tyler durden quotes

Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape. It invades my body against my will, and it's not fair. ~Patty Young



All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. ~Author Unknown



Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. ~Henry IV of France



The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed. ~Author Unknown



The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb



Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ~Proverbs 25:14



A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. ~William James



The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen



It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. ~Malcolm X



Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990



The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. ~Reginald Wright Kauffman



Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. ~Author Unknown



Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. ~Matthew 23:27



If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. ~George Orwell



Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya



The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown



Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown



The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ~William H. Seward