Favorite Quotes

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
--Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

(Before Lionel gets to it!!)

"If you had just a minute to breathe, and they granted you one final wish, would you ask for something, like another chance?"

J. Cipaldi - S. Winwood

I also like...

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool"

Makes me feel like there is still hope for me!

"Beer if proof that God exists and wants us to be happy."


Fearg,
I don't think Brother Ben "slurred" when he said that though!

"Some people are like a Slinky. They serve no real purpose, but pushing them down some stairs would make me smile." --- C. Lindner (a good friend of mine)

I always liked Ivan Stang's "You know how dumb the average American can be. Well statistically half of them are dumber than that".

"Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they usually stink."

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues"

Abe Lincoln

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers. He poses the right questions."

Claude Levi-Strauss

"All you need is love"

J. Lennon

:)

"If I wanted religion, I'd worship chocolate cake." - Anonymous

"I may be a bastard, but I'm not a f*cking bastard."

George Clooney - From Dusk Till Dawn

A couple others....

"Never underestimate the user's intelligence or overestimate their stupidity."

"The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that there's a limit to intelligence."

"The moment you think that nobody in their right mind would ever do THIS, somebody does."