Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes


The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
- From a great selection of Funny Short Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Inspirational Quotes, Motivational, Short Famous Quotes.



Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana Short Funny Quotes, Motivational, Inspirational.

Famous Funny Quotes, Quotations

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
- Charles Caleb Colton Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotations and Inspirational Sayings



Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Al Capp Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Motivational Sayings

Famous Quotes and Sayings

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
- Dave Barry Famous Quotes and Quotations



There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Funny Quotations and Sayings



I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls Famous Quotes and Sayings


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
- Gordon R. Dickson Funny Sayings and Quotes

Sad, but Funny Quotes

10 Unbelievable Quotes from Tom Delay

1) "So many minority youths had volunteered that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War

2) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" -Tom Delay, to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005

3) "I AM the federal government." -Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003

4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power." -Tom DeLay, explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in 2002 interview with Fox News

5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes." -Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003

6) "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." -Tom DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999

7) "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though." -Tom DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004

8) "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church." -Tom DeLay

9) "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist." -Tom DeLay, during a debate in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996

10) "I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution." -Tom DeLay, in a CNN interview, Dec. 19, 1995

Funny Quotes, Thanksgiving Quotations

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Jon Stewart Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Sayings

Inspirational Quotes

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
- Unknown Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotations, Funny Sayings


A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
- Mohammed Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotations, Famous Daily Sayings


To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France Famous Quotes, Inspirational Sayings and Motivational Quotations

Short Sayings

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Neil Armstrong Short Sayings

Black Holes are where God divided by zero.
- Anonymous Short Sayings

Inspirational Motivational Quotes

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Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational, Motivational Quotes and Sayings

Funny Short Quotes

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
- Thomas Szasz Funny Short Quotes, Daily Quotes, Short Sayings


Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Short Sayings


I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
- Fred Allen Funny Short Quotes. Daily Quotes.

Inspirational, Motivational, Funny Quotes, Sayings and Quotations

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen Goodman Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Inspirational and Motivational Sayings


Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- HL Mencken Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Inspirational and Motivational Sayings

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
- Maurice Maeterlinck Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Inspirational Sayings


All television is children's television.
- Richard P. Adler Famous Quotations, Funny Quotes, Inspirational Sayings

Funny Quotes, Famous, Inspirational, Motivational

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Herbert Agar Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotations, Inspirational Sayings.


I think the world is run by 'C' students.
- Al McGuire Famous Quotations, Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Inspirational Sayings.


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy Famous Quotations, Daily Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Inspirational Sayings.

Funny, Famous, Inspirational, Motivational Quotes

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
- Margo Kaufman Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Daily Quotes, Inspirational Sayings.


Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Quotations, Famous Quotes, Funny Sayings


In a mad world only the mad are sane.
- Akira Kurosawa Famous Quotations, Funny Quotes, Inspirational Sayings, Daily Quotes.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- HL Mencken Daily Quotes, Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner Daily Quotes, Famous Quotations, Inspirational Short Sayings.

Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Inspirational Sayings

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles Famous Quotations, Sayings, Quotes


If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
- IF Stone Funny Quotes, Inspirational Quotations


Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schulz Famous Quotes, Inspirational Sayings, Funny Quotations

Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
- AJ Liebling Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Short Sayings


What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice Funny Quotes, Motivational, Inspirational

Famous Quotes, Funny Saying, Quotations

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell Famous Quotes, Funny Quotations, Sayings

Funny Quotes. Famous Quotations

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations, Inspirational Sayings

Inspirational, Motivational, Funny Quotes, Sayings

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke Short Funny Quotes. Daily Quotes. Famous Quotations. Inspirational Sayings.


People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

- Dale Carnegie Famous Quotes. Funny Quotations. Inspirational, Motivational Sayings

Inspirational Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia Inspirational Quotes, Famous Quotations, Funny Sayings, Motivational Quotes.


What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean Jacques Rousseau Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Funny Quotations, Motivational Quotes


Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Emmanuel Swedenborg Inspirational Quotes, Famous Quotations, Motivational Quotes

Movie Quotations

American Beauty Movie Quotes:

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.



I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.
Movie Quotations

Funny Quotations, Famous Quotes

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis - Famous Quotations, Funny Quotes, Short Quotes, Daily Quotes


Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein - Famous, Funny Quotes, Daily Quotations

Short, Famous, Funny, Quotes, Quotations, Sayings

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti Daily Quotes, Motivational Quotations, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Sayings


Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotations, Sayings. Short Funny Quotes.

Religion Quotes

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua - Religion Quotes. Famous Quotes. Daily Quotations. Great Sayings.


Albert Einstein Quotes:

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein Quotations. Religion Quotes. Famous Quotes. Inspirational Quotes. Daily Quotations. Great Sayings. Motivational Quotes.



