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.

This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers. - Randall Graves (Clerks)

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalms 14:1;53:1). There is, however, another type of fool, more dangerous and sure of himself, who says in his heart and proclaims to all the world, "There is no God but mine." Giordana Bruno (1548-1600). Joseph Cambell's Creative Mythology.

"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."

Not sure who wrote this, but being a former natinally ranked long distance runner, this quote stuck with me.

A few more...


Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Roger

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -Plutarch

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. -Ralph W. Sockman

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

It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't care.

Office Space

That is one of the best movies ever! lol

adverity does not build character, it merely reveals it.

Ignorance is bliss.

not exactly prophetic, but

"That green-blooded son of a bitch...it's his way of getting back at me for all those arguments he lost!"

anyone know what i'm talking about?

"Naked people have little or no influence on society."- Mark Twain

"I'm not *not* licking frogs"- Homer S.

"The most important part of the car is the nut behind the steering wheel"
Martin Brundle
World Sportscar Champion,Ex- Formula 1 Driver

"If you keep talking like a bitch, I'm gonna have to slap you like a bitch."- Mr. Blond in Reservoir Dogs

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklin

"To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of man's problems." Homer J. Simpson

"Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your country." -- George W. Bush (January 28, 2003)

"Fuck, what was that" . . . mayor of hiroshima

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
—John Lennon

Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room!
—Stanley Kubrick

I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
—Sid Vicious

"No sex is better than bad sex."
-Germaine Greer

Welcome to Oklahoma, now get the hell out!

1) "Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself." -Rita Mae Brown

2) "Before you insult someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you insult him, you're a mile away...and you have his shoes." (not sure of origin)

3) "You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her." -Winston Churchill

4) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle.

"She's the ferrets' wife now, Bob."

"5 out of 3 men are rapists."

"299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!"

"The Matrix is all around us… even the bathroom!"

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't."

I keep an ever expanding text file of quotes that I add to whenever I find a clever new one: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/d.sangster/Quotes.txt

Hard work pays off over time, but lazieness pays off right now.

If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probly have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.

and the best one of all - When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature teamwork results in colective laziness.

all of these are taken from despair.com

"Coincidence is logical" - Johan Cruijff

This is the famous Budweiser beer, we know of no brand produced by any other brewer which costs so much to brew and age. Our exclusive beachwood aging produces a taste, a smoothness and a drinkability you will find in no other beer at any price.

A witty saying means proves nothing" --Voltaire

a must in a list of quotes :D

My Country, in her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be right. But, right or wrong, my Country....
Stephen Decatuar (Virginia House of Burgess)
(P.S. earlier in his life as a Lt in the Navy, commanded the US fleet during the Marines capture of the pirate fortress of Tripoli)

In the struggle against good and evil, evil is always the people who get killed. -theatre of good and evil-Eduardo Galeano

there is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why its here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable...there is another theory which states that this has already happened. -Douglas adams...restaurant at the end of the universe

mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. J. Salinger

i didnt realize i had crossed the line until i saw it in my rearview mirror

As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a
country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist
People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world
you'd want to live.
-- Paul Graham

the most frequent quote I here is
"when will be able to access the titty board"

"Let me respectfully remind you
Life and death are of supreme importance
Time passes swiftly and opportunity is lost
Let us each strive to awaken
Awaken!
Take heed, do not squander your life"

-The Evening Gatha

" Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of lifes problems"
Homer J. Simpson

people, please read the quotes before posting the same
quotes as someone else...
of course, if youre reading this you probably read them all
doh!

"Stickin' feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." Tyler Durden

Another one of my favorite quotes is in my sig

Here's A Few I Like.
 

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." -- Mother Teresa

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music..." -- Kristian Wilson (CEO, Nintendo Inc. 1989)

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
-- Confucius

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions.
(there are a few sites that have calvin and hobbes quotes)

"Those things that increase passion should be done first, and those for
amusement should be done afterward." - Kama Sutra

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -- Theodor Seuss Geisel

"When in doubt, do it." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." -- Albert Einstein

---as well as my own---
Sadness is when you forget what happiness feels like.

I know what I'm talking about and that's all that matters.

Life sucks cause it makes everything else better.

I dunno whats goin on, I'm just here.

look down and that's mine.

