Quotes I Enjoy

 

 

Total pacifism cannot be achieved by simply throwing away all weapons. Only when the will of humans to fight is eliminated can there be true peace. - Gundam Wing

 

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. - Agent Smith from The Matrix

 

You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. -Arlo Guthrie

 

I know not what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Albert Einstein

 

Experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test before the lesson!

 

Snap out of it, you fool! The most gorgeous woman in the universe is talking to you! Time to turn on the patented Black Mage charm and make a good first impression. I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down. -Black Mage from 8-bit theater

 

Dance like nobody's watching;
Love like you can't be hurt;
Sing like nobody's listening;
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

 

 

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless feet of man,

He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can,

But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail,

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

 

 

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - - Stephen Robert

 

"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." - Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri (973-1057) Syrian poet.

 

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger (circa 4 B.C.E - 65 C.E)

 

"The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly, has made the world evil and ugly." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"Faith is believing something you know ain't true." - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

 

"All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemingway

 

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." – Einstein

 

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galileo

 

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

 

There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.  (YES!!)

 

"He is YOUR god, They are YOUR rules, YOU burn in Hell!"

 

"Jesus died for your sins, Don't let him have died in vain, Sin a LOT!"

 

"Feminism Is The Radical Notion That Women Are People"

 

“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.” --Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

'If Logic Prevailed, Men Would Ride Side Saddle"

 

MURPHY'S LAWS

Nothing is as easy as it looks.-- Murphy's First Law

Everything takes longer than you think.-- Murphy's Second Law

Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.-- Murphy's Third Law

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.-- Murphy's Fourth Law

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.-- Murphy's Fifth Law

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.-- Murphy's Sixth Law

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.-- Murphy's Seventh Law

After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself.-- Farnsdick's Corollary

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.-- Murphy's Eighth Law

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.-- Murphy's Ninth Law

Mother Nature is a bitch.-- Murphy's Tenth Law

It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.-- Murphy's Eleventh Law

Murphy was an optimist.-- O'Toole's Commentary

 

 

ANALOGIES YOU PROBABLY WON'T FIND IN GREAT LITERATURE:

 

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without

one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a

solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

(Joseph Romm, Washington)

 

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used

to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged

the door open again.

(Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station)

 

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling

ball wouldn't.

(Russell Beland, Springfield)

 

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled

with vegetable soup.

(Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring)

 

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city

and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

(Roy Ashley, Washington)

 

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

(Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)

 

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. (Russell Beland, Springfield)

 

Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.

--(Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills)

 

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

(Jack Bross, Chevy Chase)

 

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

(Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring)

 

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like

"Second Tall Man." (Russell Beland, Springfield)

 

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one

having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. (Jennifer Hart,

Arlington)

 

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

(Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.)

 

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

(Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.)

 

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. --(Russell Beland, Springfield)

 

The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a

play. (Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria)

 

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. (Chuck Smith,

Woodbridge)

 

The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.

(Jennifer Frank and Jimmy Pontzer, Washington and Sterling)

 

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