Were you trying to remember this one?

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." (John Kenneth Galbraith)

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
(this one came to me this morning, at about 3:00am...:D

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard

Lex iniusta non est lex

An unjust law is no law at all

"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." (Anais Nin)

This is the quotation I ended up selecting for my door. I think it's a really apt quote for kids in recovery to see.

Yay! Glad this thread helped you. :)

And, to stay on topic...

"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." (Robert Frost)

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." (Japanese Proverb)

God gave you two ears and only one mouth....Use them respectively!

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." (W. H. Auden)

Please see my signature.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Not very deep, but it cracks me up.

I'm going to go with the obvious, and say check my sig :p There have been a LOT of inspiring and amusing quotes here though, keep em coming!

If it ain't broke -- don't fix it!

In my sig:

"Don't let the bastards grind you down"
"I am what I am and that's all that I am" (Popeye was a great yogi!)

I believe it was "Vinager" Joe Stillwell who put that in the faux Latin "Illegitimati non carbovndvm". One for the ages.

"When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them." (Don Cherry)

"If they want you to print it, it's propaganda. If they don't want you to print it, it's news"- Lord Beaverbrook

"It is futile to try and make my insides feel how your outside looks."

-a drunk

Just found this one and absolutely love it:

"Translation is the art of erasing oneself in order to speak in another's voice."

David Cole

Never pet a burning dog

"Pessimist is a word used by optimist to describe someone who sees the world for what it really is!!"

"Wisest is he who knows what he does not kno"

see my sig!!!!! Tupac

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
~~Mark Twain

"When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy" C. S. Lewis, THE PROBLEM OF PAIN

That describes my life over these last six months perfectly. When she realizes what she's lost, and comes crawling back, I'm deliberating answering the phone. Love her (and her boys) with all my heart, but after six years of friendship, and moving across the country to help/spend time with her and her sons, to be cast aside for a man just sucks.

Okay, /switches out of "woe is me" mode/ my two favorite quotes (aside from my sig) that I can come up with off top of my head... "Fuck you, you fucking Fuck," and "How you doin'?" (Joey)... not feeling very deep at the moment. =/

"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife"
- "Saturday" by Ian McEwan

"I think I see a hater right there!" *BANG!*
- Ludacris in Hustle and Flow

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." (Albert Einstein)

One that I saw the other day that became a favorite.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw

And another Shaw quote:

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw

I appreciate you posting those, Sgoilear.

That's Thomas Paine, from Rights of Man

Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
--1 Corinthians 8:1

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
-- Goethe

The intelligent man follows only the lost cause, knowing all others to be merely effects.
--e. e. cummings

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God: Thy will be done, and those to whom God says: All right, then, have it your way.
-- C. S. Lewis

Man plans, God laughs.
--Old Yiddish Proverb

Make your enemies by choice, not by consequence.
--Old Russian Proverb

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it’s still a foolish thing.
--Bertrand Russell

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
--Admiral William Halsey

None stand so tall as those willing to stand corrected.
--William Safire

EDUCATION, n. -- That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away. And you've got his shoes.
-- Groucho Marx

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a
habit.
-- Aristotle

Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
--Anon.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
--Ancient Chinese Proverb

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
--Elbert Hubbard

"If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy" - magnet on my step-mom's refridgerator

"When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading."

"you can prove anything by putting it in quotation marks and adding a famous name on the end" - Albert Einstein

I swear i'm not going through and fact-checking people's quotes, but some quotes I know are not from the people i'm seeing credited.

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

This is actually a quote from Anatole France, pen name of author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. While I DO find a few hits for Bertrand Russell's version, I find a ton of results for Anatole France. Anatole France was 28 years older than Bertran Russell, so In all likelihood it could technically have been either one of them, unless we found something definitive, not just a quotes page from a quotes website. lol

"The beatings will continue till Morale improves!"

"Diplomacy is the art of letting the other guy have it your way" - Lester B. Pearson

"He's not a moron, he's my friend" - Jean Chretien refering to George W. Bush and the scandal created by Chretien's press aid muttering "moron" when Bush was giving a speech.

"All I say here is by way of discourse, and nothing in the way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed." - Montaigne

"The erosion of Civil Liberty is a threat to National Security." - ?

And my .sig.

Gonna have to go with my signature.

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky"

It just makes me feel good to be cynical every time I read it. :lol: