Let every man in mankind's frailty
Consider his last day; and let none
Presume on his good fortune until he find
Life, at his death, a memory without pain.
-- Sophocles

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.
-- C.S. Lewis

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
-- Charles Bukowski

The simplification of anything is always sensational.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Take eloquence and wring its neck.
-- Paul Verlaine

I call architecture frozen music.
-- Goethe

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
-- Woody Allen

Less is more.
-- Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

Less is more. But more is even more.
-- attributed to Keith Richards

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
-- Albert Einstein

It seemed that when he kissed me he began to think that perhaps he could get away with a little more, that I needn't be 'respected' like this Beatrice Fairfax glad-girl of his imagination. What'd he do? Not much. I pushed him off a sixteen-foot embankment before he was well started.
-- Gloria and Anthony, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
-- Karl Kraus

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that one hundred percent is bulls***, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.
-- Juanita, in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

The church sucks... and a minister isn't going to be the one to change it.
-- Scott James

Witness the American Revolution... or damn near any Political or Scientific Revolution, for that matter. The Chief Renegades are rarely over... 30.
-- Tom Peters, The Brand You 50

Contributed by:

Bryan Collins

Paul Soupiset

Jeff Lawrence

Scott James

Charles Johnson