"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Love is the illusion that one woman differs from another."
- H.L. Mencken

"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
- Dalai Lama

Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- Heinlein

"He lies here, somewhere."
- Werner Heisenberg's headstone

Before you can win, you have to not lose.
-Vince Lombardi

"Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else."
- James Thorpe

Human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
- Charles Darwin

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde

"It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter."
- Marlene Dietrich

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
- James Thurber

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living somebody else's life."
- Steve Jobs

"Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there."
- Steve Jobs

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Warren Buffett

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop

There is nothing more dangerous then a well educated complete moron.

What happens on the Web, stays on the Web. Forever. And anyone can goggle it.

The big things in life all center around not dying... something that will happen anyways.

Envy. Terrible to feel. Wonderful to evoke.

Make awkward sexual advances not war

Stress is waking up screaming and realizing that you haven't fallen asleep yet.

For a list of the ways technology has failed to improve quality of life, please press 3.

Prayer: when you talk to God. Schizophrenia: God talks back.

The future, according to scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

If going to church makes you a christian dose going to the garage make you a car?

Everyone is a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does Milk.

The road to success is always under construction.

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

Running with the herd is fine... until the herd runs over the edge of a cliff.

Nothing is impossible for the man that doesn't have to do it himself.

An average pencil is 7 inches long with a 1/2" erasure. Clearly, optimism is alive!

Pizza's favorite:
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

 

Pizza's favorite quote is sooooo true!!

Here's a few more!

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
--Charles Evans Hughes

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
--Wilhelm Stekel

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
--Clarence Darrow

Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
--Harlan Ellison


Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
--John F. Kennedy



And one of my personal favorites:

Whirl, whirl, twist & twirl, jump around like a flying squirrel.
-Bugs Bunny

 

While Bugs is a personal mentor to me (and Daffy Duck a personal hero)... the two above seem to go hand in hand - and are both "gems".

I also think that way too many of us on the left AND right fail to grasp these truths.