Joe Brainard Quotes

#1. In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

James E. Faust

#2. Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.

Joe Brainard

#3. Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Ron Paul

#4. I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for ... the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. Human nature is complex, ... all our genes are different, but neither damaged nor pure.

Veronica Roth

#6. We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

Peter F. Hamilton

#7. Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

Joseph Chenier

#8. It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.

Marcellin Boule

#9. Children think sex is funny

Joe Brainard

#10. I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

Rick Ross

#11. Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING!

Jim Bouchard

#12. No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

George Carlin

#13. I know what you are, but I also know who you are too. And the 'who' is the part that defines us.

Amalie Howard

#14. If I'm as normal as I think I am, we're all a bunch of weirdos.

Joe Brainard

#15. Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.

Tamera Alexander

#16. I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by "Are you asleep yet?" and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life.

Joe Brainard

#17. When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.

Buck Brannaman