“Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were” ~ Unknown
“I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around” ~ Charles Bukowski
“Please don’t follow me on facebook or twitter because I’m not on there” ~ Banksy
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind” ~ Mohandas Gandhi
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” ~ Frank Zappa
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly chocolate” ~ Debbie Moose
“In many Tory seats you could probably put a blue rosette on a half-eaten scotch egg and get it elected” ~ Joseph Watts
“An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty” ~ Jaron Lanier
“There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it” ~ Patrick Moore
“And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid” ~ Mira Grant
“Le doute n’est pas une condition agréable, mais la certitude est absurde” ~ Voltaire (Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd)
“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read” ~ Groucho Marx
“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem” ~ Woody Allen
“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about” ~ Miguel De Unamuno
“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life” ~ Rita Rudner
“Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view” ~ Craig Stone (The Squirrel That Dreamt Of Madness)
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me” ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“Objectivity is compromised by our ‘tyranny of expectations’; we see what we wish to see and not what is actually there” ~ Roy Manterfield
“I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“People that talk about living in the real world don’t even enjoy living in the real world” ~ Craig Stone (The Squirrel That Dreamt Of Madness)
“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world” ~ The Buddha
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits” ~ Mark Twain
“I could give up chocolate for Lent, but I don’t know anyone trustworthy enough for the chocolate to be lent to” ~ Roy Manterfield
“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion” ~ Arthur C Clarke
“Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots” ~ Banksy
“All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about” ~ Charles Kingsley
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception” ~ James Thurber
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them” ~ Mira Grant (Deadline)
“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems” ~ Margaret Mead
“At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I’m not there I carry on as usual” ~ Patrick Moore
“A martyr’s just a casualty with really good PR” ~ Mira Grant (Deadline)
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” ~ Albert Einstein
“Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow” ~ President Woodrow T. Wilson
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away” ~ Kahlil Gibran
“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue” ~ Albert Einstein
“Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“We hang the petty theives and appoint the great ones to public office” ~ Aesop
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give” ~ Winston Churchill
“Politicians are not born, they are excreted” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43AD)
“Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries” ~ Freeman Dyson
“Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.” ~ Ellie Wiesel
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, there must never be a time however when we fail to protest” ~ Elie Wiesel
“There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.” ~ Maurice Sendak
“There must be more to life than having everything.” ~ Maurice Sendak
“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.” ~ Maurice Sendak
“Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.” ~ Maurice Sendak
“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them” ~ Dave Barry
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” ~ Bill Vaughan
“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.” ~ Iain Banks
“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.” ~ Iain M Banks, The Player of Games
“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.” ~ H L Mencken
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.” ~ Carl Sagan
“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge.” ~ Carl Sagan
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ~ Robert Frost
“People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!” ~ Michael Ruhlman
“It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child’s face could turn from peach to beetroot.” ~ Iain Banks, The Crow Road
“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.” ~ Iain Banks
“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
“It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity.” ~ Ray Bradbury
“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death” ~ Earl Wilson
“Puns are the highest form of literature.” ~ Alfred Hitchcock
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” ~ Thomas Edison
“What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” ~ Carl Sagan
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” ~ Tom Stoppard
“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference.” ~ Virginia Satir
“Religion too often demands belief in physical absurdities and anachronistic traditions despite all scientific evidence and moral progress” ~ Anonymous
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” ~ Roy M Goodman
“If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.” ~ George Barzan
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies.” ~ Le Corbusier
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~ William Shakespeare (All’s Well That Ends Well)
“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” ~ Paulo Coelho
“When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.” ~ Russian proverb
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate” ~ George Burns
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ~ Albert Einstein
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