It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire For those of you who don't know Voltaire was a French enlightenment writer in the 1700's..one of the most enfluential of his time.

One of my all time favourites: 'Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods'- Socrates. Oscar Wilde is also very quotable but I couldn't pick one, so here's 93- http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/

This is my favorite Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." How easily we forget

I stole this one off my ex girlfriends profile "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. " -Douglas Adams

My favorite, though I don't know who said it is, "I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent".

Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges! THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. -William G. McAdoo Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. -George Carlin Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. -Rita Rudner It is bad luck to be superstitious. -Andrew W. Mathis

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. Tallulah Bankhead I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Mae West He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. Lois McMaster Bujold Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt, 1960 If you think education's expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. Anna Quindlen All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing. Sir Edmund Burke

"Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it's not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk" -Stephen King "You are very squishy. So I shall name you squishy. And you shall be my little squishy."--Dory from finding nemo "I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." - Dean Martin "I'm not against half-naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be..." Benny Hill I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. -- Douglas Adams When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. -- Gracie Allen

No one dies a virgin, Life screws us all. - Michael J. Trent Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin I'm as pure as driven slush -Tallulah Bankhead By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe -Faust There's no certainty - only opportunity. -V Well, it can't get any more b*ll*cksed up than it already is England doesn't have wh*res, just a great mass of really unlucky women. -Mary Kelly (From Hell)

"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine"- Patti Smith "I'm too f**king busy and vice versa" - Dorothy Parker "If I'm going to forgive him I need him to be alive" - father of Oklahoma bombing victim protesting against Timothy McVeigh's execution "We start from our conclusions" - Angela Carter "Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution yet." - Mae West "All movements go too far," - Bertrand Russell "We've gone on holiday by mistake."- Withnail "Don't Dream it. Be it." Frank. N. Furter and finally: "Ridicule is nothing to be scared of" - Adam Ant

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" Gone With the Wind is my favorite. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein