Quotes
"So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.' (applause) I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! (applause) I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! (applause) I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places would be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight and glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together knowing that we will be free one day." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"As long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age – the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night – are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." Hauteville House, 1862, On Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
"For the first time I feel time like a heartbeat, the seconds pumping in my breast like a reckoning; the numinous mysteries that once seemed so distant and unreal threatening clarity in the presence of a truth entertained not in youth, but only in its passage. I feel these words as if their meaning were weight being lifted from me, knowing that you will read them and share my burden as I have come to trust no other. That you should know my heart, look into it, finding there the memory and experience that belong to you, that are you, is a comfort to me now as I feel the tethers loose and the prospects darken for the continuance of a journey that began not so long ago, and which began again with a faith shaken and strengthened by your convictions. If not for which I might never have been so strong now as I cross to face you and look at you incomplete, hoping that you will forgive me for not making the rest of the journey with you..." Agent Dana Scully, The X-Files On leaving the FBI
"They say time is the fire in which we burn." Dr. Tolian Soran Star Trek Generations
"It must have been cold there in my shadow, To never have sunlight on your face, You've been content to let me shine, You always walked a step behind, I was the one with all the glory, While you were the one with all the strength, Only a face without a name, I never once heard you complain, Did you ever know that your my hero, And everything I'd like to be, I can fly higher than an eagle, You are the wind beneath my wings." Wind beneath my wings Song Lyrics
"Thought I saw a man brought to life, He was warm he came around and he was dignified, He showed me what it was to cry, Well you couldn't be that man I adore, You don't seem to know, seem to care what your heart is for, Well I don't know him any more, Nothing's well, he used to lie, Conversation has run dry, That's what's goin' on, nothing's fine I'm torn." Torn Song Lyrics
"Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reed, Some say love it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed, Some say love it is a hunger an endless aching need, I say love it is a flower and you it's only seed, It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance, It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance, It's the one who won't be taken who can not seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live, When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows, Lie's the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the Rose." The Rose Song Lyrics
"When all the world is a hopeless jumble, And the raindrops tumble all around, Heaven opens a magic lane, When all the clouds darken up the skyway, There's a rainbow highway to be found, Leading from your window pane, To a place behind the sun, Just a step beyond the rain, Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby, Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream, Really do come true." Somewhere over the Rainbow Song Lyrics
"A few questions that I need to know, how you could ever hurt me so, I need to know what I've done wrong, and how long it's been going on, was it that I never paid enough attention, or did I not give enough affection, not only will your answers keep me safe, But I'll know never to make, the same mistake again, you can tell me to my face, or even on the phone, you can write it in a letter, either way I have to know, did I never treat you right, did I always start the fight, either way I'm going out of my mind, all the answers to my questions I have to find." Never Ever Song Lyrics
"Memory, turn your face to the moonlight, let your memory lead you, open up... enter in, if you find the... the meaning of what happiness is, then a new light will begin, memory, all alone in the moonlight, I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then, I remember the time I knew what happiness was, let the memory live again." Memory Song Lyrics
"Well I don't know why I came here tonight, I got the feelin' that somethin' ain't right, I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair, and I'm wonderin' how I'll get down the stairs, clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you, yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you, an I'm wonderin' what it is I should do, It's so hard to keep the smile from my face, 'cause I've told you I'm all over the place, clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you." Stuck in the middle with you Song Lyrics
"Hey where did we go, days when the rains came, down in the hollow, playin' a new game, laughin' and a runnin' hey, hey, skippin' and a jumpin', In the misty mornin' fog with all our hearts thumpin' in you, My Brown eyed girl, your my Brown eyed girl, now whatever happened to Tuesday an' so slow, goin' down the old mine with a transistor radio, standin' in the sunlight laughin', hidin' behind a rainbow's warmth, slippin' and a slidin' all along a waterfall with you, my Brown eyed girl, your my Brown eyed girl." Brown Eyed Girl Song Lyrics
"If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me…I am no longer infected; Drop your panties Sir William I cannot wait ‘til lunchtime; My nipples explode with delight; Do you want to come back to my place Bouncy Bouncy; I think the British Navy are one of the butchest and most attractive fighting forces in the world, I love the feel of that Royal Blue surge against those tight, pert little buttocks; Dear Sir I would like to complain in the strongest possible terms about the lumberjack who wears women’s clothing some of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites yours sincerely Brigadier Sir Arthur Charles Stark, Mrs." Monty Python "Complete waste of time" Game Demo
"On a plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily as lying down." Woody Allen On the subject of Death
"To die will be an awfully big adventure." Sir J(ames) M(atthew) Barrie Peter Pan
"To be or not to be, that is the question, whether ‘tis nobler in the mind, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die, to sleep" William Shakespeare Hamlet 3
"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody." Victor Hugo Les miserables
"I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen On Success
"Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 2
"Shall I compare thee to a summers day, thou art more lovely and more temperate, rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summers lease hath all too short a date." William Shakespeare Sonnets 18
"Who knows but the world may end tonight." Robert Browning The Last ride together
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way." Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"Tempus Fugit." Time Flies Publius Ovidius Naso
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are all loved." Victor Hugo Les Miserables
"The course of true love never did run smooth." A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1 William Shakespeare
"No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy." Ibid 5 William Shakespeare
"Don’t knock it (masturbation), it’s sex with someone you love." Woody Allen On sex and chastity
"He said it was artificial Respiration but now I find I’m to have his child." Anthony Burgess "Inside Mr. Enderby"
