What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Admin]

Some of my favs are...

Speak softly and carry a big stick.
-Roosevelt I think

I regret not the things I've done but those I did not do.
-I forget, if anyone knows, tell me

I may disagree with what you have to say but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it.
-Voltaire

Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he has grown so great?
-Shakespeare

The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world.
-I made this up. It was based on someone's signature link though, I just changed it so it sounded better. No idea where its from originally.

[gmhill]

I would have to admit I'm not all that good with quotes :( but... I did like the first three (and the last one of course)
... I find them very interesting.

[artsculp]

can you tell me where this comes from"Whence but from heaven can men unskilled in arts, in several ages born, in several parts, weave such agreeing truths or how or why should each conspire to cheat us with a lie Unasked their pains ungrateful their advice, starving their gain and martrydom their price" I think it's John Donne but where? Thanks

[Admin]

Close, not John Donne, but John Dryden

From his Religio Laici

http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/anna.battigelli/eng313/newpage3.htm

[vladline]

My favorite quote is:

"A life not analyzed is not worth living!"

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

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

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

[rjm.davis]

Einstein..."Imagination is more important than knowledge."

[MortalFool]

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
Shakespeare

[Steve_J]

Quotes...

"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death" - Hemingway

"He never forgets himself in what he feels, so that he never feels anything great" - Gide ( Maybe the Immoralist )

"And I ask myself now, whether it is really happiness I desire so much as the progress towards happiness" - Gide ( Strait is the Gate )

Lastly - ( despite a personally secular outlook )

"When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself and walkest whither thou wouldst, but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thou hands" - attributed to Jesus Christ

Death, loss, inevitability, endless of pursuit of some unattainable goal... all good stuff!!!

[mxmastermike]

im not sure if this is right but it goes something like

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"

-Groucho Marx

that guy is funny

[MortalFool]

On 2002-01-28 09:35, mxmastermike wrote:
im not sure if this is right but it goes something like

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"

-Groucho Marx

that guy is funny


I saw that on a poster in my middle school library, and have loved it ever since.

[naffgap]

"Each generation believes they are more intelligent than the one before it, and wiser than the one after."

I think it was George Orwell?

[Peer Gynt]

'An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind' - Mahatma Gandhi

(exists in several variations)

[bobbyfischer1988]

"poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master"
Leonardo da Vinci

[SirStefan32]

Of all sad words of tongue or pen
the saddest are these, it might have been.

Whitier
"Maud Mueller"

[Athena]

-Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool.-

-hehehe :)

[SirStefan32]

On 2002-04-03 11:09, Athena wrote:
-Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool.-

-hehehe :)



heh heh hehehehhe that was good Athena :)

[Athena]

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful , so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

_________________
. . .and I think to myself, what a wonderful world. . .

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[Zorrinea]

I think that those sayings......unlike a lot of the ones I like........mean a lot if you really think about them.

[Zorrinea]

I forgot to mention: My fav quotes (If anyone really cares) are:

'A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool.'

'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.'

'Against overwhelming odds, you will lose!'

I don't know who said any of these...............so please don't ask! :P

[Import]

I cannot remember who had said this, but this is my favourite:
"There is a pleaseure in being mad which none but madmen know."

[Eric, son of Chuck]

'A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool.'

I believe that is a misquote of Shakespeare. I'll see if I can get the real one, but off the top of my head, I think it's "The fool doth think he is a wise man, and the wise man know he be a fool."

[Sha]

"Paper is more patient than people."

By Anne Frank

Great writer at such a young age. :rolleyes:

[teach1st]

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Tom Robbins

[ifonlyiknew]

a nice little quote:

"We've got to live. No matter how many skies have fallen."

- D.H. Lawrence

[Eric, son of Chuck]

An unexamined life is not worth living. - Either Plato or Socrates

[andina]

"Word are source of misunderstanding"

[zeowyn]

from THE LORD OF THE RINGS

-Many that live deserve death.And some that die deserve life.Can you give it to them?Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
For even the wise cannot see all ends-

its a bit serious....but has a good point 8)

[Gumby]

This is my all time favorite quote:

“Come to the edge,” he said.
They said, “We are afraid.”
“Come to the edge,” he said.
They came. He pushed them…&amp; they flew. - Guillaume Apollinaire

Here are some others that appeal to me:

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar &amp; seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous &amp; exciting, for in movement there is life &amp; in change there is power. - Alan Cohen

This one is good:
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more “manhood” to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul &amp; spirit, not in muscles &amp; an immature mind. - Alex Karras


Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ~Zachary Scott

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton


Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller

Do this now!:

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~Braveheart

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ~Johann von Goethe

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

Now I'd like you to step forward over here. They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? --- Carpe --- hear it? --- Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. Keating: dead poets society.

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
Cynthia Heimel

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~Lao Tzu

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
~Richard Bach

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."
Theophile Gantier

"People facing death don't think about what degrees they have
earned, what positions they have held, or how much wealth they
have accumulated. At the end, what really matters is whom you love
and who loved you."
- Bernadine Healy, MD

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~Confucius

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful
--Anton Szandor LaVey

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Anonymous

"Those who never took a chance, never had a chance"
unknown

"I cried becasue I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet"
unknown

"Those who never took a chance, never had a chance"
"I cried becasue I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet"
“All gave some, some gave all”
“If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it” William Arthur ward

[Sam Gamgee]

Read my signature

[pennington]

mine would have to be
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"

said by Nathion Hale before the british executed him during the revolutionary war.

[Sofia]

"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."
/Shakespeare; 'Macbeth'

"It´s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enought time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero."

"This is your life, and it´s ending one minute at a time."

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."
/Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

"Learning to think nonlinearly, asymmetrically, is I believe essential to our intellectual and political developments. A linear history will lead us to a linear politics and neither will serve us well in an asymmetrical world."
/Elsa Barkley Brown

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then... I contradict myself;
I am large... I contain multitudes."
(Walt Whitman)

[icenspize]

These aren't really favourites, but I like witty, funny ones:

Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
- Unknown

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
- Jane Wagner

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
- Stephen Wright

More from where those came from:
http://gci.gospelcom.net/dw/quotesall.html

[apstudent]

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

[Shea]

"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But oh my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light."

I'm not sure where this originated, but it was quoted in a funny play that I was in, and I've always remembered it. Oh, the play was called Dear Ruth.

[TWTCommish]

"A life not analyzed is not worth living!"

I believe it to be Socrates, but I'm not certain!
Correct. It's sometimes phrased as "An unanalyzed life is not worth living."

I'll chime in with my favorites soon. It'll be tough to pick just a few, though. :)

[Shuai]

This one comes from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, and goes something like this:

"Acquaintance: (noun); a person we do not know well enough to lend to, yet well enough to borrow from; someone who we love passionately when they are wealthy and famous, and someone we pretend not to know when they are worse off than ourselves."

ALSO- "All great truths start out as grear blasphemies."

and "Love makes fools of us all." -Shakespeare

[waxmephilosophical]

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

[b]

My favorite quote is from P. Ovidius Naso, Daedalus et Icarus - Metamorphoses VIII - verse 188:

DIXIT ET IGNOTAS ANIMUM DIMITTIT IN ARTES
NATURAMQUE NOVAT NAM PONIT IN ORDINE PENNAS

He said and he sent his mind to unknown arts
and renews his nature by putting in order the feathers

[imthefoolonthehill]

"when bad men combine, the good must associate;else they fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptable struggle"-Edmund Burke

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends" -William Yeats

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
David T. Wolf (1943 - )

"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931"

[tjg1098]

Speak softly, and carry a big stick.

Do, or do not. There is no "try."

I used to be schizophrenic, but we're ok now.

It takes a big man to cry, a bigger man to laugh, and a very big man to ask "Why?"

'Twas not theirs to reason why. 'Twas but theirs to do, and die.

I think, therefore I am.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Now you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...

The entire book of Proverbs.

Let he who is blameless be first to cast a stone.

