"You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular."

New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman said of prostitution back in the days of Storyville.

"The saying that god created man in his own image is half right, they just got the order of who created who backwards."

"You will find that having is not so pleasant a thing as wanting"

"You don't know this 'cause you're too young but politicians run all the big scams. Government's the thief of all time. That's why it tries so hard to catch thieves -- it doesn't like the competition."

"That's who wins, who hates most. And is more afraid. Every time."

"Ignorance is a failure to think deeply. It is a failure to be inquisitive. It is a failure to keep an open mind."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"When cure is possible, is it necessary, and when cure is necessary, is it possible?"

"Sooner or later, nature will look you in the eye, and after making sure that you are paying attention, give you the middle finger."

"Say what you know, what you don't know, and what you believe -- and label it accordingly."

"Always have an exit strategy."

"Never skip a step. Skip a step, you'll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you."

"There are only three things in life; things that have already happened, things that haven't happened yet and the thing happening right now."

"No matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."

"It is easier to make things appear different than to make them different."

"Maybe I'm no runner up, just the first one to lose the race. Almost only really counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

"If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."

"Death doesn't frighten me any more than going to sleep or that time before I was born does."

"One thing that participating in sports and games has taught me is how to lose gracefully."

"He was so obsessed with living forever, he forgot to enjoy the life he had."

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one."

"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of it's life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant..."

"That's the thing about science. It's true whether you believe it or not."

I did not research the actual quote. You can see these are slightly different. But you get the idea.

"I never believe in anything that requires my belief for it to work."

"Religion has been described as a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that is not there."

"Science knows it doesn't know everything. Otherwise it'd stop."

"The universe is so old, and human life so recent, so much of the volume of the universe is actively hostile to life, it seems arrogant that someone made it all 'for us'."

"I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original thinking."

"I know people with their heads so far up their asses that they should give themselves colonoscopies while they're up there."

"It's a good thing that our offspring are so cute because otherwise we'd certainly eat them."

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"...If you look hard enough you can find something-especially if it's something you want to find."

"Lies are cheap and easy; the truth is harder to come by."

"Reality is whatever doesn't go away when you stop believing in it."

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."

"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"

"When your work speaks for itself, don't inturrupt."

"'It can't happen here' is number one in the list of famous last words."

"Laws change depending on who's making them... but justice is justice."

"Killing your own clone is still murder."

"Some people are like clouds, when they're gone it's a brighter day."

"'As a matter of fact' is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't."

"It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink (at) facts because they are not to our taste."

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."