“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”

- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)

Life is a journey. Brush your teeth. Yada, yada, yada…

One good thing about the Internet is that you can find all kinds of cool crap you heard once but can’t remember from where. In addition, our World Wide Web is filled with amateur sages ready to enlighten you with their cogent observations on everything from religion to sex to the best choice of fast food.

So, with that in mind, feel free to quote from these great thinkers at your next dinner party to inspire some great conversation - or perhaps just start a great brawl. That’s what I do!

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
- Greek Proverb

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
- General George S. Patton

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
- Aldous Huxley

“Tis the business of little minds to shrink. But he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
- Thomas Paine

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“The man who buys cheap laughs once, but cries many times. The man who buys expensive cries once, but laughs many times.”
~ Old Proverb

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards.

“You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating… you finish off as an orgasm.”
- George Carlin