Truly I say to you that this poor widow dropped in more than all those dropping money into the treasury chests; for they dropped in out of their surplus, but she, out of her want, dropped in all of what she had, her whole living.

All the world is a stage, and all the men and women, merely players.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things..."

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

I did not have sex with that woman.

Every silver lining has a touch of gray.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I have a dream...

Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

Jeremiah was a bullfrog...

I'm the smartest person I know.

Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get.

There's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

They come in pints? I'm getting one!

Who died and made you king?

E pluribus unum

"Nah, Santa Claus is not a musician, man..." "Yeah, I hear ya...that cat couldn't play ANY tunes..."

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed in the morning...

E.T. phone home

I pay you fellas to work, not to flounce around like a buncha Kansas City *******.

Meh...what's up doc?

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

[imthefoolonthehill]

looks like somebody is a beatles fan :-D

(up)

[Jinzi]

"there are only two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle, another is as though everything is a miracle"
---------my favorite quote from Albert Einstein !!! ;)

[Arteum]

"So foul a sky clears not without a storm"
-- William Shakespeare, "King John"

"Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?"
-- John Fowles, "The Magus"

[den]

One of my favs is in my sigline... the Cocteau one.

[alatar]

cogito ergo sum - Descartes

errare humanum est - Cicero

exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus - Seneca

meminerunt omnia amantes - Ovid

semper flamma flummo proxima - Plautus

nihil tam absurdum quod non dictum sit ab aliquo - Cicero

nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius - Plautus

si post fata venit gloria non propero - Martial

O xein', aggellein Lakedaimoniois 'oti têde
keimetha, tois keinôn 'rêmasi peithomenoi. - Simonides

[Lorenzo Steed]

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen

It is easier to fight for one's priciples than to live up to them. Alfred Adler

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power. Ashleigh Brilliant

The love you take is equal to the love you make. The Beatles

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made. Bismark

One can outwit a scoundrel or foil a thief, but against a fool even the gods are helpless. Sir Francis Bacon

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and fresh air. Jack Benny

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Caron de Beaumarchais

{in memorium} One function the TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley

I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home, apart from the sex of course. Baldrick (Sense and Senility)

Never moon a werewolf. Mike Bender

First you forget names. Then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up. And finally you forget to pull it down. George Burns

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. Book of Chan

I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore.
Paddy Chayevsky

There are only 2 lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Hodding Carter

Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. Arthur C. Clarke

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camera

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.
Now he's miserable and depressed. David Frost

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in 2 small jumps. David LLoyd George

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and and wonder what else you can do while you're down there. Fred &amp; Gerry

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

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Andrew Holmes

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. Sir Robert Hutchinson

What is true is what I can't help believing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson

People demand freedom of speech to make up for freedom of thought, which they avoid. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

The female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling

Critics say that Andy Warhol's portraits of Campbell's soup cans were a brilliant satire of culture, in much the same way that Campbell's Soup is a brilliant satire of food. Craig Kilborn

"Shut up," he explained. Ring Lardner

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. G. Gordon Liddy

Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is. Gershon Legman

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics. Though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken

Tradition is a guide, not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham

................and thank you for your attention and patience. Lorenzo

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[Lorenzo Steed]

Ah! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. I'm Ba-ack.

One monkey don't stop no show. Sticks McGhee

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. John Maxwell

'Strategy' is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. 'Tactics' is getting her to drink it. Frank Muir

The trouble with eating Italian food is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again. George Miller

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid. But most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill

If I have seen more than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neill

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. John Nuveen

If people destroy something replaceable, made by mankind, they are called vandals. If they destroy something irreplaceable, made by God, they are called developers. Gaylord Nelson

Just because everthing is different doesn't mean that anything has changed. from The San Francisco Oracle

If an infinite number of rednecks, driving an infinite number of pickup trucks, fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of highway signs, they will eventually re-produce all the world's great literary works, in Braille. Omni Magazine

In the field of observation, chance favors the pepared mind. Louis Pasteur

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end-to-end-- I wouldn't be surprised. Dorothy Parker

All you touch and all you see, Is all your life will ever be.
Pink Floyd, 'Breathe.'

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Make no mistake, the weeds will win. Nature bats last. Robert Pyle

A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows. Monica Piper

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized the Lord doesn't work that way. So I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips

A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike

'The 50-50-90 Rule' : Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell

An intellectual snob is one who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather

I never cease to be dumbfounded by the unbelieveable things people believe. Leo Rosten

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Rita Rudner

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The pain passes; the beauty remains. Auguste Renoir

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. Jonathan Swift

When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward. Swedish Proverb

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre

'Criminal' : A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel. But they do not suffer less because they have no words. Anna Sewell

My doctor gave me 2 weeks to live. I hope they're in August. Ronnie Shakes

The only winner of the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. Solomon Short

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. Claude Swanson

Good answers come from good questions, not from esoteric analysis.
Schoolman

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. Bob Seeger

If triangles had a god, he would have 3 sides. Charles de Secondat

The right to do something, does not mean that doing it is right. William Safire

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? Dr. Robert Schuller

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla's tired. Robert Strauss

...................until we meet again, thank you and good night. Lorenzo

[zheng89120]

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
- George Bernard Shaw

[Phoenix_Tears]

i love just about anything written by shakespeare. i also favour lewis carroll's 'alice in wonderland and through the looking glass' but my favourite quote is this
" the last act is bloody, no matter how fine the play"
i believe that is by pascal. in possibly a different variation.
also these

You are you and i am i . You do your thing and i do mine. and in the end if we end up together, it's beautiful.- Boy meets World

If you take a bird's wings, it will still find a way to soar.- ??

I do not look at the glass as half empty, but merely half full- my mum

I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. when someone is telling me the truth, that is when i give my heart- Shakira

[AbdoRinbo]

It's quite simple. He proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father. --James Joyce, 'Ulysses'.

[redrum]

"hell is other people"
-Sartre

[Blackadder]

One of my favorites:

God is a comedian playing to an audience who is afraid to laugh.

--Voltaire.

Also:

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

--Oscar Wilde.

[nome1486]

Something to the effect of: "Adults are obsolete children," written by Dr. Seuss in an essay on why he wrote for children. Not my all-time favorite, but the one I have in mind at the moment.

[gterpenkas]

Who propst, thou ask'st, in these bad days my mind?
Answer: Congealed Ectoplasm

-[very early] Salvador Dali

It's probably the worst line of poetry I've ever read, but it remains one of my favorites just due to the crappyness.


This one really isn't a quote per say as probably the best opening paragraph I've ever read in my life. It sets the stage for one of the most cynical novels I've ever read, and I love it (Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust):

"Was anyone hurt?"

"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court. They were in no danger. The fire never reached the bedrooms I am afraid. Still, they are bound to need doing up, everything black with smoke and drenched in water and luckily they had that old-fashioned sort of extinguisher that ruins everything. One really cannot complain. The chief rooms were completely gutted and everything was insured. Sylvia Newport knows the people. I must get on to them this morning before that ghoul Mrs Shutter snaps them up."

[Ginger]

The only possible heaven is the one where I wouldnt know I'd once existed.-John Fowles

It's a vicious circle. People are going deaf because
music is played louder and louder. But because they're going deaf,
it has to be played louder still.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life,
we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in
our lives to come. - Milan Kundera.

[gatsbysghost]

Wherever you go, there you are.


Depressed? Oh horse sh!t. A man can only love as much as he allows himself to love. He can only be as happy as he allows himself to be. We've all been dying since the day we were born and there ain't a damned thing we can do about it. You live hard, work hard and play hard.
Depressed. Whose got time for it anyway?

[Lothwen]

I was wondering very long if I should write it, because I am not good in translations :), but I'll try:

Beside gift of brightness is mercy of shadow and beside gift of feelings, gift of oblivion. (Jan Sztaudynger)

[imthefoolonthehill]

Ginger: I love your first quote. :-D its great.

"The only possible heaven is the one where I wouldnt know I'd once existed"-John Fowles

absolutely great... thanks.