Albert Einstein Quotes:

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein Quotations. Motivational Quotes. Religion Quotes. Famous Quotes. Inspirational Quotes. Great Sayings. Daily Quotations.

Business Advice

Quotes on Business Advice:


Business ideas are all around you. They are lurking in your garage, in your basement, in your kitchen, and in your children’s room. You’ll find them in magazine ads, at your neighbor’s house, and at work. They are right there in the vegetables you brought in from the yard . . . in the stack of papers next to your laser printer . . . in the back of your truck . . . and at the back of your mind.
Business Advice, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Funny Sayings, Inspirational Quotations.

Finance Quotes. Investment Quotes. Investing Quotes.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan Finance Quotes, Mortgage Quotes, Investing Quotations, Investment Quotes

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes, Investment Quotes

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse
Alan Greenspan Mortgage Quotes, Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education--literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Investing Quotations, Finance Quotes, Mortgage Quotes

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Mortgage Quotes, Investing Quotations

Finance. Investment. Investing Advice

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan Finance Quotes, Mortgage Quotes, Investing Quotations, Investment Quotes

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes, Investment Quotes

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse
Alan Greenspan Mortgage Quotes, Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education--literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Investing Quotations, Mortgage Quotes

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Investing Quotations, Finance Quotes, Mortgage Quotes

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan Greenspan Investment Quotes, Finance Quotes, Mortgage Quotes, Investing Quotations

Business Quotes

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. (Walt Disney) Short Funny Quotes

Keep it simple, stupid. (KISS) Famous Quotes

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) Funny Quotes

Stick to the knitting. (Proverb) Motivational Quotes

Every decision you make is a mistake. (Edward Dahlberg) Inspirational Quotes

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. (H L Mencken) Really Funny Quotes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything. (Bernard's Bingo Magazine) Motivational Quotes

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. (Theodore Roosevelt) Inspirational Quotes

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. (Mitch Ratliffe) Funny Sayings

More can be learned from what works than from what fails. (Rene Dubois) Famous Quotes

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. (Robert Louis Stephenson) Business Quotes

May you live in interesting times. (Chinese curse) Famous Sayings

Only one thing is certain - that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. (Ancient Paradox)

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers) Famous Sayings

Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (Bruce Levin)
Business Quotes

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing. (George Perera, MD) Funny Sayings

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. (Joseph Addison)

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. (Goethe) Business Quotes

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. (Thomas Carlyle) Funny Sayings

A moments insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. (Henry Ford) Funny Sayings

Think. (IBM slogan)

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. (George Patton)
Business Quotes

Imagine. (Apple slogan)

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. (Cullen Hightower)

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. (Robert Anthony) Funny Sayings

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. (Sun Tzu) Famous Quotes

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal (Unknown) Business Quotes

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. (Sun Tzu)
Business Quotes

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon)

Confidence is what you feel before you comprehend the situation. (Proverb)
Never tell me the odds. (Han Solo, Starfighter)

She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it. (Mary's Almanac)
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

"No, no !" said the Queen. "Sentence first - verdict afterwards". (Lewis Carroll)

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. (Warren Buffet)

The best executive has the sense enough to pick good men, and the self-restraint enough to keep from meddling. (Theodore Roosevelt) Business Quotes

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people (Jack Welch) Famous Quotes


Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenity. (General George S Patton Jr)

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. (Walter Wriston)
Business Quotes

Funny Sayings

Boxing is just show business with blood.
- Frank Bruno Funny Sayings, Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inpirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes


Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
- Vivekananda Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes and Sayings.

Short Funny Quotes

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O Casey Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Love Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes


We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Short Funny Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes


Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light
- CVR Thompson Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Funny Sayings

Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Funny Quotes


Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
- Gallagher Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Funny Quotes, Short Funny Quotes


Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
- Cullen Hightower Inspirational Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Funny Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Sayings

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

- Ashleigh Brilliant Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Sayings, Quotations

Famous Quotes on Life, Funny Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

-Sydney J. Harris Famous Quotes, Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Quotations

Motivational Quotes

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

- Opening scene of "Faust" - Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Famous Quotes



The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

- unknown Motivational Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes



The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Famous Quotes, Quotations

Motivational Quotes

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

- Opening scene of "Faust" - Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Famous Quotes


The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

- unknown Motivational Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes



The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.

- Charles Swindoll Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Famous Quotes, Quotations

Inspirational Quotes

It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt Inpirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Famous Quotes


It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire Inspirational Quotes, Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes

Funny Quotes

My sister was with two men in one night. She could hardly walk after that. Can you imagine? Two dinners!

Funny Quotes by Sarah Silverman.


I knew these Siamese twins. They moved to England, so the other one could drive.

Steven Wright Funny Quotes


If I ever have twins, I'd use one for parts.

