Interesting Quotes

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." - Don Herold

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." - Nathaniel Borenstein

Natalie Wood - "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby."

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." -- Mark Twain


Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress... But then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain

The opposite of anger is not love. The opposite of anger is to be uninvolved and indifferent. — Mart De Haan

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw


A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. Phillip Moffitt

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home Pam Brown

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. George Carlin

Spread love everywhere you go, first in your own house. Mother Teresa

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. Sam Walter Foss

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. Old folk saying

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. Charles Dickens

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Robert Montgomery

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits. Robert Southey

Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home. Sarah J. Hale

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. J.R.R. Tolkien

Our house is a very, very, very fine house Crosby, Stills, and Nash

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas Moore

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. Herman Melville

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. Irish Proverb

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

This is the true nature of home ~ it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. John Ruskin

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. H. L. Mencken

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore


Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have dinner. -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself." - Viktor Frankl

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -Pericles (430 B.C.)



No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -Mark Twain (1866 )

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -Mark Twain




The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)


“The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.”—George Orwell, “Revenge is Sour” (1945)

Harry S Truman - "If you cannot convince them, confuse them."

Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them. – Albert Einstein

"The desire to write grows with writing." Erasmus.

"Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain." Elie Wiesel.

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." Anais Nin.

“The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company; a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.” -- John Walter Wayland (1899)


Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

As the Doctors say - "diagnosis is 9/10ths of the cure."

Q. What is “steampunk?” A. Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were. Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

Frank Lloyd Wright - "The truth is more important than the facts."

Carl Sagan - "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Be More Concerned With Your Character Than Your Reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting. Leave gentle fingerprints on the soul of another for the angels to read. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. -- Author unknown to me.