[KLO]

They were the white boy, marked forever, and the old dark man sired on both sides by savage kings, who had marked him, whose bloody hands had merely formally consecrated him to that which, under the man's tutelage, he had already accepted, humbly and joyfully, with abnegation and with pride too; the hands, the touch, the first worthy blood which he had been found at last worthy to draw, joining him and the man forever, so that the man would continue to live past the boy's seventy years and then eighty years, long after the man himself had entered the earth as chiefs and kings entered it...--William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses

There is only
Process, which is one name for history. Often
Pitiful. But, sometimes, under
The scrutinizing prism of Time,
Triumphant.
--Robert Penn Warren, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man...--Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

And see my signature!

[AbdoRinbo]

When did you start reading Faulkner, KLO?

[KLO]

I started Faulkner in the 10th grade, so I was about 16. My class was divided into groups of 5 and each group had to analyze "The Bear." Each person in the group had to take one chapter, and because I was the one who read all of the time, my group decided I should get Chapter 4 with all of the stream of consciousness stuff. I was fascinated by the emotional struggle of Ike and his reaction to his own history, so from that moment on, I was hooked. :)

[nicholasburrus]

Mine is

___________________________________
"Two if by land one if by sea" Paul Reveere on the Midnight ride

[AbdoRinbo]

For future reference it was 'one if by land, two if by sea.'

[fayefaye]

lol

[fayefaye]

Originally posted by Zorrinea
I forgot to mention: My fav quotes (If anyone really cares) are:
'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.'

'Against overwhelming odds, you will lose!'

I don't know who said any of these...............so please don't ask! :P

confuscious said the 'i hear ..' thingy. i like that last one, but i don't know who that's by.

[fayefaye]

Originally posted by alatar
cogito ergo sum - Descartes

errare humanum est - Cicero

exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus - Seneca

meminerunt omnia amantes - Ovid

semper flamma flummo proxima - Plautus

nihil tam absurdum quod non dictum sit ab aliquo - Cicero

nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius - Plautus

si post fata venit gloria non propero - Martial

O xein', aggellein Lakedaimoniois 'oti têde
keimetha, tois keinôn 'rêmasi peithomenoi. - Simonides

i know the first two, but can someone translate the rest?

[Jay]

okay, will look at it, but just the Latin ones

[fayefaye]

thanks, jay.

[imthefoolonthehill]

thanks admin for bringing this back!

[fayefaye]

yeah-this is a great thread!

[imthefoolonthehill]

but we need some new quotes here... come on forum members! I need to have SOMETHING to mock... :-D

[Karma]

Originally posted by imthefoolonthehill
but we need some new quotes here... come on forum members! I need to have SOMETHING to mock... :-D

I'm sure this one is mockable....

"Life happens and doesn't always go the way we want it to." ~ Karma

This is one from a very dear friend regarding the passing of her fiance....

"the only way through pain is heart first" ~ Mrs Kevin Wynne

A quote from which I know none of you will understand the fourth line, lol.

"cry, because you need to
smile, because you deserve it
laugh, because its music to his ears
and smack your *** and yell knockstar" ~ Mrs Kevin Wynne

[Stanislaw]

doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected.

And my sig.

[DumbLikeAPoet]

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams


Jonus

[Jay]

Have patience Faye, will hopefully be able to post the translations on Thursday... sorry

[fayefaye]

Don't be sorry. :) Oh, I was rifling through old posts and found this:
'Bad things are not something that happens to Other People.
They will happen to you. They will happen to the ones you love.
It will hurt. You will make it.

There is so much strength in a human being. There is so much strength in you. All of you. First to survive, and then to live.

Personally I think that life gets better. Good things happen too. Sometimes by chance. Sometimes by the help of others. Most of it you create. All your work now, all your hard studies are you creating better things for yourself. '

It's actually by Isaqel. I thought I'd stick it up here.

[imthefoolonthehill]

thanks fayefaye... that is so great I am going to put it in my aim info.

[Isagel]

Thank you Faye! You made my day (now I need that blushing emoticon). I´m being quoted! How cool is that?

My favorite quote today is :
"You searched for a flower
and found a fruit
You searched for a well,
and found an ocean
You searched for a woman
and found a soul,
you´re disapointed"
Edith Södergran

[fayefaye]

ok, I've got some that have been floating around in my head the last few days:

-Bite off more than you can chew, then chew like buggery

-all chances are 50/50. All you have to lose is inexperience

-When monster meets monster, one monster has to give way, AND IT WILL NEVER BE ME. (Alexandra Del Lago, Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth)

Something I've taken out of context to give the words broader meaning:
-'Everyone sees what you seem to be, few touch upon what you are, and those few do not dare to contradict the opinion of the many who have the majesty of the state to defend them;' (Machiavelli's The Prince)

[Jay]

I need to apologise once more Faye, the teacher I was "comparing notes" of the translation leaft earlier than I thought and I haven't managed to post it yet as it needs correction (still not that good in Latin after all)... but I'm still on it :o. It's funny, translating from Latin to Czech and then from Czech to English ;). Should be able to post it hopefully on Monday :o.

[fayefaye]

Don't stress. You're busy enough as it is. :)

[nicholasburrus]

"Come on out here you old rat"
-Jhon Adams hunting the British

[Jay]

Yeah, GOT IT Faye ;). Thought it would go faster... but got it in the end :), ehm, but kinda using three different grammars left it kinda not so English :o

SENECA: exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus
- what we live is a tiny fraction of life

OVID: meminerunt omnia amantes
- lovers (loved ones) remember all (everything)

PLAUTUS: semper flamma flummo proxima
- the fire is always near(by) the smoke

CICERO: nihil tam absurdum quod non dictum sit ab aliquo
- nothing is such a nonsense not to be said by someone (anyone)

PLAUTUS: nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius
- there is nothing more endearing (plesant, likeable) for man than a friend who appears suitably

MARTIAL: si post fata venit gloria non propero
- if the words come after death, I have no need to hurry

and oh my, there's no chance I'm gonna have that much posts as long as I'm in uni...

[fayefaye]

THANKS JAY!!:)

[Jay]

NO PROBLEMO ;), anytime

so which one of these is your fav now that you know what it says? I like the Martial's one...

[fayefaye]

definately the cicero and seneca ones. hey jay, check ur PM thingy. :)

[Jay]

hey Faye, check yours ;)

and yeah, the Cicero's one is pretty cool too.

[David J]

Here's some more Classical Quotes:

The child is father to the man
Seneca

Call no man happy until he is in his grave
Herodotus

Silence has many fine things
Unknown (Greek)

And here's some more provokative ones from William Blake:

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Better to kill an infant in its bed than nurse unacted desires

When the doors of perception are cleansed everything will appear to man as it is - infinite

And here's one from the Buddha:
If you meet the buddha on the road, kill him

[David J]

O and here's a couple by Jim Morrison:

They say everyone was born but I don't recall it. Maybe I was having one of my blackouts.

Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's claws

[tjg1098]

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where..." "Then it doesn't matter which way you go..." --conversation between Alice and the Cheshire cat

[azmuse]

"Purge me with hyssop and i shall be clean; wash me and i shall be whiter than snow. Teach me to hear joy and laughter, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice."

"You have many friends, don't you Pooh?" "Yes, but only one Piglet."

[Taliesin]

"Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That
way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."
"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
"The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head."
"Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
"You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was "but we've always done it this way." A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they?"
"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!"
"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."

All of them by Terry Pratchett

Also, I like these:

"Nostalgia is not what it used to be."

"The secret of happiness is not the money. It is the amount of it."

[Monica]

'The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause'. Umberto Eco "Foucault's Pendulum"
I also like
'To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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.'
Shakespeare of course.

[amuse]

"Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
rofl :D

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."

All of them by Terry Pratchett
"The secret of happiness is not the money. It is the amount of it."
hmm, now...:)

[Dunpeal]

"The true purpose of life is to serve humanity." (Leo Tolstoy)

"The only source of knowledge is experience." (Albert Einstein)

[Miranda]

From the book of Isaiah:
'Fear not, for I Have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And through rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle against you, for I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour.

