Quotations

Some of my favourites.

* There is family and then there is everyone else.

* To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

* They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

* The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.

* Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

* The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

* It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

* We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

* Argue with reality and you'll lose... but only 100% of the time.

* No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

* For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been."

* 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

* We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

* It has been said that we need just three things in life: something to do, something to look forward to and someone to love.

* It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

* Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

* A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

* A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others.

* Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

* I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

* Every day is a beautiful day, its only the weather that changes.

* Paranoia comes from experience.

* The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

* I'm almost always eventually right.

* We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

* When dealing with any large organization, it's useful to remember the maxim: never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

* The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

* Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

* It is difficulties that show what men are.

* The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

And of course from the movie V for Vendetta, we leave off with...

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
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