Famous quotes ---

[Don]

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."

- Alfred Whitney Griswold, in "Essays on Education" (1959)

[chromehead58]

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.
Ed Abbey

[fourtycal]

Charlie Sheen

"I'm tired of pretending I'm not bitching a total freaking rock star from Mars. And people can't figure me out. They can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain."

"I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it once you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."

"I exposed people to magic, I exposed them to something they're never otherwise gonna see in their boring, normal lives."

[Iceaxe]

Please be 18! - Ricky Bobby (Talladega Nights)

[dbaxter]

The sin of our time is the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die. - Dorothy Sayers

[erial]

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the three Rs , only one begins with an R. -Dennis Miller

[Don]

"The death of dogma is the birth of morality." - Immanuel Kant

[stefan]

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato

[DaveOU812]

"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you **** with me, I'll kill you all."
Marine Gen. James Mattis, in a message sent to Iraqi tribal leaders, August 2006

[peakbaggers]

'Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it and carry on." Winston Churchill

[Don]

"It's not an adventure until something goes wrong" Yvon Chouinard

[Don]

"Many years ago, I climbed the mountains, even thought it is forbidden. Things are not as they teach us; the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky."
-- From a dying Star Trek character

[kirlope]

'Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.' (Abraham Lincoln)

'The Future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.' (Victor Hugo)

[live2ride]

not sure if someone posted but good old Honest Abe said

"The harder I work the luckier I get"

something that has stuck with me for years..

[herry1]

Mine is God help those who help themselves.
I like so much this Quote.

[gnwatts]

Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.
Confucius

The dude abides.
The Dude

I am not a crook.
Richard Nixon

I am the decider.
W Bush

[Don]

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

[erial]

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

- Richard Lamm

[accadacca]

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

-Pablo Picasso

[accadacca]

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

― St. Francis of Assisi