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D

  • Déjà vu, n. The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
  • Déjà vu, n. The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred be... wait a minute.
  • Déjà vu, n. The situation of thinking that a new experience had occurred again.
  • Don't confuse questions and comments
  • Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
    • This is attributed to Dr. Seuss
  • Don't cry over it; It's only nuts and bolts.
  • Don’t fix it if it ain't broken
  • Don't quote me.
  • Don’t bite off more then you can chew
  • Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
  • I don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die.
    • This is a line in

E

  • Egotist, n. Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
  • Every time you make something idiot-proof, some bastard re-invents the idiot!
  • Everyone has almost been hit by a car once in their lifetime
  • Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads
  • Everyone has their price
  • Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
  • Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.

F

  • Faith is believing what nobody in his right mind would believe! (This was said by Archie Bunker on "All in the Family".)
  • Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
  • Freedom is a crime because it separates us from a group.
  • French for déjà vu?
  • Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
  • Fuck is a four letter word.

G

  • Getting hit in the nuts is funny until it happens to you
  • GIRLS ARE EVIL (mathematical proof)
Girls = Time x Money
but since Time is Money
Girls = Money x Money = Money2
Now since Money is the root of all evil
Money = √ Evil
And hence combining both equations we get
Girls = √Money2 = EVIL
Thus Proved.

  • Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
  • God doesn’t need our worship. Doesn’t he have enough?
  • God has a sense of humour. Why do you think he put Iraq and Iran next to each other?
  • God is a woman... who else would protect mens balls with a thin layer of skin?
  • God is Croatian, someone might as well be.
  • Greatest gift one man can give another; the awesome responsibility of freedom.
  • Greece is greasy.
  • Greeks are try-hard Turks.
  • Guns don't kill people; bullets kill people. (Chris Rock?)
  • Guns don't kill people; people kill people.
  • Guns don't kill people; people kill people... with guns.
  • Guns don't kill people; gaping holes in vital organs kill people.

H

  • Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important
  • Have a nice day, in hell.
  • Have a nice day, somewhere else.
  • Honk, if you have a horn.
  • How am I? I'm fuckin' dead!
  • How will I laugh tomorrow when I can't even smile today? ~ This was the title of an album, and a song on the album, by the punk rock band Suicidal Tendencies, released 8-13-1988

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J

  • Just because you are chained to the porch doesn’t mean you can’t bark at the cars.

K

  • Karma spares no one.
  • Knowledge has never been known to enter the head through an open mouth
  • Knowledge is power and power corrupts, so study and be evil.
  • Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

L

  • Laziness is the driving force of the progress. ~ Variant ~ Laziness is the mother of invention.
  • Less is more. Source: Architect Mies Van der Rohe
  • Life does not have a happy ending.
  • Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
  • Life is in the vacation from the eternity of non-existence. Enjoy it.
  • Life is terminal.
  • Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first.
  • Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.
  • Look after the Living.
  • Look, I have eleven fingers. One, two, miss three, four, five, six-seven-eight-nine-ten, [refering to "missed" third finger] ELEVEN!
  • Lottery is a tax on hope.
  • Lottery is a tax on people who cannot do the math.
  • light is as much a guide as it is a distraction.
  • Light can be blinding

M

  • Misery loves company.
  • My Karma ran over your Dogma

N

  • Nature is neither cruel, nor friendly. It's sheer indifferent.
  • Never forget that your tools was made by the lowest bidder
  • Never look down on anyone unless you're helping him up.
  • Never mess up an apology with an excuse.
  • Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living and the other helps you make a life.
  • No one's perfect; well there was this one guy, but we killed him, possibly because we felt threatened.
  • No quarter given, and none received.
  • None of us are as stupid as all of us.
  • Nothing is impossible, even the possibility of this sentence being false.
  • Nothing is impossible, just improbable
  • Nothing is right in my left brain, nothing is left in my right brain.
  • Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around. -possibly from the comic strip "Calvin & Hobbes"

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  • Old lawyers never die— they just lose their appeal. ~ This appeared on a mug belonging to John Mortimer
  • Old accountants never die - they just lose their balance. ~ Also appeared on a mug
  • One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
  • Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, it is impossible to live anymore complacent in the world as it is.
  • Optimists are merely pessimists in denial.

P

  • People in your life will come and go like the ocean tides, but few will leave such an imprint on your soul that it can not be washed away.
  • People say I shouldn't frown because it uses more muscles than smiling. Then I point out that Americans need their exercise.
  • People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others
  • Pessimists are just realist optimists.
  • Please take my comments personally, otherwise it looks like I hate the world
  • Poinis poinis roach card
  • Power is the ability not to have to please
  • Practice what the priest preaches but not what the priest practices.
  • Practice what you preach
  • Pray for what you want. Work for what you need.
  • Procrastinate later.

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R

  • Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write it should be hard to understand. ~ Appeared in Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, but may or may not have been in existence beforehand.
  • Realists are just pessimists looking for an excuse for themselves.
  • Reality is a poor substitute for my dreams.
  • Right or Wrong is always dependent on the context.

