ Deepak Chopra #quote

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

An ounce of practice is worth more than a ton of preaching. ~ Mahatma Gandhi #quote

Every pleasures got an edge of pain, pay for your ticket and don't complain. ~ Bob Dylan #quote, Silvio

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ Michael Jordan #quote

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. ~ Ogden Nash #quote

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ~ Maya Angelou #quote

Humour can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. ~ Allen Klein #quote

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~ Pearl Buck #quote

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ~ Noel Coward #quote

The man with the real sense of humour is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes. ~ Bert Williams #quote

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a part of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. ~ George Carlin #quote

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it. ~ Celestine Chua #quote

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. ~ Jennifer Hart #quote

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them. ~ Gene McSweeney #quote

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. ~ Federico Fellini #quote