| "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley |
| "Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse." »Unknown |
| "I have such poor vision I can date anybody." »Garry Shandling |
| "It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's really embarrassing if someone tries to kill you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone." »Henry Adams |
| "And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." »Galations 69 Bible |
| "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." »Robert Frost |
| "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." »William Ralph Inge |
| "On doing another talk show It would be like going back to a relationship. Ever do that You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left" »Arsenio Hall |
| "Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due." »Domitus Ulpian |
| "Education a debt due from present to future generations." »George Peabody |
| "Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." »George Eliot |
| "Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor." »Hesiod |
| "Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women." »Elizabeth II |
| "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy." »Jean de la Bruyere |
| "It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal." »Marvin E. Wolfgang |
| "Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." »Robert Frost |
| "In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts." »Peter McWilliams |
| "Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." »I Ching |
| "Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." »Buddha |
| "What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus |
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