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist (1815-1902).

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo, American government official (1863-1941).

"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong." – Wilson Mizner, American playwright (1876-1933).

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain (1835-1910).

"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess." - Edna Woolman Chase, American fashion editor (1877-1957).

"Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste at all." - Arnold Bennett, English poet, author and critic (1867-1931).

"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good." - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978).

"The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force." - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (1759-1797).

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather

Happiness comes before success.

"He thought that trip to the guillotine factory was just for fun. But it was the perfect place to shoot him." - ???

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!" - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"This is a fuck!" - Office Space

"Cum music and flashing!" - A yoyo i bought at a budget dodgy shop

"You all had better get some serious work done, or you'll be stuck with a capital F." - My year 9 English teacher

"Elliot, do I look like a beautiful blonde with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream?"
"What?"
"I said, do I look like a beautiful blonde with big big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream?"
"No."
"No. Okay, then why are you telling me all this bullshit, huh? You wanna fuck me?" - True Romance

the worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you cant have them

¨life is a mystery,
everyone must stand alone.
i hear you call my name,
and it feels like home.¨

and...

¨you and me babe,
how ´bout it?¨

hehe.

who´d have thought i´d be quoting Madonna and Dire Staits in the same post??

See my signature. The second one is from a Beatles song :D

Well, I saw this one quote... quick, lemme google it.

Yeah:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Life wasn't meant to be easy.
-- Malcom Fraser (Fmr Australian Prime Minister)

-For every sitxy seconds you are angry, you lose one minute of happiness.
-When I'm good, I'm good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -Mae West
-Behind every great man is woman rolling her eyes.
-Oh, yes, baby! Ride me! -my hsband

A new favorite: 'There's a deep fly ball...Winfield goes back...back...his head hits the wall...and it rolls off...and it's rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres'! - Jerry Coleman

i like...

"The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost." - anon

You see, Elaine, the key to eating a black and white cookie is that you wanna get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate. And yet still somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved. - Jerry Seinfeld

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away! - Jerry Seinfeld

oh and also

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

One night in 1879 at a bar in a town called Menlo Park, NJ, some men were drinking beer, when suddenly one of them announced that he was going to invent an electric light. The others laughed, but that man got up, put on his coat and hat, and accidentally walked into the fireplace, thereby setting his coat on fire. This gave Thomas Edison, who was at another table drinking coffee, the idea of using carbonized cotton as the filament in his light bulb. So we see that beer, if used correctly, can be a tremendous force for good.
- Dave Barry

I'm a sex object. I say sex and women object

those who are satisfied with today's status-quo are tomorrows unemployed.... me

"its always darkest just before it goes pitch black" - demotivators

"violence is never the answer, but its usualy a good guess" -my wrestling coach from HS

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity' - Horace Mann

Best insult I ever heard:
"If ignorance were cornflakes, you'd be General Mills." - Cecil Adams

Also:
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -Voltaire

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither." - Ben Franklin

"There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself." -William Shakespeare

From the Shawshank Redemption..

"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just to bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoince. Still, the place that you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone."

Also, check out my signature for my favorite quote from "Field of Dreams"

This may be the most difficult thing to decide upon since I asked my wife to mary me.

A few of my favorites are:

JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED. – MATTHEW 7:1

WHEN ANGRY, COUNT FOUR; WHEN VERY ANGRY, SWEAR. – MARK TWAIN

THE SENSE OF HONOR IS OF SO FINE A DELICATE A NATURE THAT IT IS ONLY TO BE MET IN MINDS WHICH ARE NATURALLY NOBLE OR IN SUCH AS HAVE BEEN CULTIVATED BY GOOD EXAMPLE OR A REFINED EDUCATION. – ADDISON

I KNOW ONLY THAT WHAT IS MORAL IS WHAT YOU FEEL GOOD AFTER AND WHAT IS IMMORAL IS WHAT YOU FEEL BAD AFTER. – ERNEST HEMMINGWAY

OVER THE PIANO WAS PRINTED A NOTICE: PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THE PIANIST. HE IS DOING HIS BEST. – OSCAR WILDE

CANDY IS DANDY, BUT LIQUOR IS QUICKER. – OGDEN NASH

I could go on......