What is your favorite quote? And why? [Archive] - Page 2 (2025)

Joyceist

11-01-2005, 10:34 PM

subterranean

11-01-2005, 11:02 PM

Logos

11-02-2005, 01:39 AM

"Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said:
''Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all'?"

~ from Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh (1903)

Logos

11-02-2005, 01:41 AM

"Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd."

~ from William Congreve's The Mourning Bride (1697)

Logos

11-02-2005, 01:52 AM

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!

~ (From Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1589)

http://www.online-literature.com/marlowe/dr-faustus-1604/1/

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Logos

11-02-2005, 01:53 AM

Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

~ (from Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love c. 1589)

subterranean

11-02-2005, 03:57 AM

wormboy

11-02-2005, 10:26 AM

"An urge towards love pushed to its limits, is an urge towards death."

"No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable."

"Happiness lies only in that wich excites, and the only thing that excites is crime."

"The idea of god is the sole wrong for wich I cannot forgive mankind."

Marquis de Sade

ally7kat

11-07-2005, 05:52 PM

clarity

11-07-2005, 06:50 PM

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.”

Greek Proverb

jakobin

11-08-2005, 07:02 AM

jakobin

11-08-2005, 07:03 AM

houdi elbow

11-08-2005, 02:15 PM

CheshireCat87

11-09-2005, 04:16 PM

bittersticky

11-09-2005, 04:55 PM

bittersticky

11-09-2005, 04:57 PM

To whoever submitted:

Tis better to have loved and lost
than to have never loved at all.

I would reply:

tis better to have never read at all
than to have read Tennyson.

bittersticky

11-09-2005, 05:41 PM

"The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks." -Blake

"...Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.
Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages
And all the drop-scenes drop at once
Upon a hundred thousand stages,
It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce."- Yeats (Lapis Lazuli)

"Whence did all that fury come? From empty tomb or virgin womb?
St. Joseph thought the world would melt, but liked the way his finger smelt."
-Yeats (A stick of Incense)

"As every Joy is foundering in the whirls of time, care nesting deep withen the heart will quickly wreak her secret pangs. She sways and claws and never fails to don new masks. As homestead, or as wife and child. Water, fire, poison, knife. We lament the things we never lose, we dread the blow that does not strike." - Geothe (Faust)

"Come forth Lazarus! And Lazarus came fifth and lost the job." - Joyce

"What virtues, Lord, thou makest us abhor!" - Proust

"Only the wastful virtues earn the sun." -Yeats

"When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions."
-Shakespeare

The Babylonian starlight brought
a fabulous, formless, darkness in.
Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all Platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline - Yeats

"Our language sunk under him." - Dr. Johnson on Milton. Man it sure did.

...Him the almighty
Hurled headlong, flaming,
from the etherial sky, down
to bottomless perdition there to dwell in
adamantine chains and penal fire,
him who durst defy the omnipotent to arms.
- Milton
(i dont have it in front of me so forgive me if it isnt quite right, that goes for all these quotes, though im pretty confident about the rest.)

O.k. thats enough, im bored now.

grace

11-09-2005, 07:12 PM

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. – Henry James

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail Van Buren

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
- Margaret Chase Smith

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams

At least those are in my top thousand!

ho'nehe

11-13-2005, 11:15 PM

I'm still reading and have a couple of pages to go on this thread so hope I haven't repeated any. These are a few of my favourite quotes:

“My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, before all, to make you see. That – and no more, and it is everything.”
‘The N igger of the Narcissus’ –
Joseph Conrad

'Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.'
J. Schwartz

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb

"I know not what weapons world war Three will be fought with, but world war Four will be fought with sticks & stones." - Albert Einstein.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.-Mark Twai

Vezara

11-18-2005, 10:21 PM

I have many favorites but the one that I can never forget is;

"A true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

starrwriter

11-19-2005, 03:11 AM

lavendar1

11-19-2005, 10:01 PM

Two by George Bernard Shaw:

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

lavendar1

11-23-2005, 02:51 PM

Here's another favorite:

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

-- William James

Darlin

11-24-2005, 09:14 AM

alter-native

11-24-2005, 10:03 AM

Adelheid

11-30-2005, 09:43 AM

I thought that since we already have a Word of the Day thread in th General Section, it would be interesting to have a Quotation thread. :banana:

It's fairly simple, exactly like the Word of the Day. If you think that the meaning or the drift of the quote is a little bit too hard to understand, please help others out by explaining it. :D

Perhaps later on we may have a poll to see which quote or authors the forum prefers.... (but that's in the distance as yet) :p

Here's the first one:

"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." - Arthur C. Clarke -

starrwriter

11-30-2005, 12:46 PM

Nightshade

11-30-2005, 02:41 PM

so same rules apply only one quote a day? and you must say what dat its for???

:confused:

Frappuccino

12-01-2005, 08:54 PM

Adelheid

12-02-2005, 04:36 AM

no I guess you'll only have to write once quote a day. Not 1 quote ONLY for everyone. 1 quote per person. :) No, you don't have to give a meaning. Only if its very complicated.

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
- Laurens Van der Post -

Kaltrina

12-02-2005, 05:05 AM

" I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book."
-Groucho Marx-

:D

Little_Bird

12-03-2005, 02:52 AM

Here are few of my favorites:

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanore Roosevelt

"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." -Johann Wolfgang VonGoethe

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." -Andre Gide

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

DannyCreep

12-03-2005, 12:06 PM

michela

12-03-2005, 02:26 PM

well i could just start today and never finish to enumerate my favorite quotes but at the moment i feel one of the best is probably the following:
"As a woman i have no country. As a woman i want no country.As a woman my country is the whole world". Virginia Woolf

Anyway there's another one that i really love...

"Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they're open" Sir James Dewar

Ah and the last one...which is funny
"thank God i wasn't born before the coming of tea"

starrwriter

12-03-2005, 04:03 PM

Virgil

12-03-2005, 05:21 PM

The one quote that has stuck in my mind recently is the following:

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Those sound like words that George W. bush could have said (in fact he did under different formulations) but those words were spoken by JFK in 1961. These words stick in my mind because I find a defeatest attitude in at least half this country. JFK, along with Truman and FDR, was a great Democrat who knew that one has to fight and have guts if one is to preserve Liberty. I had to get political, but those Democrats don't exist any longer.

starrwriter

12-03-2005, 09:02 PM

CrashCourse08

12-06-2005, 04:39 AM

My favorite quote is:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -HDT.

Some other quotes I like are:
"Our greatest glory in life is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius.
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller.
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
And most all quotes from Don Marquis, the humerous and brutally honest. For example: "Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth", "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday", and "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

I have an endless list of quotes that I particularly enjoy, and these make less than a fraction!

starrwriter

12-06-2005, 12:20 PM

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller.
"Everyone is in the gutter, but a few are looking up at the stars." -- (Can't recall who said that.)

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." -- Don Marquis
"If the meek inherit the earth, they can have it. I don't want any part of it." -- "The War Lover," a novel by John Hershey.

Scheherazade

12-06-2005, 01:32 PM

"Everyone is in the gutter, but a few are looking up at the stars." -- (Can't recall who said that.)Oscar Wilde.

The original quote is: "We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

michela

12-06-2005, 02:29 PM

Poor Virginia had tunnel vision. She didn't understand that a lot of men feel the same way.

well darling you probably don't know very much about the female history...anyway let me suggest you a book "A room of one's own". read it and we could speak again about it. Ignorance is always a bad thing are you agree with me? :D

rachel

12-10-2005, 12:21 PM

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." jrr tolkien

"When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalcuable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale." G.K. Chesterton

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish." jrr tolkien

"The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurridly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper he gets a divorce." G.K. Chesterton

starrwriter

12-10-2005, 02:14 PM

well darling you probably don't know very much about the female history...anyway let me suggest you a book "A room of one's own". read it and we could speak again about it ...
Don't have to read it. Men are pigs, women are long-suffering victims. Doesn't that pretty much sum it up?

I have a long history with women. I was actually married to one for years. Some were worth knowing, others not -- just like the men I've known.

In modern countries women have things better today than ever before in history. They should be grateful instead of looking for faults in men or whining about the past.

Jannah

12-11-2005, 05:05 AM

Hello everyone

Here are a few sentences that I read from a book. they touched me deeply. I felt it a few days ago when a friend of mine lost a loved one... I was by her side, and truly sad for her, but I couldnt really connect. It hurt me not to feel her pain and that's when I remembered this quote.

"Your country can be my country and your God mine. Where you live I can live and there can I be buried. but your Pain cannot be my pain, and because it cannot I too am in pain."

The book is (one of my faves): Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge.

I'll come again with a few more quotes from this book some other time isA.

starrwriter

12-11-2005, 01:25 PM

Here are a few sentences that I read from a book. they touched me deeply. I felt it a few days ago when a friend of mine lost a loved one... I was by her side, and truly sad for her, but I couldnt really connect. It hurt me not to feel her pain and that's when I remembered this quote.
"Your country can be my country and your God mine. Where you live I can live and there can I be buried. but your Pain cannot be my pain, and because it cannot I too am in pain."

The book is (one of my faves): Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge.

I haven't read the book, but the movie version was fascinating. I assume the quote is from a Maori in New Zealand.

Riesa

12-11-2005, 02:12 PM

The outlaw Josey Wales after shooting a bounty hunter, the boy he's with says, "don't you think we otta bury them fellas?" Josey replies,

"the hell with them fellas, buzzards gotta eat, same as the worm."

somehow this quote has made it into everyday conversation around my house, not like we are killing people, but if someone fails to pick up dropped food,(I have kids)and the pug eats it....

Jannah

12-11-2005, 02:31 PM

There's a movie version? I'll try to watch it. thanks!

another bit from Green Dolphin Street: This one's about a 'different' kind of loneliness. Take a look :)

"But it was a pleasant kind of loneliness, not the sort when one has been pushed out by somebody else, but when one has chosen, one's self, to be alone, the kind when one is less concious of human creatures having gone away than of listening for the voices and footsteps of faerie creatures trooping in."

jollyollie

12-13-2005, 03:29 AM

Mace Sin

12-13-2005, 09:01 PM

"I don't want to do good things, I want to do great things."
-Lex Luthor (Smallville)

"Do you know what the two most important things in the world are? Money, and power. Because, with those two things, you can secure anything else in the world."
-Lex Luthor (Smallville)

You can tell that I watch Smallville, and find some of the fictional character that is Lex Luthor's quotes excellent.

"I am being treated as evil by those who believe they are oppressed, because they can not make me believe as they do."
-D. Dan Gulledge

This quote helped me greatly, for when I first became an Atheist I was hurredly bashed for it at school. It's tough, shirking all your traditional values and handing them in for Secular emptiness...

"Let us live, so that when we die, the Undertaker will be sorry."
-Mark Twain

It's aggressive, and I like it. ;)

"There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches. Don't let them kid you any more. Pay no attention when they tap you on the shoulder and say come along we've got to fight for liberty or whatever their word is there's always a word.

