There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
~ Harry Truman

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

~Carol Shields

If our service is not up to your standard, please lower your standard

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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
~ Helen Keller

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

(Art: Neato!.. I didn't think of that for quote for some reason)

edit2: so yeah, i found it and changed it... then realized you fixed had it in your post.. hehe

GakFace,
If you put even a partial quote into Google, it will find the source...
Thanks!

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger. "
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The stumbling way in which even the ablest of scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulations, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks."

-- James B. Conant, Science and Common Sense, 1951

"I wish I had a girlfriend." -- Me, everyday.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

~C.H. Spurgeon

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

-- Albert Einstein, What I Believe, 1930

"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"
-Bill Hicks

Take yourself less seriously

-ARTelevision

There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught.

-- Irish proverb

oberon, good one, thanks!

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

That quote is incredible. Thanks.

It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.

~Mother Teresa

...it's also how much give we put into loving.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

Fame is when a bunch of strangers think they know you.

-ARTelevision

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is the ultimate challenger; nothing can ever defeat or escape it.

-- oberon

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~ E.E. Cummings

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

~ Anatole France

Thus times do shift,
each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed,
as former things grow old.

-- Robert Herrick, Hesperides: Ceremonies for Christmas Eve, 1648

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

~ Henry Miller

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

-- Louis Brandeis, Whitney v. California, 1927

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

~ Vince Lombardi

One day I'll stop waiting.

Probably right after I die.

People actually eat spam.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

~ Richard DeVos

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Alice B. Toklas

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

~Richard Bach

Learn to wish
that everything
should come to pass
exactly as it does.

-Epictetus

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" -

- Abraham Lincoln

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Popular Mechanics, 1949