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Quotes Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ~ David Starr Jordan Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' ~ Charles M. Schulz Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~ Antonio Porchia Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. ~ Henry David Thoreau Quote Category: Dream Quotes To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. ~ Bernard Edmonds Quote Category: Dream Quotes Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. ~ Unknown Quote Category: Dream Quotes So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~ Unknown Quote Category: Dream Quotes All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ~ David Starr Jordan

Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' ~ Charles M. Schulz

Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~ Antonio Porchia

Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Quote Category: Wisdom Quotes

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey

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Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Quote Category: Dream Quotes

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. ~ Bernard Edmonds

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Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. ~ Unknown

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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~ Unknown

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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they

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may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. ~ T.E. Lawrence

Quote Category: Dream Quotes

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ C.S. Lewis

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Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality. ~ Unknown

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. ~ Douglas H. Everett

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The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. ~ Tom Bradley

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Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. ~ Unknown

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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. ~ Unknown

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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. ~ Gail Devers 

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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' ~ George Bernard Shaw 

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Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.~ Epicurus

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ~ Maria Robinson

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. ~ Unknown

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Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like. ~ Unknown

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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. ~ Alex Tan

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The most important things in life aren't things. ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo 

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~ Peter Marshall

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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~ John W. Gardner

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Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. ~ Unknown

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~ Unknown

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ~ Pat Riley 

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on. ~ Tom Greening and Dick Hobson 

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ~ Lou Holtz 

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There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. ~ Gretchen Kemp 

Quote Category: Love & Romance Quotes

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain

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Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends. ~ William Feather

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People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you did it. ~ Howard Newton

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. ~ Elmer G. Letterman

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Where there is unity there is always victory. ~ Publilius Syrus

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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While I can run, I'll run; while I can walk, I'll walk; when I can only crawl, I'll crawl. But by the grace of God, I'll always be moving forward. ~ Cavett Robert

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Self-love and inspiration is worth more than a thousand bent gold spoons! ~ John F. Murray

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Endow your will with such power. That at every turn of fate it so be, That God Himself asks of His Slave ""What is it that pleases thee?"" ~ Allama Iqbal

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Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage. ~ Unknown

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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right. ~ Unknown

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Unknown

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When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. ~ Unknown

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God helps those who help themselves. ~ Unknown

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Give a man a fish, you fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish; you have fed him for a lifetime. ~ Chinese Proverb

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain 

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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. ~ Erin Majors 

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ~ James Allen 

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What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass. ~ Colin P Sisson 

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A good life is a collection of happy memories. ~ Denis Waitley 

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View stumbling blocks as stepping stones to the stars. ~ Unknown 

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A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision. ~ Nido Qubein 

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The greatest communication skill is paying value to others. ~ Denis Waitley 

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You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others. ~ Unknown 

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All glory comes from daring to begin. ~ Eugene F Ware 

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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. ~ Albert Einstein 

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Only a life lived for others is worth living. ~ Albert Einstein 

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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. ~ Albert Schweitzer

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. ~ Albert Schweitzer 

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank 

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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

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Find A guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heart beat, or will stay awake to watch you sleep, wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show ou off to the world when you're just in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends. Who thinks that you're just as pretty without make-up on, one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have you...The one who turns to his friends with a smile and says, "She's the one!"

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, falling in love with you was beyond my control!

by Gwen

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You have given me a second chance in life Sometime before you I couldn't cop with the strife You've given me that love I dreamed of forever Happiness I been united with now that we're together You've touched my heart so deeply with your gentle touch To world I will never deny that I love you so much Words can't explain how thankful I am of you You have brought my smiles to overcome my blue The moments that we have shared the memories we make I promise your heart won't shatter or even break My world has changed forever now that you are here I miss you so much when you are not near I've opened up my everything to you because I trust you The more comfortable I am with anything we go through The love you and I share has made us one whole You have made my life complete from once an empty soul You will always be the girl who will stand out from the rest I'll never forget each memory that you made the best Forever in my heart baby with this love I'll always keep I'll always have you in my heart even when I'm asleep

by Felex Badza

You make my heart melt, and my stomach fill with butterflies. You leave me speechless and yet full of laughter... Your such an incredible man.

by Kimberly

I have found new love, like i've never known before. I find myself waiting for you, in desperation and in hope. You have told me you love me, and it's hard for me to say. Our love is new, but i do love you. If i fall in too deep, i'll find myself in weep. You are my life, my soul and my passion, every waking moment i wish you here to embrace me. So please, if i tell you i love you, promise me i won't get hurt. because i love you and i'll love you like love has never seen before.

by anonymous

I was afraid of love, I thought love took time, like a fine wine aging in the cellar. I was wrong. Love is there from the moment you see that person, embrace it let it grow, follow your heart, not your mind.

by Unknown

Don't let doubts lose the magic of love, because it's not everyday you meet someone who has the magic to let you fall in love!

by Melody C.

Don't say you love me unless you mean it because I might do something stupid...like believe it!

by Gwen

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Just when I thought that love could never be a part of me, that's when you came along and showed me happiness!

by Elvin

He looks at me and my heart starts skipping beats, my face starts to glow, and my eyes start to twinkle. Imagine what he would do to me if he smiled!