Just say mister I'm sorry I got no time to die I'm too busy and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don't pay any attention because it's your job to live not to die. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life you say mister you're a liar Nothing is bigger than life There's nothing noble in death. What s noble about lying in the ground and rotting. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead. Because when you're dead mister it's all over. It's the end. You're less than a dog less than a rat less than a bee or an ant less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister. Dead."
-Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun

"It will be you-you who urge us on to battle you who incite us against ourselves you who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler you who would have one man who works kill another man who works you who would have one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live. Remember this. Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots you fierce ones you spawners of hate you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives."
-Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun

Logos

12-17-2005, 12:13 PM

tinker_bell77

12-20-2005, 02:13 AM

'A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool.'

I believe that is a misquote of Shakespeare. I'll see if I can get the real one, but off the top of my head, I think it's "The fool doth think he is a wise man, and the wise man know he be a fool."

Its not Shakespear, its Aristotle... I think

Calo

12-20-2005, 09:36 AM

charming_melind

12-20-2005, 09:57 AM

my favorite quote of all times is

'Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.' - Virginia Woolf

charming_melind

12-20-2005, 10:26 AM

Don't have to read it. Men are pigs, women are long-suffering victims. Doesn't that pretty much sum it up?

I have a long history with women. I was actually married to one for years. Some were worth knowing, others not -- just like the men I've known.

In modern countries women have things better today than ever before in history. They should be grateful instead of looking for faults in men or whining about the past.

I'm sorry to trail off the subject, but this has upset me because I am a whining feminist.
See it is people like you who form the passive feminism that sits inside women who have been discriminated against. The reason why they don't speak out about being abused, and mistreated.
Feminism does not aim at the annihilation of the male gender, but rather equality between men and women. The fact that you seem to think that feministic values insult you, just goes to show how much you really know about the concept of feminism.
Furthermore, I'd really like to know what you think about racism against Native people, Black people, Jews, gays etc. Since the objective of fighting all these cases of discrimination have never been rightfully solved, I was wondering if you think that they should just stop 'whining' about their past because the statistics of racism have gone down in many countries - or is it only feminism that you think should quiet down. Keep into consideration that you do not see many women these days speaking out about discrimination against their gender, because they are ASHAMED.

starrwriter

12-20-2005, 02:04 PM

I'm sorry to trail off the subject, but this has upset me because I am a whining feminist.
I admire your spunk for admitting it.

See it is people like you who form the passive feminism that sits inside women who have been discriminated against. The reason why they don't speak out about being abused, and mistreated.
Feminism does not aim at the annihilation of the male gender, but rather equality between men and women. The fact that you seem to think that feministic values insult you, just goes to show how much you really know about the concept of feminism.
I don't feel insulted at all, I'm just tired of hearing it all the time. You're preaching to the choir. I believe women should be paid as much as men for doing the same work, that the sexes should be treated as equals under the law, that women have the right to an abortion if they want it. But let's not pretend that men and women are carbon copies of each other. We are different in certain important ways and those differences should be respected and not ignored for the sake of feminism.

Furthermore, I'd really like to know what you think about racism against Native people, Black people, Jews, gays etc. Since the objective of fighting all these cases of discrimination have never been rightfully solved, I was wondering if you think that they should just stop 'whining' about their past because the statistics of racism have gone down in many countries.
Yes. They should stop whining, take advantage of the legal gains they have made and get on with their lives. The main purpose of life is not to endlessly try to redress grievances, but to live as well as you can.

Keep into consideration that you do not see many women these days speaking out about discrimination against their gender, because they are ASHAMED.
Nonsense on both counts. More women speak out about descrimination today than ever before. And no woman who has a legitimate complaint is ashamed to speak out unless they have allowed themselves to be silenced.

Schoolmeister

12-21-2005, 02:48 PM

Nightshade

12-21-2005, 03:26 PM

The Unnamable

12-21-2005, 04:23 PM

alexanderpope

12-22-2005, 08:27 PM

My favorite quotation:

"On errands of death, these letters speed to death."
--Bartleby, The Scriviner by H. Melville

Virgil

12-22-2005, 09:18 PM

How about a quote from the most important historical person of the 20th century. I used to hang it up at work:

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." -Sir Winston Churchill

Nightshade

12-23-2005, 04:49 PM

Nightshade

12-23-2005, 04:49 PM

UrbanLegendz

12-28-2005, 02:54 PM

this is one of my favorite quotes :

The Only Thing That Comes To A Sleeping Man Is Dreams --- Tupac Amaru Shakur

sirgalahad

12-30-2005, 06:11 PM

elise

01-01-2006, 12:20 PM

i have 2 --
"green jars and white magnolias" F. Scott Fitzgerald
the imagery struck me twenty years ago when i read it in his Notebooks

and
the quote below...

Virgil

01-01-2006, 03:50 PM

Time for a new quote. How about one to celebrate the New Year?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
-Robert Burns, "Auld Lang Syne"

Blitzstar

01-03-2006, 10:09 PM

"Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone."

From Enchantment, by Orson Scott Card.

