Quotes

Front 1

The Bible

Revelations 8: 8
The second trumpet

Back 1

The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of all living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Front 2

The Bible

Revelations 9: 15
The four angels

Back 2

And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

Front 3

The Bible

Revelations 6: 8
The fourth seal

Back 3

And I looked and beheld a pale horse and the name that sat on him was death and Hell followed with him.

Front 4

Shakespeare

Macbeth
Act I 'man' reply

Back 4

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who does more is none.

Front 5

Shakespeare

Richard III
Act I, subterfuge

Back 5

And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Front 6

Meat Loaf

A kiss is a terrible thing to waste

Back 6

The lonliest words you'll ever know,
If only - If only it was so
The emptiest words that there'll ever be,
It could have been me - It could have been me

Front 7

Spock

Star Trek II
Ego

Back 7

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise

Front 8

Shakespeare

Hamlet
Act II - Thought

Back 8

For there is nothing either good or bad,
Thinking makes it so.

Front 9

Charles Kettering

Problems

Back 9

A problem well stated is a problem half solved

Front 10

Bernard Shaw

Sincerity

Back 10

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Front 11

Sir Stephen Henry Roberts

Atheism

Back 11

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Front 12

Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice
Act I - The devil

Back 12

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.

Front 13

Al Capone

Guns

Back 13

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Front 14

Bill Crosby

Advice

Back 14

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Front 15

Proverbs

Planning

Back 15

Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Front 16

Proverb

Optimism and action

Back 16

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness

Front 17

Sun Tzu

The Art of War
Opportunity

Back 17

Opportunities multiply as they are seized

Front 18

Chuck Norris

Temper

Back 18

Men are like steel. When they loose their temper they loose their worth.

Front 19

Mario Andretti

Control

Back 19

If everything is under control, you are going too slow.

Front 20

William McAdoo

Ignorance

Back 20

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument

Front 21

Herm Albright

Buoyancy

Back 21

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Front 22

Ausonius

Forgiveness

Back 22

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself

Front 23

Alexander Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo
Revenge

Back 23

The thing which I know to be greatest and most sublime in the world is to reward and punish

Front 24

Unknown

The Warrior's horse

Back 24

A brave warrior had a fine stallion for a horse. The whole tribe commented on how lucky he was to have such a fine horse. Maybe, he said. One day the horse ran away. The members of the tribe lamented and said how unlucky the warrior was. Maybe, he said. Some time later, the horse returned, bringing a herd of beautiful horses with it. How fortunate, the tribe commented. Maybe, the warrior said. Then the warrior’s son was riding the stallion and fell and broke his leg. Surely this was a run of bad luck, members of the tribe told the warrior, shaking their heads. Maybe, he said. Later the chief led a raid against a neighboring tribe. Several of the young braves were killed, but the warrior’s son was not among them, because he had to remain behind due of his injured leg.

Front 25

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Motivation

Back 25

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Front 26

Charles Mackay

Solitude

Back 26

Men, it has been said, think in herd; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Front 27

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes
Facts

Back 27

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.

Front 28

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection

Back 28

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Front 29

Ernest Rutherford

Physics

Back 29

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Front 30

Talmud

Society Parable

Back 30

In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."

Front 31

Napoleon Bonaparte

Anger

Back 31

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Front 32

Dennis Wholey

Fairness

Back 32

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

Front 33

Orson Wells

Benefits of violence

Back 33

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

Front 34

Robert J. Oppenheimer
Bhagavadgita

On the atomic bomb

Back 34

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

Front 35

Joseph Stalin

Death

Back 35

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Front 36

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince
Fear

Back 36

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Front 37

Bladerunner

Roy Batty
Mortality

Back 37

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the Shoulder of Orion. I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.