Robert E. Smith Ph.D.

"If you want someone to hold you while you cry yourself to sleep at night, choose warm and soft. If you want someone to write you a poem, pick the sensitive loner. If all you care about is that something’s done right, pick the guy with the metal head."

--- House, M.D.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."

-– Albert Einstein

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

--- Benjamin Franklin

"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool."
--- Jane Wagner
 

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

--- Albert Einstein

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."

--- William Gibson

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
--- A. E. Housman

 

"What's life? Nothing. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh."

--- Doctor Who

"What need have I of this, what need have I of this,

I am standing at the feet of my lord, all is bliss, all is bliss."
--- Auvaiyar

"The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself."
--- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"O beautiful for patriot's dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears"

---"America, the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates

"We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says 'keep hope alive'
Got fuel to burn got roads to drive"

--- "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young

"I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things."
--- Steve Earle

"Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H.G. Wells, and have fallen asleep."
--- Stanislaw Ulam, "Adventures of a Mathematician"

"What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must fall silent?"

--- Richard Feynmann

"If you meet a swordsman on the road show him your sword.
If you meet a man who is not a poet, don't read him your poem."
--- Lao Tzu

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."
---Winston Churhill

"The truth can't hurt, it's just like the dark,
it scares you witless,
but in time you see things cold and stark."
--- Elvis Costello

"From discrimination between this and that a host of demons spring forth"
--- Huang Po

"Would you, Could you, On a Boat?
Would you, Could you, With a Goat?"
--- Dr. Seuss.

"In college, I cloned me a rabbit..."
--- W. L. Moodey, one-man crusader
against the federal court system
who sent mail bombs that killed a
Georgia civil-rights attorney
and Federal Court Judge Robert Vance.
The quote began Moodey's testimony
in his own defense.

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
--- Eric Hoffer

"Don't be angry when the dancing elephant steps on your feet. Be happy that the elephant can dance at all."
--- W. L. Kennedy

"Oh yeah, I built the chicken's feet in, but I left out the anal sex."
--- Ben Cole, on his novel.

"We live in a world lit by lightning.
After the flash, we're blind again."
--- T-Bone Burnett

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
for hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing;
there is yet faith
But the faith and the hope and the love are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
--- T.S. Elliott
--- "Four Quartets"

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it the right way, did not become more complicated."
--- Poul Anderson

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