Anon22

01-05-2006, 08:40 PM

Quotes from Jerry Seinfeld:

1. Jerry Seinfeld: Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. (Edit)

2. Jerry Seinfeld: Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. (Edit)

3. Jerry Seinfeld: I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, "Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there." (Edit)

4. Jerry Seinfeld: The Chalk Outline guy's got a good job. Not too dangerous, the criminals are long gone. I guess these are people who wanted to be sketch artists but they couldn't draw very well. "Uh, listen, Jon, forget the sketches, do you think if we left the dead body right there on the sidewalk you could manage to trace around it?" (Edit)

5. Jerry Seinfeld: You can measure distance by time. "How far away is it?" "Oh about 20 minutes." But it doesn't work the other way. "When do you get off work?" "Around 3 miles." (Edit)

6. Jerry Seinfeld: You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each. (Edit)

7. Jerry Seinfeld: I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word "ambulance" was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, "Well, isn't that clever." I look in the rear-view mirror, I can read the word "ambulance" behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash, you need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch. (Edit)

8. Jerry Seinfeld: I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us in! We're all wearing leather! Open the door! We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!" (Edit)

9. Jerry Seinfeld: The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same, so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy. (Edit)

10. Jerry Seinfeld: Men and women all in all, behave just like our basic sexual elements. If you watch single men on a weekend night they really act very much like sperm - all disorganized, bumping into their friends, swimming in the wrong direction. "I was first." "Let me through." "You're on my tail." "That's my spot." They're like the Three Billion Stooges. But the egg is very cool: "Well, who's it going to be? I can divide. I can wait a month. I'm not swimming anywhere." (Edit)

11. Jerry Seinfeld: Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur. (Edit)

12. Jerry Seinfeld: What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. "Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big." "That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later." (Edit)

13. Jerry Seinfeld: Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference between a date and a job interview is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. (Edit)

14. Jerry Seinfeld: Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom. (Edit)

15. Jerry Seinfeld: There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked. (Edit)

16. Jerry Seinfeld: There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." (Edit)

17. Jerry Seinfeld: You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out." (Edit)

18. Jerry Seinfeld: Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. (Edit)

19. Jerry Seinfeld: There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked." (Edit)

20. Jerry Seinfeld: The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! (Edit)

21. Jerry Seinfeld: The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. (Edit)

22. Jerry Seinfeld: Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. (Edit)

23. Jerry Seinfeld: It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. (Edit)

24. Jerry Seinfeld: I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. (Edit)

25. Jerry Seinfeld: I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. (Edit)

26. Jerry Seinfeld: A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I copy/pasted them from a site thus the (Edit) button. Also, that was made from different people, so that's why 1 or 2 may be repeated.

Virgil

01-05-2006, 09:21 PM

Time for a new quote from me. How about a little poem from Gwendolyn Brooks. This is the entire poem:

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.

Riesa

01-06-2006, 10:02 AM

Great Poem, Virgil. I like her poetry.

This is a poem, not a quote, but along the same lines, clean and simple, and packs a punch.

Sadie and Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks

Maud went to college.
Sadie stayed at home.
Sadie scraped life with a fine-tooth comb.

She didn't leave a tangle in.
Her comb found every strand.
Sadie was one of the livingest chits
In all the land.

Sadie bore two babies
Under her maiden name.
Maud and Ma and Papa
Nearly died of shame.

When Sadie said her last so-long
Her girls struck out from home.
(Sadie had left as heritage
Her fine-tooth comb)

Maud, who went to college,
Is a thin brown mouse.
She is living all alone
In this old house.

Virgil

01-06-2006, 11:30 AM

Great Poem, Virgil. I like her poetry.

This is a poem, not a quote, but along the same lines, clean and simple, and packs a punch.

Wonderful. I wonder if I've read it before. I don't remember it, but it would be in my anthology of her work.

Woggs

01-09-2006, 08:20 PM

Scheherazade

01-09-2006, 10:04 PM

'He is so unpopular, if he became a funeral director, people would stop dying.'

-Late MP Tony Banks on ex PM John Major

beer good

01-13-2006, 06:43 AM

The never-ending and very tiresome debate (on another site I frequent) about the "The TRUTH revealed by Dan Brown in 'The Da Vinci Code'!!!!11!!" today made me look up this quote from "Foucault's Pendulum". I take comfort in it. As I do in most things written by Eco.

"A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn't know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has a logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic, on the other hand, doesn't concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars."
(Umberto Eco)

lavendar1

01-22-2006, 10:33 AM

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.

-- Lord Byron, Don Juan

Parole

01-23-2006, 07:56 PM

'I have nothing to declare but my genius.'

Oscar Wilde (Irish Dramatist) at New York Custom House

Logos

01-24-2006, 07:53 AM

Everett Hale (1822-1909), American author and Unitarian minister:

"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Logos

01-24-2006, 07:59 AM

rachel

01-25-2006, 01:20 AM

How about a quote from the most important historical person of the 20th century. I used to hang it up at work:

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." -Sir Winston Churchill

That is what I believe in with all my heart. Must be why I always feel tired.

Digital I love the Seinfeld ones about the mirror and the dogs. The best.

Nelson Mandella:
a good head and a good heart are a formidable combination

If you want to make peace with your enemy then you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

As we are liberated from our own fears our presence automatically liberates others.

Anon22

01-25-2006, 08:04 PM

I found a site with quotes, they're basically quotes on virtues:

"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."
Adel Bestavros

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
Albert Schweitzer

"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
Winnie the Pooh (By Milne)

"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice." "
Woodrow T. Wilson

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
Thomas Paine

"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion."
Pythagoras

"None is richer than he who simply has peace of mind"
Maj Wambebe

"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."
Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour 1810-1861, Piedmontese Statesman, Premier

"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
Lao-tzu

"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"When we pray with a heart full of devotion, God accepts it and we receive blessings in return."
St. Gregorious Geevarghese

"Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king."
Horace

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. "
Wayne Dyer

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
The Bible-I Corinthians 13:4-8

"We need not think alike to love alike."
Francis David

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
Aesop

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
Henry David Thoreau

"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
Henri Frederic Amiel

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein

"The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can."
Seneca

"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."
Jacob Bronowski

"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness."
Dalai Lama

"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
Francis Bacon

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
Henry Ward Beeche

and vices:

"Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature."
Sivananda

"Behold the vain man, and observe the arrogant; he clotheth himself in rich attire, he walketh in the public street, he casteth round his eyes, and courteth observation. He tosseth up his head, and overlooketh the poor; he treateth his inferiors with insolence, his superiors in return look down on his pride and folly with laughter."
Akhnaton

"A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe fruit at length falls into his lap."
Abraham Lincoln

"One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on."
Dalai Lama

"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."
Chinese Proverb

"Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them."
Jennifer James

"If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly."
Eugene O'Neill

"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours."
Mary Schmich

"Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has."
Elizabeth O'Connor

and here's a little something from me:

"How sad it can be when a man picks out the most wonderful rose he's ever seen for his marvelous wife, one that he believes summarizes her beauty thoroughly, yet, when looking at itself in the mirror, it thinks itself to be the ugliest of them all"- Me :)

Outlander

01-26-2006, 07:37 AM

9. Jerry Seinfeld: The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same, so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy. (Edit)

LMAO - Grooms everywhere would be going ~*Poof*~

Nymo

01-29-2006, 08:27 PM

Virgil

01-29-2006, 08:37 PM

Time for another quote. I have this one framed and on my desk at work:

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Nymo

01-29-2006, 08:45 PM

The Unnamable

01-30-2006, 11:40 AM

I’m afraid I don’t know much about Thomas Jefferson and, while this isn’t my favourite quotation, it raises a smile:

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone."
JFK to his Nobel Prize winning guests

Fontainhas

02-02-2006, 01:28 PM

"Three can keep a secret if two of them die." - Roosevelt

"Oh yeah? Well I like lemons, what else ya got?!"- A.I

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself"- Hermann Hesse

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it" (don't remember)

"Smile. It confuses people." (don't remember too)

Fontainhas

02-02-2006, 01:37 PM

Oceallaigh

02-02-2006, 02:45 PM

Wit is cultured insolence. -Aristotle

I just love that.

Truth_Told

02-03-2006, 12:51 AM

This is a piece from the Fountainhead, this is the conversation that a 12 year old, i believe, has with his sunday school teacher.

The Sunday school teacher read from the Bible "What shall man truely profit, if he were to gain all the riches of the world, but lose his soul." The young man replied "So in order to be truely wealthy, man should collect souls".

Fontainhas

02-05-2006, 12:49 PM

im not sure if this is right but it goes something like

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"

-Groucho Marx

that guy is funny

I agree. The dude is hilarious!

ecarmikel

02-05-2006, 10:52 PM

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

That's mine; I don't have a literature quotation yet.

Virgil

02-17-2006, 11:37 PM

Cicero was mentioned in a different thread. He's one of the truely great men of history: lawyer, statesmen, philospher, moralist, orator, writer. I won't say he's forgotten today, but he certainly isn't prominant enough. Here's a quote from him:

"Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

adilyoussef

02-19-2006, 09:32 AM

Fontainhas

02-19-2006, 12:57 PM

"Polititians are always there when they need you"

"There are only three types of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists or bad pianists"- Horowitz

ClaesGefvenberg

02-19-2006, 02:44 PM

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

-Winston Churchill

1sweetkate

02-20-2006, 05:40 PM

I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.

William Shakespeare

Gibran

02-22-2006, 09:22 AM

I'm forever walking upon these shores
Betwixt the sand and the foam

Khalil Gibran

Keltic Banshee

02-22-2006, 12:05 PM

well, apart from the ones in my signature...

"Only two things are infinite: the Universe, and human stupidity... and I am not sure about the first one" (Albert Einstein)

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from)

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
(Albert Camus)

Oh, sweeet glorious caffine, how I have missed your bitter kiss! ... er, I mean "Good Morning!"

"Loud" is never a suitable substitute for "Right"

and others I use as random quote of the day in my website ;)

Whifflingpin

02-22-2006, 12:54 PM

" "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from) "

Thoreau "Where I lived and what I lived for" from "Walden, or Life in the Woods"

Keltic Banshee

02-22-2006, 01:24 PM

alter-native

02-26-2006, 01:27 AM

Virgil

02-26-2006, 01:29 AM

" "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from) "

Thoreau "Where I lived and what I lived for" from "Walden, or Life in the Woods"
It comes from Walden Pond, Henry David Theorou (spelling incorrect). I believe it's on the opening page.

TodHackett

02-26-2006, 02:22 AM

A few favs:

The cloud capp'd Towers,
The glorious palaces,
the solemn temples,
the great Globe itself shall dissolve,
and, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
leave not a rack behind.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
and our little lives are rounded with a sleep.

--Shakespeare originally, Prospero's speech near the end of The Tempest. But I first heard it when I sang it-- #3 in Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Three Shakespeare Songs". I hear the music even as I type the words, despite the fact that it's been five years since I sang the piece.

And, so long as we are on Williams' appropriations of poets' texts, I shall add another:

"WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world:"

--Whitman originally. Now, part of Williams' _Dona Nobis Pacem_. And everything-- EVERYTHING-- in this movement is a set up for the final resolution: this... soil'd... ... world. (I wish I knew enough about chords to describe it more effectively to the musicians out there).

rachel

02-26-2006, 07:32 PM

That was awesome, thankyou.
I am sorry that my quote is not as lofty but it is 'food' for thought.

"Don't eat fruit and nuts, you are what you eat" Jim Davis

Virgil

03-01-2006, 11:39 AM

Time for a new quote: Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)is filled with great quotes. Here's one to wake up to:

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him, For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

sdr4jc

03-01-2006, 01:42 PM

Here's my quote:

"I feel as though my life is a bad dream, and I often wonder whose it is and whether they are enjoying it."

