Quotations

• “Weapons are an important factor in war but not the deciding one, it is Man
  not the materials that count.” – Mao Tse-tung
• “A witty saying proves nothing” – Voltaire
• “We make war that we may live in peace.” – Aristotle 325 B.C.
• “What if you threw a war and no one came?” – Magic: The Gathering
• “Here” – Magic: The Gathering from Jinxed Idol
• “Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the
  utterly bewildered.” – Al Capp
• “People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
• “Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
  - Plutarch
• “Stoop and you’ll be stepped on; stand tall and you’ll be shot at.”
  - Carlos A. Urbizo
• “If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn’t a horse.”
  - Anonymous
• “If you cannot convince them, confuse them” – Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
• “A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from
  a mountain top.” – Anonymous
• “The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance
  to do something stupid.” – Art Spander
• “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
  - H. L. Mencken
• “Ne te quaesiveris extra.” – Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” – Patton
• “The net will not be what we demand, but what we make of it. Build it well.” -dsplat(Slashdot.org user)
• “Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
  - John Russell
• “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb
• “Write a wise saying and your name will live forever” – Anonymous
• “Do not seek enlightenment unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.” – Sri Ramakrishna
• “Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing”
  - Robert Benchley
• “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis
• “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” – William Arthur Ward
• “I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go.” – Frank Bettger
• “There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” – Archibald McLeish
• “Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to say something.” – Plato
• “He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tsu
• “Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?” – Epicurus
• “Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.” – Laurence J. Peter
• “How much better to know that we have dared to live our dreams than to live our lives in a lethargy of regret.” – Gilbert Caplin
• “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877)
• “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” – Anonymous
• “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
  - Swedish proverb
• “I seem to be the kind of guy who likes the kind of girls who don’t like the kind of guys like me.” – Anonymous
• “I am the anti-interesting. People take one look at me and they already know too much” – Anonymous.
• “The frequently absent father of one of my best friend once told him: ‘[Son], (don’t tell your mother I said this but) sometimes you have to lie to bitches.’ That’s some super-concentrated parenting right there.” – arstehcnia.com forum
• “I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” – Jerome K. Jerome (1859 – 1927)
• “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.” – Jerome K. Jerome
• “One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.” – Joyce Carol Oates
• “I will not tiptoe through life, only to arrive safely at death” – Anonymous
• “It’s the little things that count” – My Dad