Quotes

I'm sick of seeing this part of the forum have no posts, and while I'm incapable of making visual artwork... I am here to provide you with quotes, quotes, and more quotes! I love quotes... So exciting. Warning, this is rather long, feel no obligation to read all or any of it.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. -Mary Hirsch

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. -Herb Caen

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. -Martin Luther King Jr.

What you are is a question only you can answer. -Lois McMaster Bujold

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -Bill Watterson

The best index to a person’s character is: A) How he treats people who can’t do him any good, and B) How he treats people who can’t fight back. -Abigail van Buren

Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended. -Voltaire

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. -Voltaire

Canada: A few acres of snow. -Voltaire

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. -Voltaire

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. -Voltaire

This is no time to make new enemies. -Voltaire (When asked, on his deathbed, to forswear Satan.)

Common sense is not so common. -Voltaire

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. -Voltaire

The public is a ferocious beast - one must either chain it up or flee from it. -Voltaire

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and circumference is nowhere. -Voltaire

God is always on the side of the big battalions. -Voltaire

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. -Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. -Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. -Voltaire

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. -Voltaire

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished... Unless they kill in large numbers, and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. -Robert Orben

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. -R. D. Laing

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -Mark Twain

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. -Antisthenes

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -Suzanne Necker