"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.
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"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.
My favorate quote:
It's better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-----Tennyson
another favorate quote of mine:
Things that don't actually kill you outright make you stronger.
-----Piet Hein
"tanks are mortal, pears eternal."
- from Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I love the quote from George Orwell's 1984...
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about"
-Oscar Wilde
"I have nothing to declare but my genious" - Oscar Wilde (what a witty bast*rd)
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.
Great quotes!
"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)
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:
"not all who wander are lost" JRR Tolkien
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)
"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:Quote:
Originally Posted by sir_alex