"No warrior scolds. Courteous words or else hard knocks are his only language."


King Tirian in The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis

"Adults are only obsolete children."


Dr. Seuss

"People who matter don't count, and people who count don't matter."

"If you're gonna stay out with the big boys, you gotta get up with the big boys."

"There's no such thing as a free lunch"


My Dad



"My big ones are eating my little ones."

"If you keep playing with/picking at that it will fall off."


and I believe these are from My Mom


Thank you!

"The man who does not read good books is no better
than the man who can't."

— Mark Twain


"To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables



thank you!

" 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever. "



Philip Pullman

who seems to get quoted/mis-quoted a lot these days...

"We can never do merely one thing."

"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."


ecologist Garrett Hardin



Hardin was primarily concerned with "bioethical" issues such as overfishing and deforestation, but his work also brought attention to the personal-to-global effects of every decision and action (or inaction) -- think ripples in a pond, think Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum's "Chaos Theory" of the butterfly wings causing hurricanes... or think of The Fixx.

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, nor by any other church. Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense."


Robert A. Heinlein

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”


~Aristotle

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life..."


Albert Camus

"No king or prince has lived a better life"


Evel Knievel

It's funny (or ironic?), but I a few days after posting this my Dad and I had a heated (yet civil) discussion about the choice to do violence to another person. Under our violence conversation was of course the issue of the righteousness and glorification of war, the current one and others, but seeing as how we were out in the carport on thanksgiving night, Mom decided the convo needed to be cut short. But part of what he was saying was that there is not only the choice to do violence (i.e., drop the bombs) but also the choice to receive the violence -- to be in the place where the bombs will be dropped... Does this have merit? Or is it rationalization to assuage guilt?

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

R. Kipling


"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it."

W. Shakespeare


thanks, Bro, although I hope you didn't just call my woman thick and bereft of beauty...

“Great literature should make us squirm, question, debate, complain, and celebrate—its ability to evoke thoughtful or emotional responses is what makes it great. Like fire, it can illuminate, burn, and even pave the way for new growth.”


~~Bonnie Katzive

"I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand."

Ancient Proverb

"D'oh!"


Homer Simpson



an all-time classic, a hall of famer*, how could I have missed this one?

*is there a Quote Hall of Fame? and where would it be -- Athens? Stratford on Avon? Hollywood?

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou


"The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”


Jane Addams (1860-1935)


“Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."


Mark Twain

"It’s not enough just to swing at the ball. You’ve got to loosen your girdle and let ‘er fly."


Babe Didrikson

she was talking about golf, but I think it applies to most things in life....

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."


John F. Kennedy

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."


Arthur C. Clarke

“Nobody throws harder than Nolan Ryan. Not even God.”


— George Scott

"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not. "


Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus SENECA
3 B.C.-65 A.D

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."


Oscar Wilde

"Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man," Freeman says to Wallace. "And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You wouldn't say, 'Well, I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.' You know what I'm sayin'?"


Morgan Freeman (obviously)

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”


Roald Dahl

“He who thinks he knows, doesn’t know. He who knows that he doesn’t know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.”

Tao-te Ching

I don't know for sure if I know what this means, so does that mean I know what it means?

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. "



John Lennon

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”


Jackie Robinson

“Q: Why are we violent but not illiterate?
A: Because we are taught to read.”


David Allan

"The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence."


Colman McCarthy
(my new Hero)

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater."


Albert Einstein

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."

"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. "

"Go take a flying **** at a rolling doughnut,"

"If you can do no good, at least do no harm."

"...[freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself. "

"You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit. "

"So it goes."



Thank you, Mr. Vonnegut, for the inspiring, shocking, blessing magic of your life and work.

"Many people go far in life because someone else thought they would."


John Maxwell

"It is important, when death finds you, that it finds you alive..."



Anonymous

Thanks, Livvy

"Guns don't kill people. People with moustaches kill people."



Anonymous/T-shirt

"In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul."


Lisa T. Shepherd



"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."


Pete Seeger



borrowed without asking, but with the best of intentions, from:
http://doihavetocallitablog.blogspot.com/

"The tongue is mightier than the blade."

Euripides

wow

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

not exactly all famous, inspiring quotes, but still....

"Sometimes, paper is the only thing that will listen."


on the wall in Ms. B___'s 7th grade class

"We never know the love of our parents until we have become parents."


Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman, 19th Century


And we never know how crazy we will drive our children until our own parents retire, move to a smaller place, whine about missing their grandchildren, and somehow find our new phone number that was supposed to be unlisted!

"Life is way too serious to be taken too seriously."

Gunars Neiders



"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

Elbert Hubbard


had to proofread that last one several times, I was so afraid of spelling something wrong...

no idea who either gentlemen is, or even if they are gentlemen, but I'll get back to you with the details...

"Where there is love, there is life."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

George Bernard Shaw

"Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans "

John Lennon, Beautiful Boy

"Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

James Thurber

“… every man is part of the bridge between the past and the future, and must feel how it stretches out both ways before him and behind him.”

C. Walter Hodges, The Namesake: A Story of King Alfred

not that I know who ol' King Alfred is/was, but it's a good start as far as quotes go....