Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

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Quote Combinations...

Never bring a sword to fight a land war in Asia with guns.

Make no sense!

 

[phyzmatix]

''I had a wonderful moment...when the radio went off as I was just waking up in my own bed at home.

''I heard, 'This morning, the Prime Minister will...' and I thought, 'Oh God, what's he doing now? And then I thought, 'Oh no, hang on a second - it's me!'''

~David Cameron

 

[DocMuffinZ]

“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.”

 

[IMP]

Probably a repeat, but still one of my favorites:

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

 

[BobG]

I have a good one:

In a butter fight, there are no winners.

There's no winners in a contraceptive foam fight, either. Plus, the next morning, the kids are wandering around wondering what in the world happened to the house.

 

[Lancelot59]

There's no winners in a contraceptive foam fight, either. Plus, the next morning, the kids are wandering around wondering what in the world happened to the house.

How about this:

Kids in the back seat cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat cause kids.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What do we call Glenn Beck fans, Becker-heads?

- Colbert

 

[FrancisZ]

"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoUpF7rvfnk

 

[drizzle]

Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,

Would not we shatter it to bits -- and then

Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

Al- Khayyam. Translated by Edward J. Fitzgerald

 

[magpies]

Unknown -

Modern science hopes to bring immortality but
instead all it can bring is false hopes. The
reason for this is simple the goal of science
is to study and immortality requires one to
have mastered all that there is to study.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Unknown -

And better left that way. What is your source for that quote? I realize that you don't know the original source, but where did you get it? It sounds like something a high school kid made up.

 

[Scribner]

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"

Carl Sagan

 

[phyzmatix]

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either, just f@ck off and leave me alone!"

~Maharishi Phucknuckle

 

[IcedEcliptic]

"What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around...And sometimes you are what's coming around." - Jim Butcher

Алты́нного во́ра ве́шают, а полти́нного че́ствуют. Translation: One hangs the thief who stole altyn(3 kopecks), and honors the one who stole poltinnik(50 kopecks).

 

[IcedEcliptic]

A couple of additions:

"With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly."
(Tolkien)

Duke of Exeter. 'Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
From him the native and true challenger. '

King of France. 'Or else what follows?'

Duke of Exeter. 'Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown 1000
Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:'(Henry V act II)

On the lightest of all possible notes:

(Brian and Stewie are on a German tour bus.)
German Tour Guide: You vill find more on Germany's contributions to ze arts in ze pamphlets ve have provided.
Brian : Yeah, about your pamphlet... uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap.
Tour guide: Everyone vas on vacation. On your left is Munich's first city hall, erected in 15...
Brian : Wait, what are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and...
Tour Guide: We were invited. Punch vas served. Check vit Poland.
Brian : You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany.
Tour guide: Nope, nope. He left to manage a Dairy Queen.
Brian : A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous.
Tour guide: I vill hear no more insinuations about the German people. Nothing bad happened. Sie werden sich hinsetzen. Sie werden ruhig sein. Sie werden nicht beleidigen Deutschland. You will sit down. You will shut up. You will not insult Germany. (Throws his hand up in a Hitler salute.)
Brian : Uh, is that a beer hall?
Tour guide: (Snapping out of it) Oh yes, Munich is renowned for its historic beer halls.

 

[DanP]

"With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly."

(Tolkien)

"Instead of a Sith Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!"

- paraphrased Tolkien

 

[IcedEcliptic]

- paraphrased Tolkien

Heh, very good!

Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Away, away!

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov

"And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects, called the Human Race. Lost in time, and lost in space, and meaning." (RHPS)

"To reign over the kingdom of the world. To make its peace and write its laws. To be generous to the obedient and merciless to all those who would stand against you. Nothing ever changes. 2000 years and you still act as if the world is yours." (Alucard from Hellsing speaking to a Vatican envoy)

 

[qspeechc]

Wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that real life is in love, laughter and work - Elbert Hubbard

There are some days when I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction - Salvador Dali

Fate seems to work with dice rather than a T-square - George Ade

Anyone can win, provided there's no second entry - George Ade

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing is best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting - e.e. cummings

 

[IcedEcliptic]

Wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that real life is in love, laughter and work - Elbert Hubbard

There are some days when I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction - Salvador Dali

Fate seems to work with dice rather than a T-square - George Ade

Anyone can win, provided there's no second entry - George Ade

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing is best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting - e.e. cummings

Those are really good.

 

[collinsmark]

"It's fun to be a sucker, if you can afford it."
-Diamond Jim Brady

 

[jobyts]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" - US Constitution, 1st Ammendment

 

[Mu naught]

this whole thing, and Brando's performance just makes it perfect.

 

[caljuice]

correlation doesn't imply causation

 

[Ivan Seeking]

"There is a new way to cuss people out down here [Louisiana]: BP you!"
- Ret. Lt. Gen. Honore

 

[Borg]

Spill Baby, Spill.

Nice one Ivan .

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Bing is a great search engine. I know because I googled it.

It isn't the Gulf of Mexico anymore: We broke it, we own it.

- Colbert

 

[ViewsofMars]

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals [book bugs], weather, and their own content." Paul Valery(1871-1945)

I like that quote because earlier today I found that to be true to some degree as I thumbed through HOW SUCCESS IS WON by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, D. Lothrop and Company, Boston, 1885, ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN ZOOLOGY by James G. Needham, M.S., American Book Company, 1896, and LONG LIFE AND HOW TO REACH IT by Joseph G. Richardson, M.D., P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1885.

I love old books. I love to collect them.

 

[jobyts]

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. - Rodney Dangerfield.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

In Arkansas, you give your location by the distance from the nearest Wal Mart

- CNN viewer from Arkansas

 

[ViewsofMars]

These are my favorites quotes today.

“From the foundations of science, to the limits of technology, to the very definition of the human condition, I think computation is destined to be the defining idea of our future.” Stephen Wolfram's 2010 TED Talk in Long Beach, California on Thursday, February 11, 2010.

Also, as a book bug (tee hee), I like this one too.

"Every language is undergoing, at all times, a slow but unceasing process of linguistic change." LANGUAGE by Leonard Bloomfield, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1933, Chapter 17, WRITTEN RECORDS, p.g. 231.