What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Shanna]

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

Jonathan Swift
"Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."

Samuel Johnson

[The Unnamable]

“sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

(usually translated as “who will guard the guards?”)

from the sixth Satire of Juvenal

[rachel]

"An honest man is always a child" Socrates,
Hullo you two, love you.

[Petrarch's Love]

I've somehow been missing out on this thread. Hi all. :wave:

"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

[Virgil]

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
....................Anais Nin

[rachel]

ooh , pretty,
HULLO darling pretty Shakespearian babe above Virg. I have missed you

When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia pray Grigori Rasputin

[The Unnamable]

A few from HL Mencken:

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

[jackyyyy]

"For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true."

That caught my eye as a little ambiguous. Depends on how I look at it, I guess.

"
Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
"
John Dewey

I am THICK, now everyone do my job for me???? I might not be being genuine and it might be profitable.

[The Unnamable]

it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness;
If only. This by Houseman is closer to my way of seeing things:

“Frailty of understanding is in itself no proper target for scorn and mockery. But the unintelligent forfeit their claim to compassion when they begin to indulge in self-complacent airs, and to call themselves sane critics, meaning that they are mechanics. And when, relying on their numbers, they pass from self-complacency to insolence, and reprove their betters for using the brains which God has not denied them, they dry up the fount of pity.”
A E Houseman

[rachel]

what different worlds each of our minds occupy.That two so different opinions came come from the same subject.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten-thousand truths. -
Aleksandr Pushkin

[jackyyyy]

what different worlds each of our minds occupy.That two so different opinions came come from the same subject. Yes, indeed, and its so important its scary at times:
"
ignorantia legis non excusat.
ignorance of the law is no excuse.
"
Unknown author.

Presumed knowledge of the law is the principle in jurisprudence that one is bound by a law even if one does not know of it. It has also been defined as the "prohibition of ignorance of the law".

[rachel]

Jackyyyy, did anyone besides all those who adore you over there tell you you are dear and a genious and so precise and know yourself so well you scare me sometimes. I always feel like a student with a guilty secret (didn't finish my homework) around you on this site. You always make me want to try harder. kisses This one is for you Jackyyyy, I can almost hear you telling it to me:

Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use. Pliny the elder.(love that guy)

[Scheherazade]

I would like to remind everyone that this thread is 'Quote of the Day' thread: One quote a day.

If you would like to share your favorite quotes, please visit 'What's Your Favorite Quote?' thread. (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4)

[rachel]

right, thanks Scher.

[ElizabethSewall]

"Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien..."Arthur Rimbaud.

[Scheherazade]

"Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien..." Heh! If only we could manage the first part at times... The latter is not that much of a threat for most of us, anyway! :D

[chmpman]

A few from HL Mencken:

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.


I think I adhere more strongly to Mencken's philosophy of the ignorant over Houseman's; he seems to provide some possibility other than pity. (That being work)

[The Unnamable]

I appear to have transgressed the boundaries of correct categorisation elsewhere so I’ll have to post this one here instead:

“foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Shanna]

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen

[Satine]

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

Guildenstern; Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

One of my favorites...because it is so true.

[rachel]

I hope I am truly on the right thread today(wiping away beads of sweat from face)

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us " Leo Tolstoy

[radspanner]

GBS >>>youth is wasted on the young

[Dilettantia]

One of my favourite quotes comes from the novel 'The Leopard' by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It has a great line in it that has always stayed with me.

It goes something like, “If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”.

This quote has a nice liminocentric logic to it.

[rachel]

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world
Mother Theresa

[adilyoussef]

Once I've been listening to some speech on the net and come across this.

It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found John Nash, 1994, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Acceptance Adress

[Regit]

"I would do anything for you honey, especially if it's easy." - Homer Simpsons

[jackyyyy]

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

- Chris Rock

[The Unnamable]

“And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people, obfuscating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. For what I saw at the abbey then caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics...inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred for the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the Devil. God preserve us.”

Name of the Rose -Umberto Eco

[rachel]

beautiful Un.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini

[chmpman]

Two by Nietzsche:

"The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things."

"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason-- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal."

[The Unnamable]

"I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; you're little. I'm right; you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it."

Harry Wormwood from Roald Dahl’s Matilda

[The Unnamable]

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience

[blp]

'Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book' - Stéphane Mallarmé

[Basil]

"Society's had their chance. I'm going hunting. Hunting humans."

James Oliver Huberty

[Weeping Willow]

I have two!

You can get much more with a kind word and a gun then with just a nice word - Al capone

We will make electricity so cheep, only the Rich would light up candales - Thomas Edison ( i think it was Thomas Edison)

[rachel]

I LOVE YOU WILLOW. those are great!

I have two from my beloved Ghandi:

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mohandas Gandhi

[Scheherazade]

I would like to remind everyone that this thread is 'Quote of the Day' thread: One quote a day.

