Dr. Tom Quotes

Season 1

Dr. Tom

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein

"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make." Abraham Cowley

"Pressure makes diamonds." General George S. Patten

"The world is full of fence sitters. You sit on a fence long enough and you're liable to fall off." Dr. Tom

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living." Plato

"We learn by doing. There is no other way." John Holt

"Do not weep, no not wax indignant. Understand." Baruch Spinoza

"If life's journey be endless, where is its goal? The answer is - it is everywhere." Rabindranath Tagore


What I Am Is What I Am

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality. And instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." Samuel Johnson

"We are the sum of our decisions and as long as you're happy that's all that matters." Antigone Morris

"Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt." Thomas Moore


Plenty of Fish

"Sarcasm. The last refuge of modest people when the privacy of their soul is intrusively invaded."  Theodore Dostoevsky

"Let your net always be cast and, in the pool you least expect, there will be a fish." Ovid

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." Morpheus, The Matrix

"Chasing the past, she stumbled into the future." T.A. Sachs


The Secret of Now

"You don't miss your water 'til your well runs dry." William Bell

 "While we are postponing, life speeds by." Seneca

"Defeatism is the wretchedest of all policies." George Bernard Shaw  

"Oops, I did it again." Britney Spears

"Courage is not the towering oak which sees storms comes and go; it is the fragile blossom which opens in the snow." Alice M. Swaim


Adultesence

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Winston Churchill

"No party is fun unless seasoned with folly." Desiderius Erasmus

"Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not." Henri Frederic Amiel

"It takes a lot of courage to grow up and be who you really are." E.E. Cummings


Til Death

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen


Such A Perfect Day

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." Zig Ziglar

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." Helen Keller

"We cannot, we will not, choose the path of surrender." Woodrow T. Wilson 


This Be The Verse

"They screw you up your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do." Philip Larkin 

"There is no try, only do." Yoda, Star Wars

"To err is human, but to forgive is divine." Alexander Pope


All She Ever Wanted

"Labels are for cans, not for people." Anthony Rapp


Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma

"A man has two reasons for doing anything - a good reason and the real one." J.P. Morgan 

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a worthwhile exercise." Sigmund Freud


She's Lost Control

"He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future." George Orwell

"We create our fate every day we live." Henry Miller 

"There is advantage in the wisdom from pain." Aeschylus 

"Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly." Chinese Proverb


Erica The Vampire Slayer

"Thinking is easy. Acting is difficult. And to put one's thoughts into action - the most difficult thing in the world." Goethe


Season 2

Being Dr. Tom

"Fear is the mind killer." Frank Herbert 

"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be." Douglas Adams

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." Buddhist Proverb

"For every thing there is a season and a time." Ecclesiastes 3:1


Battle Royale

"The course of true love never did run smooth." William Shakespeare

"Returning violence with violence only multiplies violence." Martin Luther King 


Mama Mia

"Diaper backwards spells 'repaid.' Think about it." Marshall McLuhan

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" C.S. Lewis


Cultural Revolution

"It doesn't work to leap a twenty foot chasm in two ten foot jumps." American Proverb


Yes We Can

"Nobody realises that some people expend a tremendous energy merely to be normal." Albert Camus

"To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence." Mark Twain

"Every action has a reaction." Isaac Newton


Shh... Don't Tell

"There is no shame in not knowing, the shame lies in finding out." Russian Proverb


A River Runs Throught It... It Being Egypt

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them." Galileo

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away." Elvis Presley

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is." Winston Churchill


Papa Can You Hear Me?

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."  Bob Dylan


What Goes Up Must Come Down

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." Coco Chanel

"The struggle itself towards the height is enough to fill a man's heart." Albert Camus


The Importance of Being Erica

"Every wall is a door." Emerson 

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire Cat. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' answered Alice. 'Then,' said the cat, 'It doesn't matter.'" Lewis Carroll 

"We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves." Galileo