Initiative

1. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

2. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they
are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

3. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by
age eighteen.

4. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

5. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the
tailor.

6. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Fredrick Nietzsche Quotes

7. In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with
God, and the nonsense was God.

8. A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith
does not prove anything.

9. Ah, women. They make the highs higher
and the lows more frequent.

10. Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God
one of man’s blunders?

11. Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path
they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Mark Twain Quotes

12. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a
misprint.

13. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The
world owes you nothing. It was here first.

14. I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying
that I approved of it.

15. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

16. The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over
the man who can’t read them.

17. “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any
address on it?”

Voltaire Quotes

18.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

19. If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent
him.

20. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.

21. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

22. The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get
along with those who do not possess it.

23. It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

24. There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

25. Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities
has the power to make you commit injustices.

26. Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

27. By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

28. Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Plato Quotes

29. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

30. No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs
well who wants to govern.

31. This City is what it is because our citizens are what they
are.

32. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

33. The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Winston Churchill Quotes

34. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has
a chance to get its pants on.

35. If you are going through hell, keep going.

36. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation
with the average voter.

37. It has been said that democracy is the
worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

George Carlin Quotes

38. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half
of them are stupider than that.

39. A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go
out and get more stuff.

40. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible
man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day.
And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do.
And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning
and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and
burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs
money.

41. You know the good part about all those executions in Texas?
Fewer Texans.

42. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us.
She said, “You show me a tropical fruit and I’ll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.”

43. I never fucked a ten, but one night, I fucked five twos.

44. What year did Jesus think it was?

45. The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments
in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit
adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians.
It creates a hostile work environment.

46. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

47. “No comment” is a comment.

48. If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something
that doesn’t work.

49. The reason they call it the American Dream is because you
have to be asleep to believe it.

Steve Martin Quotes

50. Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!

51. There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if
she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.

52. Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman.
It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

53. I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural,
wholesome things that money can buy.

54. You know what your problem is, it’s that you haven’t seen
enough movies - all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

55. First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have
a disease named after me.

56. Why is it we don’t always recognize the moment when love
begins, but we always know when it ends?
* As Harris K. Telemacher in “L.A. Story” (1991)

Steven Colbert Quotes

57. “To sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush…I
feel like I’m dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You now what, I’m a pretty sound sleeper,
that may not be enough…Somebody shoot me in the face.”
-Roasting Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ dinner

58. On this show, your voice will be heard - in the form of
my voice.

59. There’s a phrase we live by in America: “In God We Trust”.
It’s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.

60. Folks, the President needs a break. He’s like a Black and
Decker cordless Dirt Devil vacuum. If you don’t recharge his batteries, he can’t
suck.

61. I’ve always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can’t judge
a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?

62. Now, I don’t see color. People tell me I’m white and I believe
them because police officers call me “sir”.

63. Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

64. “There’s nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of
friends that are going to hell.”

65. Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

Jon Stewart Quotes

66. I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited
everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed
them and took their land.

67. Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

68. We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential
weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq.
There’s just one problem - it’s in North Korea.

69. We declared war on terror—it’s not even a noun, so, good
luck.

70. Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in in Iraq, and
we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany
didn’t want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.
Jon Stewart’s Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005

Bill Maher Quotes

71. Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

72. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based
initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

73. Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that
I don’t need.

74. They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any
place that’s used by ten or more people in a week,
which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.

Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

75. Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want
from women: a little
bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

76. Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life
forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would
you assume is in charge.

77. There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men
don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think,
“I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.”

78. Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various
important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants?
“Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.”

Larry David Quotes

79. Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a
confident bald man - there’s your diamond in the rough.

80. If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes
funny.

81. I’m surprized Hitler didn’t round up the toupee people.”

Dennis Miller Quotes

82.
A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by
a fat cop if you run.

83. The average American’s day planner has fewer holes in it
than Ray Charles’s dart board.

84. “The only way the French are going in is if we tell them
we found truffles in Iraq.”

Jay Leno Quotes

85. Here’s something to think about: How come you never see
a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?

86. The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity
scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find
three wise men and a virgin.

87. Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight
people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s
resolution.

88. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of
10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

89. My father carries around the picture of the kid who came
with his wallet.

90. Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used
to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

91. I’m at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep
they will have someone to talk to.

92. A girl phoned me and said, “Come on over. There’s nobody
home.” I went over. Nobody was home!

93. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date
on Saturday night.

Sarah Silverman Quotes

94. When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by
the way - make lemonAIDS.

95. I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet
for a Jewish girl.

Chris Rock Quotes

96. Every town has the same two malls: the one white people
go to and the one white people used to go to.

97. I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while
getting shot.

98. If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s
twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near
fourty.

99. “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper
is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese,
the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany
doesn’t want to
go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named ‘Bush’, ‘Dick’,
and ‘Colon.’ Need I say more?”

100. “You won’t be able to take your eyes off the next four
presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.”
Chris Rock while hosting the Oscars

101. Gas is getting so expensive I’m gonna ride a mexican to
work.