Odd habit, anyone else do it?

[Raw Kuts]

For about three years now I have been gathering quotes that seem good enough to... well quote. I keep them all in a big document, and whenever I am writing an essay and I think I need a quote, I either browse through them or search looking for one of them.

This list is getting pretty unweildy, so I decided to write something using php, and mysql so I could store them in a database. search by keywords, author, description, or subject. Would anyone be interseted in this kinda thing, or would I be doing it just for myself?

[JStrider]

you should put it on the web... and make it so people who are signed up or whatever can add quotes as well as everything else you mentioned...

[Stiltzkin]

Obviously everything you said was actually an idea stolen from me. I've been collecting quotes since I was in 8th grade and I only have a few hundred because not that many people have said things that're witty enough. As for the php... been thinking of doing the same thing but with ASP. Never used php before, or mySQL. Meh. I've used foxPro and ASP and that's good enough for me

[Stiltzkin]

Just to prove that I have a ton of quotes, here they are, all of them hand-picked. I'm very picky about the stuff I decide to keep, so you might find that most of this is really good stuff

Simplicity
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

The tools are at an undifferentiated center of a circle that has no circumference, moving and yet not moving, in tension and yet relaxed, seeing everything happening and yet not at all anxious about its outcome, with nothing purposely designed, nothing consciously calculated, no anticipation, no expectation - in short, standing innocently like a baby and yet, with all the cunning, subterfuge and keen intelligence of a fully mature mind.

Art
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

Art is an expression of life and transcends both time and space. We must employ our own souls through art to give a new form and a new meaning to nature or the world. "Artless art" is the artistic process within the artist; its meaning is "art of the soul".

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Art reveals itself in psychic understanding of the inner essence of things and gives form to the relation of man with nothing, with the nature of the absolute.

An artist's expression is his soul made apparent, his schooling, as well as his "cool" being exhibited. Behind every motion, the music of his soul is made visible. Otherwise, his motion is empty and empty motion is like an empty word; no meaning.

Art is never decoration or embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

The artless art is the art of the soul at peace, like moonlight mirrored in a deep lake. The ultimate aim of the artist is to use his daily activity to become a past master of life, and so lay hold of the art of living. Masters in all branches of art must first be masters of living, for the soul creates everything.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities - thought, feeling, will - to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul.

The artistic activity does not lie in art itself as such. It penetrates into a deeper world in which all art forms (of things inwardly experienced) flow together, aand in which the harmony of soul and cosmos in the nothing has its outcome in reality.

It is the artistic process, therefore, that is reality and reality is truth.

Zen

Turn into a doll made of wood: it has no ego, it thinks nothing, it is not grasping or sticky. Let the body and limbs work theselves out in accordance with the discipline they have undergone.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like and echo.

The localization of the mind means its freezing. When it ceases to flow freely as it is needed, it is no more the mind in it suchness.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Eliminate "not clear" thinking and function from your root.

To obtain enlightenment in martial art means the extinction of everything which obscures the "true knowledge," the "real life". At the same time, it implies boundless expansion and, indeed, emphasis should fall not on the cultivation of the particular department which merges into the totality, but rather on the totality that enters and unites that particular department.

The way to transcend karma lies in the proper use of the mind and the will. The one-ness of all life is a truth that can be fully realized only when false notions of a separate self, whose destiny can be considered apart from the whole, are forever annihilated.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite - there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all being.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rahter, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

The "Immovable" is the concentration of energy at a given focus, as at the axis of a wheel, instead of dispersal in scattered activities.

The point is doing of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity

Wisdom does not consist of trying to wrest the good from the evil but in learning to "ride" them as a cork adapts itself to the crests and troughs of the waves.

An assertion is Zen only when it is itself an act and does not refer to anything that is asserted in it.

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

Establish nothing in regard to onself. Pass quickly like the non-existent and be quiet as purity. Those who gain lose. do not precede others, always follow them.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.

All vague notions must fall before a pupil can call himself a master.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

Technique and training

It's not daily increase but decrease - hack away the unessential!

One of the most neglected elements of martial arts is the physical workout. Too much time is spent in developing skill in techniques and not enough in physical participation.

No fighter uses his leg violently until he warms it up carefully. The same principle is equally applicable to any muscles that are to be used vigorously.

Springiness and alertness of footwork is the key theme. The rear heel is raised and cocked, ever ready to pull the trigger into action. You are never set or tensed, but are ready and flexible.

The primary purpose of Jeet Kune Do is kicking, hitting, and applying bodily force. Therefore, the use of the on-guard position is to obtain the most favorable position.

