Favorite quotes

[Vanni Fucci]

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. ~~ Mark Twain

 

[Vanni Fucci]

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
~~ Voltaire

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Albert Einstein

 

[Pemmican]

"You're annoyed at not being invited to a party, that you wouldn't have gone to anyway.
Being away is just half as nice then."

Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress (*1929)

 

[Pemmican]

"The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always..."

Sir Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

 

[Pemmican]

"News anchormen always start with 'Good evening!' and need 15 minutes then to explain why it isn't a good evening..."

Rudi Carrell, Dutch TV-show-host, actor, producer (*1935)

 

[Pemmican]

"I search a partner for my solo-carreer!"

Anke Engelke (*1965), German comedian

 

[Twila]

Some guys asked me what Punk was.

So I kicked over a garbage can and said "That's punk"

He kicks over a garbage can and says "That's punk?'

I said " No, that's trendy"

Billy Joe Armstrong - Green day

 

[peapod]

Atheism is a non-prophet organization
George Carlin 8)

 

[Vanni Fucci]

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"— George W. Bush

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"If I'm not for myself, who will be for me?
If not this way,how? If not now, when?"

 

[peapod]

Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein

 

[Vanni Fucci]

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[peapod]

Nature herself makes the wise man/women rich.
Cicero

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. ~~ Henry David Thoreau

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
~~ Joseph Wood Krutch

 

[Vanni Fucci]

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. ~~ Pearl S. Buck

 

[Vanni Fucci]

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hey Rev...maybe you can get him to till your garden for you...

 

[peapod]

You have no idea just how true that really is 8)

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." ~Robin Tyler

 

[Tom McNall]

I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx