Choice ones only please. Mine: "Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?" "Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity." "The basic rule is this: Never support weakness; always support strength." "Adherence to a code of honor. The code itself, as he recognized its shape in him, attracted Teg's fascinated attention. It began with recognition that humans were not created equal, that they possessed different inherited abilities and experienced different events in their lives. This produeced people of different accomplishments and different worth. To obey this code, Teg realized early that he must place himself accurately in the flow of observable hierarchies accepting that a moment might come when he could evolve no further. The code's conditioning went deep. He could never find its ultimate roots. It obviously was attached to something intrinsic to his humanity. It dictated with enormous power the limits of behavior permitted to those above as well as to those below him in the hierarchical pyramid. The key token of exchange: loyalty." "People always want something more than immediate joy or that depeer sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The 'something more' assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated 'something more' into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow." "There was a drylander who was asked which was more important, a literjon of water or a vast pool of water? The drylander thought a moment and then said: 'The literjon is more important. No single person could own a great pool of water. ut a literjon you could hide under your cloak and run away with it. No one would know." "All organized religions face a common problem, a tender spot through which we may enter and shift them to our designs: How do they distinguish hubris from revelation?" "It is your fate, forgetfulness. All of the old lessons of life, you lose and gain and lose and gain again." "There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fence. Each day a wild ass of the desert passed outside the fence and across the narrow opening - first the nose, then the head, the forelegs, the long brown back, the hindlegs, and lastly the tail. One day, the man leaped to his feet with the light of discovery in his eyes and he shouted for all who could hear him: 'It is obvious! The nose causes the tail!'" "I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds."
"I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting - it is, it is. I don't care what anybody says."
...Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -Tennyson, "Ulysses" (Final 6 lines)
All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. --Kurt Vonnegut "Men are jerks. Women are Psychotic" --Kurt Vonnegut "timequake" "If you realy want to hurt your parents, and you don't have nearly enough to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts." --Kurt Vonnegut "timequake" "Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful" Kilgore Trout in Kurt Vonnegut's "Time Quake" "No matter what a young person thinks he or she is really hot stuff at doing, he or she is sooner or later going to run into somebody in the same field who will cut him or her a new @$$hole, so to speak." Kurt Vonnegut "Mongo only pawn in game of life" --Mongo "blazing saddles" "It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." -Tom Lehrer, "1968: That Was The Year That Was" "F*** cosmic significance!" -Amber Cohen "Any society that allows people like Lou Reed and I to become rampant is pretty well lost." -David Bowie "One can imagine the myriad of uses for a hand-held iguana maker" -Hobbes the Tiger "Well Paul, it's finally happened. The show is starting to look like a Spanish gameshow." -David Letterman "I'm Winston Wolf. I solve problems." -Pulp Fiction "I can make both nights if I want. I'm that powerful. I can also make a grilled cheese sandwich if I so desired. I'm that powerful. I can make the very sun itself dissapear, as you saw yesterday. I'm that powerful." -Alex Kristobek "It's an aural treat; it's an aural extravaganza." -Amber Cohen "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut "We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash." -Kurt Vonnegut
Since when has David freaking Bowie had anything to do with literature? Or Letterman for that matter? Here are some Oscar Wilde quotes: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible." - Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), from The Picture of Dorian Gray -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am not young enough to know everything. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bad artists always admire each others work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are." --- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only the shallow know themselves. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. Oscar Wilde -A Women of No Importance- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is far too important to be taken seriously. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper, one of us has got to go. (One month before he died on the same bed.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde (as he sipped champagne on his deathbed) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde's last words