If you would like to share your favorite quotes, please visit 'What's Your Favorite Quote?' thread. (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4)"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."

-Dr. Samuel Johnson

[rachel]

man I feel dyslexic. sorry .........again. favorite quote, favorite quote.

[jitendra]

"Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear "

-Bertrand Russell

[Regit]

"If only there was a magical liquid that erases bad memories." - Charlie Harper.

[Weeping Willow]

"Ignorance is bliss" - Cypher, In The Metrix.

[Truth Untold]

Vary as i read more Anita Blake novels, at the moment

'I know the true way to a mans heart is six inxhes of metal between his ribs. Some times four will do the job but i like ot have six just to be sure.'

Laurell K Hamilton

[Woland]

"Hell is other people"

-Sartre


"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

-Voltaire

That might be a diagonosis for the 20th century ;)

[adam-smith]

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations” - adam smith
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

[cuppajoe_9]

"Adam Smith was wrong" - John Nash, others.

[Shakira]

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

[smoothherb]

Money is only a tool it will take you whereever you wish but will not replace you as the driver. Ayn rand

[Nightmare9870]

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." -Emerson

"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have." -Thoreau

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -Thoreau

[smoothherb]

They say it's not wheather you win or lose it's how you play the game they are wrong.
Doyle Brunnson

[Cormeister37]

If he had any feeling for his brother at that moment it was envy for the knowledge the dying man had now that he could not have.
-Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

[vrianto3]

"Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles"

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

[RJbibliophil]

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

Benjamin Franklin

[Asa Adams]

"How Awful, the way time passes!"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years If solitude)

[bazarov]

Hey buddy, do you like that One Hundred Years If solitude?? A friend of my suggested it to me and I didn't like it very much...I think it's called profesional deformation:too many Russians... :nod: :nod:

[Asa Adams]

I didnt really like it either. I havent heared of the professional deformation?? :confused: :D but yeah, i thought it would be better, from all the hype i heared from other people. lol

[caesar]

"You don't know what you got till its gone."
So,
"Better lose it than remain ignorant!"

[mia wallace]

my all time favorite, soon to be incorperated in a backpiece of a big tree of life

"life is real life is earnest and the grave is not its goal
dust thou art and dust returneth was not spoken of the soul"

every time i read it it makes me feel
it makes my insides
it arouses some emotion that i cant quite pinpoint, on occasion it brings me to tears, but happy ones!

[zheng89120]

"What the superior man seeks is in himself, what the small man seeks is in others." -Confucius

"Forget injuries, never forget kindness." -Confucius

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." -Emerson

[caesar]

Hello...........ellooo.......llooo.........ooo.... .ooo.
Anybody there?.........there........there.......

Good. I sometimes like being alone.

I am leaving a quote so that if, someday, someone happens to come-by he/she shall
gain the wisdom of my experience nutshelled in these words:

"Desperation drives
Harder than Inspiration;
Its culmination lies
In glory or damnation."

[whiskey]

"Humanity tied the shoes of progress, that enormous child."

-A. Rimbaud

[james duffy]

"I have a new philosophy. From now on I am only going to dread one day at a time" (Charles Shultz)

" The quickest way to a man's heart is to saw through his breast plate" ( Dorothy Parker)

""There are people who think that football is a matter of life or death. It's not. It's much more important than that" (Bill Shankly)

and from me......." Never eat anything that's bigger than your head"

God Bless!

JD

[james duffy]

PS wish I'd thought about using a quirky and catchy nom-de-plume like all you guys, but I didn't. Maybe that's bad, but hey, why are you all hiding behind that stuff anyway? Tell us your real names! What's the big secret?

JD

[Treben]

"What we don't know keeps tha contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove 'em"

- Zack de la Rocha

[Scheherazade]

I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I'd drive. We're country.-Britney Spears on driving with her son on her lap.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm

[Treben]

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a living breathing thing which belonged to everybody, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

-Banksy

[dalton]

A good-riddance rimed couplet by some unknown wag:

Don't let the screen door hit ya
Where the Good Lord split ya.

[Madhuri]

I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

--Mahatma Gandhi

[Madhuri]

I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

--Mahatma Gandhi

[snowangel]

My advice; take off your pants and slide on the ice.
MASH
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
Suki: What kind of a name is Igby?
Igby: The kind of a name that someone named Suki is in no position to question.
Igby Goes Down
We have so much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.
Gene Wilder

[literaturerocks]

" Only two things are infinite, the universe, and human stupidity... I am not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein :lol: i found this to be funny :)

[ani]

death is nothing to us,since when we are, death hasn't come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus "letter for Menoeceus"

[Woland]

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Ben Franklin

"The coming of the house painter" - Contemptuous phrase for the rise of Hitler by Bertolt Brecht

[ani]

When choosing between two evils l always like to take one l've never tried before.