When I see you, I smile. When I hear you, I listen. When I touch you, I feel you. When I kiss you, I love you!

by Unknown

Your presence in my life brings wonderful smiles and loving thoughts within my heart.

by Unknown

First love, the love that clings to your heart forever, no matter how much pain it has caused, no matter how many tears have fallen, first love will never leave my soul.

by Siva

You're like a drug; when you're with me, it's a high. When you're not, it's a low. And even though I know you'll hurt me in the end, I still need you.

by Kelly

it all started in 2007 when i first saw you and i told my self i got to make this come true.your eyes got me hypnotized it makes me feel good inside i look to the sky and thank god he sent me you even though if it was just out of the blue yea weve had our ups and downs but i still want you around i cant think cant sleep cant do anything at all i just pray so that youll be here to stay we started with a letter and then got to know each other better its been a month 12 days i got faith tht we gonna get through this dont worry babe this is just bliss i know it cant be resolved with one kiss but u are on my mind 24/7 see in my eyes ur a perfect ten ur my baby my chikita my princesa i dont know wht id do with outcha so thts why im telling you baby plz dont go bcuz without u i feel like a ghost. i had a dream about u we were under the moonlight and then u held me tight has i stared in those big brown eyes i saw my future with you every time im with you i subside becuz with you im in my own little world life twirles i close my eyes and i see my self givin you piggy back rides under the big bright

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sunlight only those people who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go baby if thts wht it takes then thts wht im gonna do so you can see how much i love you dont worry baby il be with you til the very end ill give you wht u want rollin in ur benz

by viktor

When two souls, that have shed their loneliness, embrace and melt into one; from out of loneliness, love is born.

by Mori Yuriko

My life would be beautiful if you were by my side because you have painted a smile in my heart that will last for a lifetime.

by Edwin

When I first saw you, I wanted to meet you. When I first met you, I wanted to kiss you. When I first kissed you, I wanted to love you, But, now that I love you, Im scared to love you.

by Bren

The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt.

by Pire

If it's the thought that counts you can always count on me; I think about you all the time.

by Unknown

You are my first romance and I'm willing to take a chance; until life is through, I'll still be loving you. I will be true to you, just a promise from you will do. From the very start, please be careful with my heart.

by Jose Mari Chan

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When I look into your eyes my heart starts racing and I see myself falling for you.

by Leanne Reed

When I see you, I get butterflies. When I talk to you, I get tongue-tied. When you touch me, I feel like I can fly.

by Kristin Cook

I never wanted the stars, never shot for the moon, I like them right where they are... all I wanted was you!

by Bon Jovi

The star that makes love's dream come true was shining on me when I met you.

by Darra

My biggest fear is never loving anyone again the way I loved you.

by Linda

when you asked me what i dream about, i couldnt say you, so i told my first lie. when you asked me if I like anyone, i couldnt say you, so i told another lie. when you asked me what im thinking, what im living for, what im happy about...well you get the point.

by Katie

It's a feeling I can't explain; you're like a girl out of my dreams but yet you seem to be just out of my reach and ever since you walked into my life I've just prayed it will all work out in the end.

by Matt W.

You make me think of these things to say, no one has ever done that, you are the one responsible for the joy, and love I feel.

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by Andrew Macia

Can I be the one who can kiss you on the nose, look you in the eyes, whisper I love you and make you smile like its christmas morning.

by Jake

LaughsWits, puns and general silliness. There are a total of 1879 quotes in this category.

There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright     

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Dave Barry     It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

Scott Adams     I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

A Bit of Fry and Laurie     Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.

    The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": Fighting, fleeing, feeding and... mating.

Psychology professor in neuropsychology intro course     What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Mark Twain     I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

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A. Whitney Brown     A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James     There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Dick Cavettmocking the TV-violence debate     

I am sick unto death of obscure English towns that exist seemingly for the sole accommodation of these so-called limerick writers -- and even sicker of their residents, all of whom suffer from physical deformities and spend their time dismembering relatives at fancy dress balls.

Editor of the Limerick Times(Limerick, Ireland)     

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.("When cryptography is outlawed

only outlaws will have privacy")     Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

Ashleigh Brilliant     Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?- Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.- Advising the President.- Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

David Letterman     An Animated Cartoon Theology: People are animals. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. Life is antagonistic to the living. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and

plucked for music. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own

cunning. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own

momentum. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

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E. L. Doctorow, "The Book of Daniel"     Sweden's previous Minister of Justice amused the Americans on her visit. Her name is Gun Hellsvik, pronounced "gun hells week".

Ronny Eriksson     Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Stupidest question of the monthwww.stupidquest.com     

The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money.Mikael Pawlo     

You don't buy the drink here, you only rent itRestroom Graffiti     

Seizing this rare opportunity, I motion to the airhostess and inform her that I could easily rid them of vast quantities of cumbersome beer and make this flight a lot safer for all concerned, to which she replies "Sorry sir, we don't serve drinks until we are airborne." Obviously she mistook my perfectly understandable English for some alien code and I was forced to reduce my instruction to monosylables which was surprisingly met with compliance. Having secured something liquid refreshment, I released the hostages and returned to my seat.