[emily655321]

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
--Voltaire

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill

[Shea]

"It does not do to dwell on dreams"--Dumbledore

To combat those who've never really read Harry Potter but still think they ought to be banned.

[emily655321]

;) Then how about this one too...

"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
--Epictetus (AD 55-135)

[Monica]

I have nothing to declare exept my genius

Time is like a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Albo lapillo notare diem - To mark a day with a white stone

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibur ultor - May some avenger arise from my bones.

[seeker]

If no one loved, the sun would go out.
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

†
pura vida
seeker

[poehee99]

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-- Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-- Albert Einstein

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
-- Albert Einstein

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
-- Plato

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." --Mark Twain

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison

[atiguhya padma]

Either that wallpaper goes or I do.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde on his deathbed.

[subterranean]

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

"on old age"
cicero

[subterranean]

nice guys sometime win,
but only if they learn to snarl

jay leno

[Monica]

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans

[ajoe]

I'll throw in a few unimportant and meaningless quotes:

"I got my eye on you. And I don't blink." -- Nigel Uno

"Yay, I'm a llama again! Wait." -- Kuzco

"No matter how good you are, there's always a billion other people better than you." -- Homer Simpson --> this one is actually true

[Taliesin]

I don't know if it has been said here, but I'll say it anyway:

"All attempts to achieve heaven on earth have always ended in hell on earth."

Popper

[seeker]

PLAUTUS: semper flamma flummo proxima
- the fire is always near(by) the smoke

i like that one best; then again im a pyro...

I have also been taking a liking to Kahlil Gibran:

"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
(Kahlil Gibran’s letter November 8, 1908.)

[Stanislaw]

two rights don't make a left... they make a plain.

I love that one, but I can't remember the author

[vango]

i read your quotes one by one, and like them very much.
but i think it will be better to write out why you like them.
and if there is one thing has some relationship with them, please write it down, and that will be much better

[Jester]

Some of my favorites (i have a whole books worht that jsut keeps getting bigger and bigger...)

In my frail canoe I struggle to cross the sea of desire and forget that I too and playing a game.
-tagore

An age builds of cities; an hour destroys them.
- seneca

We must learn to live together as brothers or parish together as fools
Martin luther King, jr

nobody shoots at santa claus
alfred E smith

it is useless to send armies against ideas
gregory brandes

do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river
haitian proverb

when you shoot an arrow of truth dip its point in honey
arab proverb

its not that im afraid to die, i just dont want to be there when it happens
woody allen

after scolding one's cat
one looks into its face
and is siezed by the ugly suspicion
that it understood every word
and has filed it away for future reference
charlotte gray
(this is so true, my cats love to pee on the worst possible places at the worst possible times afte ryou piss em off, eg, the bed at three o clock in the morning on a week night when you hav eto get up at six the next morning.)

all are equal in the eyes of death and the bus driver
(dont know, tell me if you do)

You have to know the rules before you can break them
Scott Johnson (my english teacher)

whenever you come near the human race ther's layers and layers of nonsense.
thornton wilder, Our Town

we have not inherited the earth from our parents. We are borrowing it from our children.
(native american i think, tell me if you know)

[amuse]

i cut & pasted, then googled to confirm the last quote - thought it was native american as well. turns out, it's been attributed to native americans, kenyans, and more:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=we+have+not+inherited+the+earth+from+our+parents .+We+are+borrowing+it+from+our+children&btnG=Google+Search

btw, love your quotes. & your location.

[Jester]

hey thanks :)

[bjortan]

"The mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work unless it's open."

"Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
(both by Frank Zappa)

"Difficile est satiram non scribere." (The hard thing is to NOT write satire)
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

[Icarus]

"The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for."
- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

[kushi]

I should just copy paste the Sunscreen song..i love all the stuff he says..
Do Not Read Beauty Magazines... They Will Only Make ... You... Feel.. Ugly!
Dance The Funky Chicken on Your 75th Wedding Anniversary!
tee hee hee
if you guys havent heard that song already, i suggest you do!

[subterranean]

"All attempts to achieve heaven on earth have always ended in hell on earth."

Popper

Pheww...sad but true..

[Eric, son of Chuck]

"Not to sound crass, but instead of complaining about stupid people why don't we remove all the warning labels and let the problem solve itself?" - Anonymous internet hero

[seeker]

i just found my big list of quotes, so here it goes!

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
-Gandhi


My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty, and that this defence prevails, though the world be against the individual resister.
-Gandhi


Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
-gandhi


I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
-Gandhi

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
-Victor Hugo

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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. "
-Alfred Adler


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"I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"
-Voltaire

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. "
-Voltaire

"All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. "
Voltaire

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother. "
-Voltaire

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

"A witty saying proves nothing. "
-Voltaire

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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
--- Isaac Asimov ---


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"People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
-Victor Hugo



"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. "
-Victor Hugo

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "
-Victor Hugo

"If no one loved, the sun would go out."
-Victor Hugo

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"Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil."
-Emo Philips

"I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy."
-Emo Philips

"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks."
-Emo Philips

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
-Emo Philips

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life."
-Emo Philips



"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-- Gandhi

"Hatred ever kills, love never dies; such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. "
-gANDHI

"Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. "
-Ghandi

"The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted." -Ghandi

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all 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. I refuse to live in other people's houses as an interloper, a beggar or a slave. "
-Ghandi

[seeker]

and one more set! last from me i promise


Knowledge is life with wings.
(Kahlil Gibran’s Letter. November 15, 1917.)

Marriage doesn’t give one any rights in another person except such rights that a person gives -
nor any freedom except the freedom which that person gives.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal. May 27, 1923.)

Among intelligent people the surest basis for marriage is friendship - the sharing of real interests-
the ability to fight out ideas together and understand each other’s thoughts and dreams.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell’s Journal. May 26, 1923.)

...what is there in a storm that moves me so ? Why am I so much better and stronger and more certain of life when a storm is passing ? I do not know, and yet I love a storm more, far more, than anything in nature.
(Kahlil Gibran’s letter August 14, 1912.)

I often picture myself living on a mountain top, in the most stormy country (not the coldest) in the world. Is there such a place ? If there is I shall go to it someday and turn my heart into pictures and poems.
(Kahlil Gibran’s letter March 1, 1914.)

--(this one reminds me of the Dominican Republic, sitting on top of one of their mountains while a storm rolls in or the sun is setting...)--

I realized that all the trouble I ever had about you came from some smallness or fear in myself.
(From Mary Haskell’s Journal. June 12, 1912.)

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
(Kahlil Gibran’s letter November 8, 1908.)

"Live for yourself- live your life. Then you are most truly the friend
of man." -Kahlil Gibran

"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one
with whom you have wept." -Kahlil Gibran

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9-19-04

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
-Voltaire

[Sancho]

“The French don’t even have a word for ‘entrepreneur’”

Attributed to George Bush by a British newspaper

“If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it’s good enough for me!”

A former Texas Governor (not George Bush)

[Taliesin]

Good enough for Jesus :lol: :lol:

Yes, that reminds me of some person in a high post who said about the conflicts of yews and arabians - Someting like : "Why can't they settle their differences like good christians ever?"

Shaquille O'Neil, when he was asked if he visited Parthenon in Athens -"I don't remember the names of all the clubs to which we went."

Super model Beverly Johnson - "Everyone should have enough money for a plastic surgery"

Dan Quaile - "Not pollution is a threat to the nature, but the uncleanliness of air and water"

Bush - "I have got my opinion, a strong opinion, but I don't always agree with it."

Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington: "When leaving aside the murders then the crime level is one of the lowest here."

[Sancho]

Bah, hahahahaha; Whooeee! heh heh; that's rich, I'll say; too much funny.

Let's hear it for politicians..."PTOOEY"

[amuse]

so glad you're back!!!

[Sancho]

Thanks amuse. I've been working too much lately. I need to get my priorities straight and start loafing more.

[bookman]

"United we stand, divided we fall"

I'm not sure but I think it was Stalin.

