Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
~Socrates

Once the game is over,
the king and the pawn
go back in the same box.
~Italian Proverb

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
~Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964)

How do you know you're in love? One slightly insane guru suggested a sure fire method: I would light my hair on fire and place a live salmon in my vest pocket to attract her. I know I'm in love when she can enjoy my salmon, but still respect my mind. I show her my love by doing interpretive dancing with fluorescent lightbulbs, followed by splashing multicolored dayglow paint against my thighs, and then dinner at McDonalds. And I know she loves me when there's an absence of gunfire and lawsuits.
~ from U51754@uicvm.uic.edu (Kimikimkim)

A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five.
~Groucho Marx

What I give form to in daylight
is only one per cent
of what I have seen in darkness.
~MC Escher

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Gelett Burgess' very popular poem... I never saw a Purple Cow. I never hope to see one. But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one. and his palinode, written five years later Ah, yes, I wrote `The Purple Cow,' I'm sorry now I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it. Fame has its price?

Only those who attempt the absurd...
will achieve the impossible.
I think ...I think it's in my basement...
Let me go upstairs and check.
~MC Escher

Everybody is ignorant,
only on different subjects.
~Will Rogers

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
~John A Shedd

The truly educated man will speak to the understanding
of the most unlearned man of his audience.
~Karl G. Maeser

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
~Franklin P. Adams

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~Anne Frank

In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: It goes on.
~Robert Frost

Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth
so much as the belief that you already know it.
~Jon K. Hart