Funny Quotes by Steven Wright


My wife and I took out life insurance policies on each other -- so now it's just a waiting game.

Bill Dwyer Funny Quotes

Daily Quotes

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

- Hansell B. Duckett Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

Famous Quotes

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

- Roger Allen Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

Famous Quotes

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

- Plato Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

Movie Quotes

Movie Quotes

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

Movie Quotes – Fight Club, Funny Movie Quotes, Great Movie Quotes


Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Movie Quotes – Fight Club, Funny Movie Quotes, Great Movie Quotes


You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

Movie Quotes – Fight Club, Funny Movie Quotes, Great Movie Quotes



It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

Movie Quotes – Fight Club, Funny Movie Quotes, Great Movie Quotes


The things you own end up owning you.

Movie Quotes – Fight Club, Funny Movie Quotes, Great Movie Quotes



We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.

Movie Quotes – Fight Club, Funny Movie Quotes, Great Movie Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Motivational, Inspirational

Albert Einstein Quotes. Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

- Bertrand Russell Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

Famous Movie Quotes

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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
~ Samuel Goldwyn Famous Movie Quotes, "Funny Movie Quotes"

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
~ Walt Disney "Famous Movie Quotes", Funny Movie Quotes

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul.
~ Ingrid Bergman Famous Movie Quotes, Funny Movie Quotes

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
~ Orson Welles Famous Movie Quotes, Funny Movie Quotes

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock Famous Movie Quotes, Funny Movie Quotes

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
~ Clint Eastwood "Famous Movie Quotes", Funny Movie Quotes

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
~ Bette Davis Famous Movie Quotes, "Funny Movie Quotes"

Politics Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

- Ronald Reagan

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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

- Henry Ford (1863-1947) Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes

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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes, Funny Quotes



The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day Daily Quotes, Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Love Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

Funny Quotes on Experience. Short Funny Quotes

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Funny Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Famous Quotes, "Short Funny Quotes", Famous Quotes, Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

Funny Quotes on Experience. Short Funny Quotes

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-Funny Quotes by Barry LePatner. Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational and Inspirational Quotes


Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Funny Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Famous Quotes, "Short Funny Quotes", Famous Quotes, Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

Short Funny Quotes on Bush. Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

Just imagine how President Bush would write the traditional back-to-school assignment, What I Did On My Summer Vacation: My five weeks on the ranch started with an angry war mom exciting the farm animals (the press corps), and ended with New Orleans turning into a swamp. So I guess I'd have to quote the old joke about what they said to Mrs. Lincoln: "Other than that, how was the theater?"
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Government - Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, its just the opposite.
- John Kenneth Galbraith Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower Daily Quotes, Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
- Wilson Mizner Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes

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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran Lebowitz Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes

Divorce - Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Funny Quotes

My husband taught me housekeeping; when I get divorced, I keep the house.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Love Quotes

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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- HL Mencken Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes


Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes, Funny Quotes

Short Funny Quotes on Money. Famous Movie Quotes

I'm so rich, I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

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Albert Einstein Short Funny Quotes. Famous Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes: If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Race and Racism. Short Funny Quotes by Albert Einstein, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

Funny Quotes by Comedians

"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."

Les Dawson Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes.



"There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that."

Steve Martin Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes.



"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."

David Letterman Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes.



"I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets."

Dave Edison Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes.

"I'm so unlucky that if I was to fall into a barrel of nipples I'd come out sucking my thumb."

Freddie Starr Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes.

Funny Quotes on President Bush. Short Funny Quotes

President Bush keeps saying 'sacrifice' and the 'war on terror,' and you turn around and he's in a field of poppies with Lance Armstrong.

-- Funny Quotes! Funny Quotes! Funny Quotes! by Jon Stewart on President Bush. "Short Funny Jokes"

Funny Quotes by Chris Rock. Short Funny Quotes

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.

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Short Funny Quotes by Chris Rock. Daily Quotes

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

- Short Funny Quotes by Chris Rock, "Funny Quotes", Famous Quotes,

Money Short Funny Quotes. Famous Quotes

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde "Short Funny Quotes", Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, "Motivational Quotes", "Inspirational Quotes"

Short Funny Quotes on Children. Famous Quotes

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

-Bill Cosby "Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, "Famous Quotes"

Funny Movie Quotes

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That sex was the most fun I ever had without laughing.
Funny movie quotes by Woody Allen from Annie Hall. Funny Quotes

Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love.
Funny movie quotes by Woody Allen from Annie Hall. "Funny Quotes"

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen Funny Movie Quotes

The food in this place is really terrible. Yes, and such small portions. That's essentially how I feel about life.
Funny movie quotes by Woody Allen from Annie Hall. Funny Quotes

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Love and Death – “Funny Movie Quotes”

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers.
Sleepers – Funny Movie Quotes by Woody Allen

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'.”
Funny Movie Quotes” by Woody Allen

And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.
Woody Allen and His Comedy, Funny Movie Quotes.