SirRupert

03-01-2006, 02:01 PM

to preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always posses arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

- i think that was richard henry lee....

Gehenna

03-06-2006, 07:18 PM

''manj strašna noč je v črne zemlje krili,
ko so pod svetlim soncem sužni dnovi!''
-France Prešeren (Krst pri Savici)

Translation:
''Less terrifying is the night
Within the folds of the black soil
Than days of enslavement
Under the shinning sun''

One from the greatest Slovenian poet!

Anon22

03-08-2006, 04:36 PM

''manj strašna noč je v črne zemlje krili,
ko so pod svetlim soncem sužni dnovi!''
-France Prešeren (Krst pri Savici)

Translation:
''Less terrifying is the night
Within the folds of the black soil
Than days of enslavement
Under the shinning sun''

One from the greatest Slovenian poet!

I got a couple:

"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." ~Frank A. Clark

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." ~Michel de Montaigne

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal." ~Horace

"Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most." ~Ashleigh Brilliant

"Humility, that low sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot." ~Thomas Moore

also... that "Smile, it confuses people" and the one above it are from shirts

hastalavictoria

03-08-2006, 05:33 PM

Mentor

03-09-2006, 08:51 PM

rachel

03-10-2006, 11:22 PM

absolutely beautiful. I believe it.

"Art like morality consists of drawing the line somewhere" G.K. Chesterton

rachel

03-10-2006, 11:29 PM

absolutely beautiful. I believe it.

"Art like morality consists of drawing the line somewhere" G.K. Chesterton

silver

03-11-2006, 06:22 AM

Thanks ;) I can never remember it :)

A beautiful quote....
My favourite quote for 1906 is...DISCONTENT IS DIVINE.

The Unnamable

03-11-2006, 11:20 AM

Not my favourite but one for the forum, I think.

“You kids are disgusting, skulking around here all day, reeking of popcorn and lollipops.”

WC Fields

rachel

03-11-2006, 05:12 PM

Whifflingpin

03-11-2006, 08:52 PM

Another one for the forum:

"On est puni pour s'opinionastrer a un point sans raison"

Michel de Montaigne

rachel

03-12-2006, 12:14 PM

hullo, love you.

C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite. M. Montaigne

"I do benefits for all religions. I would hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality." Bob hope.

RobinHood3000

03-12-2006, 12:16 PM

Bob Hope, hosting the Oscars: "It's Oscar night again...or as it's known around my house: Passover."

Talking about the Oscar himself: "Or as he's known around my house: the Fugitive."

Alas, Hope springs eternal...

ElizabethSewall

03-12-2006, 01:00 PM

rachel

03-12-2006, 01:04 PM

Bob Hope, hosting the Oscars: "It's Oscar night again...or as it's known around my house: Passover."

Talking about the Oscar himself: "Or as he's known around my house: the Fugitive."

Alas, Hope springs eternal...

hahahahahaha LOVE IT.
Didn't I tell you M'Lord is the best at well everything Elizabeth.
And you are looking beautiful as always mon ami. :nod:

ElizabethSewall

03-12-2006, 01:38 PM

Didn't I tell you M'Lord is the best at well everything Elizabeth.
Yes you did! And I agree, for sure. :nod:

And you are looking beautiful as always mon ami. :nod:
So are you ma chère. Kisses... :D

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." Helen Keller.

rachel

03-13-2006, 05:34 PM

merci, you also dear one.

"Bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln

Countess

03-13-2006, 07:04 PM

RobinHood3000

03-13-2006, 07:10 PM

rachel

03-14-2006, 02:03 AM

I like that M'Lord. Hullo countess(love you both)

"some women get all excited about nothing-and then marry him" Cher

ElizabethSewall

03-14-2006, 06:21 AM

beer good

03-14-2006, 06:29 AM

mystic_beauty

03-15-2006, 08:18 AM

"Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That
way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes"

"Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way."
A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)

Dale Carnegie:" Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. "

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:40 AM

Work consists in whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists in whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:41 AM

The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Montaigne

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:42 AM

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:43 AM

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Robert Frost

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:44 AM

I have never, in my life, learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:45 AM

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:47 AM

Even the company of the mad [is] better than the company of the dead.

Stephen King (The Stand-great book)

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:48 AM

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:49 AM

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:50 AM

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:51 AM

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

Galileo Galilei

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:52 AM

Sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first.

Daniel Defoe

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:53 AM

Nothing proves so taxing in attempts to explain as simplicity.

Matthew Keaton

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:56 AM

Nothing attributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose.

Mary Wallstonecraft Shelley

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:56 AM

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Ray Bradbury

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:58 AM

Repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

John Steinbeck

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 09:59 AM

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Mark Twain

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 10:01 AM

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordiantley possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.

Edgar Allen Poe

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 10:03 AM

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

O. Henry (from The Last Leaf, my absolute favorite short story)

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 10:04 AM

If advice is given where advice isn't asked, its antithesis will followed to the letter.

Matthew Keaton

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 10:05 AM

When the answer is simple, God is answering.

Albert Einstein

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 10:07 AM

It is a fair even-handed noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection and disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistably contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 10:08 AM

Sleep and love are very sweet, song and dance with trippling feet, yet a time comes when they pall, you can have enough of all.

Homer, The Iliad (W.H.D. Rouse translation)

elpidi26

03-18-2006, 10:09 AM

Marvelous is that history that outlasts its future.

Matthew Keaton

rachel

03-18-2006, 02:49 PM

The never-ending and very tiresome debate (on another site I frequent) about the "The TRUTH revealed by Dan Brown in 'The Da Vinci Code'!!!!11!!" today made me look up this quote from "Foucault's Pendulum". I take comfort in it. As I do in most things written by Eco.

whatever they say they will make money at it. :D

rachel

03-18-2006, 02:52 PM

Gringoire

03-18-2006, 08:15 PM

ElizabethSewall

03-20-2006, 12:20 PM

rachel

03-20-2006, 04:48 PM

I love that one(i love you more though)

"The best place a person can die is where they die for others." J.M. Barrie

ElizabethSewall

03-20-2006, 05:06 PM

rachel

03-20-2006, 06:17 PM

tn2743

03-20-2006, 11:45 PM

tn2743

03-20-2006, 11:52 PM

rachel

03-21-2006, 05:50 PM

malikm24

03-22-2006, 11:04 AM

Azaril

03-23-2006, 11:46 PM

L'homme qui se relève est plus fort que celui qui n'est jamais tombé

It means: The man who raises himself again is greater than those who have never fell down

blp

03-24-2006, 10:56 PM

You must write everything down. You've got to do it to get ahold of yourself.

Louise Bourgeois

rachel

03-28-2006, 07:50 PM

ElizabethSewall

03-30-2006, 02:33 PM

RebRose

03-30-2006, 11:50 PM

RebRose

03-30-2006, 11:52 PM

RebRose

03-30-2006, 11:53 PM

Potterbilia

04-04-2006, 03:06 AM

"Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed."
Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670)

The most random quote I found when researching my Cleopatra essay.

southerngirl322

04-05-2006, 12:27 AM

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'. - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Too true...

southerngirl322

04-05-2006, 12:48 AM

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery,The Little Prince

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare,Troilus and Cressida

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tn2743

04-05-2006, 08:02 PM

tn2743

04-09-2006, 03:10 PM

ElizabethSewall

04-09-2006, 03:55 PM

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." :lol:

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest .

Jay

04-10-2006, 01:00 PM

Fool:
If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten
for being old before thy time.
King Lear:
How's that?
Fool:
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
been wise.

~ Shakespeare - King Lear, Act 1 Scene 5

southerngirl322

04-11-2006, 01:12 PM

mycatis

04-12-2006, 08:00 PM

1) Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

2) There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

3) The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

All Lois McMaster Bujold
(Sorry, couldn't choose just one.)

mycatis

04-12-2006, 08:04 PM

The bad end unhappily, the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

(Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead)

welovepoppies

04-12-2006, 09:40 PM

beer good

04-13-2006, 05:14 AM

The bad end unhappily, the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

(Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead)
Incredible movie. Watched it for the first time only a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with it immediately. (Yes, I know it was a play first, but...)

Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.

ShoutGrace

04-13-2006, 05:26 AM

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." :lol:

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest .

Alway do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Thanks! Those made me laugh.

myself

04-13-2006, 12:21 PM

byquist

04-13-2006, 05:34 PM

Favorite "negative" quote:

Richard II's "Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay.
The worst is death, and death will have his day."

Favorite positive quote may be the entire song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" found worthy by recent singers like Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Faith Hill, Eva Cassidy, Tori Amos, Pattie Labelle and Jewel.

starreader13

04-13-2006, 07:16 PM

"What's the difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." ---- Tom Clancy

and then my signature, of course, though it's shortened a little bit

tn2743

04-17-2006, 02:38 PM

Green Lady

04-17-2006, 04:42 PM

Dickensian

04-17-2006, 08:07 PM

These aren't ranked in any particular order:
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill

"It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity--two of the best qualities Heaven gives them--and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments." -Charles Dickens

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." -Oscar Wilde

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights." -Victor Hugo

"We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse."
"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. "
"History repeats itself. It has to, no one listens."
"I wish I was as great as my dog thinks I am."
-I don't know who came up with these.

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (or Sherlock Holmes, rather)

"At age 50, every man has the face he deserves." -George Orwell

"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in." -Henry David Thoreau

"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -Mark Twain

"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." -Earl Wilson

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." -Robert Louis Stevenson

"If my career fails there is always alcoholism to fall back on." -Frank Skinner

"My father loved the idea of America. It was living in America that gave him an ulcer." -from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell

"It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself." -John Steinbeck

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" -Mahatma Gandhi

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." -Irish Proverb

RebRose

04-18-2006, 04:56 PM

IrishCanadian

04-18-2006, 05:16 PM

_JadeRain_

04-18-2006, 07:43 PM

On Imagination:

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
~Lewis Carroll

tn2743

04-18-2006, 11:57 PM

Logos

04-20-2006, 10:37 AM

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

--Maxim Gorky [pseudonym meaning "Maxim the Bitter" of Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov] (1868-1936), Russian author considered the father of Soviet revolutionary literature and founder of the doctrine of socialist realism

Schokokeks

04-20-2006, 12:46 PM

"Let the high muse chant loves Olympian:
We are but mortals, and must sing of man."

(Theocrites, Idylls)

TBtheG

04-20-2006, 01:31 PM

tn2743

04-20-2006, 11:41 PM

summer grace

04-21-2006, 12:26 PM

ElizabethSewall

04-21-2006, 03:44 PM

southerngirl322

04-22-2006, 03:07 AM

lovechangelife

04-22-2006, 07:16 PM

lovechangelife

04-22-2006, 07:20 PM

Pensive

04-23-2006, 01:25 AM

Hi lovecbangelife, it is a good idea but a topic very similar to this has already been started in the "General Chat"

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=191842#post191842

This part of the forum "Who Said That?" is for discussing quotations.

alter-native

04-23-2006, 10:44 AM

Pensive

04-24-2006, 07:47 AM

WaxDoll

04-24-2006, 06:34 PM

Woland

04-26-2006, 11:22 PM

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

de Voltaire

Woland

04-26-2006, 11:26 PM

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell

That one is a beauty

Union Jack

04-28-2006, 10:04 PM

Don't know about favourite, but I like it.