[bookman]

And another one: Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.

[Spite]

So many....

Thou dost frighten me with dreams and terrify me by Visions.

Job 7:14


"we have made our covenet with death, we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselfs."

Izeah 28:15

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

shakespeare

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Samuel Johnson

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Eric Hoffer

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

George Eliot

"i remember the very things i do not wish to, i cannot forget the things i wish to forget."

Cicero


"Every man before he dies shall see the Devil"

English proverb, 1560


"Age does not make men childish as folks tell us
it only finds them children to the end."

"The glorious feelings, those that most we prized,
That made indeed our very life of life,
In the world's turmoil and ignoble strife
Are sear'd and paralysed."

"All that philosophy can teach,
The lore of jurist and of leech,
I've mastered, ah! and sweated through
Theology's dead deserts, too,
Yete here, poor fool! for all my lore,
I stand no wiser than before."

"Art is long, time short."

"[Words] must flow out from the heart.
And, when the soul is touched with passion's flame,
We look around and ask - Who burns the same?"

"Nor past nor future now the soul employ,
The present only constitutes our joy."

Foust

[mono]

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Very interesting. Which of Nietzsche's works does this originate?



"i remember the very things i do not wish to, i cannot forget the things i wish to forget."
Cicero


Ah, Cicero - by far one of the most quotable people in history. Eventually, I should start a thread of his many quotes.

[subterranean]

so glad you're back!!!


Seconded yours Ash.


My recet fav:

You're not your job
You're not how much money you have in the bank
You're not the car you drive
You're not the contents of your wallet
You're not your khakis
You're the all singing, all dancing, crap of the world

From Fight Club.

Very deep inspiring words (IMO)

[bookman]

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Nietzsche

[Spite]

The Nietzsche quote i read in a Spy novel... heh.

Yes, you should start the Cicero thread

[Gozeta]

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet (1960), Act 2, spoken by Hamlet
“There is only one good, that is, knowledge; and only one evil, that is, ignorance.”
- Socrates (470-399), Diogenes Laertius (3rd c. AD), Lives of the Philosophers, quoting Socrates

“If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.”
- Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), Summa Theologicae (1265)

“So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.”
- Thomas S. Eliot (1888-1965), Introduction to The Intimate Journals of Charles Baudelaire, tr. Christopher Isherwood (1930)

“Most of the simple ideas that make up our complex ideas of substances, when truly considered, are only powers, however we are apt to take them for positive qualities; e.g. the greatest part of the ideas that make our complex idea of gold are yellowness, great weight, ductility, fusibility, and solubility in aqua regia, &c., all united together in an unknown substratum: all which ideas are nothing else but so many relations to other substances; and are not really in the gold, considered barely in itself, though they depend on those real and primary qualities of its internal constitution, whereby it has a fitness differently to operate, and be operated on by several other substances.”
- John Locke (1632-1704), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690}

“Primary substances are most properly called substances in virtue of the fact that they are the entities which underlie everything else, and that everything else is either predicated of them or present in them.”
- Aristotle (384-322), Categories
“By nature men are alike. Through practice they have become far apart.”
- Confucius (551-479), Analects

“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
- Plato (429-347), Protagoras (358 BC)

“It is thus clear that, just as some are by nature free, others are by nature slaves, and for these latter the condition of slavery is both beneficial and just.”
- Aristotle (384-322), Politics







“When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something that separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: 'natural' qualities and those called properly 'human' are indivisibly grown together. Man, in his highest and most noble capacities, is wholly nature... Those of his abilities which are awesome and considered inhuman are perhaps the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity... can grow.”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Homer's Contest

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), 'Sir Walter Scott', Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1839)

"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."

"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

“A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), The Conduct of Life (1860)

“For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.”
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Novum Organum (1620)

I thought these were great.

[Dyrwen]

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."
-Seth Thomas, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
-Seth Thomas, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

This next quote, I just love for its mixing of dialect with message more than anything..

"--Ah don't really know, Tam, ah jist dinnae. It kinday makes things seem mair real tae us. Life's boring and futile. We start oaf wi high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we're aw gaunnae die, withoot really findin oot the big answers. We develop aw they long-winded ideas which jist interrpret the reality ay oor lives in different weys, withoot really extending oor body ay worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi ****e, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless. Smack's an honest drug, because it strips away these delusions. Wi smack, whin ye feel good, ye feel immortal. Whin ye feel bad, it intensifies the ****e that's already thair. It's the only really honest drug. It doesnae alter yir consciousness. It just gies ye a hit and a sense ay well-being. Eftir that, ye see the misery ay the world as it is, and ye cannae anaesthetise yirsel against it."
-Mark Renton, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

"...They say, "He gave his life for his country." Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them."
- Admiral Gene Larocque

"As long as the so called freedoms of the US comes at the expense and blood of others you have no right to call yourself a free country. You think the government is protecting and preserving your freedom when you are really protecting and preserving the lifestyles of the greedy rich who have no qulams about plundering and pillaging."
- doggodit (a forum poster I knew)

"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."
- Slavic Proverb

"The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far, but we will walk carefully."
- Russian Proverb

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
-A. Sachs

I'll stop there, I've got hundreds. heh

[baddad]

[QUOTE=Dyrwen"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."
- Slavic Proverb

"The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far, but we will walk carefully."
- Russian Proverb

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
-A. Sachs[/QUOTE]

...amen.

[Dyrwen]

heh, come to think of it, 90% of my quotes are all a/religious in nature, since I gathered them at a time when I used them often.

Amen indeed.

[Anselmus]

"We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the "superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give."
Sesame & Lilies by John Ruskin

"To sing, to laugh, to dream,
To walk in my own way and be lone,
Free, with an eye to see things as they are,
A voice that means manhood--to **** my hat
Where I choose--At a word, a Yes, a No,
To fight--or write. To travel any road
Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt
If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne--
Never to make a line I have not heard
In my own heart; yet, with all modesty
To say: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own."
So, when I win some triumph, by some chance,
Rener no share to Caesar--in a word
I am too proud to be a parasite,
And if my nature wants the germ that grows
Towering to heaven like the mountain pine,
Or like the oak, sheltering multitudes--
I stand, not high it may be--but alone!"
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (translation by Brian Hooker)


(I bypassed the filter, considering the context I assume it's ok - hope...)

(the quote below is also from Cyrano de Bergerac)

[Bongitybongbong]

Those two are very good.

[Surfer]

"People who like quotations like meaningless generalizations."

- Graham Greene

[papayahed]

As seen on another board:

"I highlighted my hair because only some of the strands are special"

and yes it was a hair bored

[Ranoo]

Hello,
this is one of my fav qouetsyou can fool all of the people some of the time;youu can fool some of the people all of the time ;but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" Abraham Lincon :D

[Aloysius]

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Oscar Wilde)
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (St. Paul)

[subterranean]

I have one fav quote from Oscar Wilde

The Mystery of Love is Greater Than The Mystery of Death

[Zeus]

My favourites are;

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely - (I cannot recollect author)

It was a very old North Country rhyme that, that when
land is gone and money spent then learning is most excellent. - Ford Madox Ford

Nature has given woman so much power that the Law has
wisely given her little. - Napoleon

War is the continuation of politics by other means. - Clausewitz

[Anselmus]

If the book of quotes I have is accurate, Lord Acton (John E. E. Dalberg) - English Historian said that in a letter to Creighton (1887): Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton.

"Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

[Zeus]

Thank you, Anselmus. I am certain it is Lord Acton.......I had forgotten.

[Molko]

My favourite quotes come from Fydor Dostoevsky:

"People sometimes talk about man's animal cruelty, but that is being terribly unjust and offensive to animals: no animal can ever be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. The tiger simply gnaws and tears and that is all it can do. It would never occur to him to nail people by their ears overnight, even if he were able to do it"

"I think that if the Devil does not exist, and consequently man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness"

-Taken from the Brothers Karamazov

[Sitaram]

People often say "Money is the root of all evil" but the actual quote from one of the Epistles is "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil."

