"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

John Ralston Saul (from Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. 1992)

OMG, I had no clue Einstein said such amazing things! Makes me want to read a biography. So cool! :D

Ok, I'll be a rule-breaker too and post more than one.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Hunter S. Thompson

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

Riches are for spending.

- Francis Bacon

Beauty is only skin deep.

Ugly goes clear to the bone.

Omg- you've quoted two of my favorite authors! I'd give you mojo, but I can't yet!!! You rock!:snap::cheers::snap::cheers:

Thanks, Wendybeth. I love them both as well. :)

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Robert Fripp

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." -- Buddha

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

Dennis Potter

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

-Thomas Edison