Michael Fuller > Michael's Quotes

“History! Read it and weep!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
― Mark Twain

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“Is it really too much, in the twenty-first century, in the wealthiest country on earth, to begin creating an economy in which people actually have some power over what they do for forty hours or more a week?”
― Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

“Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something!”
― Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

“Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.”
― Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living

“If there is a God, no part of the Bible or Christian doctrine will convince me of his existence half as much as the flavor of a barbecued pork rib.”
― Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
― Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

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― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

“When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.”
― Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

“Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King