Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Designer. Author. Espresso and WordPress addict

Collected Quotations

Every time you visit or refresh my blog, you see a different, random quotation in the header. This page displays all of the quotations I have collected over time.

Libertarianism is what your mom taught you: behave yourself and don't hit your sister ~ Dr. Kenneth Bisson

Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate. ~Anon.

Not saying anything when you have nothing to say will always prove wise. ~The Art of Doing Nothing

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ~Oscar Wilde

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing ~John Powell

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. ~Alexander Pope

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whoever named it 'necking' was a poor judge of anatomy! ~Groucho Marx

I don't know if god exists. It would be better for his reputation if he did not. ~Anon.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ~Josh Billings

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~Stephen F Roberts

He that has learned to obey will know how to command. ~Solon

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. ~Ralph Waldo Emmerson

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. ~Anon.

If I said you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? ~some guy in a bar

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. ~ J. K. Rowling

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. ~ A. Sachs

Seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. ~ unknown

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas Edison (on the invention of the lightbulb)

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ~Thomas Edition

Pain is weakness leaving the body. ~ Unknown

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses. ~Randy K. Milholland

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. ~Steven Wright

Give me coffee... or give me death ~ Lisa Sabin-Wilson

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered ~ Aeschylus

That's the good thing about the Dark Side...Eventually, your eyes adjust. ~ James Lileks

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. ~ W. C. Fields

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous ~ V. (V for Vendetta)

Begin at the beginning... and go on till you come to the end: then stop. ~Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. ~ Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe

What I dream of is an art of balance. ~ Henri Matisse

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? Woody Allen

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. ~ Virginia Woolf

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~ Elbert Hubbard

That's what makes death so hard - unsatisfied curiosity ~ Beryl Markham, West with the Night

It's all make believe, isn't it? ~ Marilyn Monroe

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor. ~ Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It’s a relief then to deal with a man who isn’t quite so delightful but a little more sincere. ~ W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, 1925

I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. ~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature’s coffee. ~ Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks. ~ Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that’s usually how you end up crying? ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999

Masochism is a valuable job skill. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ~ Bertrand Russell

It's just a string, nitwit. ~Leanne Wildermuth

Tired of people who oversell and underproduce ~Lisa Sabin-Wilson

I want a bottle of wine that tastes like you... in a glass that is never empty. ~ Russel Crowe - A Good Life

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