Alan H. describing asuccessful business trip   

Symptom : Feet cold and wet.Fault : Glass being held at incorrect angle.Solution : Turn glass so that open end is pointing at ceiling.Symptom : Bar moving.Fault: You are being carried out.Solution : Find out if you are being taken to another bar. If not complain loudly that you are being hi-jacked.Symptom : Everything has gone dim.Fault : The pub is closing.Solution : PANIC!!

Excerpts from The Drinkers Fault Finding Guide     

X-rated movies are all alike... the only thing they leave to the imagination is the plot.

    

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When I was in prison I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap. People shouldn't read that stuff. When we read these books what purpose does it serve in this day and time?

Mike Tyson     All racists who are prepared to die for their country, please do that now.

Myself     This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extereme violence.

Vivian, "The Young Ones"     A penny saved is ridiculous.

    It is not possible to ski through a revolving door.

    Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

    Assassins do it from behind.

    Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.

    Clark Kent is a transvestite.

    Confucious say:- fool man climb tree to get cherries; wise man spread limbs.- man who go to bed with sex problem wake up with solution in hand.- man who live in glass house should bathe in the basement.- man who screws near graveyard is fucking near dead.- man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day.- woman who cooks carrots and pees in same pot very unsanitary.- man who goes to bed with an itchy butt wakes up with a smelly finger

    Confucius say too much.

Recent Chinese Proverb     Flee at once, all is discovered!

    In spite of all evidence to the contrary, the entire universe is composed of only two basic substances: Magic and bullshit.

    

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God bless Atheism!    

Haggis is a kind of stuff black pudding eaten by the Scots and considered by them to be not only a delicacy but fit for human consumption. The minced heart, liver and lungs of a sheep, calf or other animal's inner organs are mixed with oatmeal, sealed and boiled in maw in the sheep's intestinal stomach-bag and... [Excuse me a minute.]

    He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass.

Howard Kandel     A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire     After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken,on Shakespeare (or me? :)   

PoetryExcerpts from great poems or prose. Music lyrics. There are a total of 458 quotes in this category.

Forest sways,rocks press heavily,roots grip,tree-trunk close to tree-trunk.Wave upon wave breaks, foaming,deepest cavern provides shelter.

Goethe, "Faust"     

If of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, "It might have been,"More sad are these we daily see:"It is, but hadn't ought to be."

Francis Brett Hart (or John Greenleafe Whittier, "Maud Muller")     Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

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Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee do go,Rest of their bones, and souls' delivery.Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

John Donne (1572-1631)Holy Sonnets, no. 10     

We pray for one last landingOn the globe that gave us birth;Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skiesAnd the cool green hills of Earth.

Robert A. Heinlein     You can be a king or a street-sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper.

    The air was alive with the rush and flutter of wings; it was ripped by screaming shells, hissing like tons of molten metal plunging suddenly into water, there was the blast and concussion of their explosion, men smashed, obliterated in sudden eruptions of earth, rent and strewn in bloody fragments, shells that were like hell-cats humped and spitting, little sounds, unpleasantly close, lie the plucking of tense strings, and something tangling his feet, tearing at his trousers and puttees as he stumbled over it, and then a face suddenly, an inconceivably disorted face, which raved and sobbed at him as he fell with it into a shell-hole.

Frederic Manning, Middle Parts of Fortune(Accounts of The Great War)     

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds-and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.

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Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee (1922-1941)A Canadian Spitfire pilot inthe Battle of Britian     

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. It was very quiet there. At night sometimes the roll of the drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river and remain sustained faintly, as if hovering in the air high over our heads, till the first break of day ... The dawn were heralded by a chill stillness; the wood-cutters slept, their fires burned low; the snapping of a twig would make you start. We were wanderers on a prehistoric planet ... But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roof, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, of eyes rolling, under the droops of heavy and motionless foliage.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness     Oh god of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry!

    We chase misprinted liesWe face the path of timeAnd yet I fightAnd yet I fightThis battle all aloneNo one to cry toNo place to call home

Alice in Chains, "Nutshell"     Don't stand beside my grave and weep,For I'm not there, I do not sleep,I am a thousand winds that blow,I am the diamond's glint on snow,I am the sunlight on ripened grain,I am the gentle autumn's rain.When you awaken in morning's hush,I am the swift uplifting rush,

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of quiet birds in circle flight,I am soft stars that shine at night,Don't stand beside my grave and cry,I am not there. I did not die.

Melinda Sue Pacho     It seems like I'm always getting stuckBetween the handshake and the fuck

Foo Fighters, "My Poor Brain"     Ring around the roseya pocket full of poseiesAshes, AshesWe all fall down

Childrens song about the Black Plague during the Middle Ages     Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Mark Twain     There is a silence where hath been no soundThere is a silence where no sound may beIn the cold grave, under the deep deep sea

Thomas Hood     When God comes to me I will be shaking. Gun loaded on my knee, my fingers waiting. Gonna tell him I was born, mistaken, then I´m gonna let my fingers slip. God help my shaking hand, I can see your light, they´re lining up the dead. Gonna take another sip of your soul, my favourite sinner.