It seems to me that Lord Acton said "Power TENDS to corrupt..." but I am not certain about that.

"No generalization is worth a damn, including this one." (dont know who said that, but perhaps Lord Google does)

[subterranean]

Lord Acton said: Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[whereismymind]

"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But oh my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light."

I'm not sure where this originated, but it was quoted in a funny play that I was in, and I've always remembered it. Oh, the play was called Dear Ruth.


The quote is originally by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Ulalle]

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
-- Joseph Roux



not sure who the human was beside the fact that he was french but i like the double entendre

[Cassiopeia]

Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (St. Paul)

Oooo, that's Corinthians 13:13, one of my favorite verses.

I have quite a few...

" I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie

" I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." - Emily Bronte

" Always there remains portions of our hearts into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may." - Mary Dixon Thayer

And here are ones I cannot remember the author of...

" Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

" Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

[mono]

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
William Congreve wrote this one in The Mourning Bride.


"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
And the admirable and witty Oscar Wilde wrote this one.

[Punc Rock On]

"Many men have thus a secret monster, a disease which thye feed, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resmebles other poeple, goes, comes. Nobody knows that he has within him a fearful parasitic pain, with a thousand teeth, which lives in the miserable man, who is dying of it." ~Victor Hugo

"Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad." ~Jacob August Rus

"But as for me, I will trust in You." ~Psalm 55 (last verse, don't have my Bible handy)

"I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details." ~Albert Einstein

That's all for now!

PS--Hey guys, I'm new. Nice to meet ya.

[lukkiseven]

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde

[richardIII]

"Are we not here now", said the colonel, striking his stick to the floor, "And are we not", dropping his head upon the ground, "gone in a moment?"
Tristram Shandy
One of the most powerful quotations I've ever heard. Don't know any better about vanitas (lots of them are to pathetic, what is of course my personal oponion).
Greets

[Stanislaw]

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. - Hebrews 9:22

[Helga]

Fashion is just another form of uglyness. And it is so ugly, it has to be changed every 6 months. -Oscar Wilde

[atiguhya padma]

Richard III,

Great quote from a brilliant novel. Welcome to the forum.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Proust

[Monica]

Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no-one is watching.

I wanted to play guitar very badly and I DO play guitar very badly.


Both by Paul Hewson (a.k.a. Bono :))

[mono]

I cannot claim the below as my all-time favorite quote, but I read it today, and found it rather witty, and worth sharing.

There'll be two dates on your tombstone,
And all your friends will read 'em;
But all that's gonna matter
Is that little dash between 'em.

Kevin Welch

[Taliesin]

Two more:

"The most violent religion is stupidity"
"In time, the length of all ways is equal"

[Adelheid]

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. - Hebrews 9:22

Another translation says, (just to make it clearer):

"By the law, without shedding of Blood, is no remission of sin." Hebrews 9:22

That's why you need the Blood of Jesus to cleanse you from your sins. soap can't...water can't...detergent can't...only the blood of Jesus can.

(Before Jesus came, people offered sacrifices, and used a scapegoat.)

[Punc Rock On]

That's the beautiful thing about life, Adelheid. It's what keeps me (and many, many others) going.

And, to add a quote from Abraham Lincoln, "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."

[bobthejeep]

I have too many favorite quotes to add a serious one into the mix...but I saw a lot of religious quotes, so here is a humorous one for you all. I saw it on a t shirt.

"Heck is where people go who don't believe in gosh."

[Admin]

I think this thread is officially the oldest surviving thread in the forums.

[Rumi_Shams_One]

The end of knowledge is when men come to the point where he was at the origine

[atiguhya padma]

David Hume:
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.
Essays

David Hume
Mankind are, in all ages, caught by the same baits: the same tricks played over and over again, still trepan them.
Essays

David Hume
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Of Miracles

[subterranean]

That is so you AP ;)


Posted by Admin : I think this thread is officially the oldest surviving thread in the forums.


Now, that's a good quote for all forumers :nod: :D

[baddad]

A.P......really enjoyed the Hume quotes .............

IMHO....... it is most often people themselves who endeavor to hide from some truths, who choose to be bewitched, the better to survive spiritually than to admit existence in an uncaring world. Life is tough...then you die. Most of us are well aware of this. I'll not begrudge anyone beliefs that alleviate the stresses in their lives.Yet there is also no reason why I must follow. Their beliefs do not infringe upon my intellect nor upon my spirit. And while I believe it temperant to be as rational as possible in all things, there is no reason my approach to life is any more valid than someone who annoints an 'otherwordly' figurehead as an approach to theirs. Whichever philosophy works to make life pleasant and happy is a good thing. Yes, deny the validity of any philosophy,rail against its' exponents, rail against the political machine that is organized religion, but I believe it is better to stone the 'priests', not the congregation....you'll only frighten the congregation and send them running pellmell into the temples.......

[Snic19]

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories.
This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into
being, but left the end of our story untold.
That mystery is troubling to us.
How could it be otherwise?
Without the final part, we think, how are we to
make sense of all that went before:
which is to say, our lives?

So we make stories of our own,
in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker,
hoping that we will tell, by chance, what God left untold.
And finishing our tale,
come to understand why we were born.

Clive Barker

[Snukes]

Gah! Snic - for having provided a decent quote from a somewhat surprising source, I must say I find your signature to be rather distressing...

[blp]

Beckett:

'I can't go on, I'll go on'

'Try, fail, try again, fail better'

And, from 'The End':

'Now I was making my way through the garden. There was that strange light which follows a day of persistent rain, when the sun comes out and the sky clears too late to be of any use. The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. F*** off she said.'

'I had the great good fortune, more than once, not to be run over. My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty, jovial laugh so good for the health.'

And by George Bataille, from Blue of Noon:

'It has been my aim to express myself clumsily.'

And by TS Eliot, from the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock:

[blp]

Young writers should go through their work and cross out all the good bits - Ben Johnson

[Ellipsis]

and by TS Eliot, from the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock:


I love that one :thumbs_up :thumbs_up

And more Eliot
"In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse"

[amirah_almas]

To be or Not to be ; Hamlet- Shakespeare when he contemplates whether to live or not.

[Taliesin]

We read an extremely witty comment about a theory of quantum mysticism.


Davis marks out that when the mass of neutrinos were (5 * 10-34) instead of (5 * 10-35)kg, then the result would be a collapsing universe. Is this surprising, considering that the unit is a kilogramme? The shockingness of the example comes from the choice of units. (If Michael Jordan were 1/10 to the power of 16 light years (1 meter) shorter, he would never have been a world-famous basketball player.)

[poppymontgomery]

Two of my many favorite quotes are:

"Because you know if you play New Kids on the Block albums backwards they sound better. "Oh come on, Bill, they're the New Kids, don't pick on them, they're so good and they're so clean cut and they're such a good image for the children." **** that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who ****ing ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his ****ing HEART!"

Bill Hicks

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

[fontana]

i think this quote is quite funny: "I'm not a bitc*. I'm THE bitc*"
I saw it on a tshirt

[Mark F.]

"The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war" 1984 - George Orwell

That sentence just blew my mind away the first time I read it.

[Wayne]

My favorate quote:

It's better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-----Tennyson

[Wayne]

another favorate quote of mine:

Things that don't actually kill you outright make you stronger.
-----Piet Hein

[metaxy99]

"tanks are mortal, pears eternal."

- from Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

[cls2084]

I love the quote from George Orwell's 1984...

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

[RococoLocket]

"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about"

-Oscar Wilde

[Mark F.]

"I have nothing to declare but my genious" - Oscar Wilde (what a witty bast*rd)

[Fango]

When I was playing a hardcore RPG, I role-played an old-wise druid. I used this site - http://www.worldofquotes.com/search.php to make up quotes for him... here they are:



From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn.

It is always the ones who talk loudest who do the least.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Funny thing about humility. Just when you think you've got it, you've lost it.

It was all so different before everything changed.

My biggest problem is that I believe almost everything I tell myself.

One good thing about forgetting is that you can no longer worry about what
ever it was you forgot.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

Smile! It increases your face value.

