"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

 

-- Tom Robbins

"Herr, lehre uns Bedenken, dass wir alle einmal sterben müssen, auf das wir im Leben klug werden."

"Lord, teach us to understand we all have to die sometime, that we become wiser in our lives." 

-- Psalm 90:12

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."  

-- Edith Wharton

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."

 

-- H.L. Mencken

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.” 

-- Tom Waits

"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." 

-- Lily Tomlin

"Death is very likely the best invention of life. All pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." 

 

-- Steve Jobs

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” 

  -- Noam Chomsky

"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."  

-- Havelock Ellis

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death."

 

-- Joan D. Vinge

“What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.”

--Soren Kierkegaard

"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I want to use whatever gifts I have for practical purposes, not waste them on things which have no life, or which have to be kept alive by artificial means."

-- Kurt Weill

"You’re a killer of art, you’re a killer of beauty, you’re even a killer of laughter."

-- Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol, The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults

"May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the paralysis and poverty of a child, and sing and dance in the compassion of God who is Father, Son and Spirit.

Amen." 

-- Brennan Manning

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

-- Carl Sagan

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

-- Winston Churchill

"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all."

-- Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders

"Heavenly father, we thank you tonight for all your blessings.

You said ‘in all things give thanks.’ So we want to thank you tonight for these mighty machines that you’ve brought before us. Thank you for the Dodges and the Toyotas. Thank you for the Fords and most of all thank you for Roush and Yates partnering to give us the power we see before us tonight. Thank you for GM Performance Technology and the R07 engines. Thank you for Sonoco racing fuel and Goodyear tires that bring performance and power to the track. Lord I want to thank you for my smokin’ hot wife tonight, Lisa. My two children, Eli and Emma, or as we like to call them — the little E’s. Lord I pray you’ll bless the drivers as usual tonight. May they put on a performance worthy of this great track in Jesus’ name.

Boogity boogity boogity. Amen."

-- Pastor Joe Nelms, Family Baptist Church

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

-- H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)