Relaxation is essential for faster and more powerful punching. Let your lead punch shoot out loosely and easily; do not tighten up or clench your fist until the moment of impact. All punches should end with a snap several inches behind the target. Thus, you punch through the opponent instead of at him.

Hitting does not mean pushing. True hitting can be likened to the snap of a whip - all the energy is slowly concentrated and then suddenly released with a tremendous out-pouring of power.

To hit or kick effectively, it is necessary to shift weight constantly from one leg to the other. This means perfect control of body balance. Balance is the most important consideration in the on-guard position.

Please do not be concerned with soft versus firm, kicking versus striking, grappling versus hitting and kicking, long-range fighting versus in-fighting. There is no such thing as " this " is better than " that". Should there be one thing we must guard against, let it be partiality that robs us of our pristine wholeness and make us lose unity in the midst of duality.

There are styles that favour straight lines, then there are styles that favour curved lines and circles. Styles that cling to one partial aspect of combat are in bondage. Jeet Kune Do is a technique for acquiring liberty; it is a work of enlightenment.

Naturalness means easily and comfortably, so all muscles can act with the greatest speed and ease. Stand loosely and lightly, avoid tension and muscular contraction. Thus, you will both guard and hit with more speed, precision and power.

The well-coordinated fighter does everything smoothly and gracefully. He seems to glide in and out of distance with minimum of effort and a maximum of deception.

A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

Too wide a stance prevents proper alignment, destroying the purpose of balance but obtaining solidarity and power at the cost of speed and efficient movement. A short stance prevents balance as it does not give a basis from which to work. Speed results but at a loss of power and balance.

It is not wise at all to attack without first having gained control of the opponent's movement time or hand position. Thus, a smart fighter uses every means at his disposal, patiently and systematically, to draw the stop-hit. It brings the adversary's hand or leg within his reach and gives him the opportunity to gain control of it.

When, in a split second, your life is threatened, do you say, " let me make sure my hand is on my hip, and my style is 'the' style?" When your life is in danger, do you argue about the method you will adhere to while saving yourself? Why the duality?

Why do individuals depend on thousands of years of propaganda? They may preach " softness" as the ideal to " firmness, " but when " what is hits, " what happens? Ideals, principles, the "what should be" leads to hypocrisy.

Keep blasting, pushing, and flowing.

Competition
It requires a controlled cruelty.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take it's course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Let him smash your flesh, and you fracture his bone. Let him fracture your bone, and you take his life. Lay your life before him.

Jeet Kune Do
Jeet Kune Do is not to hurt, but is one of the avenues through to which life opens it's secrets to us.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

The art of Jeet Kune Do is simply to simplify. Jeet Kune Do avoids the superficial, penetrates the complex, goes to the heart of the problem and pinpoints the key factors. Empty your cup that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all the styles.

Jeet Kune Do uses all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any technique or means which serves its end. In this art, efficiency is anything that scores.

A Jeet Kune Do man faces reality and not crystallization of form. The tool is a tool of formless form. Self-expression is total, immediate, without conception of time, and you can only express that if you are free, physically and mentally, from fragmentation.

The Jeet Kune Do man should be on the alert to meet the interchangeability of opposites. As soon as his mind "stops" with either of them, it loses its own fluidity. A Jeet Kune Do man should keep his mind always in the state of emptiness so that his freedom in action will never be obstructed.

Jeet Kune Do, ultimately, is not a matter of petty technique but of highly developed personal spirituality and physique. It is not a question of developing what has already been developed but of recovering what has been left behind. These things have been with us, in us, all the time and have never been lost or distorted except by our misguided manipulation of them. Jeet Kune Do is not a matter of technology but of spiritual insight and training.

The fancy mess solidifies and conditions what was once fluid, and when you look at it realistically, it is nothing but blind devotion to the systematic uselessness of practicing routines or stunts that lead nowhere.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.

If any style teaches you a method of fighting, then you might be able to fight according to the limit of that method, but that is not fighting.

If you follow the classical patterns, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.


Spike: I'm telling you not to tense up!
Roco: But you can't defeat enemies that way.
Spike: The flow is more important, not power.
You have to be like water... *pauses* You
get it?
Roco: Not one bit.
Spike: Thats what I thought. *thinks a moment*
All right, come after me with a knife.
Roco: You'll get hurt.
Spike: Just do it.
Roco draws knife.
Roco: All right, here I come!
Charges at Spike with a knife.
Spike easily dodges and Roco falls to the floor.
Roco, laying on the ground aghast: What's going on?
Spike, explaining: I'm not tensing up anywhere...
I'm just using your excessive force.
I control the flow of power...
... and to do that, I have to relax the whole body to be
able to react to any movement.
Yeah...
... I become like water.
Roco, still laying on the floor: Water... ?
Spike: Yeah.
Water can take any form. It can flow along slowly or
beat down aggressively, right?
Roco sits up.
Roco: I dunno if I get it or not...