- Mae West

[ani]

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

-Bob Marley


Life is more than your to do list.

[caesar]

Desperation drives
Harder than Inspiration
Its culmination lies
In glory or damnation

- Me

[_JadeRain_]

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a meleody of extemporanea; and love is a thing that can never go wrong; and I am Marie of Roumania.

-Dorothy Parker

[grace86]

Ewww, I can't quote it directly because my book is in storage, but here it is:

"Once you stop to consider whether or not you love someone, you have stopped loving that person for the rest of your life."
-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It went something like that.

[genoveva]

"Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?" ~Confucius

[Scheherazade]

Take off clothes before ironing to avoid burning.-Instructions on a recently-purchased iron.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41820000/gif/_41820672_iron_quote.gif

[drkarycd]

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."
A quote by the great Homar, Simpson that is.

[downing]

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.

Jack London-The Call of the Wild

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41843000/gif/_41843962_knightley.quote.gif

[Asa Adams]

An eye for an eye would leave the world blind.

Ghandi

[Pensive]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41843000/gif/_41843962_knightley.quote.gif
... :lol: ...

[Netherbard]

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill [1874-1965]

[Danika_Valin]

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it"- Karl Marx

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher"- Ambrose Bierce

[Woland]

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher"- Ambrose Bierce

Ok that one is awesome

My favorite bits of wisdom have come from Voltaire

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"The secret of being boring is to say everything."

[Ryan_002]

(Well, if we have Eco, why not one of his best friends, Borges? ;) )

"Mirrors and procreation are abominable, for they multiply the image of man."
- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius (Jorge L. Borges, Garden of Forking Paths)

If this seems a bit obscure, it's actually a reference to the way many religious texts, or even Plato's Republic, discourage creating an image of a living entity. Either the text itself or Umberto Eco's caricature of Borges (Jorge of Burgos) in The Name of The Rose (the conversation on illustrations early in the book) can shed more light on this.

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41876000/gif/_41876664_damon_quote.gif

[Lycosparks]

OOOH I love quotes; I have a Word document just for my collection. Here are a few:

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." Virginia Woolf
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." Stephen King
"If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." Emile Zola
"A counted number of pulses is given to us of a variegated dramatic life." Walter Pater
"I suppose it is in the nature of the poet, beginning in childhood, to love the sounds of language. Others may swim in Webster Lake, but poets swim in Lake Chauggogagogmanchauggagogchabunagungamaugg." Stanley Kunitz

... I have a million more. It was difficult not to submit them. But I think it's a good start!

[HSD]

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly"-Richard Bach
HSD

[Mary Sue]

"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden; it ends with Revelations." - Oscar Wilde

[Fat29]

Life is about pursuing the truth, showing kindness and being altruistic. Do it.

[snowangel]

There's nothing like a good joke... and that was nothing like a good joke.

[Shakira]

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you" :D

[Shakira]

"There is a light at the end of every tunnel....just pray it's not a train!"

"If you dont like my driving stay off the sidewalk"

"Tradgedy is when i cut my finger, Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die"- Mel Brooks

[Mary Sue]

"You look like Helen of Troy after a good facial."-P.G. Wodehouse

[winlit]

if you are not living on the edge ,you are taking up too much space

[Fat29]

Thank you for the quote from Mel Brooks. Sometimes, we can be so unkind at the misfortune of others. We need to be more concious of our outlook and be more altrustic and therefore more empathetic towards others.



"Tradgedy is when i cut my finger, Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die"- Mel Brooks

[persuaded]

hello! since am a bigggg fan of austen here's some from her---->

this are from jane austen's letters
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
-- letter of December 24, 1798
"Your silence on the subject of our ball makes me suppose your curiosity too great for words."
-- letter of January 24, 1809
[Jane Austen had a running joke with her family about her marrying the poet Crabbe, whose poetry she admired:]
"No, I have never seen [news of] the death of Mrs. Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married. ... Poor woman! I will comfort him as well as I can, but I do not undertake to be good to her children. She had better not leave any."
-- letter of October 18, 1813
"I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."
-- letter of May 31 1811

woah! these are a few but you can find more on this site

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablets.html#letterqot

other quote:

words are the most powerful drug used by mankind
-rudyard kipling

there's a luxury in self-reproach. when we blame ourselves we feel no one else should blame us. it's the confession, not the priest that gives us absolution.
-oscar wilde

[Behemoth]

"Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you...I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul." ~ Wuthering Heights

Guess I'm a romantic at heart after all.... ;)

[burcu_amy]

"when we r born,we cry that we r come to this great stage of fools."William Shakespeare

[anne1987]

1. beauty is eloquent, even when silent.
2. you smile for seconds and i will remember it for hours.
3. be happy,its one way of being nice.
4. life is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for thise who feel.

(sorry, all authors unknown! help me.)

