actually doing something semi-constructive...a quote index

I am putting together a quote index with all the quotes I've come across, and hilighted in books, and heard over the years. I be really glad for anyone and everyone to add to this index, when it's finished it'll be on the web. So if you have some quotes you like please add 'em. And they don't have to be well-known or anything either.

cheers CL

"Thank God I have done my duty." - Admiral Horatio Nelson

"There is no way of dealing with the Frenchman but to knock him down - to be civil to them is to be laughed at. Why they are enemies!" - Admiral Horatio Nelson

"England Expects that every man will do his duty." (not really a quote since it was done in flags, but still...) Nelson's message to the ships at the Battle of Traalgar

*Shut up. There is no such thing as CLEAN* - I just made it up because I feel like it.
*Repition sometimes isn't bad but this was so horrible that I wanna barf up my oreos*- me

I hope they don't have to be meaningful if they are supposed to be that though I have some somewhere....

It doesn't matter who you are, it matters who you are to those who care (corny... i need practice) but here, and i think i'll enjoy this

"The wrong answers are the ones you go looking for when the right answer is staring you in the face" A.A. Milne

"So which religion is the right one?"
"I dont know, but you'll have your whole life to figure it out." - me.

"'An eye for an eye' would make the whole world blind"-Martin Luther King jr
"We don't own the earth we borrow it from our children"-I don't know who said that
"I refuse to accept your reality and substitue my own"-he one guy from myth busters

an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind is a quote from Ghandi. MLK repeated it later.

"The human brain is too complex for us to understand it, if it was simple enough to understand we would be too simple to understand it."

'Leonato- You must never run mad, neice.
Beatrice- No, not 'till a hot January.'

-Much Ado About Nothing (:P)

"Wit is educated insolence."
--Aristotle

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
--M. Kathleen Casey

"This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape."
--Roger Bannister

"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
--Aristotle

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
--Socrates

"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
--Henry David Thoreau

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
--Anne Frank

"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read."
--Anita Brookner

"Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it."
--Octavia Butler

“This must be the place where they empty all the old hourglasses.”
--Bob Hope as Orville “Turkey” Jackson, The Road to Morocco

“Hey maybe I’ll give you a call sometime… Your number still 911? Alrighty then.”
--Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, Ace Ventura Pet Detective

The smartest person does not brag that they are smart-My history teacher. She said that in class because Zack(really annoying kid) was bragging that he was smarter then every body else

"In Israel, in order to be a realist, one must believe in miracles"----David Ben-Gurion

"There will be peace when the arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews"-----Golda Meir


Will get more later.

"Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to dissapear irretrievably"

-Walter Benjamin

"You may mean nothing to the the world, but you mean the world to somebody" -- I saw this written on the front of some girl's diary (no, I did not read her diary, I just saw her carrying it)

Hate to be ultra-picky girl again, but the Mythbusters quote is actually, "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

"Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."
Oscare Wilde (I think)

"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep."
Yiddish proverb

"Things are not always what they seem in this place, so you can't take anything for granted."
The Labyrinth, by Terry Jones.