Great Quotes

What words have you heard that made you smile, cry, think?
What are your favorite words from another person?

an example of a humorus one.
"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"<dont know who said it>

[Stunseed]

I'm Rick James, bitch!

Watching Dave Chappell is too hilarious. That's my favorite quote right now.

A more serious one that I have always liked


You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Sir Winston Churchill

[peam]

That Rick James thing is getting old quick.


I just watched Boondock Saints, so I'll post a quote out of it. One of my favorites:

Now you will receive us!
We do not want your poor or your hungrey.
We do not want your tired and sick.
It is your corrupt we claim.
Each day will spill their blood 'till it rains down from the skies!
Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal
These are principals which every man of every faith can embrace.
These are not pollite suggestions!
These are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
There are varying degrees of evil.
We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the boundaries and cross over into true corruption, into our domain.
But if you do...
One day you will look behind you and you will see we three and on that day, you will reap it!
And we will send you to whichever god, you wish.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best if he wins, knows the thrill of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least he fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

[Hips]

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
~ June Masters Bacher

And a little BDS for Peam:
We must always fear the wicked. But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most, and that is the indifference of good men.

[TheEschaton]

"I fed the hungry, and people called me a saint.
I asked why they were hungry, and people called me a Communist."

Dom Helder Carrera.

"If you have come to help me, you have already failed.
Instead, walk with me on my journey, and then perhaps, hand in hand, we might help each other."
some aboriginal poet, whose name I forget.

I used to have pages, and pages and pages of these quotes. I think it's all buried with my college stuff. I think MLK's whole Nobel acceptance speech is pretty good...

"What self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered shall build up, once again."

-TheE-

[HarmNone]

"Never regret your mistakes. The only people who do not make mistakes are those who are not doing anything. Instead, learn from them." ~ my mother

HarmNone

*Edited, once I caught that sneaky little quotation mark*

[Edited on 2-26-2004 by HarmNone]

[TheEschaton]

In light of Ranger's quote, I post the last stanza of Wilfred Owen's poem, Dulce Et Decorum Est.

"If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."

[Ed's note: last line reads: The old Lie: Sweet and honorable it is/To die for one's fatherland", in English]

[Pierat]

"What words have you heard that made you smile, cry, think?"
-Edine

Jeazus! Edines gone soft again

[peam]

Pretty much any lyric by Against Me! is a good quote.

I use this one in my AOL (Shut up.) profile:

Beyond a gender, race, and class, we could find what really holds us back.
Let's make everybody sing!
They are the beginning and ending of everything.
That we all are stronger than everything they taught us that we should fear.

Here's a link to a few more of their lyrics:
http://lyricalnation.com/view.php?do=view&artist_id=79

If anyone'd care to hear them, let me know. Good folksy-punk-acoustic type stuff.

[Edaarin]

"What it comes down to is either get busy living, or get busy dying."

- Andy Dufresne

[ThisOtherKingdom]

Originally posted by peam
That Rick James thing is getting old quick.


Okay, then.

Game...blouses.

[pennywise]

A few of my favorites

"Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe."
-- Hunter S. Thompson

I have three rules which I live by: Never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards
with a guy who has the same first name as a city, and never go near a lady with a tattoo of a
dagger on her hand. Now you stick with that, and everything else is cream cheese."
-- The basketball coach in "Teen Wolf"

"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in
thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which
never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion
and ignorance which does harm."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"The god of war hates those who hesitate."
--Euripides: Heraclidae

"An army of stags led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a stag."
--Chabrias

[Meos]

Great men are quoted by others.

[longshot]

The odds are good that the goods are odd.

[Mint]

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

[AnticorRifling]

The human voice is the purest instrument in music. When taken in conjunction with other voices and tuned towards worship there shall be no sweeter sound.

[Fallen]

"Whither is god?"

"I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him..."

Friedrich Nietzsche.

[Edited on 2-26-2004 by Fallen]

Except for ending slavery, fascism, and communism war has never solved anything.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

"There is nothing anyone else can do, that you cannot do."

"Good is better than fast"

My father, and both stuck with me my whole life.

[Soulpieced]

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee".



[Edited on 2-26-2004 by Soulpieced]

[Galleazzo]

Originally posted by The Edine
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Sir Winston Churchill
Spider Robinson had a character say something like that in a book I liked: "My father told me it was better to make enemies deliberately than by accident. You suck."

[Latrinsorm]

"Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy."

[Galleazzo]

One of Murphy's Laws of Combat: "A sucking chest wound is Nature's way of telling you to slow down."

"You can get more with a kind word and a 2" x 4" than you can with just a kind word." - Marcus, Babylon 5

[TheEschaton]

"Whither is god?"

