Quotebook: People I Have Never Met

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. -Stephen Stills

May God's glory light a path from your Past into your Future, and may your Present be shadowless in the presence of His beauty. -unknown

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? -unknown

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937)

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous. -Blaise Pascal

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the birdies is. -my dad, but he got it from somewhere

If we have lost a love for creation, we cannot say we love its Creator. If we do not show respect for what the Father has in His house, we should not be surprised that we are not at home in His Presence, or in His world. Learn that God touches you through all of creation, that He offers Himself to you through His world. He is truly incarnate in His world. -David Adam - The Eye of the Eagle (p92 & 93)

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes. -some forwarded email

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. -Mark Abley, journalist

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

I hope we are always ridiculous with hope. -Sarah Slean

The most important pedagogic dharma that should guide the teacher is that he should not hastily jump to the conclusion that his learners are unfit, dull, stupid, lacking in motivation, can never be made to learn and so on. -Dr. Aruna Chalam Angappan

What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. -Blaise Pascal

We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. -Winston Churchill

If you build a man a fire, he will be warm for a night. If you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life. -Anon

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time. -anon.

No trees were harmed during the creation of this message. Its made from a blend of elephant tusk and dolphin meat. -online forum tagline

Refuse to express a passion and it dies. -William James

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. -Maurice Barres, novelist and politician (1862-1923)

I have a problem with the cello. Basically anyone who plays it is a magnet and I can't resist it. Anyways, it's gotten me into a lot of troubles and Martin, who's painfully shy, was quite afraid of me after 2 months or so of my doe-eyed... you know what I mean. I have a song about lust. Come on, think about it, the cello! Come on, who can resist that? What woman? -Sarah Slean

If I had to put D'Addario strings on my bass, I'd give up music and become a drummer. -Gary Willis, bassist extraordinaire