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"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." Carl Gustav Jung
"It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." Alfred Adler
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." Brendan Gill
"Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand." Benny Hill
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercouse, yet he has left it out of his heaven." Mark Twain
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent." Socrates
"A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." Helen Rowland
"A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce." Don Quinn
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." Mae West
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." Oscar Wilde
"My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." Lao Tsu
"Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting." Billy Rose
"Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river." Cordel Hull
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." Dylan Thomas
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill
"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." William Shakespeare
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." Oscar Wilde
"There are three faithful friends...an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." Benjamin Franklin
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." Oscar Wilde
"I can resist everything except temptation." Oscar Wilde
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I've done it a thousand times." Mark Twain
"A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking." Arthur Block
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Albert Einstein
"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next." Franklin P. Jones
"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face." Jack Handey
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." Richard Harkness
"Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day." Benito Mussolini
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." Franklin P. Jones
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific." -- Jane Wagner
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." Oscar Wilde
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." A. Whitney Brown
"Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake when you make it again. "F.P. Jones
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." Erica Jong
"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." Lily Tomlin
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." W.C. Fields
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" Isaac Asimov
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" - Annoying Frenchman - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Our prayer was simple - to raze Ilium's walls to its roots, kill its heroes, rape its women, enslave its people. Is that too much to ask?" - Agamemnon - Ilium
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague and we are the cure." - Agent Smith - The Matrix
"Hell is repetition." - Andre Linoge - Storm of the Century
"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." - Arthur Dent - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Am I busy? Well, I've just got all these bulldozers and things to lie in front of because they'll knock my house down if I don't, but other than that...well, no not especially, why?" - Arthur Dent - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
"Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." Ben Kenobi - Star Wars: A New Hope
"But... why is the rum gone?" - Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Carribean
"Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes." - Captain Kirk - Star Trek
"Once I was but a learner; now I am the master." - Darth Vader to Ben Kenobi - Star Wars: The Empire Strike Back
"No...I am your father." - Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
"They say time is the fire in which we burn." - Doctor Soran - Star Trek: Generations
"He's worse than dead!" - Dr. McCoy - Star Trek (Original Series)
"You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us?" - Dumbledore, to Harry - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"Captain, look over here... AAAAAGH!!!" - Every red shirted ensign who beamed down with Kirk, Spock and McCoy - Star Trek (Original Series)
"I have been and always shall be your friend. Live long and prosper." - Final words of Spock to Captain Kirk - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"All of life can be broken down into moments of transition and moments of revelation." - G'kar - Babylon 5
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life." - Gandalf - The Lord of the Rings
"We cannot get out. The end comes, and then drums, drums in the deep." - Gandalf, reading the log book of Moria - Fellowship of the Ring
"Fool of a Took! This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance. Now be quiet!" - Gandalf, to Pippin - The Lord of the Rings
"Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it forever!" - Gollum - The Hobbit
"Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen." - H.G. Wells - Preface to his collected works
"You know that I have the greatest possible enthusiasm for this mission." - HAL 9000 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Never tell me the odds." - Han Solo, to C-3PO - The Empire Strikes Back
"I thought...they smelled bad on the outside." - Han Solo, referring to the smell of the Taun-Taun - The Empire Strikes Back
"Laugh it up, fuzz-ball." - Han Solo, to Chewbacca - The Empire Strikes Back
"Then I'll see you in Hell!" - Han Solo, to Deck Officer - The Empire Strikes Back
"Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi." - Inscription on the mirror of Erised - Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone
"Let's see what's out there." - Captain Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Boy, was Spielberg ever wrong. Close Encounters, my ass." - John Crichton - Farscape
"I'd just as soon kiss a wookie. - Leia, to Han Solo - The Empire Strikes Back
"Why you stuck up, half-whitted, scruffy looking, nerf herder." - Leia, to Han Solo - The Empire Strikes Back
"All I need to find you, Louis, is to follow the trail of dead rats." - Lestat, to Louis - Interview with the Vampire
"There’s still life in the old lady yet!" - Lestat - Interview with the Vampire
"This party's over." - Mace Windu, to Count Dooku - Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
"Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage." - Mariko - Shogun
"You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth." - Morpheus - The Matrix
"The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." - Morpheus - The Matrix
"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad." - Morpheus - The Matrix
"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus - The Matrix
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." - Morpheus - The Matrix
"I've got a better idea. How about I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call?" - Neo - The Matrix
"Who's the more foolish...the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Obi-wan (Ben) Kenobi - Star Wars: A New Hope
"To die will be an awfully big adventure." - Peter Pan - Peter Pan
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them." - Phillip K. Dick
"Didn't I just tell you to shut up?" - Raistlin. to Tasslehoff - Dragons of Summer Flame
"Only those with narrow minds fail to see that the definition of Impossible is 'Lack of imagination and incentive." - Serena Butler - Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
"My armour is like tenfold sheileds, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" - Smaug, to Bilbo - The Hobbit
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it." - Spock - Star Trek (Original Series)
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one." - Spock - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"...and then Uncle Trapspringer said, 'Are you sure that's your walrus?' And the barbarian said, 'Oh, hello, Raistlin! Look at me! I'm tied to a chair. Isn't this exciting? I'll bet Sturm would tie you up if you asked him politely. Would you, Sturm?" - Tasslehoff Burrfoot - Dragon Lance: Soul Forge
"You are a toy! You are a child’s plaything...You are a sad, strange little man. - Woody and Buzz Lightyear - Toy Story
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." - Yoda, to Anakin Skywalker - Star Wars: The Phantom Menance
"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda, to Luke - The Empire Strikes Back
"Let me play with it first and I'll tell you what it is later." - Miles Davis
"In the beginning I was made. I didn't ask to me made. No one consulted me or considered my feelings in this matter. But if it brought some passing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their way through life's mournful jungle then so be it." - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Lack of skill dictates economy of style." - Joey Ramone
"Life is wasted on the living." - Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
"Youth is wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw
"Een schip op het strand is een baken in zee. [A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.]" - Dutch Proverb
"Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]" - Ovid
"He'll sit here and he'll say, "Do this! Do that!" And nothing will happen." - Harry S. Truman, on presidential power
"Practice is the best of all instructors." - Publilius
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other." - Poor Richard's Almanac
"There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy." - Swift
"Things are always at their best in the beginning." - Pascal
"None love the bearer of bad news." - Sophocles
"How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time." - Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
"What we do not understand we do not possess." - Goethe
"There will always be survivors." - Robert Heinlen
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Samuel Johnson
"We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did." - Rufus T. Firefly, in Duck Soup
"It's not often that you get so much class entertainment outside your bedroom window or outside your bedroom, period." - Groucho Marx
"Don't eat yellow snow." - Frank Zappa
"Everything you know is wrong." - The Firesign Theater
"Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the Hell home. But you know the best thing about pain? It lets you know you're not dead yet!" - Master Chief John Urgayle - G.I. Jane
"The rock and pool, is nice and cool, so nice for feet! I only wish, to catch a fish, so juicy sweet!" - Gollum [singing] The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
"Cold be heart and hand and bones, cold be travelers far from home...they do not see what lies ahead when sun has failed and moon is dead!" - Gollum, to Frodo - The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers
"Passion makes the world go round. Love makes it a safer place." Ice T, submited by Ryan Wilson