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

formality hater

04-29-2006, 03:16 PM

i have a firm belief on these two quotes:

"When sorrows come,they come not as single spies , but in battalions"

SHAKESPEARE

"Laugh and the world laughs with you,weep and you weep alone"

ELLA WILOCOX

genoveva

04-30-2006, 12:28 AM

4/29

"Children have never particularly interested me, but what interests me even less are paintings by children." ~Salvador Dali (1952)

blondeatheart

04-30-2006, 01:26 AM

'promise you'll never forget me, because if i thought you would i'd never leave'
-from winnie the pooh

'ay amor es una tortura'
-spanish roughly means 'love is torture' from the song 'la tortura' by shakira and alejandro sanz i love that song!

blondeatheart

05-01-2006, 01:16 AM

james duffy

05-02-2006, 05:43 PM

Havent read every page, so I hope these aren't already in. My favourites are the following;

"Those who agree with us may not be right; but we admire their astuteness"
(Cullen Hightower)

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream of things as they never were and ask, why not?"
(Robert F Kennedy)

Another less serious though,is "Ducking for apples; Change one word and its the story of my life" (Dorothy Parker)

JD

jane,Eyre,I,Lov

05-03-2006, 04:06 PM

Gallantry

05-04-2006, 08:25 PM

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside." -Melba Colgrove

Regit

05-04-2006, 08:43 PM

chmpman

05-05-2006, 12:59 AM

Castorp

05-05-2006, 12:19 PM

genoveva

05-09-2006, 11:33 PM

May 9th

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people...it is true that most stupid people are conservative" ~John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

mono

05-11-2006, 12:47 AM

My personal quote of the day, which I have read many times, but impacted me significantly relatively recently, written by Voltaire:

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

genoveva

05-12-2006, 12:16 AM

5/11

"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and becom lesbians." -Rev. Pat Robertson (1992)

whitetree

05-12-2006, 10:11 PM

the more I know man
the more I like dog

madam rolan

whitetree

05-12-2006, 10:24 PM

Kelly Vercetti

05-13-2006, 01:33 AM

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo

rachel

05-13-2006, 12:41 PM

oh those are exquisite. thank you

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN

jackyyyy

05-13-2006, 01:14 PM

The Unnamable

05-13-2006, 03:03 PM

Idril

05-13-2006, 03:40 PM

mia wallace

05-13-2006, 03:43 PM

ShoutGrace

05-15-2006, 11:50 AM

from dust thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul

That's wonderfull Mia.

“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.”

SouthrnCharm26

05-16-2006, 03:21 AM

berna

05-16-2006, 04:20 AM

ElizabethSewall

05-16-2006, 05:25 AM

"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken..."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

ShoutGrace

05-16-2006, 11:38 AM

My personal quote of the day, which I have read many times, but impacted me significantly relatively recently, written by Voltaire : "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd".

"In their most inner thoughts, even the most devout Christians know that there is something illegitimate about belief. Underneath their profession of faith is a sleeping giant of doubt . . . In my experience, the best way to conquer doubt is to yield to it." - Dan Barker, pastor-turned-atheist

"Those who think they believe in God but not without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, not in God himself." - Madeleine L'Engle

Logos

05-16-2006, 01:19 PM

"He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue."

--Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673), French dramatist. Célimène, in Le Misanthrope, act 2, sc. 5.

mir

05-16-2006, 02:28 PM

"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi (best quote ever)

"let not your left hand know what your right hand does" - Jesus (that doesn't work when taken out of context, but it illustrates a spectacular ideal.)

sorry if these are misworded - i don't have the books with me

salmez

05-16-2006, 04:05 PM

5/11

"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and becom lesbians." -Rev. Pat Robertson (1992)

"What a misfortune to be a woman! and yet the worst misfortune of all for a woman is not to understand that she is one." Kierkegaard

rachel

05-16-2006, 09:25 PM

Admin

05-16-2006, 09:33 PM

Just read this one (am reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand righ tnow):

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

mono

05-17-2006, 11:23 AM

"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken..."

Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have read this poem so many times, I have nearly committed it to memory. The second stanza, I also find amazing . . .

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
Lovely, lovely. :nod:

The Unnamable

05-17-2006, 09:02 PM

I can’t think what made me think of this but it seems very suitable somehow.

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

Jonathan Swift

Asa Adams

05-18-2006, 03:54 PM

Bandini

05-18-2006, 04:50 PM

I can’t think what made me think of this but it seems very suitable somehow.

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

Jonathan Swift

That's going up in the 'rebel corner' at work tomorrow! This one already has pride of place:

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

jackyyyy

05-18-2006, 06:18 PM

“There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.”

Sir Edmund Hillary

rachel

05-18-2006, 06:21 PM

that is great. Hi Jackyyyyy, hope you had a splendid time.

When I am no longer even a memory, just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore. Florence Nightingale.

jackyyyy

05-18-2006, 06:25 PM

Oh, I always have a great time, sunny as heck here today. Hiya back to ya, hope everything is good in Fernie land.

"The balaclava is a great thing! I cover all suspecting criminals faces with one."

Jonathan Shapiro

Scheherazade

05-18-2006, 09:08 PM

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41657000/gif/_41657294_monkey_quote.gif

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm

rachel

05-18-2006, 11:43 PM

great one Scher, though it also sounds amazingly like my daughter clearing her sinuses at night.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." G.K. Chesterton