"Don't say 'don't quote me' because if nobody quotes you, you probably haven't said a thing worth saying." -KMFDM

Quotes, in a general definition, are merely excerpts from speech, writing, or some form of thought expression which bares a particular meaning. What is displayed here are quotes which are either popularly known words taken from those such as Thoreau or Emerson, or quotes made up from myself.

This page is not intended just to display, but to share. Feel free to email your personal quote, or a list of quotes, or whatever sort you would like to see published here.

  • "If you choose to live, you're only choosing to die more slowly." -Josh Schneider

  • "If ignorance is bliss, then I am a very happy man." -Josh Schneider

  • "Hindsight is not always 20-20 for those who walk with eyes closed." -Josh Schneider

  • "The end of a year: the time where within a day, a year passes." -Josh Schneider

  • "When I was a child I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man I put away childish things." -1 Corinthians

  • "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -Joesph Addison

  • "Life is not a having or a getting, but a being and becoming." -Matthew Arnold

  • "Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -Francis Bacon "Of Studies"

  • "Every animal leaves traces of what he was; man alone leaves traces of what he created." -Jacob Brorowski

  • "America did not invent human rights; human rights invented America." -Jimmy Carter

  • "There is no frigate like a book, nor coursers like a page. How frugal is the chariot that bears the human soul." -Emily Dickenson

  • "The soul is healed by being with Children." -Dostayevski

  • "A man should learn to detetct and watch that gleam of light that flashes across his mind from within." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self Reliance"

  • "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.. and I believe that love is stronger than death." -Robert Fulgum

  • "What lies behind us and before us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • "Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak." -Victor Hugo

  • "We are like blocks of stone out of which the sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows that form us are the ones that hurt us the most." -C.S. Lewis "Shadowlands"

  • "Let us have faith that right makes right and in that faith ,let us to that end, dare to do our duty." -Abraham Lincoln

  • "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot shall these days not long endure." -Thomas Paine "The American Crisis"

  • "No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely, but surely, what justice is." -Issac Rosenfeld

  • "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." -Shakespeare "Sonnet 116"

  • "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths are statistics." -Joesph Stalin

  • "Direct your eye inward, and you'll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them and become expert in home cosmography." -Henry David Thoreau "Walden Pond"

  • "As we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, until at last some crisis shows us what we have become." -Bishop Westcott

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