Words Of Wisdom... or not.

1. "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire
2. "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine
3. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
4. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenson
5. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
6. A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a "brief."
7. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
8. A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists.
9. A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
10. A penny saved is a penny taxed.
11. A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
12. A psychologist is a man who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.
13. A real person has two reasons for doing anything ... a good reason and the real reason.
14. A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money
15. A schoolteacher is a disillusioned woman who used to think she liked children.
16. Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.
17. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.
18. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
19. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
20. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
21. An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
22. Beauty, brains, availability, personality; pick any two.
23. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master.
24. Build a better mouse trap... and you'll be sued by someone who patented mouse trapping devices in 1993.
25. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
26. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
27. Cole's Axiom: The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant. The population is growing
28. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking on the form of a readiness to die.
29. Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy.
30. Don't let schooling get in the way of your education.
31. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
32. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
33. Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?
34. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
35. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
36. I AM, therefore I THINK!
37. I doubt, therefore I might be.
38. I envy my dog because he always tries to put his head between some girls legs, and they pet him!
39. I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it.
40. I know my biology; it's your biology I don't know.
41. I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
42. If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
43. If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
44. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world -- Albert Einstein
45. If you love something very much, give it away. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it wasn't yours to begin with.
46. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
47. If you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything worthwhile.
48. In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
49. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
50. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
51. Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.