Favorite Quotes

A collection of some of my favorite quotes, which also appear randomly in the sidebar:

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Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them.

Alone and at the mercy of the elements, every sailor’s creed must include a founded belief in their seamanship, their boat’s capabilities, and the innate goodness of others who share a love of life on the water.

— Tania Aebi, Maiden Voyage

I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

— Mark Twain

We had a holy cow here a year-and-a-half ago. You don’t get two that close together.

Hargo Day was established to also recognize the human capacity for appreciation, wonder, and awe that can be achieved when small plastic things are arranged in a certain order near and around a cat

Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb. You may never reach the summit; for that you will be forgiven. But if you don’t make at least one serious attempt to get above the snow-line, years later you will find yourself lying on your deathbed, and all you will feel is emptiness.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

— Matt Groening

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

Each place has its own advantages – heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

— Mark Twain
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