Quotations



"There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you."
- A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture


"God does not play dice with the cosmos."
- Albert Einstein


"An amateur thinks it's really funny if you dress a man up as an old lady, put him in a wheelchair, and give the wheelchair a push that sends it spinning down a slope towards a stone wall. For a pro, it's got to be a real old lady."
- Groucho Marx


"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
- H. L. Mencken


"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
- Abraham Lincoln


"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
- Silvan Engel (used by Abraham Lincoln)


"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."
- Winston Churchill


"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
- Friedrich Nietzsche


"Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they would be married too.
- H. L. Mencken


"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant."
- John Stuart Mill "On Liberty"


"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."
- Robert Cody


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