• The best way to make children good is to make them happy. [Oscar Wilde]
  • All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer]
  • Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. [Plato]
  • We choose our joys and sorrows, long before we experience them. [Kahlil Gibran]
  • When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. [Jiddu Krishnamurthi]
  • I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. [Aleister Crowley]
  • So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. [Bertrand Russell]
  • Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room! [Dr. Strangelove]
  • In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. [Bertrand Russell]
  • Please do not shoot the pianist; He is doing his best
  • Fortune prefers the prepared mind
  • I used to have a handle on life..but it fell off
  • Man was born to live, not just to exist [Evel Knievel]
  • Never miss a good chance to shut up.
  • There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
  • Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
  • A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
  • Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else. [David Knuth]
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    T H E H I B B Y T O T
    H E H I P H I P H O P
    A N D Y O U D O N T S
    T O P R O C K I T T O
    T H E B A N G B A N G
    B O O G I E S A Y U P
    J U M P T H E B O O G
    I E R O C K T H E R H
    Y T H M O F T H E B O
    O G I E T H E B E A T
  • Zen meditation isn't what you think...
  • Lady Astor: Winston, you are drunk.
    Winston Churchill: Yes my dear, but you are ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober.
  • And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your night-dress. [Basil Fawlty]
  • (Left Wall) For toilet tennis, look right. (Right Wall) For toilet tennis, look left.
  • On a posted sign: 'Bill Posters will be prosecuted!' and written next to it, 'Bill Posters is innocent! Let Bill Posters go!'
  • I can bend minds with my spoon.
  • 666A, 666B - Tenants of the beast.
  • Nearly everything you read signed "from God" is just somebody putting their words in My mouth. [God]
  • Pave the planet! One world. One people. One slab of asphalt.
  • People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either of them being made.
  • Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind : Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else. [Leonardo da Vinci]

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