Words to Live By

The Lord says, "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them."
-Isaiah 42:16

"Though this be madness, There is method in it."
-Shakespeare

"No one will win the battle of the sexes, there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
-Henry Kissinger

When suspending disbelief, use a noose.

"He needed Killin"
-actual murder plea.

Only the insane are crazy enough to succeed, only the successful, powerful enough to say what is sane.

"Everything you know is Wrong!"

"I found freedom, losing all hope was freedom"
-Fight Club

Only the insane are truly free.

"Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness."
-Emily Dickenson

When confusion reigns, it pours.

Apathy, gotta' love it, nothing else to do.

If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and Kill it!

"The worst thing in this world, I believe, is ennui. It is the one thing for which there is no cure."
-Oscar Wilde

"It's good to be the King."
-Louis XVI

You can't create a utopian society, humans are inherently evil!

Never apologize! It makes it look like you screwed up, and then we'd have to laugh at you.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

You do all know of course that, when left unattended, PEEPS have the potential for sentient life, possibly growing out of their simple marshmallowy form into something greater...far more sinister...

Would you please grow some testicles and stop groveling like a Boy Scout!

I'm not cheating, it's called creative problem solving.

If at first you don't succeed, well, you probably suck.

There is no logic! There is no sense! all that you see is covered with haze, and stuffed with a creamy filling! Welcome to the TWINKIE ZONE!!!

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Yup... you shouldn't play God, but it's just so easy with Lego-people.

Someday is not a day of the week.

My father always said that there is no such thing as spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire. I also found that other people are generally upset when I set them on fire.

"All we are, all we seem
Is but a dream within a Dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Illegitimi non Carborundom Est" Don't let the bastards bring you down.

"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it...I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open."
-Raistlin, Dragonlance Chronicles

"You can lie to yourself, you can lie to others. You can lie with your words, with your actions, and with your thoughts. Yet you can never lie with your eyes, for there in the window of the soul, all truth lies."

"Which is the greater gift - the strength to stand alone or the knowledge that you don't need to?"

"It is not what you know, or who you know, it is who knows you that matters."

"Control is an illusion which humanity has created. Anarchy is an instinct which technology has sedated."

"Love is a chemical imbalance in the brain, avoid it at all costs."

"Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks."
-Robert Heinlien

"My father taught me many things. He said, 'Keep your friends close. But keep your enemies closer."
-The Godfather.

Provide. Protect. Procreate. Our pledge to women.

"You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the all singing all dancing crap of the world."
-Fight Club

Feeling screwed up at a screwed up time, in a screwed up place does not make you necessarily screwed up, if you catch my drift.

"They say it is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all but if you sit down and count the cost of all those losses, then there's no profit at all"
-Del Amitri; "Your Gone"

Money talks and Bullshit walks

"Truth comes in three stages. First, it is disbelieved; second it is violently opposed; third it is accepted as self-evident."
-Schopenhauer

"History is written by those who have hanged heroes."
-Braveheart

"Now, you can't destroy everything. Where would you sit down?"
-The Tick, now how can you argue with logic like THAT?!

"Watch your back, shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, EVER, cut a deal with a dragon."
-Shadowrunner saying

"A war is a deal or conversation taken too far."
-Gabriel Velarde

"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning."
-Franklin

Any fool can tell the truth, but it takes a man of some reason to know how to lie well."
- Samuel Butler

"Whatsoever thou takest in hand, Remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss."
-Apocrypha

There's no time like the present for postponing what you aught to be doing.

"Most men are content with their own idle dreams, until someone else gives them larger ones, for good or for evil."
-Dragonlance, Knights of the Crown

"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."
-Anatole France

"Reversion to destiny is called eternity."
-Laotse, the character of Tao (6th century BC)

 "Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool that did his will."
-Edward Rowland Sill "The Fool's Prayer"

You're only as stupid as you let your mind think you are

"He was a wise man that invented Beer."
-Plato

Life is just a phase... you'll get over it.

Whom computers destroy, they first dive mad.

"There's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and irrational, between good and evil and good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincon called ‘the better angels of our nature.' Every man has got a breaking point. You have it, I have it. Kurtz has reached his and very obviously he has gone insane."
-Apocalypse Now

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
-Lily Tomlin

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

"Merciful father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment I beg only to live the next few minutes well... For all we ought to have thought, but have not thought. For all we ought to have said but have not said. For all we ought to have done but have not done. I pray thee, God, for forgiveness."
-13th Warrior

"When the gods wish a rare jest, they will answer a man's questions... If that was not an old saying it should be."
-Dragonlance, Knights of the Crown

The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign the conspiracy is working.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

"If ever you see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help Me!"
-Bobcat Goldthwait

"You can't enlighten the unconscious"
-Roger Mellot "I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. Correct me, O Lord, but in just measure; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing."
-Jeremiah 10:23-24

A closed mouth gathers no feet

Before you criticize someone walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets mad, he'll be a mile away- and barefoot.

You can't make someone love you, you can only stalk them ‘till they panic and give in.

"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about theses things."
-Philippians 4:8

If you must choose between two evils- pick the one you haven't tried yet.

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

"None are deceived but they that confide. As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence."
-Franklin

And remember, always pillage and rape BEFORE you burn.

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been or would have appeared to be otherwise."
-Be what you appear to be- Alice in Wonderland

"A man who practices both honor and theft walks a tightrope over the Abyss, and at various times good, neutral, and evil gods may give that rope a weak, if only to see what may happen."
-Dragonlance, Knights of the Crown

Of the saying, He upon whom neither love of mastery, vanity, resentment, nor covetousness have any hold may be called Good, the Master said, "Such a one has done what is difficult; but whether he should be called Good I do not know."
-Confucianism. Analects 14.2

When two men agree, one of them is unnecessary

"Kyrie eleison" Lord have Mercy

Alcohol and Calculus don't mix.
Never drink and derive.

In some cultures what I do would be considered normal.

"There are very few personal problems that can't be solved through suitable application of high explosives."
- Dilbert

"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
-Edmund Burke ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France'

"Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip."
-Fight Club

Chaos is the natural state to which all things will eventually revert.

"Live strongly and passionately and violently!"
-Dorothy

"Yea, well, nowadays everything's bad for you, from the very air we breath to the food we eat, there's no escaping it, we're all gonna die so why not have fun doing it."
-Motto of the neo-nihilist

"It is better to name thy accomplices and have them with thee in prison than to die by grenade."
-Dominion Tank Police

"Never get out of the boat, absolutely God Damn right! Unless you were going all the way."
-Apocalypse Now

"A man most often ends in the arena for what he's most proud of"
-Dragonlance, old saying in Istar's back streets

"Look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen ; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal."
-2 Corinthians 4:18 "I kill crazy people." -Heero

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
-Matthew 5:3-10

"Ambrosia can be extracted even from poison; elegant speech even from a child; good conduct even from an enemy, gold even from impurity."
-Hindu Laws of Manu

"Only when the doors of perception are cleansed things will appear to man as they truly are, infinite"
-William Blake

"The least expected is the most effective."
-Screamin' Jay Hawkins

"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."
-REM

"I have the key to the door and I have opened it but you must walk through."
-Jim Morrison, The Doors

"There is no black, only shades of Grey."
-Duo Maxwell