2008

“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence...”
— Erma Bombeck

“He drew a circle that shut me out: Heretic, rebel, a thing...”
— Edward Markham

“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is...”
— Henry Miller

“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is...”
— Gary Larson

“Each of us is so ashamed of his own helplessness and...”
— Czeslaw Milosz

“Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed...”
— Bernard Meltzer

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design...”
— Douglas Adams

“In my work, I examine the America we live in and I’ve...”
— Marilyn Manson

“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful...”
— John Barrymore

“The blues is the foundation, and it’s got to carry the...”
— Luther Allison

“All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of...”
— Fran Lebowitz

“Every day is the best day of your life, unless you have to...”
— Vimrod

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,...”
— Leo F. Buscaglia

“What we do during our working hours determines what we have;...”
— George Eastman

“Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves....”
— Dave Barry

“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power...”
— Omar Bradley

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the...”
— Marcus Aurelius

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just...”
— John W. Campbell

“I think one reason they call them ‘Relaxed Fit’...”
— Jim Rosenberg

“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and...”
— Clarence Buddinton Kelland

“Good thing justice is blind; otherwise she’d be...”
— Jason Love

“The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason,...”
— Wendell Berry

“For better or worse, our future will be determined in large...”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of...”
— Aristotle

“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its...”
— Abbie Hoffman

“Everybody likes everything these days. Nobody specializes...”
— Don Pendleton

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For...”
— Ivan Panin

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his...”
— Archibald MacLeish

“Things ain’t what they used to be and probably never...”
— Will Rogers

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
— Samuel Johnson

“The toughest birthday is the one that moves you from 18-34...”
— Jim Mullen

“Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean...”
— Robert Anton Wilson

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become...”
— Marilyn Manson

“Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red...”
— Native American Prayer

“If you care about something, you have to protect it; if...”
— John Irving

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a...”
— Laurence J. Peter

“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something....”
— Ernest Gaines

“My garden will never make me famous. I’m a...”
— Ogden Nash

“Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled...”
— Roger Ebert

“It’s human to make mistakes and some of us are more...”
— Ashleigh Brilliant

“In the autumn night when there’s no wind...”
— Golden Feather, Music for the...

“You can always trust the information given to you by people...”
— Sheila Ballantyne

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me...”
— Arnold Edinborough

“f you don’t get everything you want, think of the...”
— Oscar Wilde

“Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills...”
— Marilyn vos Savant

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and...”
— Luis Buñuel

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and...”
— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting...”
— Jack Handy

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing...”
— Ernest Gaines

“What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from a...”
— Dave Barry

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be...”
— Harvey Fierstein

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new...”
— Marcel Proust

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the...”
— Soren Kierkegaard

“For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules...”
— William Ross Wallace

“Most people think life sucks and then you die. Not me. I beg...”
— Denis Leary

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is...”
— Scott Adams

“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only...”
— Nora Ephron

“By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other...”
— Gary Larson

“A new study shows that licking a frog can cure depression....”
— Jay Leno

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking...”
— Lao Tzu

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick...”
— Ray Bradbury

“I’m always amazed to hear of air crash victims so...”
— Paul Merton

“How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least...”
— François Duc de La...

“It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine...”
— Dave Barry

“We of the here and now are not satisfied for one moment in...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am...”
— Jules Verne

“Christianity teaches you to love your enemies. If you love...”
— Marilyn Manson

“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”
— Alan Saporta

“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing...”
— Calvin (and Hobbes)

“Americans have different ways of saying things. They say...”
— Alexi Sayle

“Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat...”
— Jason Love

“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous...”
— E. B. White, Charlotte’s...

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For...”
— George Carlin (Earth Day)

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues...”
— William Shakespeare

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the...”
— Henry David Thoreau

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and...”
— Albert Szent-Gyorgi

“Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it...”
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“What you see is not what you get. What you don’t see...”
— Smith Eliot

“My antagonistic meanspirited attitude is reserved for...”
— JadeSyren

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy...”
— Albert Camus

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The...”
— Apple’s “Think...

“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked...”
— Wystan Hugh Auden

“A learning experience is one of those things that say,...”
— Douglas Adams

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.”
— Bill Hicks

“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on...”
— Dian Fossey

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for...”
— Leonardo da Vinci

“For one human being to love another: that is the most...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Bender:   Behold… the Internet. Fry:   My God!...”
— Futurama

“Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives....”
— Big Bill Broonzy

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your...”
— Quentin Crisp

“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not wonder about...”
— Alfred North Whitehead

“Ginko Viagra: A wonderful new drug to help you remember what...”
— Dr Contrarian

“Home-decorating shows are the darlings of cable tv. A quick...”
— Jim Mullen

“I don’t know if there are men on the moon, but if...”
— George Bernard Shaw

“I’m not sure what it is about caffeine, but I’m...”
— News Radio

“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the...”
— Shel Silverstein

“The first day of spring was once the time for taking the...”
— E.B. White

“Happiness is nothing more than a naive phase between two...”
— Jogchem Niemandsverdriet

“Sometimes you just have to throw your hands up in the air...”
— George Sessum

“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them...”
— Doug Larson

“We can all fly as high as the dreams we dare to live. Unless...”
— Edward Monkton

“There should be a place at the airport to have sex - you...”
— Jason Love

“For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and...”
— Alice Freeman Palmer

“That’s not a lie, it’s a terminological...”
— Alexander Haig

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any...”
— Mitch Ratliffe

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those...”
— Desmond Tutu, The Elders

“Never wear anything that panics the cat.”
— P.J. O’Rourke

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at...”
— Douglas Adams

“If it is not erotic, it is not interesting.”
— Fernando Arrabal

“What one can see out in the sunlight is always less...”
— Charles Baudelaire

“This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in...”
— Terry Prachett

“Everywhere she went, including here, it was against her...”
— Dorothy Parker

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
— His Holiness the 14th Dalai...

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected...”
— Herman Melville

“I’m not running away from my problems. I’m...”
— Vimrod

“For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into...”
— Kahlil Gibran

“A house without books is like room without windows.”
— Horace Mann

“There are moments in life when the heart is so full of...”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit,...”
— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
— Rabindranath Tagore

“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the...”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to...”
— Marva Collins

“The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, has...”
— Unknown

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in...”
— Woodrow Wilson

“Sometimes the giant hamster of misfortune doesn’t seem...”
— George Olson

“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day...”
— Douglas Adams

“In the darkness we are all holy.”
— Maureen Seaton, The Red Hills

“You can fool all of the people all of the time if the...”
— Joseph E Levine

“There’ll be two dates on your tombstone And all your...”
— Kevin Welch

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her...”
— Dorothy Parker

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds....”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the...”
— Kahlil Gibran

“All tasks completed. All targets met. All pigs fed and ready...”
— Anne Mathewson

“Life is short, misery sure, mortality certain. But on the...”
— Ray Bradbury

“Be who you are and say how you feel, because the people who...”
— Dr Seuss

“Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in...”
— Unknown