The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.
Funny Movie Quotes by Woody Allen

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Woody Allen “Funny Movie Quotes”

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen Funny Movie Quotes

''According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.''
- Robert de Niro – “Funny Movie Quotes”

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Funny Movie Quotes
If I'm not back in five minutes... wait longer!

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Funny Movie Quotes
Lois: How would you like it if I made your life a living hell?
Ace: Well, Lois, I'm not quite ready for a relationship right now, but maybe I'll give you a call sometime. Your number still 911?

Addams Family Values: Funny Movie Quotes
Little Girl: ...and then Mommy kissed Daddy, and the angel told the stork, and the stork flew down from heaven, and put the diamond in the cabbage patch, and the diamond turned into a baby!
Pugsley: Our parents are having a baby too.
Wednesday: They had sex.

Inspirational - Motivational Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost "Short Funny Quotes", Famous Quotes, "Daily Quotes"

Happiness - Short Funny Quotes

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

- Robert Frost Short "Funny Quotes", Famous Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

Short Funny Quotes on Jury, Daily Quotes

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

- Robert Frost "Short Funny Quotes", Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, "Funny Quotes"

Short Funny Quotes on Love, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes

A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.

- Rodney Dangerfield "Short Funny Jokes", "Short Funny Quotes", "Daily Quotes", "Funny Quotes", "Famous Quotes"

Short Funny Quotes on Art. Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams "Funny Quotes", "Daily Quotes", "Short Funny Jokes", "Famous Quotes"

Short Funny Quotes on Suburbia. Daily Quotes

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

- Bill Vaughan Short "Funny Quotes", "Daily Quotes", "Famous Quotes"

Gandhi - Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

~ M.K. Gandhi, "Short Funny Quotes", "Funny Quotes", Daily Quotes, "Famous Quotes"

Short Funny Quotes - Warren Buffet, Daily Quotes

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffet - Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes, "Short Funny Jokes"

God and Money Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Douglas Novack "Short Funny Quotes", Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, "Short Funny Jokes"

Short Funny Quotes on Government, Daily Quotes, Cute Quotes

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

- Oscar Levant "Daily Quotes", Short Funny Quotes, "Short Funny Jokes", Famous Quotes, Cute Quotes

Life - Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

- Johnny Carson "Short Funny Quotes", Daily Quotes, Motivational, "Inspirational Quotes"

George Carlin - Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

- George Carlin "Short Funny Quotes", "Short Funny Jokes", "Daily Quotes", "Famous Quotes"

Republican Government Quotes - Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

~ Will Rogers "Short Funny Quotes", "Daily Quotes", "Famous Quotes"

Goals and Life - Short Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Daily Quotes

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

- Sid Caesar"Famous Quotes", "Inspirational Quotes", "Daily Quotes"

Short Funny Quotes on Life, Famous Quotes

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

-- Mark Twain "Short Funny Quotes", "Famous Quotes", "Motivational Quotes"

Money and God - Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

~ Woody Allen "Short Funny Quotes", Daily Quotes and Quotations

Marriage - Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor, "Short Funny Quotes", "Daily Quotes", Famous Quotes, Love Quotes

Genius - Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

- Abraham Lincoln "Daily Quotes", Philosophy, Famous Quotations, Inspirational, Motivational

Health - Daily Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

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

- Mark Twain "Funny Quotes", Daily Quotations, "Daily Quotes", Short Funny Quotes.

Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes - Mark Twain

No one ever went broke under-estimating the taste of the American public.

- Mark Twain Famous Quotes, "Short Funny Quotes" on American Culture

Ego - Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

- Frank Leahy Famous Quotes on egotism, "Short Funny Quotes", Daily Quotes

Israel - Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

~ Golda Meir, Daily Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotations

Writing - Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

~ A. Schopenhauer, Short Funny Quotes, "Famous Quotes", "Inspirational Quotes", Motivational, Daily Quotations

Short Funny Quotes on Beauty

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want -- an adorable pancreas?

~ Jean Kerr, Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes

Belief - Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes

Religion - Famous Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

- Vivekananda Famous Quotes on Religion, "Inspirational Quotes", "Motivational Quotes"

Short Funny Quotes on Truth, Famous Quotes

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

- Sir Winston Churchill Famous Quotes, "Short Funny Quotes"

Passing Judgement - Famous Quotes, Daily Quotes

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

- Herman Melville Famous Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational, Daily Quotes

Drummer - Famous Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

- From the "Conclusion" to Walden, Famous Quotes

Sense and Reason - Famous Quotes

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 Famous Quotes, Inspirational

Irony - Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

- Jack Nicholson, Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes About Work

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

- Richard Bach Famous Quotes on Work, Motivational, Inspirational

Vivekananda Famous Quotes

The only test of good things is that they make us strong.

