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JR Ellis Favorite Quotes


Created: 17 Sep 97

Last Updated: March 6, 2008

 

see also James Knowles collection of quotes or Lunaya Pravda Gun-related quotes


  • In order to tell a lie, you must believe the lie
    -- Charles Russo

  • If you can't face the music, you'll never get to lead the band.
    -- Proverbs 3:11-12

  • Everyone cheats.
    -- Gabriel Decastros

  • No matter how well a story is told, or how brief; the second story is tedious.
    -- Mr. Stern 1965 Saddle Rock, NY

  • You're not the one reading my mind, I'm the one sending.
    -- Rhoda Drey

  • You don't have to tell me more than once dad, i knew it was a bad idea the first time i heard it.
    -- ßetaman

  • no wonder cheney's daughter turned gay - if the dick was your father, you'd hate men too
    -- ßetaman

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  • It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
    -- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • Only two things are infinite... the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.
    -- Albert Einstein

  • All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
    -- William Kingdom Clifford

  • A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
    -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  • Come around and don't look down You'll never see the sun
    -- Emmylou Harris, Songbird

  • There are none are so blind as those who will not see.
    -- Matthew Henry

  • muslims and christians have similar dress codes.
    -- ßetaman

  • "In order to know something, you must first know nothing."
    -- ßetaman

  • "bush is a four letter word."
    -- ßetaman

  • "One man's truth is another man's fear."
    -- ßetaman

  • "A friend is someone who is on your side... even when you are wrong."
    -- ßetaman

  • "A good messenger expects to get shot."
    -- Larry Wall

  • "Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and those who love it are not equal to those who live it."
    -- Confucius

  • "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
    -- Will Rogers

  • "Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it."
    -- Albert Einstein

  • "What is most needed for learning is a humble mind."
    -- Confucius, The Book of History, circa 500 B.C.

  • "I love learning, but hate being taught."
    -- Winston Churchill

  • "In theory practice works the same as theory."
    -- Peter Below

  • "Breaking stuff can be a very effective way to learn."
    -- Karl Perry

  • "It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. "
    -- Abraham Maslow

  • "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. "
    -- Mark Twain

  • "Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."
    -- Sallust (86-34 B.C.)

  • "Anyone can make enemies."
    -- ßetaman

  • "Let us rejoice as men because a prolonged hoax has collapsed and we clearly see what threatens us."
    --Albert Camus

  • "Each day provides its own gifts."
    -- Martial, Epigrams, 86 A.D.

  • "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost."
    -- "The Lord of the Rings" J.R.R. Tolkien

  • "Procrastination is the thief of time."
    -- Edward Young, Night Thoughts, 1742.

  • "Give yourself time to succeed. You have to develop new habits, thinking, and knowledge."
    -- D. Yager

  • "If you rush a miracle, you get rotten miracles."
    -- Miracle Max, The Princess Bride

  • "The years teach much which the days never know."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience" in Essays (Second Series) 1844

  • "All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others."
    -- John Maxwell

  • "before you try to change others... remember how hard it is to change yourself"
    -- Bill Bluestein

  • "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
    -- Albert Einstein, Life Magazine, May 2, 1955

  • More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
    -- Robert Smith SurteesD, The Analysis of the Hunting Field, 1846

  • "School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit."
    -- Martin Luther King

  • "Predictability is one step removed from slavery"
    -- Benjamin Franklin

  • "To the man who is afraid, everything rustles. "
    -- Sophocles, Fragment 58, Acrisius, 5th Century, B.C.

  • "A weed is only a plant that you don't want."
    --Gabriel Russo

  • "Christianity will be the ruin of America,"
    -- Thomas Jefferson

  • "The face of tyranny Is always mild at first."
    -- Racine, Britannicus, 1669

  • "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."
    -- William Pitt (Pitt the Younger), Speech, House of Commons. November 18, 1783.
    -- (although i have seen this attributed to John W. Campbell, Jr. also)

  • "A license is permission to do something which is otherwise unlawful; it is a contract which lowers your status from free man to subject, member, or slave"
    --

  • "Beware those who seek to control knowledge, for they already see themselves your master."
    --

  • "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
    -- Edmund Burke

  • "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
    -- Goethe

  • "If you attack expecting to prevail, do it in full strength, because a surplus of victory never caused any conqueror one pang of remorse. "
    -- Xenophon

  • "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
    -- Benjamin Franklin (attr)

  • "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

  • "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
    --Tacitus, Annals, circa 116 A.D.

  • The purpose of the law is to prevent the strong always having their way.
    -- Ovid (43 B.C.--(?)A.D. 17), Fasti

  • "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
    -- Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged In The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic

  • If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

  • "They begin in Bondage. They then go from Bondage to Spiritual Faith. With that Spiritual Faith they develop great Courage. That Great Courage leads to Liberty. Liberty then leads to Abundance. Abundance then leads to Selfishness. This Selfishness then leads to Complacency. The Complacency grows into Apathy. Apathy then degenerates into Dependence. This Dependence brings them full circle back into Bondage."
    -- Tyler wrote of great civilizations:

  • "The first casualty when war comes is truth."
    -- Hiram Warren Johnson, Speech, US Senate, 1917

  • "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty ... And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. "
    -- Thomas Jefferson. Nov. 13. 1787, letter to William S. Smith.

