And I Quote

[Strong]

I bet you can't guess what this thread is about. Well some of you might have noticed I am hooked on quotes at present. It is just a phase I am sure.

And what better to start with than:

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. Jonathan Swift

[Strong]

And talking of word stealing, here is one I nicked from Ed, who got it by way of an oriental guy.

Perhaps death will be so great we'll regret having ever lived
ChuangZi

[Trapper]

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore.

[krisma5]

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." Dave Barry

[krisma5]

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." Chester Bowles

[krisma5]

and my favorite:

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt

[Strong]

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Philip K. Dick

[krisma5]

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa

[Strong]

Of course the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you—if you don’t play, you can’t win.
Robert Heinlein

[Strong]

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
Blaise Pascal

[Muddy]

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
- Sydney Smith

[krisma5]

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Confucius

[julien_simon]

I plan on living forever.
So far so good.

[Strong]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

[Muddy]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Post #6. :3wink:

[Strong]

Doh! Sorry Krisma! :3embarrassed:

It's so good it deserves two mentions :sqwink:

[Muddy]

It doesn't surprise me...you guys remind me of each other anyway. Both Spocks.

[krisma5]

Totally. I always thought that I came from Vulcan anyways, me being much more serious and humorless than most I know.

[Zap]

Totally. I always thought that I came from Vulcan anyways, me being much more serious and humorless than most I know.

You? Humourless? Pffft! :sqcool:

[Strong]

Let me try and redeem myself, I give you ...

Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Waterson

Obviously I don't think twice as fast as I post.

I don't think you are humourless either Krisma.

In real life, strangers think I'm very serious. I'm told I have a very dry sense of humour by people that don't see me smiling on the inside. :sqwink:

[krisma5]

In real life, strangers think I'm very serious. I'm told I have a very dry sense of humour by people that don't see me smiling on the inside. :sqwink:

That's what I meant, I am a very serious person, and my neighbors can salute to that, but when it comes to humor, my humor is rather different, I have one, and I do laugh, but mostly to odd things. Sometimes I'll be listening to the radio and I'll laugh out loud and my kids will ask me what was so funny? It's too hard to explain what I find funny, so I just leave it as is.

BUT, on the other hand, if I'm in a situation with family or friends, I can be funny. But most the time, I don't like putting on a show. Now, my brothers on the other side, are way funnier than I am by FAR! I guess that the funny genes that mom was sending on to us, were used up mostly with them and then what was left over (seriousness, patience, and the good looks) were given to me.

[Strong]

Humour is where you find it.

I don't know if anybody said that before, probably, but if not, I call dibs!

I threw my funny genes away ages ago, they had holes in the crotch area. :sqwink:

[Strong]

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

[Strong]

Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
More Carl Jung

[Strong]

I hope you don't think I'm letting this thread die, it means a lot to me :sqrofl:


Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut

[julien_simon]

a quote for my fellow chess players:


A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

[Ferre]

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from delusion it is called Religion."

- Robert M. Pirsig

[krisma5]

"My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'" - Forrest Gump

[ewomack]

"Abstain from eating beans"
-Pythagoras

[krisma5]

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

[ewomack]

"We are stuck here in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
-Kurt Vonnegut

[Strong]

...
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut


"We are stuck here in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
-Kurt Vonnegut

Now Ed, we have to sort this out. Which did he say, or did he say both :sqconfused:

[ewomack]

He was a jazz artist. He specialized in variations on themes. Here is yet another stunning example...

[Strong]

At the end, it is the substance that is important.

[ewomack]

I find that my substance is very important. Without it I wouldn't be able to misquote already quoted lines...

[Strong]

I have lots of his quotes laying around. He seemed to be an interesting thinker.

[ewomack]

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
-Kurt Vonnegut

[Strong]

Yeah, that one always makes me laugh.

[Strong]

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country, 2005

[ewomack]

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
-Kurt Vonnegut

[Strong]

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It’s too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
Kurt Vonnegut, from Deadeye Dick

[ewomack]

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
-Kurt Vonnegut

[Strong]

"People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
Kurt Vonnegut

[Strong]

I think the reason I like this thread is because I don't make so many spelling mistakes. That's because I mainly don't have to spell. :sqwink:

[ewomack]

Be careful what you cut and paste... caution!!!! :3shocked:

[ewomack]

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
-Zhuangzi

[Muddy]

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
-Zhuangzi

Is that because happiness has been achieved, or given up on?

[ewomack]

Neither. It's the absence of needing to strive for happiness.

[ewomack]

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
-Spinoza

[Muddy]

Neither. It's the absence of needing to strive for happiness.

Hey, that makes perfect sense to me!

[Strong]

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
Carl Sagan

[Ferre]

I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...

- Frank Zappa

[Strong]

For some reason that one tickles my funny bone. No not that bone, my funny bone! :sqwink:

[julien_simon]

well, it's for us to decide if your bone is funny or not...

[krisma5]

Be a friend when people most need one. As movie mogul Lew Wasserman used to advise talent agents: 'If an actor is working, make sure you talk to him at least twice a week. If he is not working, talk to him every day.' Helping people w...ill not guarantee that they respond to you in kind. My experience is that you can count on about one in ten, but this one makes up for the others.

[Strong]

"He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
Rudyard Kipling

[Strong]

"I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who."
Rudyard Kipling

[Strong]

"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces."
Rudyard Kipling

[ewomack]

“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”
-Charles Bukowski

[Zap]

We're not descedants of a bunch of fat people that got eaten by the dinosaurs.
No. We're descendants of the little bitty quick fuckers that got back to the cave.
So get out and DO in life.
- Gallagher

[Ferre]

"We must always remember to thank the CIA and the army for LSD, by the way. Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn’t it? They brought out LSD to control people, and what they did was give us freedom."

- John Lennon

[Strong]

"Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes."
John Lennon

You've made me want to go and listen to some of his songs now Ferre! :sqbiggrin:

[Ferre]

That's all it did? It didn't make you want to pop some acid? :sqerr:

*leans back and pops some acid

[Strong]

:sqlaugh:

No! That's not my thing. I get addicted to things too easily!

[Zap]

That's all it did? It didn't make you want to pop some acid? :sqerr:

*leans back and pops some acid

Can't do that stuff anymore.
Had a great time with it throughout high school and then two bad trips in a row meant it was time for me to make my exit.

[ewomack]

Yikes. A friend of mine who I've lost track of had a bad trip and never fully recovered. I've never tried the stuff for the same reason as Strongy.

[Ferre]

:sqlaugh:

No! That's not my thing. I get addicted to things too easily!


Yikes. A friend of mine who I've lost track of had a bad trip and never fully recovered. I've never tried the stuff for the same reason as Strongy.

Addicted? :sqlaugh:

here's a quote from LSD Addiction Symptoms - LSD Abuse, Tolerance (http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/lsd/addiction.htm)


LSD has zero physical addiction potential. It is not physically addictive and it is not a drug that you will want to immediately do again.

...unless for the crazy ones of course, the same crazy ones that get addicted to sex, gambling and weed, there's always the kind of folks that gets addicted to anything that gives them a buzz. But the avarage Joe (or Jane) won't get addicted, only experienced.

[Ferre]

BTW, the Scientology movement has a cure for LSD addiction, but they also have a cure for your high Thetan levels.

And you may quote me on that. :sqwink:

[Zap]

BTW, the Scientology movement has a cure for LSD addiction, but they also have a cure for your high Thetan levels.

And you may quote me on that. :sqwink:

They have also found a cure for intelligent, individual thought and have completely erradicated it from within. :sqlaugh:

[Muddy]

"Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey."
- John Lennon

[Zap]

"Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey."
- John Lennon

Not true. I'm sure Yoko had some skeletons in her closet. :sqbiggrin:

[Ferre]

Me thinks Yoko Ono was the skeleton in the closet. :sqwink:

[Strong]

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
St. Basil

That's herbilicious!