- Vivekananda Famous Quotes, Inspirational, Motivational

Famous Quotes on Religion

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
- T.S. Eliot Famous Quotes on Religion

T.S. Eliot Daily Quotes, Famous Quotes

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

- T. S. Eliot Famous Quotations, Short Funny Quotes, Daily Quotes

Think - Famous Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Motivational, Inspirational Quotations

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

- Bertrand Russell "Famous Quotes", "Short Funny Quotes", Motivational, Inspirational Quotations

Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes on Religion

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln Famous Religious Quotes

Short Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

- Ellen DeGeneres, Famous Daily Quotes, Short Funny Quotes

New Ideas - Famous Quotes

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

- John Cage, "Famous Quotes", "Short Funny Quotes"

Belief in God - Famous Quotes, Philosophy

A great sage once told me that not one in twenty million in this world believe in God. I asked why, and he told me, "Suppose there is a thief in this room, and he gets to know there is a mass of gold in the next room, and only a very thin partition between the two rooms; what will be the condition of that thief ? " I answered, "He will not be able to sleep at all; his brain will be actively thinking of some means of getting at the gold, and he will think of nothing else." Then he replied, "Do you believe that a man could believe in God and not go mad to get him? If a man sincerely believes that there is that immense, infinite mine of Bliss, and that It can be reached, would not that man go mad in his struggle to reach it?"

Belief in God - Famous Quotes, Philosophy by Vivekananda

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Famous Quotes on Courage, Inspirational, Motivational

This I have seen in life, he who is overcautious about himself falls into dangers at every step; he who is afraid of losing honor and respect, gets only disgrace; he who is always afraid of loss always losses.

- Vivekanand Famous Quotes on Courage, Inspirational, Motivational

What is the "Meaning of Life" - "Life Meaning"

What is The Meaning Of Life?

We find that man, as it were, is always surrounded by something greater than himself, and he is trying to grasp the meaning of this. Man will ever seek the highest ideal. He knows that it exists and that religion is the search after the highest ideal. At first all his searches were in the external plane — placed in heaven, in different places — just according to his grasp of the total nature of man.

Later, man began to look at himself a little closer and began to find out that the real "me" was not the "me" that he stands for ordinarily. As he appears to the senses is not the same as he really is. He began to search inside of himself, and found out that . . . the same ideal he had placed outside of himself is all the time within; what he was worshipping outside was his own real inner nature. The difference between dualism and monism is that when the ideal is put outside of oneself, it is dualism. When God is sought within, it is monism.

First, the old question of why and wherefore . . . How is it that man became limited? How did the Infinite become finite, the pure become impure? In the first place, you must never forget that this question can never be answered by any dualistic hypothesis.

Why did God create the impure universe? Why is man so miserable, made by a perfect, infinite, merciful Father? Why this heaven and earth, looking at which we get our conception of law? Nobody can imagine anything that he has not seen.

All the tortures we feel in this life, we put in another place and that is our hell . . . .Why did the infinite God make this world? The dualist says: Just as the potter makes pots. God the potter; we the pots. . . . In more philosophical language the question is: How is it taken for granted that the real nature of man is pure, perfect, and infinite? This is the one difficulty found in any system of monism. Everything else is clean and clear. This question cannot be answered. The monists say the question itself is a contradiction.

Take the system of dualism — the question is asked why God created the world. This is contradictory. Why? Because — what is the idea of God? He is a being who cannot be acted upon by anything outside.

You and I are not free. I am thirsty. There is something called thirst, over which I have no control, which forces me to drink water. Every action of my body and even every thought of my mind is forced out of me. I have got to do it. That is why I am bound . . . . I am forced to do this, to have this, and so on . . . . And what is meant by why and wherefore? Being subject to external forces. Why do you drink water? Because thirst forces you. You are a slave. You never do any. thing of your own will because you are forced to do everything. Your only motive for action is some force. . . .

The earth, by itself, would never move unless something forced it. Why does the light burn? It does not burn unless somebody comes and strikes a match. Throughout nature, everything is bound. Slavery, slavery! To be in harmony with nature is slavery. What is there in being the slave of nature and living in a golden cage? The greatest law and order is in the knowledge that man is essentially free and divine. Now we see that the question why and wherefore can only be asked in ignorance. I can only be forced to do something through something else.

You say God is free. Again you ask the question why God creates the world. You contradict yourself. The meaning of God is entirely free will. The question put in logical language is this: What forced Him, who can never be forced by anybody, to create the world? You say in the same question, What forced Him? The question is nonsense. He is infinite by His very nature; He is free. We shall answer questions when you can ask them in logical language. Reason will tell you that there is only one Reality, nothing else. Wherever dualism has risen, mnonism came to a head and drove it out.