  • A thief believes everybody steals.
    -- Edgar Watson Howe , Country Town Sayings, 1911

  • "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
    -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

  • "One more such victory, and we are lost."
    -- Pyrrhus, After defeating the Romans at Asculum, 279 B.C.

  • "A wise man's question contains half the answer."
    -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, The Choice of Pearls, circa 1050

  • "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
    -- Andre Gide, Le Traite du Narcisse, 1891

  • "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
    -- Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales, XVI, 1656

  • "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it."
    -- Mark Twain

  • "May I have the wisdom to accept what I cannot change, The courage to change those things I can, And the firepower to make the difference.
    -- Unknown

  • There are no victims, only volunteers.
    -- 12 step slogan

  • No matter where you go, there you are.
    -- confucious

  • People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
    -- St.Francis Xavier (?)

  • Come around and don't look down You'll never see the sun
    -- Emmylou Harris, Songbird

  • Without love in the dream, it will never come true.
    -- robert hunter and jerry garcia

  • Problems are just opportunities in disguise.
    -- Bob Maynard

  • Chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are to strong to be broken.
    -- Samuel Johnson (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

  • The more people know, the more they forgive.
    --

  • A person who lies for you, will lie against you.
    --

  • There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The other is to get it.
    -- George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4

  • We like someone because. We love someone although.
    -- Henri de Montherlant

  • If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
    -- Abraham H. Maslow

  • What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
    -- John Lubbock, biologist.

  • No one can liberate the slave who loves his chains.
    --

  • If you plant ice, you're going to harvest wind.
    -- Grateful Dead - Franklin's Tower

  • The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
    -- Paul Valery

  • When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
    -- Charles Austin Beard 1874-1948
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

  • Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
    -- Ben Franklin

  • Beauty is recessive.
    --

  • Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it;
    A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
    -- Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Whom they have injured, they also hate.
    -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
    -- H.G. Wells

  • Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking in the same direction.
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
    -- English or Scottish Proverb

  • A good memory is remembering the same mistake every time you repeat it.
    --

  • The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    -- Niels BOHR, Danish physicist (1885-1962)
    -- Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)

  • What if there were no hypothetical questions?
    -- Stephen Wright

  • We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
    -- François de la Rochefoucauld

  • Adventure equals risk plus purpose.
    -- Robert McClure

  • Anxiety is fear of one's self.
    -- Wilhelm Stekel (Austrian psychoanalyst, 1868-1940)

  • The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there,
    When you get there, there isn't any there there.
    -- Gertrude Stein said in the 1930s of her girlhood home

  • Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
    -- Jim Harding.

  • Everyone who got where they are, had to start where they were.
    -- R. L. Davis

  • I think, therefore I am confused.
    -- Blake Williams

  • My limitations are my strengths.
    --

  • People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
    -- Joseph F. Newton

  • "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
    -- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1986

  • Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
    -- General George Patton Jr (1885 - 1945)

  • We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 - 1882)

  • The cruelest lies are often told in silence
    -- Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish author (1850 - 1894)

  • The perception of beauty is a moral test.
    -- Henry David Thoreau.

  • We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the fullest.
    --

  • I love the rain, it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.
    -- Woody Allen: 'Play It Again Sam' (1972)

  • Tomorrow never comes, but the morning after certainly does.
    --

  • You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know.
    -- book by By Rebecca G. Adams and Robert Sardiello

  • Time is the moving image of eternity.
    -- Plato

  • Procrastination is the thief of time.
    -- Edward Young (1683-1765)

  • Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
    --Luc Vauvenargues

  • We have met the enemy, and they are us.
    -- comic strip “Pogo,” by Walt Kelly

  • For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
    -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) from his poem "Maud Muller"

  • As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
    -- Henry David Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854

  • We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
    -- Charles Seymour

  • I'd be unstoppable if only I could get started.
    --

  • Would you like it done now or done right?
    --

  • There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it again.
    --

  • May you live all the days of your life.
    -- Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)
    --

  • When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
    -- zen saying

  • Who should, but those that can.
    -- Trevanian, Shibumi

  • No one loves the man whom he fears.
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
    -- Saint Francis de Sales

  • If you keep doing what you did, you'll keep getting what you got.
    --

  • It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
    -- Hermann Hesse

  • The ugly duckling stopped feeling ugly when he realized he was a swan.
    --

  • Be careful of what you ask for, you might just get it.
    --

  • Patience is never more important than when you're on the verge of losing it.
    --

  • Don't fight forces, use them.
    --

  • Love and let love.
    --

  • Give time time.
    --

  • Worry is like paying interest on a debt that you don't owe.
    --

  • This animal is very bad, when attacked, it defends itself.
    --

  • Fat birds don't fly.
    --

  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • There are two ways to reduce weight: eat less, or go where there is less gravity.
    --

  • Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these, "I knew him when."
    --

  • There is nothing harder than the
    Softness of indifference.
    -- Clare Boothe Luce

  • People would rather be deceived, than convinced that the opinion they formed of a person at first sight was incorrect
    --

  • Treat your enemies as if they will someday be your friends, and visa-versa.
    --

  • If you have no enemies, you are likely to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
    --

  • We always like those who admire us, we do not always like those whom we admire.
    --

  • ... enchanted isle of time.
    --

  • Feeling bad never makes you feel good.
    --

  • Comes a time when the blind man says, "Don't you see?"
    -- jerry garcia

  • Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
    -- George Wildman Ball

  • something real and
    Unromantic as Monday morning
    -- Charlotte Bronte


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