Murphy's Laws

Murphy's First Law:
Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy's Second Law:
Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy's Third Law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.

Murphy's Fourth Law:
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Murphy's Fifth Law:
If anything just can't go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy's Sixth Law:
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy's law of thermodynamics:
Things get worse under pressure.

Technology/computers

Weinberg's first Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the %#&*ing thing ever since.

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

A man needs only two tools in his workshop: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use the WD-40. If it does move and it shouldn't, use the duct tape.


General quotes

It has never been determined whether the early bird enjoys the worm as much as the late bird enjoys the extra sleep.

There is no sense arguing with people so stupid they don't know that you have the better of them.

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with Unicorn.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. - Lord Chesterfield

One of the greatest joys in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Nothing makes life look brighter than a stroke of good luck immediately following a stroke of bad luck.

War does not determine who is right, only who is left.

The thought that disaster is impossible often leads to unthinkable disaster. - The Titanic Effect

STRESS: That confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living shit out of some asshole who desperately needs it.

REALITY: Man's attempt to rationalize the illusions that his mind creates in order to understand the world around him.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

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

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack. - Winston Churchill

To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge. - Ambrose Bierce

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. - Werner Heisenberg

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard

Longer anecdotes

Lesson number one
A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?" The crow answered: "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it. Moral of the story is: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

Lesson number two
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree. Moral of the story: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

Lesson number three
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realise how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him! The morals of this story are: 1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy. 2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend. 3) And when you're in deep shit, keep your mouth shut.

Battleships
Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on manoeuvres in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog, so the captain remained on the bridge keeping an eye on all activities. Shortly after dark, the lookout on the wing of the bridge reported, "Light, bearing on the starboard bow." "Is it steady or moving astern?" the captain called out. Lookout replied, "Steady, captain," which meant we were on a dangerous collision course with that ship. The captain then called to the signalman, "Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change course 20 degrees." Back came a signal, "Advisable for you to change course 20 degrees." The captain said, "Send, I'm a captain, change course 20 degrees." "I'm a seaman second class," came the reply. "You had better change course 20 degrees." By that time, the captain was furious. He spat out, "Send, I'm a battleship. Change course 20 degrees." Back came the flashing light, "I'm a lighthouse." We changed course.

The picture of peace
There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell, in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest... perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The King chose the second picture. Do you know why? "Because," explained the King, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace. Author Unknown

Bruce Lee's limits
Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We'd run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me "We're going to go five." I said, "Bruce, I can't go five. I'm a helluva lot older than you are, and I can't do five." He said, "When we get to three, we'll shift gears and it's only two more and you'll do it." I said "Okay, hell, I'll go for it." So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I'm okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I'm tired, my heart's pounding, I can't go any more and so I say to him, "Bruce if I run any more," --and we're still running-"if I run any more I'm liable to have a heart attack and die." He said, "Then die." It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, "Why did you say that?" He said, "Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."

Personal Quotes
"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
"If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets, I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life."
"Don't think, Feel. It's like a finger pointing a way to the moon, don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly Glory" Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1974)
"Expose yourself to various conditions and learn."

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

QUOTES
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
--Simeon Strunsky
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
--Hesketh Pearson

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
--Oscar Wilde

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
--Robert Benchley

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
--Sir Winston Churchill

Please note that "quotes" is a verb and "quotations" is the noun. One quotes someone and in doing so makes a quotation.
--Susan T. Case SCase@MellonWebster.com

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
--Unknown

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
--Fred Allen

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
--Isaac Disraeli

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
--Groucho Marx

I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
--George Bernard Shaw

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
--Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
--Robert M. Hamilton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
--Philip G. Hamerton

Do not underestimate the power of the dark side of famous quotes.
--Bill Austin :-)
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AMOUR
When love beckons to you, follow her,
Though her ways are hard and steep.
And when her wings enfold you yield to her,
Though the sword hidden among her pinions
May wound you.
And when she speaks to you believe in her,
Though her voice may shatter your dreams
As the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you
So shall she crucify you.
Even as she is for your growth
So is she for your pruning.
Even as she ascends to your height and caresses
Your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall she descend to your roots and
Shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Love teaches even asses to dance.
--French Proverb

Love your enemies. It really pisses them off!
--Unknown

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly she turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
--Matt Groening

