Here are some quotes to grant new perspectives, create laughter, or bring God into your machine.

(Quotes are in no particular order and come from all over the place.)

Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. -Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. -Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. -Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. -Oscar Wilde

I live in terror of not being misunderstood. -Oscar Wilde

"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms" -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure , Act 3, Scene1

"Have patience, and endure" -William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iv, Sc.1

"There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently" -Williams Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act v, Sc.1

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better" -William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act iii, Sc.1

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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man" -William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3

"What is best, that best I wish in thee" -William Shakespeare, Troilus & Cressida, Act ii, Sc.2

"Do thy worst old Time; despite thy wrong, my love shall in my verse ever live young" -William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19

"The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men." Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. -Plato, The Republic

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams

" There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." -Douglas Adams

"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion." -Themistocles, quoted in Plutarch.

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." -Charles de Gaulle

"To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death. " --Mary Baker Eddy

"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not " --Robert G. Ingersoll

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. --Betty Bender

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. --Isaac Asimov

"I am become Death, shatterer of worlds. " --J. Robert Oppenheimer upon witnessing the explosion of the first atomic bomb

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. " --Stone Temple Pilots

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. " --Clarence Darrow

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying " --Woody Allen

"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. " --Unknown

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. " --Sir Winston Churchill

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. --Unknown

The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt --Anonymous

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved --Sigmund Freud

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. --Carl Jung

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; Even love unreturned has its rainbow --Eaton Stannard Barret

Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. --Anonymous

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. --Jean Anouilh

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. --Willa Cather (1876-1947)

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. --Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts. --Beatrice Saunders

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional. --John Powell

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. --Victor Hugo

Where does the family start ? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. --Sir Winston Churchill

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. --Matt Groening

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. --Rainer Maria Rilke

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end. --Milan Kundera

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. --Indira Gandhi

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. --Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge. --Aristotle

We cannot learn without pain. --Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. --Aristotle

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation --Oscar Wilde

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? --Philip G. Hamerton