[Jean-Baptiste]

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy"
Kierkegaard

[Logos]

"Hell is other people"--Garcin in the play "No Exit" by Jean Paul Sartre

[aeroport]

My father: "Have you talked to your mom lately?"
Myself: "No."
MF: "You should talk to her. I went through all this trouble so you could meet her. I could have killed her."

Not very literary, I know. Won't do it again. (Note: He is referring to me being brought into the world, not being reunited with a long-lost mother; it just seemed funny to me.)

[melancolia]

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

-- William Shakespeare

[Shalot]

But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth's darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken

(from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

[genoveva]

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

-- William Shakespeare
I love this monologue which begins, "Out, out brief candle..."
I read somewhere that this monologue is representative of Existentialism.

[spiritdancer]

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet (Gandhi)

[davoarid]

"She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing." -Sallinger in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

Why? When I read that one line--just 12 words--I knew everything about that character. I also knew that if I were to describe her, it would take me several pages and I'd still convey less information that Sallinger does in that one line.

[davoarid]

I should also point out that I like my signature-quote as well--but that's cuz I'm just a silly hippie.

[winlit]

one of my favourite quotes.."intelligence is imagination having fun"einstien

[Bebbin]

"He lived in a dream, and reality meant nothing to him."
-William Somerset Maughan, The Moon and Sixpence

"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one in a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever."
-Elisabeth Kuebler Ross, On Death and Dying

"He realized that all men were like this; that each person was to himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid. Like here, standing. If he should scream, if he should holler for help, would it even matter?"
-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Those are just a few from my neverending list of most favorite quotes. :D

[ElizabethSewall]

"Chaque être naît seul, à son jour, à son heure, et vient au monde les mains vides."

-Paulina Chiziane.

[Schokokeks]

"Chaque être naît seul, à son jour, à son heure, et vient au monde les mains vides."

-Paulina Chiziane.

That's a nice one, ElizabethSewall ! :nod: It reminds me a bit of


Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die ?
A bit sad, though. Can't remember who said it...

[subterranean]

He that hath understanding in himself is best;
He that lays up his brother's wisdom in his breast is good.
But he that neither knoweth, nor will be taught by the instruction of the wise -this man is naught

(Hesiod)

[_JadeRain_]

Nobody comes here anymore; it's too crowded.
-Yogi Berra

[_JadeRain_]

"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner

[carina_gino20]

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." -- Jacob August Riis

[aeroport]

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.
--Lorraine Hansberry

[inDeniaL]

the world is subject to constant change... somebody said it, i dnt know who... but i like it lots

[mono]

the world is subject to constant change... somebody said it, i dnt know who... but i like it lots
Hello, inDeniaL, welcome to the forum. :)
Though I could have mistaken in my memory from previous philosophy classes, I think Heraclitus wrote the quote you posted.

[Scheherazade]

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[Scheherazade]

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[Scheherazade]

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[Schokokeks]

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:lol: :lol: :lol:
so money doesn't automatically increase brains, a pity that is ! ;)

[iwnttoknowall]

do you know wat annoys the bullcrap outta me? when people say the dumbest things:flare: :
"it was the last place i looked!" no crap, y would u keep looking????
"its like trying to find a needle in a haystack!" ever heard of a magnet?? they invented those way back in the day
"well, that proves global warming." wat, that the ice caps are melting? the world is slowly flooding, or just that it was a little hotter last year????? u tell me

[AimusSage]

do you know wat annoys the bullcrap outta me? when people say the dumbest things:flare: :
"it was the last place i looked!" no crap, y would u keep looking????
"its like trying to find a needle in a haystack!" ever heard of a magnet?? they invented those way back in the day
"well, that proves global warming." wat, that the ice caps are melting? the world is slowly flooding, or just that it was a little hotter last year????? u tell me
Indeed, people say such dumb things sometimes. :rolleyes:

[Dry_Snail]

In this country, you gotta make the money first.
Then when you get the money, you get the power.
Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

-Scarface

[Dry_Snail]

"We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are *bull*****. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!

-Moonstruck

[Dry_Snail]

Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their graces;
... Say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

- Shakespere
Two Gentlemen of Verona

[MDalloway112]

"She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. How she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge Fräulein Daniels gave them she could not think. She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that."

:: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway



I like this thread.

[OZEED]

This one keeps me in check.

Guard you roving thoughts with a jealous care for speech is but the dialer of thoughts and every fool can plainly read in your words the hour of your thoughts. Alfred Lord Tennyson

[orra]

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love". ~ William Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act ii, Sc.2

[Ciao]

"The unexamined Life is not worth living"
-Socrates

I think this is what every well rounded author does.... along with their readers.