"I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him..."


Ahhh, the prophesy of the madman, in the Gay Science. I love that passage - it is, in my opinion, Nietzsche's best example of writing.

"How is it we cannot smell the Divine Putrification? How have we unchained ourselves from our center? To what do we spiral into? ..... Ahhhh, this thing they have done, it is further away from them than the furthest stars, yet it is done by their hand."

-TheE-

[Hanksbane]

"A 7 day waiting period for purchasing a handgun is stupid. It just give sthe buyer more time to think of people he'd like to kill. Now instead of a single murder, you've got a multiple homicide on your hands"

George Carlin

Its his quote of the day in my calendar

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I have a few I love, but these are a few of my favorites.

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

[Mint]

"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"

C.S. Lewis

[Ravenstorm]

"Act Like A Dumb Shit..And They Will Treat You Like An Equal" - "Bob" Dobbs

Raven

(http://www.subgenius.com/)

[Madmox]

"Wit is educated insolence."
-Aristotle

And a few more of my favorites.
" Don't aim for the stars... you'll surely burn up in the atmosphere"
"Light a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night; Light a man on fire and he'll burn to a crisp"
-Colin

[TheEschaton]

I like the alternate, which is in someone's profile: Light a man a fire, and keep him warm for the night. Light a man ON fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.

-TheE-

[Galleazzo]

Originally posted by TheEschaton
I like the alternate, which is in someone's profile: Light a man a fire, and keep him warm for the night. Light a man ON fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.

That's sick and twisted. I love it.

Alright, a few quotes, the first one maybe the most misquoted in all of history:

"Under the rule of great men assured, the pen is mightier than the sword."
- Edward Bullwer-Lytton

"The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
- Robert A. Heinlein

[Madmox]

Ok i have more quotes and an amendment of my last one

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright (1955 - )

"Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life."-Terry Pratchett

And there you have it. Let me know what you think of em
Colin

[Solkern]

~Always follow your heart..it will take ya places ya never thought possible

~When your too scared to look back, and unsure of whats ahead, look to your side, and a friend will be there

~~A relationship isn't really based on love, it's based on trust, no matter how much you love someone, it can't overcome the lack of trust, love no matter how strong, can't overcome the lack of trust

~Love doesn't make the world go'round, love is what makes it worth the while

~You don't love someone cause they are beautiful, Its beautiful because you love them

~Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps back up the other.


~In war it's not who's right, but who's left

one of my FAVORITE quotes!

~I'm all in favor of taking weapons out of the hands of dangerous men....so lets start with the typewriters

[Zeyrin]

"If you want love, you got to give a little. If you want faith, you just believe a little. If you want peace, turn the cheek a little. You've got to give to live." - Sammy Hagar, "Give to Live"

Simple yet powerful.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stewart Mill


People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--


From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Thomas Jefferson

[StrayRogue]

Bond, James Bond.

[100% Wool]

Now a days no HONOR, only DRAMA Ya FRIENDS today can be ya ENEMIES tomorrow. Never show weakness, tell em no secrets. Whats deep is that I had LOVE for you, but due to situations I can't FUCK with you. TRUST is a luxury I CAN'T afford.


--- Cormega

[StrayRogue]

You're born, you keep you're head down then you die. If you're lucky.

Baseball is 90 percent mental,
The other half is physical.
-Yogi Bera

[jabst192]

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”


“I may be drunk madam, but in the morning I will be sober, and you will be just as ugly.”
Winston Churchill

"I believe in the sun
even when it is not shining.
I believe in love
even when i feel it not.
I believe in God
even when he is silent."

~ Written on the wall at Aushwitz

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money

and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
~Secondhand Lions

A real Leader does not sit down while his men work to get the job done. A real Leader does not take lunch while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they toil late. A real Leader does not command his men’s loyalty

through fear nor purchase it with money; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a real Leader lifts first and sets down last. A real Leader does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them, He serves them, not they him.

[Satira]

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
-Buddha

Probably my favorite quote ever.

[Latrinsorm]

Now they stood before the treasure
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it:
Peace on Earth, was all it said.

[theotherjohn]

Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne

. . . you know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.
Jed Babbin

[Gan]

Tough times never last, tough people do.
-Unknown-


And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him...
-John, the Apostle: Revelations 6:8 KJV-

"Its better to burn out, than fade away"
-Def Leoppard: Pyromania-

[Chadj]

Originally posted by Latrinsorm
Now they stood before the treasure
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it:
Peace on Earth, was all it said.

i know that song...

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Chadj
i know that song... :thumbsup:

Me too. And it's freaking awesome.