Drugstore     There is a place with four suns in the sky-red, white, blue, and yellow; two of them are so close together that they touch, and star-stuff flows between them. I know of a world with a million moons. I know of a sun the size of the Earth-and made of diamond....The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becoming part of it.

Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection     There are some hundred billion (10^11) galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars. In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as many planets as stars, 10^11 x 10^11 = 10^22, ten billion trillion. In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? Why should we, tucked away in some forgotten corner of the Cosmos, be so fortunate? To me, it seems far more

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likely that the universe is brimming over with life. But we humans do not yet know. We are just beginning our explorations. The only planet we are sure is inhabited is a tiny speck of rock and metal, shining feebly by reflected sunlight, and at this distance utterly lost."

Carl Sagan, "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean," Cosmos"   On the view of earth from 3.7 billion miles away:"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home, That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [...] There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot"     As Eternity has reckonedThere's a lifetime in a second.

Piet Hein, "Groaks"     PoetryFor long you live and high you flyand smiles you'll give and tears you'll cryand all that you touch and all that you seeis all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd     

The true poem rests between the words.Vanna Bonta     

Sweet is love when all is saneSweet is death to rid the painCruel is death when all is wellCruel is love when all is hell

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Author unkown     You think of me just like a butterflyYou wanna pin me to your wall so I can never fly.Just like a flower that you need to dryCaught between two books, squeeze me till I die

Thumb-Break Me     I see things as they are,as they were and as they will be.And he was the lord of the things that are not,and were notand never will be

Neil Gaiman, "The Wake"     Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I choose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost     Cold hearted orb that rules the night,Removes the colours from our sightRed is grey, and yellow whiteBut we decide which is right.And which is an illusion.Pinprick holes in a colourless sky,Let incipient figures of light pass by,The mighty light of ten thousand suns,Challanges infinity and is soon gone.Night time, to some, a brief interlude,To others, the fear of solititude.Brave Helios, wake up your steeds,Bring us the warmth the countryside needs.

The Day Begins (Moody Blues)     I know someday you'll have a beautiful lifeI know you'll be a star, in somebody else's skyBut why, why, why can't it be mine?

Pearl Jam, "Black"     I drink to our ruined house, to the dolor of my life, to our loneliness together; and to you I raise my glass, to lying lips that have betrayed us, to dead-cold

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pitiless eyes, and to the hard realities; that the world is brutal and coarse, that God, in fact, has not saved us.

Akhmatova     All that we see or seemis but a dream within a dream

Edgar Allen Poe     Here is my gift, not roses on your grave,not sticks of burning incense.You lived aloof, maintaining to the endyour magnificent disdain.You drank wine, and told the wittiest jokes,and suffocated inside stifling walls.Alone you let the terrible stranger in,and stayed with her alone.Now you're gone, and nobody says a wordabout your troubled and exalted life.Only my voice, like a flute, will mournat your dumb funeral feast.Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I,I, sick with grief for the buried past,I, smoldering on a slow fire,having lost everything and forgotten all,would be fated to commemorate a manso full of strength and will and bright inventions,who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me,hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.

Anna Akhmatova, "In Memory of M. B."     I will hold the candle till it burns up my armI'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tiredI will stare the sun down until my eyes go blindI won't change direction, and I won't change my mindHow much difference does it makeI'll swallow poison, until I grow immuneI will scream my lungs out till it fills this roomHow much differenceHow much difference does it make

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Pearl Jam, Indifference     The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"   A true friend is the one who knows the song in your heart and sings you the song when you're torn apart

    Society is an eternal nightpierced by single stars glowing in aneverending Darkness

Ben Rifkin     Could I have been anyone other than me?

Dave Matthews from Dancing Nancies     I was me, but now he is gone.

Metallica, "Fade to Black"     If you love something, let it go.If it comes back to you, it's yours.If it doesn't, it never was.

DMX website     I hope everybody can find a little flameMe, I say my prayers,then just light myself on fireand walk out on the wire once again

Counting Crows, "Goodnight Elizabeth"     Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box, They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.

The Beatles, "Across the Universe"   

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Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.

Robert Frost     

You're everything i never knew I always wantedLit     

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

    To open your eyes and see the sky is not enough. To open your ears is still not enough. For only if you open your mind will you hear the clouds whispering love's sweet songs and dancing together accross the noisy sea.

    Well I've been bound and gagged and I've been terrorizedAnd I've been castrated and I've been lobotomizedBut never has my tormenter come in such a cunning disguiseI let love inI let love in[...]So if you're sitting all alone and hear a-knocking at you doorand the air is full of promises, wellbuddy, you've been warnedFar worse to be Love's lover than the lover that Love has scornedI let love inI let love in

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Nick Cave, "Let Love In"     I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Billy Joel's "The Longest Time"     I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

Billy Joel     Only when I grew to love you did I understand the relativity of time; then, I wished to embrace you forever, hoping that eternity would last just a few minutes more.

Anthony Constantino     Today is only yesterday's tomorrow. Don't be too sure that things aren't what they seem. Alternatives are hard to find for sorrow. So use your head to muffle all your screams.