There is only one difficulty in understanding this. Religion is a common-sense, everyday thing. The man in the street knows it if you put it in his language and not if it is put in a philosopher's language. It is a common thing in human nature to project itself. Think of your feeling with the child. You identify yourself with it. Then you have two bodies. Similarly you can feel through your husband's mind. Where can you stop? You can feel in infinite bodies.

Nature is conquered by man every day. As a race, man is manifesting his power. Try in imagination to put a limit to this power in man. You admit that man as a race has infinite power, has an infinite body. The only question is what you are. Are you the race or one individual? The moment you isolate yourself, everything hurts you. The moment you expand and feel for others, you gain help. The selfish man is the most miserable in the world. The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. He has become the whole creation, the whole race and God is within him. . . . So in dualism — Christian, Hindu, and all religions — the code of ethics . . . . is: Do not be selfish . . . . things for others! Expand! . . . .

The ignorant can be made to understand this very easily, and the learned can be made to understand still more easily. But the man who has just got a speck of learning, him God himself cannot make understand. The truth is, you are not separate from this universe; Just as your Spirit is not separate from the rest of you. If not so, you could not see anything, could not feel anything. Our bodies are simply little whirlpools in the ocean of matter. Life is taking a turn and passing on, in another form . . . . The sun, the moon, the stars, you and I are mere whirlpools. Why did I select a particular mind as mine? It is simply a mental whirlpool in the ocean of mind.

How else is it possible that my vibration reaches you just now? If you throw a stone in the lake, it raises a vibration and that stirs the water into vibration. I throw my mind into the state of bliss and the tendency is to raise the same bliss in your mind. How often in your mind or heart you have thought something and without verbal communication, others have got your thought? Everywhere we are one. . . . That is what we never understand. The whole universe is composed of time, space, and causation. And God appears as this universe. . . . When did nature begin? When you forgot your true nature and became bound by time, space, and causation.

This is the rotating circle of your bodies and yet that is your infinite nature. . . . That is certainly nature — time, space, and causation. That is all that is meant by nature. Time began when you began to think. Space began when you got the body; otherwise there cannot be any space. Causation began when you became limited. We have to have some sort of answer. There is the answer. Our limitation is play. Just for the fun of it. Nothing binds you; nothing forces you. You were never bound. We are all acting our parts in this play of our own invention. But let us bring another question about individuality. Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep ? . . .

We are to understand what is meant by this individuality. . . . There are two opposite tendencies: one is the protection of the individuality, the other is the intense desire to sacrifice the individuality. . . . The mother sacrifices all her own will for the needy baby. . . . When she carries the baby in her arms, the call of individuality, of self-preservation is no more heard. She will eat the worst food, but her children will have the best. So for all the people we love we are ready to die.

On the one hand we are struggling hard to keep up this individuality; on the other hand, trying to kill it. With what result? Tom Brown may struggle hard. He is fighting for his individuality. Tom dies and there is not a ripple anywhere upon the surface of the earth. There was a Jew born nineteen hundred years ago, and he never moved a finger to keep his individuality. . . . Think of that! That Jew never struggled to protect his individuality. That is why he became the greatest in the world. This is what the world does not know.

In time we are to be individuals. But in what sense? What is the individuality of man? Not Tom Brown, but God in man. That is the true individuality. The more man has approached that, the more he has given up his false individuality. The more he tries to collect and gain everything for himself, the less he is an individual. The less he has thought of himself, the more he has sacrificed all individuality during his lifetime, . . . the more he is an individual. This is one secret the world does not understand.

We must first understand what is meant by individuality. It is attaining the ideal. You are man now, or you are woman. You will change all the time. Can you stop? Do you want to keep your minds as they are now — the angels, hatreds, jealousies, quarrels, all the thousand and one things in the mind? Do you mean to say that you will keep them? . . . You cannot stop anywhere . . . until perfect conquest has been achieved, until you are pure and you are perfect.You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . . Which of your bodies will you keep? You cannot stop anywhere until you come to life that never ends. Infinite life! You stop there. You have a little knowledge now and are always trying to get more. Where will you stop? Nowhere, until you become one with life itself. . . .

Many want pleasure as the goal. For that pleasure they seek only the senses. On the higher planes much pleasure is to be sought. Then on spiritual planes. Then in himself — God within him. The man whose pleasure is outside of himself becomes unhappy when that outside thing goes. You cannot depend for this pleasure upon anything in this universe. If all my pleasures are in myself, I must have pleasure there all the time because I can never lose my Self. . . . Mother, father, child, wife, body, wealth — everything I can lose except my self . . . bliss in the Self All desire is contained in the Self. . . . This. is individuality which never changes, and this is perfect.. . . And how to get it? They find what the great souls of this world — all great men and women — found through sustained discrimination. . . . What of these dualistic theories of twenty gods, thirty gods? It does not matter. They all had the one truth, that this false individuality must go. . . . So this ego — the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. The less I think of my own individual mind, the nearer I am to that universal mind. The less I think of my own soul, the nearer I am to the universal soul.