To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human.

A dog with a bone knows no friends.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

Sympathy sees and says, "I'm sorry."Compassion sees and says, "I'll help.".

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go.

The only man who is a bigger fool than the one who knows it all is the one who will argue with him.

Boredom sets into boring minds.

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Every man dies; not every man really lives.

If life were easy, then it would be boring.

It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.

Expectations are for the unsure.

The fastest way to find something you've lost is to replace it.

The only stupid question is the question you don't ask.

To hate a person is a waste; half the people you hate don't care, and the other half don't know.

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

When I'm right no-one remembers, when I'm wrong no-one forgets.

When we learn all the answers, they change the questions.

A good way to change somebody's attitude is to change your own.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.

Traveling...

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone.

The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best cook.

Travel broadens the mind.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The axe soon forgets, but the tree always remembers.

A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.

[Bianca Fransen]

Great quotes!

[aberration]

"I dont recommend Alcohol, drugs, violence or insanity to anyone but they've always worked for me" - the late great Hunter S Thompson

"The clothes maketh the man, naked people have little or no influence on society" - I believe it was Mark Twain

"Lecturer: one with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience" -Ambrose Bierce (still MIA)

[Bix12]

Again with the request for the singular favorite...there are far too many great quotes out there, by far too many quotable greats...Kurt Vonnegut alone has a treasure chest full. Here's a few:

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
~Kurt Vonnegut

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
~Kurt Vonnegut

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
~Kurt Vonnegut

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
~Kurt Vonnegut

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~Kurt Vonnegut

And my latest favorite Vonnegut quote:

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
~Kurt Vonnegut


:nod:

[CheshireCat87]

"not all who wander are lost" JRR Tolkien

[Gozeta]

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was
and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

[sir_alex]

"Let me tell you the three phrases that will get you through life:
Number 1: Cover for me!
Number 2:Yes sir boss!
Number 3: It was like that when I got here."
Homer J. Simpson

[RococoLocket]

"Let me tell you the three phrases that will get you through life:
Number 1: Cover for me!
Number 2:Yes sir boss!
Number 3: It was like that when I got here."
Homer J. Simpson

Haha! If we're going with The Simpsons too then "On closer inspection, these are loafers" gets me every single time :lol:

[Monica]

from Bono's front gates:

In the service of God one can learn three things from a child and seven from a thief.

From a child one can learn 1) always be happy 2) never to sit idle 3) and cry for everything one wants.

From a thief you should learn 1) to work at night 2) if one cannot gain it in one night to try again the next night :p 3) to love one's co-workers just as thieves love each other 4) to be willing to risk one's life even for a little thing 5) not to attach too much value to things even though you've risked your life for them just as a thief will resell a stolen article for a fraction of its worth 6) to withstand all kinds of beatings and tortures but to remain what you are and 7) to believe that your work is worthwhile and not be willing to change it.

I've no idea if he came up with it himself or just took it from somebody. Anyhow, I like it.

[blp]

This is just my memory of this quote and I'm not even sure if it was originally said by Ben Jonson or Samuel Johnson, but none of that lessens its greatness:

Young writers should go through their work and cross out all the good bits.

[OanaCh]

I am only one, but I am one, I can't do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do is what I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do. - Edward Hale

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. - Thomas Jefferson

The earth has enough for enery man's need, but not for every man's greed. - Gandhi

I am singing in a chorus, but I want to hear my voice. - don't remember who said that

In prosperity is very easy to find a friend, in adversity, nothing is so difficult. - Epictetus

Keep your breath to cool your porridge. - English saying

Beauty is dangerous, wisdom must be earned, love is of your own choice.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealling thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. - Dorothy Parker

To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must know the rules and abide by them. - Dorothy Parker

Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies. - Martin Luther

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ESHQUIA]

Look down on me, you will see a fool. Look up at me, you will see your lord. Look straight at me, you will see yourself !
CHARLES MANSON

[detays]

When you talk to God its called prayer,
When god talks to you its Catatonic Schizophrenia...
.....................Fox MULDER........................

[avolita]

one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine pic, and, if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words. (Goethe)

[Believer]

I like Emily Dickinson quotes, they say that She's the greatest American Poet writier,
sometimes I agree with them, but not all the time, I just can't forget how did she put away
all her wonderful poems form the world till she died, I hate that she was writing in secret,
but anyway, more than 2000 poem that she wrote, were found after she dided...
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I think that hope is the last thing we lose as human beings,
without hope...everything is simplely gone, hope is what makes us go on in our life,
without it, we would be laying on the bed wating for our souls to leave our bodys,
here's some of fave Emily Dickinson quotes about hope:-
.
"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all."
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."
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"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy."
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"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God."
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"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
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"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."
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How great ! I can't stop reading them over and over...
I hope you like it, as I did...
Believer

[nickelsilver]

There are already over 200 posts on this thread, and I confess I haven't read them ALL, so I hope these haven't been posted already:

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.-- Will Durant

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? -- Samuel Johnson

I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn. Those to whom evil is done do evil in return. -- W.H.Auden

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Unknown (often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

[Believer]

I haven't read all the replys either, maybe 3 or 4, but I have read yours nickelsilver, I liked that last one, most of the times I discuss ideas, dose that really make me an owner of a great mind?


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[NNoah3]

I like this one very much:

"Say only what you mean. The word is the most powerful tool we have as humans".
Don Miguel Ruiz

[dejosc]

the one thats my signature

[Believer]

I like this one very much:

"Say only what you mean. The word is the most powerful tool we have as humans".
Don Miguel Ruiz


WONDERFUL !


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[nickelsilver]

Yeah, Don Miguel Ruiz is a very wise man--well worth reading.

On another note, I have one more fave quote. Actually I have many more favorites, but just one more for now. Not that I'm one to give relationship advice, but if I were, it might go something like this:

It's better to be alone than to wish you were.

[Wendigo_49]

I have a couple, sorry if they are already on here.

"If I told you my reality, you'd
say I have a great imagination,
If I told you my imagination, you'd
say I've lost touch with reality" - Bob Shanks

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." - Samuel Beckett

my signature

and my favorite is a short dialogue between a preacher and a young man at confession:
"Once a upon a time, a pale and troubled man came into your church. You spoke briefly to him, and he told you of his poor relationship with God. you asked him why"
"Yes.."
"And he had no answer, then"
"Yes, I remember you."
"I have returned to tell you that I have found the answer to your question. I know why I hate God."
"...why"
" I hate God because God is the Universe, and the Universe is insane. the Universe is insane because we have driven it insane. This is very embarrasing. God knows this, and uses every opportunity to remind us what we have done to It. Thus, I hate God because God is an embarrasment to me. God is insane. I have made It insane."
I stood up in the booth, and opened the door. "But I am not sorry." - Jonathan Titchenal

[Themis]

At the moment, I can only name three of my favourite quotes:

"In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty." - Edward Abbey

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


"We don't admit, we could be wrong. Least of all, in written form." -

It's about jurists and a course instructor of mine said it. (In German, of course).
I just like it because it's the truth and about the "golden rule" of all lawyers and jurists in general. :)

[NNoah3]

Some quotes about TIME:

"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it
rather than invest it." Jim Rohn


"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get
more time." Jim Rohn

"Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So
make sure you spend each one wisely." Jim Rohn

[GildedLily]

"Engage"--Jean Luc Picard

"You deserve to be tartuffified'--Molieri

"Love's long lost shadow eventually embraces us in the end"--anon

"They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries"--Blanche DuBois (after all, the opposite of death is desire)

[Believer]

Good job guys,


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[Believer]

I have some Arabic quotes, I don't know who said them but they're great, I'll translate them for you in English.
لا يمكن للمرء أن يحصل على المعرفة إلا بعد أن يتعـلم كيف يفكر .
The man can't have knowledge unless he know how to think.
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قطرة الماء تـثـقب الحجر.. لا بالعـنف.. لكن بتواصل السقوط .
The drop of water dug the stone...not with valiance...but with the commutating of falling.
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الصداقة كالماء . سهل أن تضيعه و صعـب أن تحتفظ به .
Friendship is like the water, easy to lose and hard to keep.