[Artha]

You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.
-Al Capone

[Ravenstorm]

Originally posted by Chadj

Originally posted by Latrinsorm
Now they stood before the treasure
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it:
Peace on Earth, was all it said.

i know that song...


One Tin Soldier by Coven. I have it on 45. (For all you kids, that's a really small record with a single on each side.)

Raven

[Chadj]

Listening to it right now

[Back]

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. - John Stewart Mill

[Latrinsorm]

Ew, Coven. :no: Original Caste all the way, on any media.

[Ravenstorm]

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and prove it.

-Abraham Lincoln

(And message boards hadn't even been invented then.)

Raven

[Trinitis]

My most loved quote?

The ending Monolog of Devils Advocate.

Total Rock.

[AnticorRifling]

Shut up or I'll pee in your butt! - Me drunk at a party

Originally posted by AnticorRifling
Shut up or I'll pee in your butt! - Me drunk at a party

Being that you're a former jarhead I am left to wonder if you said that to a man or a woman.:D

[AnticorRifling]

Since it wasn't a sausage fest ala army party, I said it to a college chick because we were at some frat party and she was just rambling about stupid shit.

Okay I accept the humor in it then.

[Shadya]

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-

Do what you love, that is art.
-me in a local paper-

[100% Wool]

I think Confucious may have said this...not totally sure.



Man who goes to sleep with itchy asshole......
.....wakes up with stinky finger.

[Artha]

Duty cannot exist without faith.
-Benjamin Disraeli

[Back]

Man who stand on toilet...

...high on pot.

[theotherjohn]

Yes life! life!
Life is the only thing worth...
Life! life!
(i know it has it's ups and downs)

-----Flipper

[Blazing247]

Two quotes that have great meaning to me that aren't by "great thinkers".

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." The Beatles.

"I don't wanna hear from those who know, they can buy but can't put on my clothes". Pearl Jam.

"That book is the Rock upon which our republic rests."
Said President Andrew Jackson as he pointed to a nearby Bible while he was laying on his deathbed.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Al Capone (1899-1947)

:)

[DaFilcher]

"Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love." - Woody Allen

[Killer Kitten]

Life's a bitch and then you marry one.
-my husband and he better have been joking.

I was born ready.
-Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China

Wow, this is a really great song. If I knew the words, I'd sing along.
-Janelle O'Rourke, aka the dead prom queen

So I'm not a gazelle in motion!
-me after I tripped and fell crossing the living room

That bastard! He's dragging me off to Europe again!
-my ex-boss's wife

[kheldarin]

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

[Apathy]

Originally posted by Ganalon

"Its better to burn out, than fade away"
-Def Leoppard: Pyromania-

Neil Young actually...

on topic p.s. : see below

[FinisWolf]

See my sigs...

Finis

[Fallen]

What is good? -- Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man.
What is evil? -- Whatever springs from Weakness.
What is happiness? -- The feeling that power increases -- that resistance is overcome.
Not contentment, but more power; Not peace at any price, but war: not virtue, but efficiency.
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. And one should help them to it.
What is more harmful than any vice--Practical sympathy to the botched and the weak--Christianity...

[Skeeter]

I've failed time and time again

That is why I succeed

-Nike commercial

[Divinity]

One of my character's signature quotes:

"Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it."

This one is overused, but still noteworthy:

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity."

[Vestarr]

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
But with strange aeons even death my die"

H. P. Lovecraft

Without darkness one cannot see to reach the stars

???

also see my sig for another personal favorite

[sst]

A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.

[Janarth]

holy bump batman! which brings me to...

I haven't failed...I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.

[sst]

I love you like America’s love for democracy
I love you like the Kurdish love federalism
I love you like the Shi’a’s love for beating themselves up
I love you like the Sunni’s love for blowing themselves up
- attributed to a local Mosul women I spoke to who had a sense of humor

(it rhymes in arabic)

[Ignot]

Anchor Man:

Mmm. Scotch. I love scotch. Scotch scotch scotch. Down into my belly.

[TheEschaton]

Did that just blow you mind?? That just happened!

"The ballad of Ricky Bobby"

[Daniel]

Lol my favorite part was when he had th eknife in his leg and The big black guy is all "Hey lets chisel it out with this other knife" I about pissed myself.

I was kinda upset they took out the clip when he Motombos the guy in the wheelchair. I was really looking forward to that.

[ELO]

I play by my own rules, nobody elses. Not even my own.

[Asha]

''America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.''
Hunter S. Thompson.

[Olanan]

He was a wise man, who created God. - Plato.

[Stanley Burrell]

And some girls are obsessed with smearing on the make up like its spackling and that can take eons.

Some (most) [all] girls are also retarded.

Ftw.