"Licence my roving hands, and let them go, before, behind, between, above, below, O my America, my new-found-land, my kingdom, safeliest when with one man mann’d." John Donne To his mistress going to bed
"No sex is better than bad sex." Germaine Greer Attributed
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." Dr. Samuel Johnson Rasselas
"Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie." William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis
"Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth it’s a cure." Thomas Szasz The Second Sin
"Nature gave horns to bulls, hooves to horses, speed to hares, the power of swimming to fishes, that of flying to birds, and understanding to men. She had nothing left to give to women save beauty." Anacreon Fragment
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
"When a woman becomes a scholar there is usually something wrong with their sexual organs." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations
"No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretary – not the top jobs." Margaret Thatcher, Ex-Prime Minister (1979 – 1990) The Sunday Telegraph, 1969
"Lady Astor: If I were your wife, I should flavour your coffee with poison! Sir Winston: And if I were your husband, madam, I should drink it." Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill Attributed
"Friendship often ends in love; but love, in friendship – never." Charles Caleb Colton Lacon
"How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" The Holy Bible 2 Samuel 1
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill House of Commons Speech, 13 May 1940
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans…we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill Ibid 4 June 1940
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." (Battle of Britain Pilots) Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill Ibid 20 August 1940
"Cry, "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war." William Shakespeare Julius Caesar 3
"Once more into the breach dear friends, once more: or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace ther’s nothing so becomes a man, as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger, stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour’ed rage; then lend the eye a terrible aspect." William Shakespeare King Henry V 3
"We all Labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases." Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici
"Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence." James Bryce, Viscount Bruce New York, 1914
"But I am not as think as you drunk I am." Sir J(ohn) C(ollings) Squire Ballade of Soporific Absorption
"To do nothing is the way to be nothing." Nathaniel Howe A chapter of proverbs
"If music be the food of love, play on." William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 1
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." Plato The Republic
"What is written without effort is in general written without pleasure." Dr. Samuel Johnson Johnsonian Miscellanies
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the Human bladder." Sir Alfred Hitchcock The Observer, 1960
"(TV) is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot New York Post, 1963
"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book." Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx The Groucho Papers
"Whenever I see a Newspaper, I think of the poor trees. As trees they provide beauty, shade and shelter, but as paper all they provide is rubbish." Sir Yehudi Menuhin Said 1970
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time." Phineas Taylor Barnum Attributed
"Before God we are all equally wise - equally foolish." Albert Einstein Address at the Sobonne "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." Alfred, Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall
"There is no sin, except stupidity." Oscar Wilde "Intentions: The critic as artist"
"To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." (Amos) Bronson Alcott "Table Talk: Discourse"
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates"Lives of eminent philosophers"
"Science is organized knowledge." Herbert Spencer "Essays on Education"
"If you can’t stand the heat get out of the Kitchen." James Grover Thurber "Mr. Citizen"
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of Brotherhood." Martin Luther King Speech, 1963
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." George Orwell Animal Farm
"Laws are made to be broken." Christopher North Noctes Ambrosianae
"I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot." Woody Allen "Take the money and run"
"Opportunity makes a thief." Francis Bacon Letter, 1598
"He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then, when sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan." Abraham Lincoln "Lincoln’s own stories"
"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong Stepping on to the moon’s surface, 21 July 1969
"There’s a sucker born every minute" Phineas Taylor Barnum Attributed
"It matters not how long we live, but how." P(hillip) J(ames) Bailey "Festus: Food and Water"
"I believe my growth as an artificial lifeform has reached an impasse. For thirty-four years I have endeavoured to become more "human"- to grow beyond my original programming. And yet I am still unable to grasp such a simple concept as humour." Lieutenant Commander Data Star Trek: Generations
Quotes from unknown sources
"Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" Shakespeare
"Be good, and if you can't be good be careful" Mrs.M.Ransen
"I was running a bad hangover when a cat stamped into the room" P.G.Wodehouse
"Behold I show you a mystery : we shall all be changed" Paul
"If a skill is easily automated then it was not a skill in the first place" D A Norman
"My name is Ozimandias king of kings : Look on my works ye mighty and despair!" Shelley
"Best Witchcraft is Geometry, To the Magician's mind" Emily Dickinson
"I think for my part half of the nation is mad -- and the other not very sound" Tobias Smollett
"Do the next thing, do it with all your heart, and find delight in doing it" Meister Eckhart
"The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can" Seneca
"Interrogate yourself - All the very best answers start life as wildly ambitious questions" New Scientist
"The wisest men follow their own discretion and listen to no prophet guiding them" Euripides
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness" C.Morley
"Every time a baby smiles a fairy is born" Madeline Bassett
"No automatism, no accident, no anxiety, no catharsis, no chance" Ad Reinhardt
"Make haste slowly" Emperor Augustus
"What can be done with fewer is done in vain with more" William of Ockham
"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know" Pascal
Quotes of unknown origin
"To make a cup of tea with flavour and fragrance use two teaspoons of English Breakfast to one spoon of Earl Grey"
"Procrastination is the thief of time - but then, so are a lot of other big words"
"If wishes were horses beggars would ride"
"A nod is a good as a wink to a blind horse"
"Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin"
"Shrouds have no pockets"
"Variety is the spice of life"
"A cat in gloves catches no mice"
"Tomorrow is another day"
"Insults my mother taught me #23: "She's got a face like the back-end of a bus""
"Insults my mother taught me #51: "You're like the donkey's tail, always behind""
"There's many a slip twixt cup and lip"
"The feminine form of "bloke" is "blokess""
"The Wizard's name is "Randy""
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat"
"The Lost Chord, the Holy Grail, the Killer App"
"Your mission Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to go into the kitchen and make a cup of tea"
"What matters it what went before or after? Now with myself I will begin and end."
"Philosophy is to Science as Pornography is to Sex"
"He won't stand up if he can lean"
"The best way of getting something done is to do it"
"A trouble shared is a trouble doubled, so keep it to yourself"
"Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy"