The Page of Quotes

Welcome to the Page of Quotes. Here you will find a number of enlightened sayings, or meaningless ramblings that sound kind of spiffy. Have a quote you'd like to add? Simply fill out the form below, and send it in! Check back later to see if your quote made it to the page. Thanks, and enjoy!

"Stop worrying about what people are thinking about you. They're probably worrying about what you're thinking about them."


"If you have to ask, you'll never know."
--Louis Armstrong


"The hippocampus plays a major role in the regulation of basic biological drives related to survival, including the so-called 'four F's': fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating."
-- Psychology: Themes and Variations (Third Ed.), Wayne Weiten


"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Data (Star Trek: TNG)


"When the game is over and the players put away their pieces, both the King and the Pawn are found in the same box."
--Italian Proverb


"The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves."
--Leo Tolstoy


"I had dinner with my father last night and made a terrible Freudian slip. I meant to say, 'Pass the salt, please,' but instead it came out, 'Your ruined my childhood, you bastard!'"
--Comedy Central: Monday May 27, 1996


"In between the 101 proof breath and the occasional drool, some interesting words fall out of your mouth."
--Movie: Leaving Las Vegas


"Guys are like parking lots. All the good spots are taken, and the only ones left are handicapped."
--Meredith Green


"It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning."
--Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume


"'The universe does not have laws.
'It has habits.
'And habits can be broken'"
--Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume (Dr. Wiggs Dannyboy)


"War is the remedy our enemy has chosen, therefore let him have as much of it as he wants."
--William T. Sherman


"Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love."
--Jane Austen (age 81)


"She speaks eighteen languages, and she can't say no in any of them."
--Dorothy Parker


"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ignore." [The heart has its reasons that reason doesn't know.]
--Voltaire


"How can you be two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all?"
--Firesign Theatre


"Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot, qui l'admire" [A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him.] --Boileau, L'art poéticque I, (Kirkegard, Fear and Trembling: Problema I)


"Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth"
--Orson Scott Card in "Ender's Game"


"You may as well be arranging deck chairs on the Titanic."
--Steve Park, Chair of Computer Science at W&M


"An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind."
--M. Gandhi


"The difference between the living and the dead? We have orgasms. . . Oh, and lunch. They may well have more bureaucracy."
--Brewer Eddy


"I am there, not here but there."
--Jean Paul Sartre


"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent."
--Unknown


"Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful."
--Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray


Truly secure and simultaneously useful systems are as elusive as any given molecule of oxygen on a breezy day.
--Robert G. Ferrell, Chasing the Wind








Created by Chad Roberts / summer 1996