Quotes you don’t care about

>>>QUOTES.

• “I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.”

• “My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kick boxing.”

• “Never floss with a stranger.”

• “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

• “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom”

• “I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”

• “Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”

• “A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener’s mind. You start him off toward aplausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn’t expect to go.”

• “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.”

• “A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.”

• “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

• “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

• “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”

• “I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”

• “Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.” :]

• “A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.”

• “No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

• “A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”

• “All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”

• “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

• “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remainsand is immortal.”

• “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”

• “Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”

• “You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.”

• “It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls”

• “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep”

• “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish”

• “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginativevision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary”

• “Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words”

• “Things do not change; we change”

• “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

yep. These would be my favorite quote.

P.S. Sorry i couldn’t get the name of the people who said these, as you can see it would have taken a while

~ by manny135 on April 26, 2008.