We live in one body. We have some pain, some pleasure. Just for this little pleasure we have by living in this body, we are ready to kill everything in the universe to preserve ourselves. If we had two bodies. would not that be much better? So on and on to bliss. I am in everybody. Through all hands I work; through all feet I walk. I speak through every mouth; I live in every body. Infinite my bodies, infinite my minds. I lived in Jesus of Nazareth, in Buddha, in Mohammed — in all the great and good of the past, of the present. I am going to live in all that may come afterwards. Is that theory. No, it is the truth.

If you can realise this, how infinitely more pleasurable that will be. What an ecstasy of joy! Which one body is so great that we need here anything of the body. . . After living in all the bodies of others, all the bodies there are in this world, what becomes of us? We become one with the Infinite. And that is the goal. That is the only way. One [man] says, "If I know the truth, I shall be melted away like butter." I wish people would be, but they are too tough to bemelted so quickly!

What are we to do to be free? Free you are already. . . . How could the free ever be bound? It is a lie. You were never bound. How could the unlimited ever be limited by anything? Infinite divided by infinite, added to infinite, multiplied by infinite remains infinite. You are infinite; God is infinite. You are all infinite. There cannot be two existences, only one. The Infinite can never be made finite. You are never bound. That is all. . . . You are free already. You have reached the goal — all there is to reach. Never allow the mind to think that you have not reached the goal. . . .

Whatever we think that we become. If you think you are poor sinners you hypnotise yourselves: "I am a miserable, crawling worm." Those who believe in hell are in hell when they die; those who say that they will go to heaven go to heaven.

It is all play. . . . You may say, "We have to do something; let us do good." But who cares for good and evil? Play! God Almighty plays. That is all. . . .You are the almighty God playing. If you want to play on the side and take the part of a beggar, you are not to blame someone else for making that choice. You enjoy being the beggar. You know your real nature to be divine. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play. All is good because all is fun. This star comes and crashes with our earth, and we are all dead. That too is fun. You only think fun the little things that delight your senses! . . .

We are told that there is one good god here, and one bad god there always on the watch to grab me the moment I make a mistake. . . . When I was a child I was told by someone that God watches everything. I went to bed and looked up and expected the ceiling of the room to open. Nothing happened. Nobody is watching us except ourselves. No Lord except our own Self; no nature but what we feel. Habit is second nature; it is first nature also. It is all there is of nature. I repeat something two or three times; it becomes my nature. Do not be miserable! Do not repent! What is done is done. If you burn yourself, take the consequences.. . .

Be sensible. We make mistakes; what of that? That is all in fun. They go so crazy over their past sins, moaning and weeping and all that. Do not repent! After having done work, do not think of it. Go on! Stop not! Don't look back! What will you gain by looking back? You lose nothing, gain nothing. You are not going to be melted like butter. Heavens and hells and incarnations — all nonsense!

Who is born and who dies? You are having fun, playing with worlds and all that. You keep this body as long as you like. If you do not like it, do not have it. The Infinite is the real; the finite is the play. You are the infinite body and the finite body in one. Know it! But knowledge will not make any difference; the play will go on. . . . Two words — soul and body — have been joined. Partial knowledge is the cause. Know that you are always free. The fire of knowledge burns down all the impurities and limitations. I am that Infinite. . . .

You are as free as you were in the beginning, are now, and always will be. He who knows that he is free is free; he who knows that he is bound is bound.

What becomes of God and worship and all that? They have their place. I have divided myself into God and me; I become the worshipped and I worship myself. Why not? God is I. Why not worship my Self? The universal God — He is also my Self. It is all fun. There is no other purpose.

What is the end and aim of life? None, because I know that I am the Infinite. If you are beggars, you can have aims. I have no aims, no want, no purpose. I come to your country, and lecture — just for fun. No other meaning. What meaning can be there? Only slaves do actions for somebody else. You do actions for nobody else. When it suits you, you worship. You can join the Christians, the Mohammedans, the Chinese, the Japanese. You can worship all the gods that ever were and are ever going to be. . . .I am in the sun, the moon, and the stars. I am with God and I am in all the gods. I worship my Self.

There is another side to it. I have kept it in reserve. I am the man that is going to be hanged. I am all the wicked. I am getting punished in hells. That also is fun. This is the goal of philosophy to know that I am the Infinite. Aims, motives, purposes, and duties live in the background. . . .