Lothar and the Hand People     I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchlyBeard love and dared the cost,The sented spiel reeled me unrealAnd I found my senses lost.

Maya Angelou, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"     What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Walt Whitman     And the people bowed and prayedTo the neon god they madeAnd the sign flashed out its warningIn the words that it was formingAnd the sign said: The words of the prophets are writtenOn the subway walls and tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sound of silence

Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds Of Silence     God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester     

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"Rememer everything", she says when only the memory remainsCounting Crows     

It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pestIt's no secret ambition bites the nails of successEvery artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thiefAll kill their inspiration and sing about the grief

Bono, U2     When you come to the end of everything you know, and the next step is into the depths of darkness of the great unknown, you must believe one of two things: Either you will step out onto firm ground or you will be taught to fly.

Claire Norris     Deep hearts, wise minds, take life as God has made it. It is a long trial; An unintelligable preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for man at the first step in the interior of the tomb. There he begins to discern the definite. The definite, think of this word! The living see the infinite; the definite reveals itself only to the dead. Meantime, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved forms, bodies, appearances only. Death will take all from him. Try to love souls, you shall find them again.

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables     And he piled upon the whales white hump. A sum of all the rage and hate felt by his own race.If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.

Moby Dick, About Revenge and how it corruped him to sacrifice his crew and ship.     

Love isnt like a resevoir. You'll never drain it dry... Its much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper it becomes

    If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

Stone Temple Pilots   Fantasy

For roleplayers, fantasy- and sci-fi readers. There are a total of 192 quotes in this category.

I woke, she fled, and day brought back my night.edgar allen poe     

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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,one for the Dark Lord on his dark thronein the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.One Ring to rule them all,one Ring to find them,one Ring to bring themall and in the darkness bind themin the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"     Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"     Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

    Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge!And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!

Conan, "Conan The Barbarian"     "I have seen the universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim -Where they roll in their horror unheeded,Without knowledge or luster or name."

Cthulhu Mythos     Never trust a Game Master with a big smile.

    Why settle for the lesser evil? Cthulhu for President.

    "In the beginning there was Chaos,And within this Chaos was Power,Great Power without Form.Yet within Chaos there was Motion,And within Motion was Form,

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And within this Motion were the Words,Which shaped the Motion, and gave it Form.And the Great Speakers were awakened,And the Great Words were spoken,And the Great Magick was wrought,The Birth of the World.And in the Image of the Great Speakers were we awakened,And in the Image of the Great Words have we spoken,And in the image of the Great Magick have we wrought our world.As it is said, so shall it be done."

from The Verrah Rubricon of Verena,Book One, "The History of the World."     

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.Nethack     

Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier.Anonymous vampire     

Drink my blood and live forever!More famous vampire     

"Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate."J.R.R. Tolkien     

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Book 66, the Book of Revelation 13:18     From the fury of the Northmen, deliver us, O Lord!

A common prayer in the French churches during the 9th century     "The Lords of Chaos arethe enemies of Logic,the jugglers of Truth,the molders of Beauty"

Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords     I am the angel of death. The time of purification is at hand.

    The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.

    

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There is a tower in the Emperor's palace called the Tower of Heroes: a black tower which rises high into the sky like a spike. At the summit of that tower hangs the Bell of Lost Souls. It is an ancient thing, massive as a building and adorned with dark runes, its peal like the scream of an anguished god. It is tolled but once when a great hero of the Imperium dies. Its wailing moan of grief lasts long and reaches the ears of millions, and its tones penetrate the unifying ether of humanity turning the thought of countless billions towards mankind's loss.

Warhammer 40.000     Through the gates that stand between the mortal world and the immortal Realm of Chaos are now closed to me, still I would rather die having glimpsed eternity than never to have stirred the cold furrow of mortal life.I embrace death without regret as I embraced life without fear.

Kargos Bloodspitter, Champion of Khorne   Do not ask which creature screams in the night,Do not question who waits for you in the shadow.It is my cry that wakes you in the night,And my body that crouches in the shadow.I am Tzeench and you are the puppetThat dances to my tune.

Karanzantor the Vile, The Traitor of Xian   

"Another day nearer the battle,So drink up my lads and look brave,'Cos every day nearer the battleIs another day nearer the grave."

A warriors' song of the Imperial Guard     The green tide of Orkdom is upon us and we are alone.There can be no mercy.No surrender.If we survive this day it will be a miracle.

Commissar Yarrick at Armageddon     Heresy is like a tree, its roots lie in the darkness whilst its leaves wave in the sun and to those who suspect nought it has an attractive and pleasing appearance. Truly, you can prune away its branches, or even cut the tree to the ground, but it will grow up again ever the stronger and ever more comely. Yet

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all awhile the root grows thick and black, gnawing at the bitter soil, drawing its nourishment from the darkness, and growing even greater and more deeply entrenched.

The Chronicles of Horus Heresy     The strong are strongest alone.

