whats your favorite quotation?
 

not sure if this is the right forum for this, but anyways


mine

Nothing matters very much
and very few things matter at all
-Arthur Balfour

yours?

I can't choose just one so here are a few...

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denide to many. -unknown

Dont take life to serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway. - Elbert Hubbard

Sucess is never final; and failure is never fatal. -Unknown

Never express yourself more clearly than you think. -Niels Bohr


To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times. -Mark Twain

"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore there is a finite number of inhabitated worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination." - douglas adams

"Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer."

My personal favorite is "Enjoy life, since there is plenty of time to be dead" by anon.

If you want some truly memorable quotes, I recommend reading anything by the crazy ecological philosopher Edward Abbey. His words stick with you.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert wrote this for his Dune Saga

this isn't my favorite, but it's important to me right now:

''I think happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time, instead of being a lying little fuck.'' --Tori Amos

Life is what you make it...unfortunately I'm not very handy! - me

Behind every good woman is a nice ass! - me again

hahahahah
funny post geodaro...

and some good quotes before that too...

Procrastination is a lot like masturbation. It feels good at first, but in the end you just fuck yourself.

:D

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagan
"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." -Bede Jarrett
"If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing." -Anon.
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." -Lou Holtz
I also like my signature but dont know where its from.

A good author to read is Ambrose Bierce. Hes very quotable.

"keep on charging the enemy as long as there is life"

I love that qoute!!!

Other quotes I like are:

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." Mark Twain

"Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any; also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measure; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man, and say you didn't mean to." Mark Twain

"Some say that football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I assure them it is much more serious than that" - Bill Shankley former manager of Liverpool FC.

"Reform my ass"- graphitti in Paris in the summer of '68

"I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals FLAMING!!" - Homer

"If everyone only looked out for themselvs, you'd have one person fighting for you and six billion trying to kill you."

'The bridges you build you will one day have to walk over'

Tikki, lol, your quote made me laugh. Then think for a second, and burst into tears. The humanity.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've
got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

Mario Savio during a free speach demonstration in 1964

Words to live by, my friend. Words to live by :D

"You're leading two things....Jack and Shit. And Jack just left town"

Ash, Army of Darkness .

Oh, and also from that movie,

"Gimme some sugar baby."

"Hail to the king baby."

"Shop smart...shop S-Mart."

we must become the change we want to see in the world... gandhi

anything from the simpsons will do... but when chief wiggum finds bart and ralph in his police closet, he says:

"You know you're not supposed to go in there. What is your fascination with my <i>Forbidden Closet of Mystery</i>?"

A couple...

"Carpe Diem."

"Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance."

Mike

I think two of my favorites have always been:

I may not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it. -Voltaire

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway

Gremlink8 already brought the Voltaire which is my fave.

To counter the ash quotes, I'd have to go with "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum" - the piper, They Live

(apologies for not looking up the exact text)

I like the Lou Holtz one also...I've always been a fan.

A Hitchhiker's Guide is chock full of great quotes - Douglas Adams is awesome.

Good god, Mark Twain turns everything I thought about olden time people upside down. What a funny fucking bastard.

"If you are a good man and love a woman, let her go. If she comes back to you, scare her away permanently; a good man has yet to succeed in doing anything more than boring a woman." - Stiltzkin

"It takes a man as strong as Hercules to delete ALL his pr0n." - Stiltzkin

"A man who has run out of proverbs will inadvertedly resort to saying 'b00bs are cool' when asked to produce another proverb." - Stiltzkin

"b00bs are cool." - Stiltzkin

I'd post some of my actual favorite quotes, but no one would care, and I'd... ah fuck it ::submit::

based on the quotes we're getting in this thread, they should have moved it to philosophy...

good stuff people, keep it up! theres some real good ones in there

It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it. - Abraham Lincoln?

I got into this relaxed habit of living in spite of very real tendencies in my nature towards discipline. I've never been in love with self-indulgence. That philosophy of the loose lip and the lax paunch is one for which I've always had an instinctive distrust. I like bare things, stripped things, plain, austere and continent things, fine lines and cold colours. But in these plethoric times when there is too much coarse stuff for everybody and the struggle for life takes the form of competitive advertisement and the effort to fill your neighbour's eye, when there is no urgent demand either for personal courage, sound nerves or stark beauty, we find ourselves by accident. Always before these times the bulk of the people did not over-eat themselves, because they couldn't, whether they wanted to do so or not, and all but a very few were kept "fit" by unavoidable exercise and personal danger. Now, if only he pitch his standard low enough and keep free from pride, almost any one can achieve a sort of excess. You can go through contemporary life fudging and evading, indulging and slacking, never really hungry nor frightened nor passionately stirred, your highest moment a mere sentimental orgasm, and your first real contact with primary and elemental necessities, the sweat of your death-bed. So I think it was with my uncle; so, very nearly, it was with me.

H.G. Wells, Tono Bungay

"Like liquid white from fallen glass, nothing to cry over." - Matt Skiba

two of my very favs are in my sig. the first is not an original thought from me, but I put it in those words to better express it.

"Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life."

"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

If at first you don't succeed,just keep fucking it up until you do.(Me).

It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Hail Moonduck!

Nice quote.
For either gender.
-GH

see my sig...

"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical."
-Thomas Jefferson

Here's my list of favorites:
http://home.comcast.net/~zarubi/quotes.htm

Here's a few favorites:

"Comedy is allied to justice." - Aristophanes

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Einstein

"If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now." - Marie Osmond

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Einstein

POLONIUS : [...] Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Hamlet, Act I Scene III

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i can resist everything but temptation. Cant remeber who quoted that though.