[anjelita]

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

-- Carolyn Warner

[Scheherazade]

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[ThruMyEyer73]

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself" Roosevelt

[Scheherazade]

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[Loveless]

"You live inside somebody's body for a few years, you get used to it. I look at his face now. I can't tell what's going on. I'm not used to seeing his facial expressions. I'm used to feeling them." -Ender's Game

[cuppajoe_9]

"I swear to God, I swear to Mao, I'll swear to anybody you like, I didn't know it spelled LSD"
-John Lennon, on his song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

[cuppajoe_9]

"I think it would be a good idea."
-Mahatma Gandhi, on western civilization.

[cuppajoe_9]

"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and becom lesbians." -Rev. Pat Robertson (1992)"Hey Women! Leave your husbands, kill your children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians! It's fun!"
-Betty Friedan

[cuppajoe_9]

"Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere."

-Emma Goldman in "Marriage and Love". Read the whole thing here (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/marriageandlove.html).

[cuppajoe_9]

"I do not believe in God because I believe in man."

-Emma Goldman

I think that sums up my outlook on life far better than anything I could ever compose.

[cuppajoe_9]

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
AnonymousGeorge Carlin said that, if anybody's interested.

[Don Ferdinand]

"The devil lurks behind the cross"

as quoted by Sancho Panca from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

not sure what page

probably on old saying before hand, still, i first heard it in this book.

reason:

as in Jesus day. some of the most evil people knew the Bible like the back of their hand. something to be weary of today

[PierreGringoire]

"With great power comes great responsibility" - spiderman

[RobinHood3000]

"I am ready to meet my Maker, but whether my Maker is ready for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter entirely." -- Winston Churchill (or so I heard)

Big Churchill fan.

[Shalot]

the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt

bertrand russell

[lavendar1]

[QUOTE Robinhood 3000 = Big Churchill fan.[/QUOTE]

Me. too. Boy I wish I were as good at "comebacks..."

To Liverpool socialist MP Bessie Braddock, who told him, "Winston, you're drunk." :
"Bessie, you’re ugly. And tomorrow morning I’ll be sober, but you’ll still be ugly."

[cuppajoe_9]

"Lord Churchill, if you were my husband I should poison your coffee."
"Madame, if you were my wife, I should drink it."

"Lord Churchill, you're drunk."
"Well that may be so madame, but...(passes out into his cognac)"

[RobinHood3000]

Hahaha!

For those of you who haven't heard it before...

"...in the morning, I will be sober, but you will still be ugly." No longer always the case in today's shallow world of Botox, but at the time, a marvelously done BURN.

[Aiko]

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." Mark Twain

[Nick Rubashov]

"if the end of wisdom is to add star to star our foolishness is pleasing"
- Auda Abu Tayi

the quote stems from a conversation between T. E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi while gazing at the stars and talking about telescopes. Auda was saying how hundreds of years from now man will create a telescope greater than we can even imagine building today, and generations after generations later man will create an even greater telescope than thought possible by thier ancestors before them. This cycle will continue and continue so man can gain all knowledge.

Mankind thousands of years ago might of looked up at the stars as I do and although they didn't know the names or lacation of all the stars, he was still content in life, still truley happy. You don't need to study and study for the sake of knowlege, for knowlege does not equate wisdom, and it does not bring happiness.

[bugmasta]

"I will live forever or die in the attempt." - Yossarian, Catch 22

[Guzmán]

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"
Im not sure if it was Varese or John Cage.

"If music be the food of love, play on." from Twelfth Night

[Draconeus]

see my sig, its from romeo and Juliet

[PeterL]

"I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell, and so I shall go on till I have done with them." Jonathan Swift in a letter to Alexander Pope
September 29, 1725

[amanda_isabel]

cogito ergo sum-(i think, therefore i am)-rene descartes

memento mori <i think>-(remember that you must die)-havew no idea where it came from

time, the very force upon which our lives revolve, is the smallest thing transcended by certain virtue. (made it up for class... don;t know if it makes sense though)

[MAGAZINE_READER]

If you see a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra (I think.)

[cuppajoe_9]

"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."

-George Orwell

[Basil]

"Facts can change all the time, but my opinion never will."

Stephen Colbert

[Scheherazade]

"Facts can change all the time, but my opinion never will."

Stephen Colbert:nod:




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[cuppajoe_9]

"Everything that is not forbidden is madatory."

-Soviet slogan.

[Logos]

“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very, very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm.”—Mark Twain, Letters from Earth

[Logos]

George Orwell: “Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear.”—from a preface to Animal Farm

[Laindessiel]

Destiny is another word for not having a choice. - Clark Kent

Not my favorite but one that made me realize that I detest the word "destiny".

[zheng89120]

"What do I know?" - Michel de Montaigne

[ebme]

Go sell your crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.

[Coyote]

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

~Georg C. Lichtenberg :D

[Sylph]

"No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."

John Donne

[THX-1138]

* He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

*sanity is not statistical

george orwell

[Scheherazade]

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[toni]

"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die" from The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde

[cuppajoe_9]

More good Orwell:

"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."

"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it."

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." [He was fighting in the Spanish Civil War at the time]

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"I have no particular love for the idealised 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."

Smart man, that Eric Arthur Blair.

[SummerSolstice]

"Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets." - Eddy Peters

I had a booger of a time finding this quote in its original form, attributed to the correct person. Anyway, it's apparently fairly common in lexical circles, but even if it should some day become a cliche I'll still be free to love it because I found it before the world did! ^_^

I also love the quote in my signature--Kate DiCamillo is the author of the book it's from. She's the one that wrote "Because of Winn-Dixie," which won a Newbery Honor (*is jealous*) and which I STILL haven't read because somebody stole it from the university library! :flare:

[cuppajoe_9]

"Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."

-Shakespeare

[Eagleheart]

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

Samuel Becket

[Virgil]

"Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets." - Eddy Peters

I had a booger of a time finding this quote in its original form, attributed to the correct person. Anyway, it's apparently fairly common in lexical circles, but even if it should some day become a cliche I'll still be free to love it because I found it before the world did! ^_^

I also love the quote in my signature--Kate DiCamillo is the author of the book it's from. She's the one that wrote "Because of Winn-Dixie," which won a Newbery Honor (*is jealous*) and which I STILL haven't read because somebody stole it from the university library! :flare:

Oooo. The quote in your signature is quite nice, Summer.

[SummerSolstice]

Isn't it, though? If you have even a passing interest in fairy tales or children's lit, or just have a bit of sentimentality and innocence in you that hasn't been seared away by modern cynicism, you should read that book. It's really pretty short, despite its ponderous size (thanks to large print, deep margins, and glorious full-page pencil illustrations every now and then).

The full title is The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread. The whole book has the very same lovely, personal, cozy tone of the quote, which precedes the story on a little page by itself. The narrator frequently makes asides to the audience, whom she addresses as "Dear Reader," and the balance of focus and pacing she achieves is so ideal for a story of this kind that I personally believe it could never, ever be improved upon. I checked it out from the library, read it through three times (not counting the parts I read again just because I liked them so much) over the couple of weeks I carried it around in my backpack before I regretfully returned it. I'm going to ask for my own copy for Christmas.

(Can you tell I liked this book? :lol: )

[Eagleheart]

Is not a uniform suffering preferable to one which , by its ups and downs, is liable at certain moments to encourage the view that perhaps after all it is not eternal?

Becket

[bazarov]

It will come to those who wait - Tolstoy

[cuppajoe_9]

"In return to all these concessions, I desire of the philosophers to grant me that there is in some (I believe in many) human breasts a kind and benevolent disposition which is gratified by contributing to the happiness of others. That in this graification alone, as in friendship, in parental and filial affection, and indeed in general philanthropy, there is a great and exquisite delight. That if we will not call such disposition love, we have no name for it. That though the pleasures arising from such pure love may be hightened and sweetened by the assistance of amorous desires, yet the former can subsist alone, nor are they destroyed by the intervention of the latter."

-Fielding in Tom Jones

[cuppajoe_9]

"Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't even be human"

-Phillip Pullman (who, I hope to nobody's surprise, writes stories for a living).

[cuppajoe_9]

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

-Tolstoy

[Behemoth]

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." ~ James Joyce, Ulysses

[Pensive]

"I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish."


Curious Incident of Dog at Mid-night Time

[Schokokeks]

"While there is tea, there is hope." Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

[jon1jt]

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky..."
-Jack Kerouac

[Laindessiel]

"I will live forever or die in the attempt." - Yossarian, Catch 22


You don't have to live forever; you just have to live. :)

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"As they say, every atom in our body was once part of the stars. Maybe I'm not leaving; maybe I'm coming home." - Vincent Anton Freeman (from the movie GATTACA)


"Those who never attempted the absurd has never achieved the impossible." - Benjamin Franklin


"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." - Forrest Gump (a favorite movie)


From the T.V. series Smallville:
Clark: "Be safe, Lex. Good luck."
Lex Luthor: I don't believe in luck Clark. It's our wits and fortitude that keep us safe."


"You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roahl Dahl[/COLOR]


"When all you have is God, you have all you need." - from the book The Daily Bread


"Failure is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford


"Don't plan to repent on the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30." - from the Book The Daily Bread


"When you turn green with envy, you are ripe for trouble." - The Daily Bread


"There is no best. Only better." - Toyota Company slogan


"You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine." - Jason Mraz (from the song "The Remedy")


"Think BIG. If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump (no surprise there)


ONLY THOSE WHO WILL RISK GOING TOO FAR CAN POSSIBLY FIND OUT HOW FAR THEY CAN GO."

[Pensive]

"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." - Forrest Gump (a favorite movie)
Oh, I loved the movie. It was emotionally affecting, a really good movie.