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
--Charles Caleb Colton

We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.
--Sigmund Freud

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
--Theodore M. Hesburgh

Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose, it'll fly
--Unknown

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
--Stephen Stills

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was
--Richard Bach

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
--Walt Disney

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
--Robert A. Heinlein "Time Enough for Love"

Never sign a valentine with your own name.
--Charles Dickens

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
--Barbara DeAngelis

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl -
no superior alternative has yet been found. --Sir Winston Churchill

Platonic love is like an inactive volcano.
--Andre Pevost

If you have love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter
much what else you have.
--Sir James M. Barrie

If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making
a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it.
--Robert A. Heinlein

I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate -
but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.
--Alf Whit

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
--Anatole France

Love: Two minds without a single thought.
--Philip Barry

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
--Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

The torch of love is lit in the kitchen.
--French Proverb

Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'
--Erich Fromm

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
--Leo Buscaglia

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
--Elbert Hubbard

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
--Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive
--Havelock Ellis

Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely
it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both
recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
--Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich's ABC, 1962

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world
--Unknown

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations
--Kahlil Gibran

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that
inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is miracle.
--Marianne Williamson

Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole
--Tea Rose

The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
--Unknown

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
--Theophile Gantier

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
--William Shakespeare

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
--David Grayson

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
--Anonymous

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love.
It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
--Helen Hayes

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
--Gordon William Allport

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
--Karen Sunde

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
--Alfred de Musset

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
--H. L. Mencken

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
--Sigmund Freud

If you love the good that you see in another, you make it your own.
--Saint Gregory The Great

The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt
--Anonymous

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4

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

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest
suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one]
--Mother Teresa 'My Life for the Poor'

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
--Mother Teresa

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
--Mignon McLaughlin

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
--Jule Renard

Falling in love is like being struck by lightning. You can no more make it strike
you than you can avoid it.
--Indy (Sean Patrick Flannery) Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great
--Anonymous

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
--Fr. Jerome Cummings

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
--Charlie Brown

Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
--Anonymous

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
--Jean Anouilh

Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts.
--Beatrice Saunders

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
--John Powell

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that
a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the
depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with
them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love
--Robert Fulghum

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you
are expecting to give - which is everything.
--Katherine Hepburn

Love without return is a question without an answer
--Unknown

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold
lie, Howling in outer darkness.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
--Henry Drummond British Clergyman

Love is being stupid together.
--Paul Valery

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
--Margaret Kennedy

The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
--Disraeli

Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.
--Kimberly Kirberg

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for,
risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." -Alexander Smith

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. ~Helen Rowland

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." - Houssaye

"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away.
Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."

"It's not my ear you whispered into, but my heart.
It's not my lips that you kissed, but my soul."

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."

"The pain of love lasts all one's life."

"I'd rather be a fool with a broken heart,
than be someone who never had a part of you."

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."--Aristotle

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."--Robert A. Heinlein

"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."--John Keats

[cchris]

Amen

[WhoaitsZ]

a lot of people collect quotes.

it is an awesome hobby, especially when you have a good mixture of both advisable and humoreous ones from friends and occasional great men like Voltaire or Plato.

[krwlz]

Well, I never collected to many quotes, but if there was a database of them somewhere, you can be sure as hell, that I would use them!!

[MacGnG]

i keep good things I say. lol
but for others' quotes i search online.

[Donkeypuncher]

Originally posted by Raw Kuts
would I be doing it just for myself?

There's a big market for that sort of thing or... I assume theer is. Most any bookstore will have a number of books of quotations, after-dinner speeches and the like. I say do it, if for no other reason than fun.

[lafemmefatale]

my habit is a slight variation in that i collect everything in text form...poetry [not much though], quotes, excerpts, text art, lists of things, exceptional jokes, sex related blurbs...all sorts...

Stiltzkin i especially liked the cowboy bebop excerpt, that's one of the rare occasions where a cartoon makes me cry like a little girl [the end, not during the scene of that particular excerpt ]

[World's King]

I got a quote for you:


"I'm on Zoloft, I've been drinking, and I couldn't give a fuck."

[Raw Kuts]

Hrmmm, well I'll get started on it once I'm done with finals for this semester. Then I have almost three weeks free to work on it. I will update here when I get something worth updating with. It would be easy to add catagories for things other than quotes such as poems, lyrics, jokes and stuff once everything is laid out.

Got a few questions to throw out there as to how you would like to program to be. Would you rather have a it server based or client based?

