"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

~ Proverb

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

- George Orwell

Quote:I trust no one, not even myself.

-- Joseph Stalin

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

- Albert Einstein

Quote:My granny, who brought me up, she couldn’t understand why I’d given up a job in insurance in the City to bang nails into my face.

--Sylvester McCoy

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

~ Proverb

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

- Muhammad Ali

Quote:Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.

-- Glenda Jackson

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by chance ever observes.

- Sherlock Holmes

Quote:How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

~George Washington Carver

Quote:If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

-- Lenny Bruce

BouldRake wrote:

Quote:If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

-- Lenny Bruce

I'm sure its funny, and I'm sure I'm too tired to get it. But I don't understand it.. Ah, humour is lost on the aged. GQTM

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Quote:If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.

-- John Rich

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

- Walter Besant