S

  • Should have, would have, could have but didn't.
  • Show me the way to Ambaraluwa!
  • Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
  • Six inches to the right and Lincoln would have seen the end of the play.
  • Some people are born with luck, some make their own luck
  • Some people can carry a tune, and others just drag it behind them in the dirt. (Woody Allen ?)
  • Someday we will look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.
  • Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
  • Stupid people do stupid things; Smart people outsmart each other. (Lyrics from a System Of A Down song, but not sure if that is the origina; cannot remember which song either)

T

  • Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
  • Talk is cheap when the story’s good
  • Tell us what you need and we'll tell you how to get by without it. ~ Heard from an old Quartermaster Sergeant in the Australian Army.
  • Temptation is seen from a distance never near.
  • The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average guy can see better than he can think.
  • The best defense against logic is ignorance.
  • The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
  • The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
  • The death of three civilians and a dog causes uproar and sadness. The death of 20,000 soldiers causes dissatisfaction.
  • The fat lady sung.
  • The future is so bright I have to wear shades. ~title of song by Timbukthree, may have existed earlier.
  • The glass isn't half empty. It isn't half full. It's just twice the size it should be.
  • The glass isn't half empty. It isn't half full. you just need to add ice.
  • The grass is always greener, after a nuclear test.
  • The gratuitous, usage, of, commas, is, really really really annoying, to, read.
  • The more something costs, the farther you will have to send it away to be repaired
  • The only lesson History has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from History.
  • The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
  • The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire. ~ Helicopter Pilot Wisdom
  • The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true. ~ By James B. Cabell
  • The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The thirsty person doesn't care and the blind person doesn't see the glass at all. Which one are you?
  • The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. Unless they don't like the drink, then it's reversed.
  • The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
  • The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
  • The tricky thing about playing chicken, is knowing when to flinch.
  • The unordinary man is the same as the ordinary man, but the unordinary man thinks in bigger terms and in more fruitful areas.
  • The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
  • The world is like a two-sided coin, sometimes people forget which side is twoed.
  • There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
  • There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand trinary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.
  • There are three types of people in this world: the ones who can count, and those who can't.
  • There are three types of people in this world: the ones who keep you alive, the ones who would otherwise cause you to die, and the ones who somehow manage to do both at the same time.
  • There is a fine line between coincidence and fate
  • There is a reason for everthing.
  • There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life
  • They may not remember what you said but they will remember how you made them feel.
  • This sentence no verb.
  • Those who don't make decisions never make mistakes
  • Those who fight and run away, live to fight another day.
  • Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t
  • Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order
  • Those who think they know-it-all are very annoying to those of us who do.
  • Thoughts don’t hurt, actions do.
  • Three snows upon the crocuses ere the Winter will be gone. ~ This saying was either taken from or incorportated into a Lake Erie-area folk song about the arrival of spring.
  • To refuse praise is to seek praise twice.
  • Toss the bag!
  • Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
  • Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.

The more you study The more you know

The more you know The more you forget

The more you forget The less you know

So Why Study..?

V

  • Violence is not the answer, however it is a pretty good guess.
  • Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

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  • You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time... Abraham Lincoln (attributed to)
  • You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.
  • You can’t see the future through a rearview mirror.
  • You ever feel like the world's a giant game of musical chairs and the music has stopped and we're the only ones without chairs?
  • You have such a pretty smile ... it's a shame the things you hide behind it.
  • You know that every time I try to go where I really wanna be, It's already where I am, cause I'm already there?! (System of a Down)
  • You must walk a dark path to reach a bright future. Just make sure its not too bright or you might go blind
  • You roll in the thunder and I’ll reap the whirlwinds

Z

To be moved:

  • I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. ~ from Nada (Roddy Piper) in "They Live". The screenplay was written by John Carpenter, though Piper reportedly ad-libbed the famous line. (misquoted as: It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum… and I’m all outta gum! - a catchphase of videogame character Duke Nukem's)
  • I have a great love for humanity, it's the people that bother me. ~ Linus Charles Schulz
  • If it bleeds it can be killed ~ From Predator
  • Nine women cannot deliver a baby in one month. ~ Frederick P. Brooks from his book ~ This is very similar to a statement attributed to Wernher von Braun
  • Repeat after me, we are all individuals. ~ Source: this is a derivative of a line spoken by as the character Brian in . Brian is talking to a crowd of people who mistakenly believe he is the Messiah and are repeating everything he says. Brian says ...You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals! then the crowd shouts Yes! We're all individuals! (This may not be the original source of this quote.) ~ Steve Martin also used a derivative of this phrase in his stand up comedy routine back in the 1970s. It was part of some oath he asked the audience to recite with him. There was also something about being obsequious and clairovoyant. Flypaper of the mind, I know. (~ZachsMind)
  • The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers ~ Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • The turtle only advances by sticking its neck out. ~ Les Reimers
  • Those who live for today forget about yesterday and tomorrow and thus miss out on two thirds of the equation of life ~ By Ross Thompson
  • You can agree to disagree on politics or even religion sometimes but you either kill people or you don't. Homicide is not something you can be neutral on. ~ Anita Blake (fictional character from a book series by L.K. Hamilton)
  • There are only 2 people in this world who I trust— One is me and the other isn't you. ~ Cameron Poe (Nicholas Cage) to US Marshall Vince Larkin (John Cusack) in Con Air (1997)
  • Nothing is impossible, only improbable. ~ Variant ~ Nothing is impossible, only improbable. And improbable just takes a little while longer to accomplish. ~ Isn't this a variant of a quote already attributed to George Santayana?
  • Don't take life too seriously: it isn't permanent
    • This is a variant of the original from the comic strip Pogo by Walt Kelly; Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
  • Jesus is coming, look busy. (tatoed on the bottom of the fake archbisschop of Canterbury in the movie Johny english)


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