The Seven Deadly Social Sins--Mohandas Ghandi

• Politics without Principle

• Wealth without Work

• Commerce without Morality

• Pleasure without Conscience

• Education without Character

• Science without Humanity

• Worship without Sacrifice

• "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."--Franklin P. Jones

• "The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."--Andy Rooney

• "I'm not confused, I'm just well-mixed."--Robert Frost

• "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."--P.J. O'Rourke

• "True forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."--Miletus

• "Bidden or not bidden, God is present."--Carl Jung

• "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."--Alice Walker

• "Earth is crammed with bits of heaven; every common bush on fire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes."--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• "He who loses money, loses much;   He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all."--Eleanor Rooseelt

• "Great minds discuss ideas;   Average minds discuss events;   Small minds discuss people."--Eleanor Rosevelt

• "Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."--Robert Fulghum

• "A great many open minds should be closed for repairs."-- Toledo Blade

• "The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." -- Fred Astaire

• "The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education." -- Antisthenes

• "Those who wander are not always lost." --T.S. Eliot

• "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles,but to irrigate deserts."--C.S. Lewis

• "Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." -- Jaques Barzun

• "Just remember--if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off!"--Unknown

• "They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it."--William Penn

• "You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." -- Alvin Toffler

• "Church is good, but God is better."--Kevin Smith, writer/director of Dogma

• "Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." --Groucho Marx

• "Ever consider what they [dogs] must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul--chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!" --Anne Tyler

• "When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction." -- Ginger Rogers

• "The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there." -- Steven Wright

• "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." -- Voltaire

• "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." -- Elie Wiesel

• "Never let your successes go to your head or your failures go to your heart."--Will Smith

• "If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased." -- Katharine Hepburn

• "Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I just lie down until it passes."--Doug M. (if anyone knows the original source of this, please tell me!)

• "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone."--Henry David Thoreau

• "Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life." -- Josephine Hart

• "The more laws, the less justice."--Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

• "Anywhere is walking distance if you've got the time." -- Steven Wright

• "Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired." --Winston Churchill

• "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin

• "Certainly faith can move mountains, but sometimes it has to do it an armload at a time."--Brink Stillwater

• "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."--Billy Sunday

• "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. "-- Bill Maher

• "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." --Charlotte Bronte (from Jane Eyre)

• On dogs and cats: "Both have consciences, but the dog, being an honest, humble person, always has a bad one, but the cat is a Pharisee and always has a good one. When he sits and stares [at] you...he is thanking God that he is not as these dogs, or these humans, or even as these other cats!"--C. S. Lewis

• "There are only two positions you can take. Either you believe that nothing in life is a miracle, or you believe that everything in life is a miracle."--Albert Einstein

• "Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." -- Lily Tomlin

• "Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous."--Doris Lessing

• "I know God won't give me anythng I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."--Mother Teresa

• "The world does not want to eliminate Christianity, it is not that straightforward, nor does it have that much character. No, it wants it proclaimed falsely, using eternity to give a flavor to the enjoyment of life."--Soren Kierkegaard

• "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be `meetings.' "--Dave Barry

• "It's hard to be prophetic when no one is listening."-- Harold Dean Trulear (in Missing Connections)

• "I never asked anyone to tolerate me. Argue with me and I'll respect you." -- Rich Mullins

• "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." --Bernard Berenson

• "One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God."--Frederick Buechner

• "I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity to me, but because there were people who were willing to be nuts and bolts."--Rich Mullins

• "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."--C. S. Lewis

• "You know...nobody makes it out of this world alive."--Frank K..

• "I don't try to predict the future. I try to prevent it."--Ray Bradbury

• "The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings." --Henri Frederic Amiel

• "Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise."--Thomas Watson

• "The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there"--Henri J. Nouwen

• "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." --Wilson Mizner

• "Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." --Malcolm Cowley

• "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." --Abraham Lincoln

• "Many aspire to serve God--but only in an advisory capacity." -Anonymous

• "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."--Bill Cosby

• "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."--Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert)

• "The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul...To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart."--Maya Angelou

• "When we work, we work. When we pray, God works. "--J. Hudson Taylor

• "There are three kinds of people: The ones that learn by reading; the few who learn by observation; and the rest of them who have to touch the fire to see for themselves if it's really hot."--Anonymous

• "What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds." --Will Rogers

• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."--Albert Einstein

• "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."--C. S. Lewis, in The Four Loves

• "I find a good many people bothered by...our Lord's words, 'Be ye perfect.' Some people seem to think this means `Unless you are perfect,I will not help you'; and as we cannot be perfect then...our position is hopeless. But I do not think he did mean that. I think he meant `The only help I will give is help to become perfect. You may want something less: but I will give you nothing less.' "--C. S. Lewis