This truth is first to be listened to then to be thought about. Reason, argue it out by all manner of means. The enlightened know no more than that. Know it for certain that you are in everything. That is why you should not hurt anybody, because in hurting them you hurt yourself. . . . Lastly, this is to be meditated upon. Think upon it. Can you realise there will come a time when everything will crumble in the dust and you will stand alone? That moment of ecstatic joy will never leave you. You will actually find that you are without bodies. You never had bodies.

I am One, alone, through all eternity. Whom shall I fear? It is all my Self. This is continuously to be meditated upon. Through that comes realisation. It is through realisation that you become a blessing to others. . . .

"Thy face shines like that of one who has known God." (Chhândogya. IV. ix. 2.) That is the goal. This is not to be preached as I am doing. "Under a tree I saw a teacher, a boy of sixteen; the disciple was an old man of eighty. The teacher was teaching in silence, and the doubts of the disciple vanished." (Dakshinâmurtistotram, 12.) And who speaks? Who lights a candle to see the sun? When the truth dawns, no witness is necessary. You know it . . . . That is what you are going to do: . . . realise it. First think of it. Reason it out. Satisfy your curiosity. Then think of nothing else. I wish we never read anything. Lord help us all! Just see what a learned man becomes.

"This is said, and that is said. . . ."
"What do you say, my friend?"
"I say nothing.'' He quotes everybody else's thought; but he thinks nothing. If this is education, what is lunacy? Look at all the men who wrote! . . . These modern writers, not two sentences their own! All quotations. . . .

There is not much value in books, and in secondhand religion there is no value whatsoever. It is like eating. Your religion would not satisfy me Jesus saw God and Buddha saw God. If you have not seen God, you are no better than the atheist. Only he is quiet, and you talk much and disturb the world with your talk. Books and bibles and scriptures are of no use. I met an old man when I was a boy; he did not study any scripture, but he transmitted the truth of God by a touch.

Silence ye teachers of the world. Silence ye books. Lord, Thou alone speak and Thy servant listeneth. . . . If truth is not there, what is the use of this life? We all think we will catch it, but we do not. Most of us catch only dust. God is not there. If no God, what is the use of life? Is there any resting-place in the universe? It is up to us to find it; only we do not search for it intensely. We are like a little piece of maw carried on in the current.

If there is this truth, if there is God, it must be within us. . . . I must be able to say, "I have seen Him with my eyes," Otherwise I have no religion. Beliefs, doctrines, sermons do not make religion. It is realisation, perception of God which alone is religion. What is the glory of all these men whom the world worships? God was no more a doctrine for them. Did they believe because their grandfather believed it? No. It was the realisation of the Infinite, higher than their own bodies, minds, and everything. This world is real inasmuch as it contains a little bit of the reflection of that God. We love the good man because in his face shines the reflection a little more. We must catch it ourselves. There is no other way.

That is the goal. Struggle for it! Have your own Bible. Have your own Christ. Otherwise you are not religious. Do not talk religion. Men talk and talk. "Some of them, steeped in darkness, in the pride of their hearts think that they have the light. And not only that, they offer to take others upon their shoulders and both fall into the pit." (Katha, I. ii. 5.) . . .

No church ever saved by itself. It is good to be born in a temple, but woe unto the person who dies in a temple or church. Out of it! . . . It was a good beginning, but leave it! It was the childhood place . . . but let it be! . . . Go to God directly. No theories, no doctrines. Then alone will all doubts vanish. Then alone will all crookedness be made straight. . . .

In the midst of the manifold, he who sees that One; in the midst of this infinite death, he who sees that one life; in the midst of the manifold, he who sees that which never changes in his own soul — unto him belongs eternal peace.

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We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

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It is only the strong that understand strength, it is the elephant that understands the lion, not the rat. How can we understand Jesus until we are his equals...Only grandeur appreciates grandeur, only God realizes God. The dream is only the dreamer, it has no other basis. The keynote running through the music is- "I am He, I am He," all other notes are but variations and do not affect the real theme.

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There are certain works which are, as it were, the aggregate, the sumtotal, of a large number of smaller works. If we stand near the sea shore and hear the waves dashing against the shingle, we think itis such a great noise, and yet we know that one wave is reallycomposed of millions and millions of minute waves. Each one of theseis making a noise, and yet we do not catch it, it is only when theybecome the big aggregate that we hear. Similarly, every pulsation ofthe heart is work. Certain kinds of work we feel and they becometangible to us; they are, at the saem time, the aggregate of a numberof small works. If you really want to judge the character of a man,look not at his greatest performances. Every fool may become a heroat one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions, thoseare indeed the things which will tell you the real character of agreat man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings tosome kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whosecharacter is great always, the same wherever he be.

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