Tyrant of Badab     Listen but closely brothers, for my life's breath is all but spent. There shall come a time far from now when our Chapter itself is dying, even as I am now dying, and our foes shall gather to destroy us. Then my children, I shall listen for your call in whatever realm of death holds me, and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid. At the end I will be there. For the final battle. For the Wolftime.

Last words of Leman RussPrimarch of the Space Wolves Chapter     

Whoever speaketh of Cthulhu shall remember that he but seemeth dead, he sleeps, and yet he does not sleep, he has died and yet he is not dead, asleep and dead though he is, he shall rise again. Again it should be shown that That is not dead which can eternal lie,and with strange aeons even death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft     "Mighty Messenger - Nyarlathothepfrom the world of Seven SunsTo his earth place the Wood of N'gai,wither may come He Who Is Not to be Named"

Cthulhu Mythos     They say foul beings of Old Times still lurk In dark forgotten corners of the world, And Gates still gape to loose, on certain nights, Shapes pent in Hell.

Cthulhu Mythos     The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents.

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H.P Lovecraft, "Call of Cthulhu"     A war refugee sought the Master. He said, "You are wise and serene. Teach me to escape the horrors of this world."And the Master blinded him with fire-irons.

The Book of Cataclysm(from the computer game "Syndicate Wars")     

The people stood like corn in the high fields and listened to the Master. As the reaper's blade scythed them all, the Master fell silent. The lesson would be learned by others.

The Book of Cataclysm (Syndicate Wars)     Fly, you fools!

Gandalf     The bees of Death are big and black, they buzz low and sombre, they keep their honey in combs of wax as white as altar candles. The honey is black as night, thick as sin and sweet as treacle. It is well known that eight clours make up white. But there are also eight colors of blackness, for those that have the seeing of them, and the hives of Death are among the black grass in the black orchard under the black-blossomed, ancient boughs of trees that will, eventually, produce apples that ... put it like this ... probably won't be red.

Terry Pratchett - (Faust) Eric     They were big and little creatures. Some were hairy with long, thin tails, and some had noses long as pokers. Some had bulging eyes and some had 20 toes. In they came -- crashing through the door, sliding down the chimney, crawling through the windows. They shouted and cried. They banged pots and pans. They twirled their tails and tapped their toes upon the wooden floor. He watched as the trolls gobbled the food and threw the plates and drank everything in sight. They continued to shout and scream, to scratch the walls and pound the floors and slap their tails upon the table. The tiny trolls were the worst of all. They screamed at the top of their lungs and pulled each others' tails.

The Brothers Grimm     The Antichrist will become a world leader even though he misuses his power. The root meanings of his names will give a clue of his destiny and what he is capable of. The name may sound somewhat barbaric to European ears. He will be influenced by old customs known in the literature but generally forgotten. [...] The Antichrist will be worse than Hitler. In ~1989 he's living in the Middle East. He is at a very crucial time in his life, when impressions will influence his

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future lifepath. Currently in the realm there is a lot of violence, political maneuvering, and corruption. The atmosphere is having an effect on him and he's coming to realize what his destiny is. [...] His followers will regard him as a religious figure. [...] He will gain immense world-wide power. Thursday will be an important day for him, he will take it as his day of worship. [...] There will be enormous warfare and bloodshed from his weapons, one "a monster borne of a very hideous beast". Hard radiation will cause gross deformities, terrible mutations in nature, in plants and animals as well as Mother Earth. In the period 1997 or 2001 there will be great pain and despair.

"Prophecies of Nostradamus"(Dolores Cannon)     

AD&D Spells Not Worth Memorizing Acid Trip Alamir's Fundamental Theorem Anger God Animate Bread Anti-Magic Magic Missle Become Dead (reverse of Resurrect Self) Bigby's Clenched Teeth Bigby's Critically Fumbling Hand Bigby's Insulting Hand (the second finger is rather prominent) Break the Wind Change Elf Charm Dead Clear Audience (usually follows Delayed Blast Flatulence) Create Coat Hanger Cure Light Winds Cure Smoked Ham Deathwish Detect Dead (Yep, he's dead alright...) Detect Detect Spells Detect Lightning Bolts (area: 5') Detect Pervert Detect Self Drawmij's Instant Coffee (components: hot water and cup) Enlightening Bolt

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Enrage Dragon ESPN Evard's Blue Testicles Explosive Friends Feign Orgasm Foreskin Get Life Globe of Vulnerability Guess Alignment Hair Extension I, II, III Heel Hold Bladder Hold Self Impress Plants Improper Suggestion Invisibility to Dead Irritate Self Kender Summoning I, II, III Knock Knock Legend Bore Leomund's Grass Hut Lightning Blot Locate Right Hand Maggot Missle Magic Gristle Mail of the Banshee Melf's Acid Trip Mildly Surprising Grasp Mistaken Identify Mordenkainen's Aroused Hound (can't get it off of the nearest leg) Mordenkainen's Unfaithful Wife Otto's Irresistible Disco-Duck Part Hair Phantasmal Fork Power Word, NO! Power Word, Puke

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Protection from Self Psychoanalyze Without Error (Zo, ven dit you shtop lofink your mutter?) Rectum of Retention Remove Hand (yours) Reservation Rest Erection Resurrect Living Sheepskin Shocking Gasp (usually follows Tenser's Shocking Suggestion) Silence of the Lambs, 15' radius Speak With Self Tasha's Controllable Mildly Unpleasant Laughter Tasha's Uncontrollable Bladder Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Flatulence Teleport Without Destination Teleport Without Terror Tenser's Formatted Disk Tenser's Shocking Suggestion (you want to WHAT??!) Transmute Rock to Jazz Unseen Manservant Unseen Pervert Wall of Dog You Wish! ZX-Spectral Force

Originally compiled by Bill Garrett and Nushae Siobhan Fahey (101 Spells Not Worth Memorizing)     

Iä!! Iä!! Shub-Niggurath! Ygnaiih! Ygnaiih!    

Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Duke Lito Artreides, Dune     Do you see no hope?""Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.

Tanis Half-Elven & Raistlin     

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And the shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the world. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead.

Robert Jordan, "The Eye of The World     

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

Robert Jordan, "The Wheel of Time"     Rincewind had been generally reckoned by his tutors to be a natural wizard in the same way that fish are natural mountaineers.

Terry Pratchett "The Light Fantastic"     Or, at least, one-tenth of the cabin trunks were full of vivid and often painful and uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine-tenths were full of penguins, which suprised her. Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized she must be exploring her own subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed to use only about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

Douglas Adams, "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul"     You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

Terry Pratchett, "Witches Abroad"     I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!

Terry Pratchett, "Interesting Times"     Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"     Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods"     

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Life is too precious to take for granted, and it is definitely too precious to let it slide into the perils of unknown worlds.

Arkron     Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anyting. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, Wizards First Rule     Domine, libera nos a furore normannorumSed praesepe, Domine, a humore eorumLord, save us from the rage of the Nordic peopleBut especially, Lord, from their mirth

Harry Harrison, "The hammer and the cross"     Not all who wander are lost

J.R.R. Tolkien     Magick is a wonderous thing. Never dead or gone. Memories fade. Nothing stays real. But magick shall live on.

Leah Davis     Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.

Magic: The Gathering     ...In one such dark place, I felt conscious of a singular accession of fright, as if some subtle and bodiless emanation from the abyss were engulfing my spirit; but the blackness was too great for me to percieve the source of my alarm...

H.P. Lovecraft     When I was alive, I believed - as you do - that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said "one o'clock" as though I could see it, and "Monday" as if I could find it on the map. Like everyone else I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes and New Year's Days, and I never went outside because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls.

The Skull, The Last Unicorn     i am everyonewhat if i were everyone in the world. every murder would also be a suicide. i'd be the person that shot myself, and the person that sued me for shooting me. id

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be the jury that sentenced myself to death. id be the judge that delivered the sentence. i'd be the preacher that gave me my last words and the chef that cooked me my last meal. i'd be the guard that escorted me to the little room. i would be the one to inject myself with lethal poisons. i would watch myself die, never feeling my own pain. i would be the preacher that preached at my funeral and the guests that attended it. i would be the pallbearers that carried my own coffin. i would be the person that dug my own grave and the one that set my coffin into the ground. and i would be the little girl that set flowers on the grave.setting flowers on my own grave

Stardust187     "Little bug-lady, little lady who is a bug. If you are not my friend i can squash you like the bug you are, little bug. Little bug. I'll pull your legs off, lady bug. Lady bug. Fly away home your house is on fire, your children will burn. Ashes ashes we all fall down!" ~Clanbook Malkavian

Clanbook Malkavian     Destiny, chance, fate or fortune - they're all just ways of claiming your successes without claiming your failures.

    Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Dante, "Dante's Inferno" (Above the entrance to Hell)     

Sometimes I think the dark is drawn to the light as a moth to a flame. Maybe it is the nature of all things to be pulled towards their opposites.

Elspeth, The Keeping Place.     We make the dragons as we make the gods, because we need them, because somewhere deep in our hearts, we recognize that a world without them is a world not living in.No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world wihtout magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

    

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Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness-constant danger, safe return doubtful--honor and recognition in case of sucess.

Sir Ernest Shackleton     Lo there do I see my father. Lo there do I see my mother, my sisters, and my brothers. Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo they do call me. They bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla. Where the brave, may live forever.

The Vikings - The 13th Warrior     If I were warmer, I would have an appropriately venomous reply. Be warned...I owe you one

Dominar Rygel XVI, Farscape (TV Show)     John: Hey. Aeryn: A greeting I shall never understand. John: It's kind of all-purpose. Lets the other person decide what they want to talk about. Aeryn: What if they don't want to talk? John: Then they say hey back. Aeryn: Hey. John: Well now the first person that doesn't want to talk can be trumped if the other person realizes that they need to. Hey. Aeryn: I hate being ambushed.

    I don't care what Aeryn says. You certainly look dead to me. I don't know your customs for these situations, not that I care. So I'll give you the Hynerian Ceremony of Passage. John Crichton, valued friend. Now wait a minute. Valued friend's a bit of a stretch. John Crichton, unwelcome shipmate. May you have safe transport to the hallowed realm. Actually, not our hallowed realm. That's for Hynerians. Go find your own hallowed realm. With the Ceremony of Passage completed, I declare you officially dead, and claim all your possessions for myself.