If it were to be server based, it would be written in PHP using a MySQL server (I already know that, no other technical reason). The server would have users, and each quote submitted would have various attributes such as the quote itself, who said it, catagories it fits under, keywords, description, and if the submitter wants it to be public or not (if it isn't public, then it is only available to them). Some problems with this would be duplicate quotes, if you are allowed to delete quotes that are public, and calls to the MySQL server for searches would be pretty taxing.

If it were to be client side only, it would be written in C++ (again, thats what I know, no other reason). It would only hold the quotes of the user running the program. Distribution might be an issue, if you wanted to share all, or some of the quotes. I could probably incorporate an import/export feature where it used maybe individual files for each quote that held all the information, or a large compressed file that held the qutoes. Another problem would be I would have to brush up on my C++ skills since I haven't used it in a few years... Maybe I could get credits with my school for making the program or something.

I feel like it's already done, now I gotta figure out a spiffy name for it.

[QuasiMojo]

Jeezus Stiltzkin.......!
nice quotes.
Thanx

I am interested in where that"Amour" poem comes from.
I was punched in the stomach by it.

hard.

[Kaos]

I've been doing the same thing, saving quotes...although my list isn't even a page long.

I've very selective and I don't keep all the well known ones (i.e. Confusious Says, Murphey's Laws etc.)

[nine]

Noticed the Churchill quotes in your list - but you missed his best

Nancy Astor was a native Virginian who became Britain’s first woman member of the House of Commons. In the 1930’s she headed a clique in the House of Commons that found something to admire in Hitler’s Germany. Churchill described an Astorite as an appeaser "who feeds the crocodile hoping that it will eat him last." One time shortly thereafter, Churchill found himself at Cliveden, the Astor mansion.

After dinner Lady Astor presided over the pouring of coffee. When Churchill came by, she glared and said. "Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee." "Nancy," Churchill replied to the acid-tongued woman, "if I were your husband, I’d drink it."

[GakFace]

Heh.. I collect quote.......... from myself

I usually have some sort of philosophic thought as my MSN title. I change it about weekly and a couple of months ago, I finally decided to start saving them, as I realized I'd have a lengthy "book" some years from now. And then as I read thru them, not only would I realize some cool insights I have seen and thought about, but it would also be like a story of my life, as each quote was thought up at a certain point in my life.

[black_death]

sounds like a pretty kool idea. i would use it.

[Cynthetiq]

I used to remember lots of quotes, but could never remember who said them. My senior year teacher used to use Zeke Lushwell as examples and so since then I would attribute those unknown quotes to Zeke.

People used to think that Zeke was such an intelligent man since he always had something to add or say about everything

[crow_daw]

I always used to write down all kinds of lyrical quotes from all kinds of songs when I would get bored in school.

[Stiltzkin]

Originally posted by lafemmefatale
Stiltzkin i especially liked the cowboy bebop excerpt, that's one of the rare occasions where a cartoon makes me cry like a little girl [the end, not during the scene of that particular excerpt ]

Truly awesome that you recognized it Cowboy Bebop is one of the best animes I've ever seen.

[On-top]

Originally posted by Raw Kuts

This list is getting pretty unweildy, so I decided to write something using php, and mysql so I could store them in a database. search by keywords, author, description, or subject. Would anyone be interseted in this kinda thing, or would I be doing it just for myself?

That's an awesome idea.

[fallen_angel]

i have about the same thing going on here but i havent worked out a system

[laxative]

don't collect 'em - usually forget or ignore 'em immediately.

hear one on NPR yesterday, think it was JFK:
"Sex is nature's joke on men.
Love is nature's joke on women."

[MacGnG]

http://www.quotedb.com

[TM875]

Don't know if you've seen this...one of my favorites:

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Peter's Laws (The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive)


1.If anything can go wrong, fix it! (To hell with Murphy!)

2.When given a choice, take both.

3.Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.

4.Start at the top and work your way up.

5.Do it by the book... but be the author.

6.When forced to compromise, ask for more.

7.If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them.

8.If it's worth doing, it's got to be done now!

9.If you can't win, change the rules.

10.If you can't change the rules, then ignore them.

11.Perfection is not optional.

12.When faced without a challenge, make one.

13."No" simply means begin again at one level higher.

14.Don't walk when you can run.

15.Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.

16.When in doubt, THINK!

17.Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a blessing.

18.The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

19.The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live!

[insom]

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall in a hole and die."

Mel Brooks

[cheshirecat]

whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - ghandi

[Memalvada]

Stiltzkin, great collection! thanx

[macmanmike6100]

no this is a great idea! I don't know PHP or SQL (yet) so this would be a definite boon to me. I keep 2 quote files, one from people I don't know (authors, celebrities, politicans) and from people I do know (my friends and family). Let us know how it goes!