[krisma5]

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

[krisma5]

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

[krisma5]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

[ewomack]

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
-Socrates

[ewomack]

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-Nietzsche

[ewomack]

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
-Nietzsche

[Ferre]

The greatest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

- Winston Churchill

[ewomack]

"The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!"
-Frederick Douglass (one great dude)

[ewomack]

"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 blind-folded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson:

[krisma5]

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Herman Wouk

[ewomack]

"The thing about my music is, there really is no point."
-Neil Young

[Strong]

In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen

[Muddy]

Interestingly my wife was reading something this morning and came across a Kurt Vonnegut quote that made her laugh and subsequently share.

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

[buffalo]

"The good news is, it's not you. The bad news is, there is nothing you can do about it." -My friend Timmy

The thing like like about it, it that it means nothing, but really could mean anything...

[Strong]

The mysteries of the Universe encapsulated in two simple sentences. :sqlaugh:

[ewomack]

"I am thankful that the good God creates us all ignorant. I am glad that when we change His plans in this regard, we have to do it at our own risk. It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art, and ignorant also of surgery. Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes, and surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease. The very point in a picture that fascinates me with its beauty, is to the cultured artist a monstrous crime against the laws of coloring; and the very flush that charms me in a lovely face, is, to the critical surgeon, nothing but a sign hung out to advertise a decaying lung. Accursed be all such knowledge. I want none of it."
-Mark Twain

[julien_simon]

"Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything."
- Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel

[ewomack]

"Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours."
-Yogi Berra

[ewomack]

"Most of my cliches aren’t original."
-Chuck Knox

[ewomack]

"We don’t necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
-Colonel Gerald Wellman

[ewomack]

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
- Brooke Shields

[julien_simon]

"If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination."

- My psychiatrist

[ewomack]

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Strong]

Illegitmis non carborundum.
(Don’t let the bastards grind you down.)
General Joe Stillwell

[ewomack]

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[buffalo]

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
-Yogi Berra

[Strong]

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Mencius

[Strong]

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[ewomack]

"“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
-Spinoza

[Muddy]

"“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
-Spinoza

.....

[ewomack]

Good job.

Oop... I failed... damn heretics!!

[ewomack]

Spinoza's condemnation of 1656:


"By decree of the angels and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse and damn Baruch de Espinoza, with the consent of God, Blessed be He, and with the consent of the entire holy congregation, and in front of these holy scrolls with the 613 precepts which are written therein; cursing him with the excommunication with which Joshua banned Jericho and with the curse which Elisha cursed the boys and with all the castigations which are written in the Book of the Law. Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and cursed be he when he rises up. Cursed be he when he goes out and cursed be he when he comes in. The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. But you that cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day. That no one should communicate with him neither in writing nor accord him any favor nor stay with him under the same roof nor within four cubits in his vicinity; nor shall he read any treatise composed or written by him."



To which he replied:


"Very well, this does not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord, had I not been afraid of a scandal."

[Muddy]

That reminds me... (http://www.btwimho.com/showpost.php?p=4860&postcount=109)

[ewomack]

Nice connection. Now find one for silicosis.

[Strong]

Doesn't it make you think this Spinoza dude was a real party animal.

I kind of think that people just don't put the same effort into their cursing these days. I mean, you are lucky if someone makes a vague reference to you massaging your own prostrate and that's about it. They really did know how to lay down a curse in them olden days. Respect is due to the curse monkeys.

[ewomack]

Spinoza embodies the person that the old guard liked to staple curses to. And all this cursing happened in the what was then considered moderate Netherlands.

[Strong]

It would seem ...

You had to stand in line to hate him. (Hedda Hopper)

At least for the old guard.

[Muddy]

"People hate the word sorry, but that's only because they are."
- Atom

[Atom]

I've little respect for people that do not quote themselves. Little.

[Atom]

"People hate the word sorry, but that's only because they are."
- AtomI think I love you, despite my previous post.

[ewomack]

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
-Spinoza

[Atom]

Beat your meat on the toilet seat, do dah, do dah, slam your ham in the fryin' pan, all the live long day.

