Quotes that make you think

[JamesSavik]

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

G. K. Chesterton

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

African Proverb

[DesDownunder]

Excellent

I really like th thought behind those.

[Bruin Fisher]

Time flies like an arrow;

Fruit Flies like a banana.

[EleCivil]

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."

-W.B. Yeats

"Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

-Charles Bukowski

"Ulysses S. Grant:

Ulysses S. Grant was a BIG fat guy with a beard who was drunk all the time and became president for some reason. In other words: Ulysses S. Grant = PUNK."

-From the novel "Punk Land" by Carlton Mellick III

[Cole Parker]

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Mark Twain

[JamesSavik]

"Ulysses S. Grant:

Ulysses S. Grant was a BIG fat guy with a beard who was drunk all the time and became president for some reason. In other words: Ulysses S. Grant = PUNK."

-From the novel "Punk Land" by Carlton Mellick III

I never liked that fire-bug either.

[Grant Bentley]

If we learn to appreciate more of what we already have, we will find ourselves having more to appreciate.

- Michael Angier

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she is someone today.

- Stacia Tausher

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

- Unknown

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

- Dante

[TalonRider]

"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble." - Dennis Fakes

[Rad]

What about:

Impossible means that it will take a longer time than usual

Which is my favorite btw