Quotes that match my way of thinking...
"Some people have a large circle of
friends while others have only friends that they like."
-- Anonymous
"It's astonishing how much energy some people waste worrying that
someone else might be enjoying life in ways they don't approve of."
-- Kevin Michael Vail
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed
with me."
-- Dudley Field Malone
"Sin lies only in hurting others
unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Anyone who conducts an argument by
appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his
memory."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci
"In the End, we will remember not the
words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"The constitution? I'm pretty sure the patriot act killed it to ensure our freedoms."
-- Bart Simpson
"It is never too late to give up our
prejudices."
-- Henry David Thoureau
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my
father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But
when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had
learned in seven years."
-- Mark Twain
"Other than the war in Iraq,
the Katrina disaster, the deficit, the CIA leak, the torture, stopping stem
cell research, homeland security, global warming, and undercutting science,
we've yet to really feel the negative effects of the Bush administration."
-- Bill Maher (in 2005)
"What we call 'morals' is simply
blind obedience to words of command."
-- Havelock Ellis
"We have just enough religion to
make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
-- Jonathan Swift
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"If
a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured
or far away."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Destiny
is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be
waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
-- Anonymous
"The
race is long. In the end, it's only with yourself."
-- Mary Schmich
Roy Rush