Quotables


Quotes, lines, versus, and humor from the masters.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
-Douglas Adams

With eyes that look'd into the very soul. . . Bright--and as black and burning as coal.
-Lord Byron, Don Juan (canto IV, st. 94)

A little piece of paper with a picture drawn,
Floats on down the street until the wind is gone,
The memory now is like the picture was then,
When the paper's crumpled up it can't be perfect again.
- Forgotten, Linkin Park

They say time is the fire in which we burn. Save yourself before there is no return.
-Unknown

As your bony fingers close around me
Long and spindly
Death becomes me
Heaven can you see what I see?
- Dream On, Depeche Mode 

Except for being a little mentally ill she seems pretty normal. 
-Sam, Benny & Joon

"Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality."
-Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Om Asatoma Sadgamaya (From delusion lead me to Truth)
Tamasoma Jyoti Gamaya (From darkness lead me to Light)
Myrityoma Amritam Gamaya (From death lead me to eternal life.)

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
-Mark Twain

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
- Charlotte Brontë

And if any mischief follow, then though shalt give life for life,
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
- Bible -- Exodus 21:23-25

Revenge proves its own executioner.
-John Ford

There is a theory that states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it’s here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

You want me to shoot the cook? -El
No, I'll shoot the cook. My car's parked out back anyway. -Sands, Once Upon A Time In Mexico

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
-Ace, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Great, that's just what this country needs. A cock, in a frock, on a rock. 
-Pricilla, Queen of the Desert

There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are - Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
-Douglas Adams

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
-Zeno

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-Mark Twain

I always look well when I am near death. 
-Camille