Quotes
The Big, The Bad, but I left out The Ugly.
Okay, admit it--you like a good quote as well as the next guy. (or girl, my english teachers would give me hell for that.)  And I suppose you could consider me to be a quote collector of sorts. It's kind of a strange thing to collect, intangible and worthless--but hey--it doesn't take up nearly as much space as stamps or bottlecaps! As you can see, this is a small collection, because I'm only putting up what I consider to be the best of the best.  At some point in the future, I hope to organize them into categories, but for now, they're pretty much willy-nilly.  The very first one listed here is from what I consider to be one of the greatest books ever written.  Read it carefully; it is the best advice that can be given. And if you ever get a chance, read the book.  It's short, it won't take very long, and if you're any sort of a person at all, you'll love it. 
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
*Antoine de Saint Exupery, Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)
(Translation:  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.)
Omnia mors aequat.
Death levels all.
*Claudian 
"If a man does his best, what else is there? "
*George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. "
*Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends. "
*Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"I would have made a good Pope. "
*Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man
who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. "
*Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "
*Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands."
*Gustave Flaubert
"Men have become the tools of their tools. "
*Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)  
"A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one."         
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going
to a garage makes you an automobile."
*Billy Sunday
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
*Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
*John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
*Carl Sagan
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
*Ray Bradbury
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
*Gustave Flaubert
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
*Burt Bacharach
"How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children"
*Book title by Lewis B. Frumkes (1983)
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
*Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others."
*John Andrew Holmes
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man
who can't read them."
*Mark Twain
"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change
color and fall from the trees."
*David Letterman
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips
in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast."
*Douglas Adams
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
*John Benfield
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education"
*Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as
Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth"
*Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
*Susan Ertz 
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears
to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
*Gustave Flaubert
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