• "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."--Degas

• "If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost."   -Yogi Berra

• "To be a witness...means to live in such a way that one's life would  not make sense if God did not exist." --Cardinal Suhard

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work."--Thomas Edison

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

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."--Mohandas K. Ghandi

• "The early church wrote their theology in prisons, on street corners, and in the midst of persecution. We write our theology in academic institutions. Perhaps that is one of the problems with the church."--Steve Brown

• "You might say humanity is like a giant disco mirror ball, each of us one of the small mirror panels reflecting some small part of the infinite God."--Jim Thomas in Coffeehouse Theology

• "...Once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."--Skin Horse in The Velveteen Rabbit

• "In an age of militant mediocrity, an `extremist' is anyone who takes a position."--John Loefler

• "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. It's the difference between the lightning bug and lightning."--Mark Twain

• "The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without."   -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Don't confuse success with significance. Madonna is one, and Helen Keller is the other."--Erma Bombeck

• "In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart."--John Bunyan

• "The Church is not the master of the state, the Church is not the servant of the state... it is the conscience of the state."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Play is the exultation of the possible."--Martin Buber

• "An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability."-- Joan Chittister

• "There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."--Raymond Chandler in Great Thought

• "The only doctrine of the Christian faith that can be proven impirically is sin."--Reinhold Neihbur

• "Satan doesn't care what we worship, as long as we don't worship God." -- D. L. Moody

• "In a little while you will read in the newspaper that I am dead. Do not believe a word of it, for I will be more alive than ever before."--D. L. Moody, in his final days

• "There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."--G.K. Chesterton

• "The three grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." --Alexander Chalmers

The best lines from my fave films!

• "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. " Westley,The Princess Bride

• "When I was your age, television was called books!" Grandpa, The Princess Bride

• Vizzini: "INCONCEIVABLE!" Inigo Montoya:" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The Princess Bride

• "You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?" Man In Black, The Princess Bride

• "Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something." Man In Black, The Princess Bride

• "Let me 'splain. [pause] No, there is too much. Let me sum up. " Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

• "...go away before I taunt you a second time." French Soldier, Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail

• [giving skiing instructions] "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn." Charles De Mar, Better Off Dead

• "First, you have to get back at Kent, it's a moral imperative." Chris Knight, Real Genius

• "If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... Well, that's where you're right." Chris Knight, Real Genius

• "Self-realization: I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, "I drank what?" Chris Knight, Real Genius

• Buttercup: "I will never doubt again" Westley: "There will never be a need." The Princess Bride (thanks, eddie!)

• "Life moves pretty fast; you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

• "You gotta have a boyfriend, don't you? Otherwise it's just you, a cat, and 40 candles on your birthday cake.--Noelle,The Truth About Cats And Dogs

• "I may be on the devil's hit-list, but I'm on God's mailing list."--Apostle E.F., The Apostle

• Ted Striker: "Surely you can't be serious." Dr. Rumack: "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."--Airplane!

• "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above."--Rose Sayer, The African Queen

• "Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here."--Melvin, As Good As It Gets

• "I'm drowning here, and you're describing the water!"--Melvin, As Good As It Gets,

• "Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.--Seth, City Of Angels

• "When they ask me what I liked best, I'll say it was you."--Maggie Rice, City Of Angels

• "No matter what anybody tells you, words & ideas can change the world."--John Keating, Dead Poets Society

• "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion."--John Keating, Dead Poets Society

• "We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you."--John Keating,Dead Poets Society

• " You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting."--Tinkerbell, Hook

• "Master, I'll go where you send me, though I barely understand."--Jen, The Dark Crystal,,

• "I was raised to be charming. Not sincere."--Prince Charming, Into The Woods

• "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner."--Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

• "...love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die."--Ronny Cammareri, Moonstruck

• "Uh oh, Zoot skipped a groove again.--Dr. Teeth, The Muppet Movie

• Edward Lewis: "So what happens after he climbs up and rescues her?" Vivian Ward: "She rescues him right back."--Pretty Woman

• "Where is fancy bred? In the heart or in the head?"--Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka

• "So much time and so little to do!...Strike that; reverse it."--Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka

• Superman: "I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the American way." Lois Lane: "You'll end up fighting every elected official in the country!"--Superman

TV Quotes

• "I don't want hope. Hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless. When you're hopeless you don't care. And when you don't care, that indifference makes you attractive." "So, hopelessness is the key?" "It's my only hope." - George and Jerry, in "The Fix-Up" episode of Seineld