At least the war on the environment is going well.

Assist airport security. Fly naked

If you are against abortions, dont have one.

What would Scooby do?

The world is run by those who show up.

Dont pray in my school and I wont think in your church.

If you cant trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Darwin loves you.

When religion ruled the world, it was called The Dark Ages.

The last time we mixed politics and religion, people got burned at stakes.

Condoms are easier to change than diapers.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Our bombs are smarter than our president.

Democrats think the glass is half full and Republicans think the glass is theirs.

Terorists: what the big army calls the little army

Support the troops: impeach Bush.

If you want to drive a Hummer, enlist.

No Iran until you have finished your Iraq.

I’m optimistic even in the face of reality.

I’m prochoice, I vote and I own a gun.

Proud member of the immoral minority.

Life is sexually transmitted.

An erection is not considered personal growth.

It’s easier to be born again than to grow up.

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith

My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move
people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to
the library. -Peter Golkin, museum spokesman (1966- )

Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are
about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they
mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy,(1929-1995)

Please increase your signal to noise ratio before speaking.

Math illiteracy affects 7 out of 5 people.

53.7% of all statistics are made up.

Support AAAAA [American Association Against Acronym Abuse]

Pessimism never works.

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

5/4 of all people are bad at fractions.

I do know all the answers but I've been sworn to secrecy.

Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.

You are rich when more money wont change where you live, what you eat, what you drive or who you sleep with.

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. -Franklin P. Jones

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.-Robert Frost

Fear is a sign—usually a sign that I’m doing something right.- Erica Jong

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit palce. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. - Charles Dickens

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive.
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good,
and we must hunger for them. – George Eliot

Here, the leaves are falling
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-- Walt Disney

Light your fire
And never fear,
Life was made
For love and cheer.

Here and there we meet with one who possesses that fairy-like power of enchanting all about her; sometimes she is ignorant herself of this magical influence, which is, however, for that reason, only the more perfect. Her presence lights up the home; her approach is like a cheerful warmth; she passes by, and we are content; she stays awhile, and we are happy. - Victor Hugo.


What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of
its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of
attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the
overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert
Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and
woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold
and hungry and weary. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author
(1817-1862)

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen,
journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have
not had time to remake the world. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches,
no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no
magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and
wonderfully diversified human race. -Jacques Barzun, professor and writer
(1907- )

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Abraham
Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)

War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the
expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction
that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's
being worse off. -Karl Kraus, writer (1874-1936)

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of
foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. -Alice Walker,
writer (1944- )

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it
turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott, writer
(1954- )

It is not true that donkeys are stubborn. Tthey are just careful about what they do.

There’s more to life than good wine.
But not much.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I won’t rise to the occaision but I’ll slide over to it...

Give me ambiguity or gove me something else.

If you can't be funny, be interesting. - Harold Ross

You must have three things to be happy: something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude. -Sigmund Freud, 1939

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. -Marshall McLuhan, 1980

Hubris is stealing fire from the gods. Chutzpah is offering to sell it back.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with people of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. -Kenko Yoshida, 1352

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. -Voltaire, 1778

There is no remedy so easy as books, which even if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1762

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. -Robertson Davies

Records carefully preserved for a century were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. -Isaac Asimov

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
-Horace (65-8 BCE)

People change and forget to tell each other. -Lillian Hellman(1905-1984)

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. -James Madison(1751-1836)

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken, IBM

There lives more faith in honest doubt, / Believe me, than in half the creeds. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939)

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.-Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. -Chinese proverb

Ironically, anyone using a public terminal at a public library today wouldn't be able to read today's Supreme Court decision overturning the Texas anti-sodomy law because of the Supreme Court's decision on web filtering on public terminals in public libraries. - Chris Zammarelli

If a triangle could speak, it would say, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. -Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. - H.L.Mencken

When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. -Thomas Jefferson,(1743-1826)

We cautiously approach the question of universals. It is arguable whether universals exist, and how widely valid a principle must be before we confer on it the authority of a universal. It all depends on the size of one's universe. - Lewis Rowell, International Society for the Study of Time

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. -Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,
we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. -Mark Twain

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. -Lewis Carroll,(1832-1898)

I'm not tense -- just terribly, terribly alert.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical
instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without
this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. -Marcel Proust, (1871-1922)

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of
the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things
that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the
people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. -James Baldwin, writer
(1924-1987)

A scholar knows no boredom. -Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

["Song" by Frederic Prokosch - appeared in a 1939 issue of the New Yorker.]
Michael the hero is dying in Africa
Hugo the spy is measuring the hill
And the madman Smith is watching the clubhouse,
Looking for someone to kill
The birds of disorder are crossing the continent
No one knows whither and no one knows why
And softly, softly, the ones I love
Are getting ready to die

Laughter is inner jogging. -Norman Cousins (1915-1990)

Midway in the journey of our life/ I came to myself in a dark wood,/ for the straight way was lost - Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (BCE 3-65 CE)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to
promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace
so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way
and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th
president (1890-1969)

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -Leonard Brandwein

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is -- it must be something you cannot possibly do. - Henry Moore

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
- Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826)

You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.- Monty Python skit

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986

Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826)

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

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. -- Bernard Keble SANDWELL (1876-1954)

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries. - Irving STONE (1903-1989)

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the
superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
- Isaac ASIMOV

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I though it might sober me up to sit in a library.
- The Great Gatsby, chapter 3 - F.Scott FITZGERALD (1896-1948)

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are either well written or badly written. That is all. - Oscar Wilde

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. - Judah ibn-Tibbon (12th century)

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. - Augustine Birrell

My library Was dukedom large enough. - Shakespeare, The Tempest

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now -- only that place where the books are kept. - John Steinbeck

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go into your library and read every book. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me. - Anatole France

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. - Cicero

Libraries are not made; they grow. - Augustine Birrell