Favorite Quotes: Share & Discover Your Most Loved Sayings

[Astronuc]

Astronuc, that quote of yours is almost witty :)

I am sure someone has thought or mentioned it before, but I googled on it (I know that's not reliable) and did not get even one response. So I tossed it out.

I could have said "Gravity is serious"

or "Gravity is a constant reminder of 'what goes up, must come down'." Unless of course, what goes up achieves escape velocity, which then becomes a more cosmological question of whether or not it achieved escape velocity from the Earth or the sun, and then where is it going to go.

For sure - one thing leads to another - INXS, and before that who knows?

 

[Anttech]

"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them."
--George Bush

 

[Astronuc]

Henry Louis Mencken, born on September 12, 1880, was known as The Sage of Baltimore. He was both a leading authority—perhaps the leading authority—on American English, and he was also a penetrating and witty observer of American life.

Mencken defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy," and immorality as "the morality of those who are having a better time.”

Mencken called love “the triumph of imagination over intelligence” and also compared it to war: “…like war; he wrote, [ love is] easy to begin but hard to stop.”

from "Word for the Wise" sponsored by Merriam-Webster
see http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?091205

 

[Janus]

"'I see', Said the blind man when the dead horse kicked him." - My dad.

 

[Mk]

Its not my favorite quote, but it's interesting.

"Deflagrate - to cause to deflagrate."
Merrium-Webster Online ary of diction.

 

[Lisa!]

"If there were in the world today any latge number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." -Bertrand Russell

"It doesn't take a brave man to admit he's wrong, it takes a cowardly man to avoid it."-Ben
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Mahatma Gandhi

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

"Life is the crumbiest book
I've ever read there isn't a hook
Just alota cheap shots, pictures to shock,
And characters an amatuer would never dream up."
Stranger Than Fiction by Bad Religion

For when I'm feeling cynical.

 

[Lisa!]

"Great thought speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." Emily P. Bissell

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Small people talk about other people
Average people talk about problems
Superior people talk about the possibilities
--- Amway sales pitch ---

 

[Yaaks]

Heres a funny one,,

"When I hear anyone talk of Culture, I reach for my revolver." - Hermann Goering

 

[Smurf]

Small people talk about other people
Average people talk about problems
Superior people talk about the possibilities
--- Amway sales pitch ---

Small minds discuss people
Average minds discuss events
Great minds discuss ideas

 

[Evo]

"He has a mind like a blotter - he soaks it all in, but gets it all backwards" Don't know who said it.

 

[Astronuc]

Robert Fulghum Quotes

"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."


"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."


"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
That dreams are more powerful than facts
That hope always triumphs over experience
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death."


"I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test."


"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."


"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away."


"Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody."


"Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts."


"The examined life is no picnic."


"The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are."

 

[EnumaElish]

http://www.folkmusic.com/t_mp3-Lyrics.htm#Chief

 

[EnumaElish]

Dr. Evil: The details of my life are quite inconsequential.
Therapist (Carrie Fisher): Oh no, please, please, let's hear about your childhood.
Dr Evil: Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possesses and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian woman named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
Therapist: You know, we have to stop.

 

[EnumaElish]

The Crimson Permanent Assurance from the Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life:

Narrator:
In the bleak days of nineteen-eighty-three, as England languished in the doldrums of a ruinous monetarist policy, the good and loyal men of the Permanent Assurance Company-- a once-proud family firm, recently fallen in hard times-- strained under the yoke of their oppressive new corporate management.

Pushed beyond the bounds of decent and reasonable victimisation, the aged retainers take their destiny in their own hands and-- Mutiny!

And so, the Crimson Permanent Assurance was launched upon the high seas of international finance.

There it lay, the prize they sought, the richest jewel in the crown of the I.M.F.: a financial district swollen with multi-nationals, conglomerates, and fat, bloated merchant banks.

Hidden behind the faceless, towering canyons of glass, the world of high finance sat smug and self-satisfied as their future, in the shape of their past, slipped silently through the streets, returning to wreak a terrible revenge.

Adopting, adapting, and improving traditional business practises, the Permanent Assurance puts into motion an audacious and totally unsuspected takeover bid.

And so, heartened by their initial success, the desperate and reasonably violent men of the Permanent Assurance battled on... until, as the sun set slowly in the west, the outstanding return on their bold business venture became apparent: the once-proud financial giants lay in ruins, their assets stripped, their policies in tatters.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

"It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't really understand it until it makes you cry." Robert Anton Wilson

"True enlightenment ends with 'in bed', just like fortune cookies." Me

 

[loseyourname]

I can't believe nobody has posted anything by Dorothy Parker yet:

"Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life."

"You can drag a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." (When asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence.)

"By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and undying - Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying."

 

[Lisa!]

"whoever said 'nothing's impossible' never tried to nail jell-o to a tree"- Lisa Bryant

"Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?"
"Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!"

 

[ranger]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein

The objective of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other sorry bastard die for his. -Patton-And I absolutely love this one

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein

 

[Smurf]

"whoever said 'nothing's impossible' never tried to nail jell-o to a tree"- Lisa Bryan

 

[JamesU]

"if something's new and imporoved, that would be impossible. if it's been improved, it's not really new is it?"

 

[loseyourname]

That's the weakest photoshopping I've ever seen.

I can't believe you bastards took away my thread kill.

 

[Smurf]

Yeah that's what I thought when I found it

 

[Lisa!]

"Psychologically speaking, humans are definitely the most messed up creatures."
"He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance."

I can't believe you bastards took away my thread kill.

That was me!

 

[jimmie]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivan Seeking
Small people talk about other people
Average people talk about problems
Superior people talk about the possibilities
--- Amway sales pitch ---Quote:
Originally posted by Smurf
Small minds discuss people
Average minds discuss events
Great minds discuss ideas
"A true mind disdains discussion."

Me.

 

[Lisa!]

"Thanks God I'm an atheist!"
"Behind every graet man, there's a woman rolling her eyes!"_ Bruce Almighty

 

[Anttech]

"freedoooommmm" Braveheart -- the bit before he gets his dick cut off

 

[BobG]

"freedoooommmm" Braveheart -- the bit before he gets his dick cut off

I wouldn't put too much trust in that account. Generally, a person makes enough strange sounds in that situation that just about creative mind can pick out a word or two.