Bernard Bailey's Universe

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey

i always like to include a picture or something about the person i'm quoting, but i'm not positive which bernard bailey this is...sorry folks. if anyone can tell me i would appreciate it! (i'm pretty sure he's a physhics professor but i don't want to guess about it...)

bertrand russell

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
- Bertrand Russell


image found at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell

john glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn


image found at:
http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/glenn.html

robert heinlein

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
- Robert Heinlein


image found at: currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/09-29/heinlein.html

a lie

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain


image found at:

www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/twain.html

agatha christie on life

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie (7)

image found at: http://www.ville-dinard.fr/Personnages/Agatha%20Christie.jpg

Goethe

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!









picture found at: http://home.tiscalinet.ch/biografien/biografien/goethe.htm

william feather

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather

sorry no pic- i'm not positive who william feather is, other than he lived from 1908 - 1976 according to quotationspage.com which is my source for the quote.

if you happen to know anything about the man, please don't hesitate to post! thanks

isaac asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov


image & quote found at quotes4all.net

peter ustinov

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov

image found at: daily.greencine.com/archives/2004_03.html

military science

"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
- Rebecca West

image found at: http://www.rebeccawestsociety.org/

john lennon

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.


John Lennon



image found at:

http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/sorties/exposition/john-lennon/diaporama/1.shtml

rita rudner

image found at: http://www.ritafunny.com/about_rita.php

Funny Quote of the Day - Rita Rudner - "My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."

carlin

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin


image found at:

www.jacneed.com/Available.htm

Rita Mae Brown

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown (2)

image found at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/051722223X?v=glance

secret of a good sermon

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns

image found at: www.scripting.com/twentyFour/georgeBurns.html

douglas adams, in the beginning...

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams (9)

quality

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford (23)

k. hepburn on love

Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn (6)

image found at: http://www.snarkland.com/index.php/comments/katharine_hepburn/

what counts

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln (2

Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus (1)

image found at:

http://optionality.net/heraclitus/heraclitus2.jpg

talent

Talent is liquified trouble ~ unknown

image found at: http://www.sysf.physto.se/~klere/gallery/

golf

image found at: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/whos/whos-ford.html

Gerald R. Ford - "I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."

Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

image found at: http://www.readprint.com/author-62/Herman-Melville

in the end

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
- John Ruskin

image found at:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/magnify.php?imageid=im00118

theodor geisel

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

- Dr. Seuss image found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Seuss

hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse


image found at:

http://www.atmann.net/alpaction.htm

thomas huxley

Quote of the Day - Thomas Huxley - "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."












image found at: http://education.vetmed.vt.edu/Curriculum/VM8054/Labs/Lab15/NOTES/Huxley.htm

galileo

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei (3)

image found at: http://kopernik.pl/index.php?id=1&kod=2

Dubuffet


“…I rush towards strange things. I am quite convinced that truth is strange; it is at the far end of strangeness that one has a chance to find the key to things.”




image found at:

http://www.pasqualeart.com/dubuffet/index.html

einstein's theory of relativity

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

birds

In order to see birds its is necessary to become a part of the silence. - Robert Lynd


photo found at: http://www.photo.net/cr/moon/birds.html

sam

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain


photo found at:

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/twain.html

humour

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
- Margaret Halsey

jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung

think about it!

now think about it again!

i'd be very interested in hearing your interpretation. so go ahead, don't be shy, there are no wrong answers!

thanks for sharing

image found at: http://www.cgjunghouston.org/aboutjung.htm

lucy grealy

“The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.”

-Lucy Grealy, from Autobiography of a Face, p. 205






image found at:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/006097673X

inspiration

Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains

- Dr. Robert H. Goddard. American rocket engineer 1882-1945

Thinkexist.com Quotations




photo found at:

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/goddard/gallery/gpn-2002-000130.html

groucho on politics

Groucho Marx - "All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."

although it may not hold the social and or political relevance it did in it's day, i still think this is a very witty quote, with MANY layers of truth. i know what i think about it--what do you?

photo found at:

http://www.groucho-marx.com/

theodore geisel

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss









photo found at: http://www.catinthehat.org/history.htm

einstein defines religion

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein





photo found at http://www.humboldt1.com/~gralsto/einstein/pictures.html

The one thing that matters is the effort.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery. French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944

why you are here

thank you for visiting my site. i've been collecting quotes all of my life, and i just figured it made more sense to put them all in one place instead of all over.

also, i'm very interested in what you have to say, be it interpretation, anecdote or your own quotes, insights and wisdom.

please comment freely and often!