“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
“You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel.” ~ Robert Tew
“Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.” ~ Alice Herz Sommer
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” ~ Twyla Tharp
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” ~ Janis Joplin
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ~ Albert Einstein
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Yes, there are some good ones there. My favourite is:
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” ~ Frank Zappa
btw. I some of his many-many albums are quite nice. :)
I agree, Frank Zappa was a fascinating guy, can’t believe it’s 19 years since he died. One of my favourite quotes from this selection is James Thurber’s “There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception” :^)