[Eagleheart]

The loathsome mask has fallen,
the man remains
sceptreless, free, tribeless, and nationless,
exempt from awe, worship, degree
the king
over himself

P.B.Shelley

[Eagleheart]

"Conquer yourself, rather than the world"

Descartes

[Laindessiel]

Yeah and Tom Hanks plays unnormal roles very effectively! I love the way he puts his soul to each character.

[Madhuri]

For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

[Jolly McJollyso]

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

Samuel Becket

I don't care what anyone says. Samuel Beckett is an incredibly optimistic and hopeful writer.

"I can't go on, I'll go on." (The Unnameable)

Anyhow, my favorite quote is the first paragraph of the Proteus section of Ulysses...let's see if I can remember

"Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust : coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane But he adds : in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see."

Needed a little help from the text... it's been a while.

[Scheherazade]

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[brainstrain]

Inspiration comes only to those who need it
Innovation comes only to those who seek it
-Mordecai, the Prophet of Sirius

this is actually from a book i am writing, but the quote was inspired by my inspiring friend Jessi, who i love and respect more than anyone...

Oh, woops, there already a quote for today. you can use this for tomorrow ^_^

[Guzmán]

This is a line from the movie "The third Man". Kind of evil but still...

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Only Orson Welles coul pull this one off. Not my favorite quote but the best line from the movie.

[Logos]

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern."
—from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell written between 1790 and 1793, which inspired the title of Aldous Huxley’s essay “The Doors of Perception” (1954) and Jim Morrison to name his band The Doors.
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[kilted exile]

"I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell." From Frankenstein by Shelley.

I have already decided that this will be read at my cremation. Some people I talk to think it is depressing, however I find it rather uplifting.

[dramasnot6]

Knowledge is Power-Sir Francis Bacon
I have it on a big sign in my locker :)

[Sabo]

"Man vill bli älskad, i brist därpå beundrad, i brist därpå fruktad, i brist därpå avskydd och föraktad. Man vill ingiva människorna någon slags känsla. Själen ryser för tomrummet och vill ha kontakt till vad pris som helst.", Hjalmar Söderberg, Doktor Glas, 1905

Or for those who don't read Swedish:

"One wants to be loved, in the lack thereof admired, in the lack thereof feared, in the lack thereof abhored and despised. One wants to instil some kind of feeling in people. The soul dreads the emptiness and wants contact at any cost." Hjalmar Soederberg, Doctor Glas, 1905

(sabo's transl.)

What else is there to know about people?

[alhara]

"time is an illision lunchtime doubly so" hg2g by DNA

[aeroport]

Truth to tell, while there are a great many clever and insightful quotes out there, the James quote in my signature is probably my favorite. I remember feeling at first like I'd been almost tricked by the simplicity of the thing. That it was said by one whom I admire so much makes it that much more special to me.

[subterranean]

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
-Pete Townshend

[B-Mental]

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne, Meditation XVII

[Mad Organist]

"Return with speed, time passeth swift away
Our life is short, and we may die today"
Christopher Marlowe, Tmaburlaine the Great Part 1

[Shadowsarin]

Spoken by Brad Pitts character in the movie Se7en:

"When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Do you just stop and go: "Wow, its amazing how ****ing crazy I really am"?"

While it might not be the most mature or interlectual quote around, I just adore it!

[#57]

My favorite quote would be by Albert Einstein: "Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere...":banana:

[mockingbird]

"I won't think about that now, I'll think about that tomorrow!" -- Scarlett O Hara, Gone With the Wind.

Hey, a girl after my own heart *-)

[Jean-Baptiste]

This is from Kant's Introduction to Prolegomena.


To appeal to common sense when insight and science fail, and no sooner--this is one of the subtile discoveries of modern times, by means of which the most superficial ranter can safely enter the lists with the most thorough thinker and hold his own.

Funny, huh?

[aeroport]

Un livre est un ami qui ne trompe jamais.
("A book is a friend who never deceives us.")

Montaigne, I think.

[summer grace]

Well, the quotes in my profile are favourite quotes, but more there are more ( naturally, I collect quotes).

'' I have learned beauty from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world''- Frederick Karr

'' Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again''-Willa Cather

'' It does not matter so much what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.''-Laura Ingalls Wilder

'' Castles in the air. So easy to build, and so easy to live in too. '' Ibsen

As well, '' In my end is my begining''- motto of Mary, Queen of Scots

'' When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that flows between them''- not sure who said that, will look it up ( I'm doing this from memory!).

'' I have made my own world, and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.'' - Louise Nevelson

[summer grace]

I have found that the quotes from my profile have disapeared, so here they are again.

'' The more things change, the more they stay the same''-Alphose Karr

'' For us, the best time is always yesterday''-Tatyana Tolstaya

'' She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes''- Frank Deford

'' The best days are the first to flee''- Virgil

[summer grace]

'' It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.- Zelda Fitzgerald, Save me the Waltz.

