Random Quotes

A scorpion was wandering along the bank of the river, wondering how to get to the other side. Suddenly he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him across the river.
The fox said, “No. If I do that, you’ll sting me and I’ll drown.”
The scorpion assured him, “If I did that, we’d both drown.”
The fox thought about it and finally agreed. So the scorpion climbed up on his back and the fox began to swim. But halfway across the river, the scorpion stung him.
As the poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, “Why did you do that? Now you’ll drown too.”
“I couldn’t help it,” said the scorpion. “It’s my nature.”
- Aesop

In the last days…a king shall appear…he shall conjure up great plans. And, when they least expect it, work havoc on many. He shall challenge even the Prince of princes, and be broken…but not by human hands.
- The Book of Daniel

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘We’re all mad here. I’m mad, you’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “Or you wouldn’t have come here.”
- Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.
That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”
- The Joker

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely, or to think sanely, under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

I turn away from stars that may have burned out aeons ago. I no longer wish to look at them. I no longer wish to look at dead things.
- Dr Manhattan in Alan Moore’s The Watchmen

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
- Nikola Tesla

I like the stars…it’s the illusion of permanence.
I can pretend that things last…that lives last longer than moments.
- Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

And he asked him, What is thy name?
And he answered, saying, My name is Legion…for we are many.
- Mark 5:9

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery
the times when we were happy.
- Dante

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear.
- Heinrich Himmler

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
- Germaine Greer

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
- Aeschylus

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy’s hand, when you hate mutually.
- Aeschylus

From the Forest itself, comes the handle for the axe.
- Matisyahu

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
- Joyce Carol Oates

Let them hate so long as they fear.
- Lucius Accius