The Whatevernator

“All television is children’s television.”
~Richard P. Adler

“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
~Jean-Luc Picard

“Government is too big and too important
to be left to the politicians.”
~Chester Bowles

“Poets have been mysteriously silent
on the subject of cheese.”
~G.K. Chesterton

“There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless
because they are badly argued.”
~Thomas H. Huxley

“Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve
when your remarks are off the cuff.”
~Elvis Costello

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain
and most fools do.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?”
~Charles De Gaulle

“One man scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage
to reach the unreachable stars;
and the world will be better for this.”
~Joe Darion

“The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.”
~William Arthur Ward

“It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”
~Andrew J. Holmes

“Computers are useless.
They can only give you answers.”
~Pablo Picasso

“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.”
~H.G. Wells

“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals;
I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
~Whitney Brown

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.”
~Margi Clark

“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“Those are my principles.
If you don’t like them I have others.”
~Groucho Marx

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
~Voltaire

“The World is a book,
and those who do not travel
read only a page.”
~Saint Augustine

“You can’t have everything.
Where would you put it?”
~Stephen Wright

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
~Steve Martin

Q: What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor?
A: Make me one with everything.

“I have the world’s largest collection of seashells.
I keep it on all the beaches of the world.
Perhaps you’ve seen it.”
~Stephen Wright

“There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.”
~Stephen Wright

“There are no foreign lands.
It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
~Robert Louis Stevenson

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry,
and narrow-mindedness.”
~Mark Twain

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”
~Dagobert D. Runes

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
~Elbert Hubbard

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself
to the influences of each.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.”
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
~Mark Twain

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
~Albert Einstein

We have enough youth.
How about a fountain of smart?

“I saw that.”
~God

If it’s going to be funny later,
it’s funny now.

There are 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) of blood vessels in the human body. Laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times

A thimbleful of a neutron star weighs over 100 million tons.

The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 167 mph (269 kph), by Fred Rompelberg.

The average person accidentally eats
430 bugs each year of his or her life.

The average person spends three years
of his or her life on a toilet.

If Antarctica’s ice sheets melted, the world’s oceans would rise by 200 to 210 feet (60 to 65 metres).

The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the english language.

“‘Be yourself’ is about the worst advice
you can give to some people.”
~Thomas L. Mason

“With our thoughts, we make our world.”
~Buddha

“It is the tremble of risk which shakes the spirit, confirms courage and reinstates daring.”
~M.A. Hershey

“Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.”
~Omar Khayyám

“The cause of most of man’s unhappiness
is sacrificing what he wants most
for what he wants now.”
~Gordon B. Hinckley

“Be curious, not judgmental.”
~Walt Whitman

“To do is to be.” ~Nietzsche
“To be is to do.” ~Kant
“Do be do be do.” ~Sinatra

“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
~Confucius

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
~Albert Schweitzer

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
~Andy Warhol

“The greatest weakness of most humans
is their hesitancy to tell others how much
they love them while they’re still alive.”
~Orlando A. Battista

“The most wasted of all days
is the one without laughter.”
~e.e. cummings

“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness,
this surely is the ideal.”
~William James

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

If you want something
you’ve never had before,
you’ve got to do something
you’ve never done before.

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
~Sir Walter Scott

“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”
~John Wayne

“What you do speaks so loud
that I cannot hear what you say.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be beautiful means to be yourself.
You don’t need to be accepted by others.
You need to accept yourself.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
~Og Mandino