[Sylph]

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

(William Hazlitt)

[Jean-Baptiste]

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

(William Hazlitt)

Wow! That's awful! :thumbs_up I like it very much.

Welcome to the forums, Sylph! :D

[Madhuri]

“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.” -- TS Eliot

[daydreaming]

" What is life if you don't challenge yourself to do the impossible?"

[Sylph]

thanks Jean-Baptiste


Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

Giovanni Boccaccio

[LPRox015]

Excerpt From Maud By: Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Half the night I waste in sighs,
Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies;
In a wakeful doze I sorrow
For the hand, the lips, the eyes,
For the meeting of the morrow
The delight of happy laughter,
The delight of low replies."

[Mason]

There is some **** you just can't share. Like my Kit Kat. If I share my Kit Kat with you, that's one-fourth! Twenty-five percent, son. No way. And don't even come up around my Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Fitty percent? Get the hell out of my face!

[Sylph]

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre: remorse is the poison of life.

Charlotte Brontë

[Theshizznigg]

Excerpt from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
"It's like my mother always used to say to me. Two tear drops in a bucket. F**k it!" - Madame Chablise

I don't know why, but philosophically the quote has such profound meaning. It's also fun to say in private.

[dramasnot6]

Knowledge is power -Sir Francis Bacon

[brainstrain]

Hope is our one protest against the cruel dictators which forever govern this fair land. Hope is the only light shining in a room dark with the greed of a thousand tyrants. Hope is the gentle tug which guides us away from the deep chasm of fear. Hope, my child, is something no one can take away from you.
-Mother Maledi

I know its weird to post a quote from your own unpublished book, but I like it a lot. I still think it needs a bit of fine-tuning...but it's beautiful ^_^

[Conn]

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. "-Theodore Roosevelt

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42390000/gif/_42390555_yohane.gif

[Turk]

"It is bad to be good".

[golgi]

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[dramasnot6]

There are only three things in this world that give you unquestioning loyalty: dogs, donuts, and money. - Homer Simpson :D

[Virgil]

Just came across this quote which overwhelmed me. I may put it as my signature.

"For what is the life of a man if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Yelena]

"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it." - Mike Ditka

[Sunflower]

"The eterniity is only a passing night."

-Aristotle

[Yelena]

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try." - Unknown

[ohlhauc1]

"A pessimist falls in the river and starts crying while an optimist falls in the river and starts taking a bath." [unknown]

[alhara]

I love most anything voltaire has written, but suprisingly some of my favorite quotes don't come from a philosopher, but a writer of childrens books.:D


"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
J. R. R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring
"Little by little, one travels far."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
J. R. R. Tolkien
OK this one is just for fun. "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
J. R. R. Tolkien:lol:

[Yelena]

I love this one by Katherine Switzer:
"Sometimes a negative can be positive and a positive can be an opportunity".

[Sunflower]

My favorite quote is:

&quot;A life not analyzed is not worth living!&quot;

I believe it to be Socrates, but I'm not certain!

For a great poem to quote, look at Rudyard Kipling's &quot;IF&quot; poem. Here is a link to it!

http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/836/

Yeah, it is from Scorate

Should be
" The unexamined life is not worth living.":yawnb:

[Redzeppelin]

"Time is the fire in which we burn" - Gene Roddenbury

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42408000/gif/_42408273_wales_quote.gif

[cuppajoe_9]

"If it is true that Liberty University has fossils labeled as being 3000 years old, that is a disgrace, that is an absolute debasement of what a university is supposed to be, and I encourage all the students here tonight who are attending Liberty to resign and go to a proper university."

- Richard Dawkins, speaking at the nearby Randolph Macon Women's College

[Logos]

“It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.”
H. G. Wells (http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/)--lecture of 24 January 1902 at the Royal Institute, London. “The Discovery of the Future,” Nature, no. 65 (1902).

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In the Preface to the 1941 edition of H. G. Wells' The War In The Air (first published in 1908, then in 1921) he wrote: “Again I ask the reader to note the warnings I gave in that year, twenty years ago. Is there anything to add to that preface now? Nothing except my epitaph. That, when the time comes, will manifestly have to be: ‘I told you so. You damned fools.’ (The italics are mine.)”

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[Logos]

‘We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.’ (October 25th, 1836 entry from Nathaniel Hawthorne's (http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/) Passages from the American Notebooks [1868]).
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[Jay]

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin

[Matsiah]

‘We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.’ (October 25th, 1836 entry from Nathaniel Hawthorne's (http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/) Passages from the American Notebooks [1868]).
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Or perhaps, we congratulate ourself at the moment of awakening, for, it was the moment just before death. You know, I'm sure, that they say people death in dreams stops breath in teams; therefore, perhaps that awakening from such a terrible dream, needs to be celebrated as an eluding of death - which I would, almost definitely, celebrate. Does that make sense?

[Jaded24-7]

Many people wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way
Nietzsche