russell peters quotes

Sanity is madness put to good uses. ~George Santayana, Little Essays



Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor



Don't learn safety by accident. ~Author Unknown



He conquers who endures. ~Persius



Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580 Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease. ~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action



Is a smile a question? Or is it the answer? ~Lee Smith



People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown



There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau



Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. ~Romans 12:20



Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Dave Barry



We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. ~Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet



Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon (Thanks, David)



My favorite animal is steak. ~Fran Lebowitz



Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams



Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. ~Billie Jean King



Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall



All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey



The dying Jesus is the evidence of God's anger toward sin; but the living Jesus is the proof of God's love and forgiveness. ~Lorenz Eifert The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. ~Carol Matthau