Top 5 Favorite Quotes

[aeg5014]

1. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all worlds, the pessimist fears this to be true" - James Cabell

2. "Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man wealthy, healthy, and dead" - James Thurber

3. "Fighting on the internet is like the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still a retard" ???

4. "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." Henry Stimson

5. "He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be" Pierre Corneille

**BONUS**

"Man speaks of killing time, while time slowly kills them"

[Larry Flyntz]

Here are some good ones. Not necessarily my favorite, but some decent ones I could find pretty quickly.

1. "In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

2. "Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy."
- John Paul Stevens

3. "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
-Kurt Vonnegut

4. "Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"
-Kurt Vonnegut

5. "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
-Thomas Paine

And another for good measure.

6. "Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
-Hunter S. Thompson

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

I don't have five, but here's one I heard that I like.

'Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? " - Rose Kennedy

[Cowboyninja]

-"Postmodernism can be defined as a procedural rebellion against totalizing systems of thought with an eventual affirmation of no centers of value." - Luca Petryshyn

-This one is for you Flyntz
"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."- Heywood Broun

-"A generation raised on channel-surfing has lost the capacity for linear thinking and analytical reasoning."-?

-"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."-Frank Zappa

-"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."- George Bernard Shaw

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

-"Postmodernism can be defined as a procedural rebellion against totalizing systems of thought with an eventual affirmation of no centers of value." - Luca Petryshyn

The Asshat.