What is your favorite quote? And why?

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

“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)

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."

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

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

so glad you're back!!!

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

"United we stand, divided we fall"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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so glad you're back!!!

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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)

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

Nietzsche

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

Yes, you should start the Cicero thread

“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.

"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