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 :))
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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 :))
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
Two more:
"The most violent religion is stupidity"
"In time, the length of all ways is equal"
Another translation says, (just to make it clearer):Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
"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.)
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."
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."
I think this thread is officially the oldest surviving thread in the forums.
The end of knowledge is when men come to the point where he was at the origine
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
That is so you AP ;)
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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
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.......
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
Gah! Snic - for having provided a decent quote from a somewhat surprising source, I must say I find your signature to be rather distressing...
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:
Young writers should go through their work and cross out all the good bits - Ben Johnson
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Originally Posted by blp
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"
To be or Not to be ; Hamlet- Shakespeare when he contemplates whether to live or not.
We read an extremely witty comment about a theory of quantum mysticism.
Quote:
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.)
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
i think this quote is quite funny: "I'm not a bitc*. I'm THE bitc*"
I saw it on a tshirt
"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
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.
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.
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
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
When you talk to God its called prayer,
When god talks to you its Catatonic Schizophrenia...
.....................Fox MULDER........................