Famous Quotes and laws of reality...
Those who watch the recent activity page will know that sometimes I post famous quotes and "laws" of reality but as not everyone even knows the activity page exists I decided to make it a thread... besides I'd like to read your favorite famous quotes and "laws" as well 
Just to start these were my last three posts:If a straight line of holes is made in a piece of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest part of the paper.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Just to start these were my last three posts:
If a straight line of holes is made in a piece of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest part of the paper.
-- Kington's Law of Perforation
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-- C. S. Lewis
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-Steven Weinberg, 1999
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as the pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
- HL Mencken
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
- Jack London in "The Road"
"All for one and one for all; united we stand, divided we fall."
-Alexandré Dumas in "The Three Musketeers"
- Douglas Adams
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.”
- Xenophon
- My wife.
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
- Albert Einstein
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
- Epicurus
"While there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
- Eugene V. Debbs
- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
That's my git commit history every time I forget a semicolon in a file.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis
This last one is easily one of my favorite quotes.
"Nothing is permanent."
- Buddha
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
-- Albert Einstein
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
‘Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little -’
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
‘So we can believe the big ones?’
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
--Terry Pratchett
I don’t like the multiverse model; but the universe doesn’t care what I like.
- physicist Lawrence Krauss
A selection from Howard Tayler's 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries:
1. Pillage, then burn.
6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
13. Do unto others.
17. The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.
29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
43. If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.
48. If it ain't broke, it hasn't been issued to the infantry.
65. After the toss, be the one with the pin, not the one with the grenade.
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (C) Benjamin Franklin
"He who is not a socialist at the age of 20 has no heart. He who is still a socialist at the age of 40 has no brain" (C) Collective
Superstition is now in her turn cast down and trampled underfoot, whilst we by the victory are exalted high as heaven.
- Lucretius On The Nature of Things
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
- Plutarch
If you consult enough experts you can confirm any opinion.
-- Hiram's Law
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
-- Werner Heisenberg
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
- Kant
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins
The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
— Woody Allen, Love and Death
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
- Hunter S Thompson
“Let there be blood!” says man, and there’s a sea!
Lord Byron
"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course, is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
- Ayn Rand
- Mark Twain
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
- Isaac Asimov