“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”
- John Lennon
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“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”
- John Lennon
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
- Emma Goldman
My personal favourite is from Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" in the translation used by Mamet and Malle. "What must human beings be, to destroy what we can never create?"
"Let them eat cake." -Maria Theresa of Spain
Conveys the ignorance of authority quite well.
Here are some I have enjoyed:
"Physical strength is measured by what one can carry; spiritual strength, by what one can bear." Author unknown
"I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my troubles"---Isaac Kaminer
"Adversity may color life, but we have the privilege of choosing the color"--Unknown author
Why? Because it seems i keep getting into trouble.
1) Maria Theresa was the Empress of Austria.Quote:
Originally Posted by DustBowlPoetry
2) Marie Antoinette* made that statement.
3) She was the Queen of France prior to the French Revolution.
I pray you were being sarcastic.
" I have never killed a man, but I have
read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow-
I like many, but here's one in particular:
"Experience: a comb life gives you after you lose your hair."-Judith Stern.
Pretty self-explanatory.:rolleyes5:
cute that made me giggle!Quote:
Originally Posted by teashi
Haha, thanks. It's funny in a 'fact-of-life' kind of way.
It ain't over 'till its over from Rocky 4.
"Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence; the gift of revulsion against its implications; the gift of foresight - something utterly foreign to the blundering short-term ways of natural selection - and the gift of internalizing the very cosmos."
- Richard Dawkins
Humbling, uplifting, and so damn true.
These three are my favourites:
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” - Johann Wolfgang
"You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence" - Jewish Proverb
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best thing to hold on to in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn
A tribute to the living? We are away beneath the sombre pines, amid a solitude that dreams to the ceaseless monotone of the west wind, the blue sky looking sleepily between the slowly bending boughs, and to, its veil of morning mist, uplifted by the morning breeze, white as pure thought, the monument of monuments. {from "A Monument to After-Thought Unveiled"}
The world is full of good people doing bad things.
hercule poirot by agatha christie:eek:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
"Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber bei dem Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher."
Albert Einstein
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
Those who hold back rising anger like a rolling chariot are real charioteers. Others merely hold the reins.
from the Dhammapada, translated by Eknath Easwaran.
"But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
"Andy Dufrene, who crawled through a river of **** and came out clean on the other side."
The Shawshank Redemption - Spoken by Red/Morgan Freeman
The humour in this one just gets me and makes me smile every time I read/hear it.
"He is richest who is content with the least." - Socrates
"Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching." - Unknown author
"Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
"We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." —Robert Wilensky
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it." —Clarence Darrow
To name a few.
I am quite prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared to meet me is another matter.
Winston Churchill.
Heh, was reminded of this the other day:
"I'm the Bishop of Southwark; it's what I do!"
- The Bishop of Southwark
Google the quote if you don't know the story - I love that guy...
I dont know the creator of this one....bt its very close to my heart.
"respect is what you command. Its not what you demand."
One of my favourite quotes from novels I have read is from 'Tale of Two Cities'
Honestly, I believe one of the greatest beginnings for a novel.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
I just love the series antitheses. Then, also, of course, the ending line:
"'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.'"
That is not necessarily true. I used to believe that Marie Antoinette said that too, but there is no evidence to confirm it. Actually, it is more likely that Maria Theresa said it, about 100 years before Antoinette came along.Quote:
Originally Posted by IceM
After studying the French Revolution, it shows how Marie Antoinette did not really realise the magnitude of the poverty and would not say that.
Regardless of who said it, it's a great quote.
Also, I feel I have to add this quote due to my choice in name (first character who came to mind that was not taken):
"After all...tomorrow is another day"
How silly, yet so optimistic.
The maturity of man--that means, to have reaquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche
"We live as we dream, alone" - Joseph Conrad
Didn't know where to put this, so I'll put it here since it was here that I recognized a problem.
I was in the Henry James database, on the other side of this website. I was looking for a quote to put in here. I tried using the search, the Boolean search feature which is offered. Supposedly you can scan the works of a particular author here. Not finding the quote I wanted, I tried searching for a quote that I can see right in front of me here in my book. Kind of like looking up your own name in the phone book. It never found the search string. Anyone ever had any luck with this? It is a powerful tool to boast having, where's the beef?
Michael Pritchard
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing".
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer" -- Albert Camus
Speaks for itself, I believe.
My favorite quote is, "Heroes fight wars, have lots of sex and steal cattle." It was said by my Classical Epics professor last year.
"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?"
Heard it just now:
"Wow you are really uptight. It's like you have a piece of coal up your rear end. Turn it into a diamond and pull it out." - Tim Gunn, Project Runway
"Your existence is an oxymoron."
Heard it in a movie I just saw. Loved it.
"Now is the time on Sprockets, when we dance." -Dieter-
I like - "Dr Livingstone I presume"... just because it is soooo English!