~Timmy Keefe

[ewomack]

"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
— Christina Aguilera

[Atom]

I'm an optimist, there's always tomorrow, if tomorrow comes.

~Atom

[Atom]

I like those quotes that suck because you haven't thought about it enough, those are my favorites.

~Atom

[ewomack]

"Sometimes I wonder if Jell-o is toxic."
-Ed

[Muddy]

"Jell-o is toxic."
- Muddy

[Strong]

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

[ewomack]

"A frosty mug sensation is worth two in the bush."
-Traditional saying

[buffalo]

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

[ewomack]

"The Buffalo is back!!!"
-Ed

[buffalo]

"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."
-Francis Parkman-

[ewomack]

"I have altered the bargain, pray I alter it no further."
-Darth Vader

[Strong]

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken
Isabel Allende

[ewomack]

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
Jean-Paul Sartre


DAMN FRENCH!!!!

[Strong]

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

[ewomack]

"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
Soren Kierkegaard

[ewomack]

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
-Bertrand Russell

[ewomack]

"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs."
-Martin Heidegger

[ewomack]

"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

[ewomack]

"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
-David Byrne

[buffalo]

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
-Art Buchwald-

[Muddy]

"She had the rippling muscles of a panther, the solidity of a water buffalo, and the lazy insolence of a shoe salesman."
- Sydney Joseph Perelman

[ewomack]

"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion."
-Harvey Milk

[buffalo]

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions (http://www.btwimho.com/showpost.php?p=6799&postcount=489). Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
-Ed Wood-

[ewomack]

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."
-Al Capone

[Muddy]

Allen and South probably have that quote tattooed on their arms!

[ewomack]

No, I think it was this one:

"Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character." -Robert E. Lee

[Muddy]

Bob had to go and quantify that with the word "lawful".

[ewomack]

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein

[Muddy]

”May those that love us, love us; and for those that don’t love us, may God turn their hearts. And if he can’t turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles; so we may know them by their limping.”
- Old Irish Saying

[ewomack]

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[ewomack]

"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[krisma5]

No, I think it was this one:

"Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character." -Robert E. Lee

That means be obedient to your WIFE right?!:sqwink:

[Strong]

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
Jack Handey

[Strong]

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L’Amour

[Strong]

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Tolstoy

[ewomack]

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
-Michel Foucault

[ewomack]

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[ewomack]

"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise."
-Paul Ricoeur

[ewomack]

"I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music."
-Merle Haggard

[ewomack]

“The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.”
-Paul Bowles

[buffalo]

An adventure may be worn as a muddy (http://www.btwimho.com/member.php?u=3) spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
-Norma Shearer-

[ewomack]

“Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I”
-Alfred Kreymborg

[julien_simon]

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
Voltaire

[ewomack]

"I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.'
-Christopher Walken

[Muddy]

An adventure may be worn as a muddy (http://www.btwimho.com/member.php?u=3) spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
-Norma Shearer-

Thanks Buff! I'm trying to get my profile page up to at least a PR6 so this is gonna really help!

[Strong]

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without an address on it?
Mark Twain

[Strong]

A razor company once invited George Bernard Shaw to shave his famous beard. He responded with a postcard:
Gentlemen:
I shall never shave, for the same reason that I started a beard, and for the reason my father started his. I remember standing at his side, when I was five, while he was shaving for the last time. “Father,” I asked, “Why do you shave?” He stood there for a full minute and finally looked down at me. “Why the hell do I?” he said.

[Strong]

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander

[ewomack]

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
-George Carlin

[Strong]

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.
Jerry Seinfeld

[ewomack]

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another."
-Marcel Duchamp

[ewomack]

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."
-Marcel Duchamp

[Muddy]

"Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre."
- Steve Earle

[ewomack]

Some great quotes in this one...

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[Atom]

Looks like someone had an excellent reading teacher in grade school. That one gives a real boost to my home state, he does. I've been to where he was born many times and can tell you that the area is still inhabited by hillbillies to this very day. I am not kidding.

[ewomack]

Well, he was dang quotable. Drawl and all.

[Atom]

There are several peculiar northern drawls amongst natives within the state. If you employed them all within one sentence, it would be indecipherable by the average American, and indeed the average native Vermonter.

[ewomack]

A friend of mine from Texas said this is the most southern thing he's ever seen...

teHfyby_veU

[Strong]

Will I be able to play the piano again? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EARnV7vU4tg&feature=related)
Ann Uumellmahaye

[ewomack]

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

[ewomack]

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

[ewomack]

"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

[julien_simon]

"who goes to bed with an ichy bum, wakes up with a smelly finger."
Muddy

[Muddy]

Well she said it itched.

[Strong]

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl

[Strong]

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
Golda Meir

:sqlaugh:

[Strong]

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho

[ewomack]

"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
-Sigmund Freud

[ewomack]

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
-Sigmund Freud

"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
-Sigmund Freud

[Muddy]

My wife read me a really good Winston Churchill quote this morning. Wish I could remember it.

[Atom]

Look, I know you're nervous as it's the internet and everything, but please try to make at least some sense.

~ Guess Who

[ewomack]

"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only."
-Gottfried Leibniz

[ewomack]

"Democracy is the road to socialism."
-Karl Marx

[ewomack]

"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
-Groucho Marx

[ewomack]

"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."
-Edmund Husserl

[Strong]

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another … It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.
J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

[Strong]

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha

[Strong]

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

[Muddy]

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Winston Churchill

[ewomack]

“It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.”
-Genghis Khan quote

[ewomack]

“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
-Genghis Khan quote

[ewomack]

“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”
-Genghis Khan quote

[ewomack]

Difference between Ghengis Khan and Darth Vader = not much...

[Strong]

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

[julien_simon]

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski

[Ferre]

A dirty mind is a joy forever.

- Oscar Wilde

[ewomack]

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
-Vladimir Nabokov

[iowadawg]

Candy is dandy,
But liquor is quicker.

Ogden Nash

[ewomack]

"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!"
-Dolly Parton

[ewomack]

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
-Isaac Newton

[iowadawg]

So what is the speed of dark?

Stephen Wright

[Strong]

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

[Strong]

I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher

[Strong]

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand-new ones. But that’s OK because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
Scott Adams

[ewomack]

"I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed."
-Drew Barrymore

[ewomack]

"Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be."
-Lionel Barrymore

[ewomack]

"Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world."
-Lionel Barrymore

"I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed."
-Lionel Barrymore

[buffalo]

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
-Cory Doctorow

[Muddy]

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- Edsger Dijkstra

[Strong]

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler

[Muddy]

"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."
- Aristotle

[Strong]

Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

[Strong]

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Strong]

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon


You are all a marvel, each and every one of you.

[Muddy]

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon


You are all a marvel, each and every one of you.

Looking in the mirror again I see!

[ewomack]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
-Tom Waits

[ewomack]

“Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk”
-Tom Waits

[ewomack]

“I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out."
-Tom Waits quote

[Strong]

Looking in the mirror again I see!

The mirror of love!

[Strong]

“I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out."
-Tom Waits quote

That made me laugh. OK, I wasn't rolling on the floor, or even out loud, but deep inside I was like a Walt Disney jelly of joy wobbling with mirth. :sqlaugh:

[krisma5]

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

[Strong]

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.
Steve Allen

[ewomack]

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
-Woody Allen

[ewomack]

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
-Edgar Allan Poe

[ewomack]

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[ewomack]

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[Strong]

I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

(From QuotationsPage (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mahatma_Gandhi/))

[Strong]

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

[Strong]

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

[ewomack]

Yes! Gandhi quotes!!

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[ewomack]

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[buffalo]

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
-Dr. Seuss

[Strong]

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Strong]

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
Horace, Odes

[Cryren8972]

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-Mohandas Gandhi

This is the truth.
And as a Christian, your goal is to be more Christ-like

[Strong]

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

[Cryren8972]

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~Mother Teresa