"Dig the well before you are thirsty."

--Viking Proverb

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

--Ayn Rand

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

--Thomas Edison

"There is a profound difference between information and meaning."

--Warren G. Bennis

"There is a profound difference between information and meaning."

--Warren G. Bennis

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."

--Bonnie Friedman

"Civilizations fall because people bitch and complain when the electricity is off for fifteen minutes, and never give a thought to the fact that it has been on for their entire lives. "

--Unknown

“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”

-–Ram Dass

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

--John Stuart Mill

Q: What did the Zen Buddhist say to the hot dog Vendor?
A: "Make me one with everything."

Old Farmer's Advice:

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.

* Every path has a few puddles.

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

* Don't judge folks by their relatives.

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll enjoy it a second time.

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with,
watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

* Always drink upstream from the herd.

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad
judgment.

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it
back in.

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
somebody else's dog around.

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the
rest to God.

There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.

--Anonymous geek

We're not human beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a human experience.

--A Random Blog.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

--Albert Einstein

Kites rise highest against the wind not with it.

--Winston Churchill

On the dance floor as in life, you're only as good as your partner.

--unknown

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

--William Stafford

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

--Author Unknown

Science works even if you don't believe in it.

--Penn Jillette

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

--W. C. Fields

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

--Joe Martin

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

--George Orwell

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

--Barbara Hall

Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Representative Dick Armey, who when asked if he had been in President Clinton's place, would he have resigned?

He responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance to resign. I would be laying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, "How do I reload this damn thing?"

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
--Laurence J. Peter

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

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
--Judge Gideon J. Tucker

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
--Slovenian Proverb

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
--Albert Einstein

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
--Carl Sagan

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
--Mark Twain

“With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
--Chinese proverb

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got."
--M. J. Kraybill

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
--Krishnamurti

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
--Kin Hubbard

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
--Benjamin Franklin

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
--Cyril Connolly

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
--Arthur C. Clarke

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."
--J. R. R. Tolkien

"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
--Kelvin Throop III

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
--Errol Flynn

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."
--David Frost

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
--Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

"Beware the fury of a patient man."
-- John Dryden

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
--Alan W. Watts

To live alone one must be an animal or a god.
-Aristotle

To live alone one must be an animal or a god, says Aristotle.
There is a third case. One must be both.
-Nietzsche

Me against my brother, my brother and me against the tribe,
the tribe and me against the world.
-Arabic proverb

You have to ask yourself, would you rather be zealous or thorough.
-Nicholas Knight

The best way out is always through.
-Robet Frost

Moderation in all things, except Love and Justice.
-unknown

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

They can conquer who believe they can.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't search for a bonfire with a lighted lantern.
-Unknown

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungrey.
-Winston Churchhill

The silent dog is first to bite.
-Unknown

All that we see or seem,
is but adream within a dream.
-Edgar Allen Poe

Is it progress if a cannible uses a fork?
-Stansilaw J. Lec

Don't look back something may be gaining on you.
-Satchel Page

I could be bounded in a nutshell and consider myself
a King of infinit space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
-Shakespeare, Hamlet

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
-Seneca

So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
-Shakespeare

Hatred is by far the longest of pleasures. Men love in haste,
but they detest at leisure.
-Lord Byron, Don Juan

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when ther is no help in the truth.
-Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Love is for poets.
-Connor MacCloud

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
-Chinese proverb

Kill them all let God sort them out.
-Merc Maxim

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,
bear it that the opposed may beware of thee.
-Shakespeare, Hamlet I:3

Happiness is a warm gun.
-John Lennon

I cut it twice and it's still too short.
-Maurice H. Wilsey

Don't shit where you eat.
-Paula Bogdon, Phd

We get our strenth, not by never falling down, but by rising every time we fall.
-Unknown

Two eagles, tied togather, though they have four wings they cannot fly.
-Graffiti

Never give a sword to a man that can't dance.
-Bushido Maxim

Sit at peace on the rivers bank. Your enemies body will soon float by.
-Bushido Maxim

There can be only one.
-Highlander

Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully
out of obscurity into the dream.
-Pink Floyd

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to.
-Pink Floyd

Those who fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
-Chuck Norris

Though he treads upon the tigers tails it does not bite him.
-I, Ching

Any sufficantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arther C. Clark

There is a pleasure in being mad that non but madmen know.
-unknown

Now I could drink hot blood...
-Shakespeare, Hamlet

It's what people know about themselves inside that make them afraid.
-Clint Eastwood, Play Misty for Me

I have been a stranger in a strange land.
-Bible, Exodus 2:22

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Lau Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Where ever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
-Heinrich Heine

It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
-Stephen Hawking

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
-Christopher Society, motto

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
-H.G. Wells

If I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you.
-Elvira

Freedom is a beautiful woman who I'd rather sleep with in a pile of dung
than sleep without her in a bed of silk.
-Martin C. Wilsey

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
-Henry David Thoreau

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
-Niechitz

I want to seize fate by the throat.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven

The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
-John Philpot Curran

There is no genius without some touch of madness.
-Seneca

A soft answer turneth away wrath.
-Bible, Proverbs 15:1

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
-Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3:2

What is steel compared to the hand that wields it.
-Thulsa Doom

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw

I always present myself as the soul of innocence, the better to further my works of corruption.
-James M. Pfundstein

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-Hunter S. Thompson

Time is the fire in which we burn...
-Star Trek

Time is the cruelest of teachers.
She kills all her pupils...
-Unknown