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[adilyoussef]

Good quote Believer. I like them to.

"If now considered in the light of liberty, excuse it for the love of poor old days." Charls Dikkens - Great Expectations

"According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true." Idem

"In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life." Idem
The best of them: "The real love is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission,trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your hole heart and soul to the smiter" Idem

[soupy1957]

1.".....Since my house to thy house no greater can send,
than thy house to my house-friend comforting friend." (Kipling)

2."....The Pope may launch his interdict,
the union its decree,
But the bubble is blown and the bubble is pricked
by us and such as we.
Remember the battle and stand aside
while thrones and powers confess
that king over all the children of pride,
Is the Press-the Press-the Press." (Kipling)

3."The man that is open of heart to his neighbor,
and stops to consider his likes and dislikes,
his blood shall be wholesome whatever his labour,
his luck shall be with him Whatever he strikes......" (Kipling, of course)

[PistisSophia]

If one man tells you that you look like a jackass, pay him no mind; if two men tell you that you look like a jackass, go out and buy a saddle.

Yiddish Proverb

[novellover]

It would have to be the following quote by Rene Descartes, though my interpretation of it is alittle different from the original context in which Descartes used it:
"I think therefore I am".
It spells to me the power of our mind, our imagination and thoughts. It tells us how meaningless the concept of the past, present and future is for, as Herman Hesse said in Siddhartha, your mind can take you back to the past, move you to the future or the present. You can relive any moment in the mind.

[Schokokeks]

"Le talent, c'est d'avoir envie."

that would be my favourite one, but I'm afraid I can't remember whose quote it is...('To have a talent for something is merely to have an itch to do it.', I'd translate it)

[Insomnia]

Oh my God! I have many favorite quotes...

Work for life on this earth as if you are to live forever, and work for the Other Life as if you are to die tomorrow

Reason is our souls's left hand, faith her right

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches.. and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool

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

This thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down

We don't see things as they are, we say them as we are

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen

And many more...

[PistisSophia]

I don't know why people are afraid of dying; it's not like you have to worry about breaking your leg.

[YellowCrayola]

I have several http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/cwm/freak4.gif:

1. "Passion drives perfection."
2. "Friendship is like wine; it gets better as it gets older."
3. "Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation." -Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
4. "By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it." -Vincent van Gogh
5. "No one can really die, for as long as you are remembered, you gain immortality." -Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

[veronic]

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." -Virginia Woolf

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" -Ayn Rand.

[Pensive]

"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure" From Harry Potter series
"My heart is the perfect graveyard of burried hopes" From Ann of the Green Gable
"Nothing comes from nothing" by Shakespeare
"To be or not to be that is the real question" by Shakespeare

[lep250]

"Don't bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." R.W. Emerson

[Chava]

"As they poured across the border, we were cautioned to surrender, this i could not do." as sung by Joan Baez (don't know if she sang it first, Leonard Cohen sings it too)

[Satirical]

A man who may speak extemporaniously, lacks passion.
-Nietzsche, Notes on Rhetoric

[YellowCrayola]

I forgot to add: "Judge a man not by his answers, but by his questions." -Voltaire?

[kev73107]

we shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time
--T.S. Eliot

[Lauralou]

I love this poem and use it as my motto in life and the other quote I adore also

Success
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. ~ RW Emerson

Life should not be judged by how many breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away. ~ Author I donno

[MrBojangles]

I love this poem and use it as my motto in life and the other quote I adore also

Success
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. ~ RW Emerson

Life should not be judged by how many breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away. ~ Author I donno


Perhaps it was Sting, or Jessica Simpson lol just kidding...

[Lauralou]

LOL sadly Mr. Bo ur probably right but sometimes I can find insight in the strangest of places... even though I seriously don't like Sting or Jessica Simpson I'm more of a Rolling Stones kinda girl lol

[B-Mental]

Here's a good one from Yellowbeard

"Dying's the easy way out. You won't catch me dying. They'll have to kill me before I die! "

[yellowfeverlime]

Never knock on Death's door; ring the bell and run, He hates that.

[Kaltrina]

- "If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room"

- "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remain all doubt"
Abraham Lincoln

- "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better"
Laurie Anderson

-"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies"
Roderick Thorpe

- "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book"
Groucho Marx

- "The end depends upon the beginning"

- "In times like these, it helps to remember that there have always been times like these"

ok now I'll stop. I have a notebook with a lot of quotes but I'll leave it with these for now.... :D

[rachel]

I love that knocking on death's door. THE BEST.

In the movie rat race, john lovitz who plays a jewish man on vacation with his family ends up stealing a nazi limo from the klaus 'barbie' museum(he was called the butcher of lyon) when some people are angered by him on the highway and begin smashing the car he screams at them "are you insane, this is Hitler's car!" it is so ludicrous it cracks me up every time.

"women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical and there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue." chesterton on dickens

"marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline" manalive

"if one by land and two by sea" paul revere

[Aurora Ariel]

Thomas Paine: “We live to improve or we live in vain."



*I have too many favourite quotes...I could fill pages and pages.
I also like to keep quotes from literature, other books or articles I've read.
When I read, I write them all down as well.

[MiSaNtHrOpE]

I have many

"Humanity is probably the only creature capable of hating its own kind" Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion, Dir. Hideki Anno. Manga Entertainment 2002.

"The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose" Ray Bradbury

"I wanna live, I wanna love, but its a long hard road out of hell" Marilyn Manson

"If America is going to Hell in an immoral handbasket, it is happening when church membership is at an all-time high and a greater percentage of Americans (90-95%) than ever before proclaim a belief in God" Michael Shermer The Science of Good & Evil page 237

[Ricardo_b]

Einstein: I Should have been a plumber!

Marlon Brando: I like Icecreams!

[13blackroses]

'It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.'
and
"To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower . . .hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour . . . " ~William Blake

[bhekti]

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light

- Dylan Thomas -

[starrwriter]

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light - Dylan Thomas
That's a good one. The older I get, the more I see myself raging in a wheelchair some day.

I also like Sartre's "Hell is other people."

[Logos]

I just came across this one..

`Quod me nutrit me destruit' with accompanying emblem of torch turned downward.

(‘That which feeds me destroys me')*

the latin is the motto on a portrait painting that is alleged to be of Christopher Marlowe
(b. 1564- d. 1593)

The lines also bear resemblance to Shakespeares' Sonnet 73:

`Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by'

and

"A burning torch that’s turned upside down;
The word, Qui me alit, me extinguit
[Who feeds me extinguishes me]"
(Pericles, II.ii.33).

* The latin is also supposedly the tattoo that Angelina Jolie has on her belly.

[AL PACINO]

Hello everyone ,I'm new in this forum and here is my first participation

The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly.

I'm afraid that i lost the author

[yellowfeverlime]

Mine are:

Never close the door on the one you hate; they'll just knock the door down.
-me

You can't runaway from yourself.
-Michelle Branch

Never knock on Death's door; ring the bell and run, He hates that.
-Unknown

Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.+
-A Song, Breathe

[Eva Marina]

One of mine is:
"You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" --Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

[MiSaNtHrOpE]

"The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose." --Fahrenheit 451 [explains everything about the neocon movement in 8 words!]

"Which is better- to be born stupid into an intelligent society, or intelligent into an insane one?" --Huxley's Island p. 228

"I wanna live. I wanna love. But It's a long hard road out of Hell." -- Marilyn Manson.

[okmit]

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the Freedom to make mistakes."

"What difference does it make to the Dead,Orhans,and Homeless,whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of Totalitarianism, or the Holy Name of Liberty,or Democracy"

And the one that got the Brits attention..."It is better to be Violent if there is Violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

Mohandas K. Gandhi

[miss tenderness]

i like"you ve never loved me.YOu only find it pleasant to be in love with me"by Ibsen in his great play Adoll's House

[Union Jack]

See my signature.