A Slacker's Aphorisms Part 2: The Mark Twain edition

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

"There is nothing lower than the human race except the French."

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

"Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him."

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

"I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. (Also attributed to Clarence Darrow.)"

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand"
-Mark Twain

Other Aphorisms.....

"There is nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
-George Carlin

A Slacker's Aphorisms: Part 1

One of the interests I have in life is quotes. Quotes that describe the best of us and the worst of us, quotes that are insightful and philosophical, quotes that just rationalize everything. I compiled all of the good quotes I've heard so far in life, from royalty and musicians to artists and fictional tv characters. Even some of my own quotes. I just hope they are as insightful (or fun) to you as they've been to me. Enjoy....

"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."
-The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

"I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years."
-Kurt Cobain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-Mark Twain

"It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we take ourselves, especially when it comes to politics. Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in. But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out."
-Daron Malakian

-"There's a fine line between genius and insanity, but if you know how to walk that line, no one can stand in your way"
-Brian Kendrick

"We need to eradicate the slander that a black youth with a book is acting white."
-Barack Obama, the democratic national convention 2004

"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
- T. E. Lawrence

"A lot of times nerds are really artist who listen to the beat of a different drummer"
-Roseanne

"Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison"
(Midnight's Children)

"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame"
(The Ground Beneath Her Feet)

"Orgasmically joyful"

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist"
(From The Swedish "Censorship" Homepage)

"I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong"
(From an interview with David Frost (PBS))

-Salman Rushdie

"Poetry is the essence of everything"
-Henri Cartier-Bresson

more to come, watch out for part 2.....