The Lame Quotes Blog

I know this is a bit like cheating, like your favorite TV show claiming to air a new episode after a bunch of re-runs only to find that it is a clip show; but I am a huge fan of quotes whether they are funny, make you think, or (if they are really good) do both. Some of these quotes I pulled from this site, but most of them are ones I have collected over the years. So, in no particular order, here they are:


Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you suck forever.
-unknown

A layman knows he has to kick it. An amateur knows where to kick it. A professional knows how hard.
-unknown

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

I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
-Jerry Garcia

Ever notice how they have to distinguish between Truth, Justice, and *then* the American Way?
-Richard Darwin

Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
-W. E. B. Dubois

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself.
-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand-new ones. But that's OK because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
-Scott Adams

Once you make a decision the Universe conspires to make it happen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
-unknown

If you're going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
-Groucho Marx

Life is a continual process of getting used to things we never expected.
-unknown

If Homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. "Hello, can't work today. Still queer.'"
-Robin Tyler

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
-William Howells

I'd love to stay but that would prevent me from leaving.
-Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H

There is nothing so frightful as ignorance in action.
-Goethe

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-Epicurus

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
-Edgar Allan Poe

Long after they forget the words, people will remember how you made them feel.
-unknown