The Dude's 10 Favorite Quotes...
...and then some...
10- Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw
9- He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
8- Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon
7- With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
6- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
- Paul Fix
5- Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken
4- If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
3- Do, or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda
2- Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
- William Hazlitt
1- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
And here are some more great quotes:
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
- Bill Baughan
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
- Oscar Levant
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
- Dilbert
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Lebowitz
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
- Frank Zappa
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
- Oscar Levant
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler
If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.
- Jimmy Buffett
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
- Anatole France
It is always the best policy to speak the truth...unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K. Jerome
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne
If you woke up with a sore arse and $100 in your pocket, would you tell anyone?
- Unknown
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- GK Chesterton
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
- George Carlin
How come things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?
- Homer Simpson
When I'm drunk, I have trouble telling the difference between women and transvestites.
- Jason Jones, the Daily Show
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Augusten Burroughs
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