Dominar Rygel XVI, Farscape (TV Show)     John: How come I'm not afraid? D'Argo: Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty. John: I love hanging with you, man.

    I'm just an ignorant warrior who believes love means you're willing to fight and die for your fellow living beings.

    John: Be nice. Aeryn: I'm not good at nice. John: Just don't shoot her.

    

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C'mon you old bastard, show your ugly face. Haven't you read the super villain's handbook? This is where you're supposed to twirl your mustache and gloat

    Aeryn: What do you mean you have no choice? John: No choice. Rock , me, hard place.

    D'Argo: Well, now I can speak only truth and that comes as good and bad news. John: Alright, give me the bad news first. D'Argo: The bad news is that you are married and you must endure as a statue for eighty cycles in a strange world. John: What's the good news? D'Argo: Chiana and I are having fantastic sex.

    Dregon: You're not trained to deal with emotions, so you're afraid of them. Emotional pain, you wear like a badge, it means you've been there and it can't get callused because each fresh hurt stings like the first. Aeryn: Why would you want that? Dregon: Because of all the days before it hurts. The good days when you're in love.

    Rorf: What are you doing with that head? Rygel (holding Durka's severed head): He's an old enemy. I like that he doesn't talk back.

    Wizard's Second Rule: Tthe greatest harm can result from the best intentions

Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears     Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Richard Cypher, The Lord Rahl     With great power, comes great responsibility.

Uncle Ben, Spider-Man     Our love is like a rose, beautiful while in bloom, but it cannot last forever.

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Our Newest QuotesIf you feel delight when you read a new quote for the first time that truly inspires you – get ready to be delighted! This page is about to become your personal ‘quote treasure trove’. When quotes are selected for our collection, you’ll be able to review them here before they are entered into their subject and author categories on this site.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophesy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen

Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential. John Amatt

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform one million realities. Maya Angelou

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou

I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it? Lauren Artress

Love and do what you like. Saint Augustine

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen

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I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Lauren Bacall

Real love stories never have endings. Richard Bach

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities. Frank Barron

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. Alison Bechdel

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life… Charlotte Joko Beck

To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you. Martha Beck

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Louis de Bernieres

When will I meet him? We meet our soulmates when we're on our soul path. Karen M. Black

Celebrate your existence! William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne

Soulmates tend to find each other during their respective pursuits of their soul missions. Creating a soulmate could be seen as a spiritual reward that we give outselves, after pursuing many soul contracts rife with discord. Linda Brady

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We recognize a soul mate by the supreme level of comfort and security we feel with that person. That doesn't mean that there aren't issues that remain to be ironed out. Rather, it means we know intuitively that we can resolve issues with our soul mate without losing his or her love and respect. Linda Brady

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Lawrence Bragg

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande

Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love. Rob Brezsney

Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future. Rob Brezsney

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. Gisele Bundchen

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with. Candace Bushnell

As adults we have quite a bit of work to do, and play seems to function as a protective mechanism against the costs of this work; a buffer against stress, a support during life transitions, a means of forming bonds and alliances, a jump start for creativity and problem-solving. Christine Caldwell

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People say that what we are all seeking is meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innnermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. Candide

A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves. Edgar Cayce

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel

The most courageious act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.Coco Chanel

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everthing, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope. Norm Chomsky

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges. Deepak Chopra

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Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you. Deepak Chopra

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life. Deepak Chopra

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love. Deepak Chopra

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that comes form knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. Deepak Chopra

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. Deepak Chopra

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day. Ching Ning Chu

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we have learned as we have moved toward that dream. Paulo Coelho

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. Stephen R. Covey

People can't live with change if there's not a chageless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you

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are about and what you value. Stephen R. Covey

We can escape the prison of our own beliefs and enter the Palace of Possibilities when we allow ourselves to be astonished by everything. Gary Craig

As a life-long collector of quotes, nothing is more fun for me as discovering a new ‘quote gem’. Keep in mind I often sift through hundreds of quotes a day. Sometimes I come up empty handed. On the good days, quotes seem to pop out and say, “Pick me!” Every time that happens, that special, hand-selected bit of inspiration will land on this page for your enjoyment. After a week, these new quotes will be sorted and included in their subject and author categories, and another set of new quotes will take their place on this page.

Sound exciting? If so, I am naming you an official member of our Quote Collector’s Club. I never stop hunting for quotes, and I confess to being very picky, too. Some quotes work for me, but many, many others do not. That’s the great thing about being the ‘quote master’ of this site. My hope is that you share my enthusiasm for these quotes and find some joy in sharing them, too!

I know many of you are ‘quote angels’ passing along ‘random acts of inspiration’ in the form of quotes you read here that could help someone you know. Thank you for sharing and caring. Telling people about this site will help us all grow. Please know your support is greatly appreciated.

Have a quote you think belongs in the Joy of Quotes collection? Please share it with us using this form. I cannot promise every quote will be used, but you have my assurance I will read every quote you submit with love. Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Your joy and inspiration coach,