Quote of the Day

[earlsmoviepicks]

3 Woody Quotes

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"The metaphysical comfort--with which, I am suggesting even now, every true tragedy leaves us--that life is at the bottom of things, despite all the changes of appearances, indestructibly powerful and pleasurable--this comfort appears in incarnate clarity in the chorus of the satyrs, a chorus of natural beings who live ineradicably, as it were, behind all civilization and remain eternally the same, despite the changes of generations and of the history of nations."
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Mesmerized]

“A person is a person no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
Samuel Johnson

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
--Ray Bradbury

[Mesmerized]

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." ~ G.K. Chesterton

[honeykid]

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Unknown

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977

[Hit Girl]

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

[philip12]

It's what you do right now that makes a difference. -
Black Hawk Down

[Hit Girl]

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Onassis



Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

--Napoleon Bonaparte

[Hit Girl]

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

[mark f]

"If things aren't funny then they're exactly what they are, and then they're like a long dental appointment."

- Murray Burns, A Thousand Clowns, written by Herb Garfner

[Hit Girl]

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. -
Paul Valery

[babu]

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"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." Helen Keller.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

"What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors."

― Friedrich Nietzsche

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

― Voltaire

[philip12]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

[babu]

"Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary unless your friends are there to see it" -Barney Stinson

[mark f]

"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run."

- Dennis Miller

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[Hit Girl]

People say you can't live without love. I think oxygen is more important. - anon.

[Matteo]

" ... " - Terrence Malick

[Deadite]

"I must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone." - Kurt Cobain

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree"
George Orwell

"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
George Orwell

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell

[nebbit]

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde :yup:

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

[Tyler1]

Vincent Gallo on Harmony Korine:

“The only impact Harmony Korine will have will be on the lives of the girls he slipped drugs to, got stoned and raped while they were passed out.”

Vincent Gallo on Abel Ferrara:

“Abel Ferrara was on so much crack when I did The Funeral, he was never on set. He was in my room trying to pick-pocket me.”

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Winston Churchill

[earlsmoviepicks]

Here are some quotes from my old battered copy of The Fisherman's Guide to Life

If a man fishes hard, what is he going to do easy?

If you want fish, fish.

Never cut what you can untie.

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.

Fishing makes you think.

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish that they are after.

Humility neither falls far, or heavily.

No matter how good a man gets at fishing, he'll never land every fish he hooks.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish, goes home through the alley.

I know of no optimism so great as that which perennially blooms in the heart of a fisherman.

I have never yet caught a fish on the first cast, nor have I ever made a first cast without thinking I would catch a fish.

The preposterous luck of a beginner is well known to all fisherman. It is an inexplicable thing.

The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

[honeykid]

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"

The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle (1947 - )

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)

[Hit Girl]

If I love you this much, and I’m not the one for you, then the one for you will be everything I am; and everything I’m not. - Unknown

[babu]

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"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one definition of your life; define yourself."Harvey Fierstein

[honeykid]

Civility is the grease of civilization.
honeykid

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Without beer, life would be a mistake.
The Sci-Fi Slob

[Hit Girl]

Chocolate trumps everything else. - Hit Girl :D

[Mesmerized]

"A heart without love is like a deconsecrated church, a building withdrawn from God's service and given over to another use." ~ Pope Francis

[Hit Girl]

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.”
― Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”― Kurt Vonnegut

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
--Carl von Clausewitz

[honeykid]

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"

If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

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

"Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived... he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."
John F. Kennedy

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky

[christine]

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[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

Thomas B. Macaulay

[Hit Girl]

Somewhere there must one
Made for this soul, to move it.
~William Johnson Cory

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

--Friedrich Nietzsche

[Mesmerized]

“This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted” – Henry Hyde

[Godoggo]

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Emma Goldman

[Hit Girl]

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. - Mencius

[Mesmerized]

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ. ~
Billy Graham

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“I’m like Twain, Nietzsche, and Dali in that I have three mustaches. (I have two of them disguised as eyebrows).”

― Jarod Kintz

[Hit Girl]

“Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially “on,” we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn’t antisocial. It isn’t a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: “I’m okay, you’re okay—in small doses.”
― Jonathan Rauch


“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami


“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.” Criss Jami

[Nostromo87]

woo-tee-dee

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[babu]

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[christine]

I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand.

[thisistheend]

Michael: "I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell."
Tootsie.

[honeykid]

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! ”

-George Orwell, 1984.

[Hit Girl]

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

[Mesmerized]

"It is true that the policies of the President of the United States of America have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization. He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life and anti-family policies. Now he wants to restrict the exercise of the freedom of religion to freedom of worship, that is, he holds that one is free to act according to his conscience within the confines of his place of worship but that, once the person leaves the place of worship, the government can constrain him to act against his rightly-formed conscience, even in the most serious of moral questions. Such policies would have been unimaginable in the United States even 40 years ago. It is true that many faithful Catholics, with strong and clear leadership from their Bishops and priests, are reacting against the ever-growing religious persecution in the U.S. Sadly, one has the impression that a large part of the population is not fully aware of what is taking place. In a democracy, such a lack of awareness is deadly. It leads to the loss of the freedom which a democratic government exists to protect. It is my hope that more and more of my fellow citizens, as they realize what is happening, will insist on electing leaders who respect the truth of the moral law as it is respected in the founding principles of our nation." ~ Cardinal Raymond Burke

[Hit Girl]

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. - Dalai Lama

[Tyler1]

"We ask everything of love. We ask it to be anarchic. We ask it to be the glue that holds the family together, that allows society to be orderly and allows all kinds of material processes to be transmitted from one generation to another. But I think that the connection between love and sex is very mysterious. Part of the modern ideology of love is to assume that love and sex always go together. They can, I suppose, but I think rather to the detriment of either one or the other. And probably the greatest problem for human beings is that they just don’t."

Susan Sontag

[honeykid]

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

[babu]

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

[Mesmerized]

"I myself am convinced by the Petrine claims, nor looking around the world does there seem much doubt which (if Christianity is true) is the True Church, the temple of the Spirit dying but living, corrupt but holy, self-reforming and re-arising.


"But for me that Church of which the Pope is the acknowledged head on earth has as chief claim that it is the one that has (and still does) ever defended the Blessed Sacrament, and given it most honour, and put (as Christ plainly intended) in the prime place.


“'Feed my sheep' was His last charge to St. Peter; and since His words are always first to be understood literally, I suppose them to refer primarily to the Bread of Life. It was against this that the Western European revolt (or Reformation) was really launched—'the blasphemous fable of the Mass'—and faith/works a mere red herring.”


~ J.R.R. Tolkien

[Hit Girl]

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
- Frank Leahy

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below."
~ Alexander II of Russia

[donniedarko]

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a
Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle
against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality
today there is no difference between Jordanians,
Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and
tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of
a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand
that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian
people' to oppose Zionism.

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state
with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa.
While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa,
Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we
reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even
a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Zahir Muhsein, PLO executive member

[Hit Girl]

Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned. - Anon.

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[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun."

~Nietzsche

[Hit Girl]

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain

[babu]

“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ~ Greta Garbo

“Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.” ~ Ani Difranco

[babu]

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." -Albert Einstein

[The Rodent]

Another Einstein quote:


"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid."

[honeykid]

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
Ted Hughes

[adam-dvddaily]

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[Hit Girl]

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein

[Sexy Celebrity]

This made me think of Honeykid.

Whoopi Goldberg responded to a fan on her Facebook page:

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[honeykid]

It's not that I don't like her. It's that she's Satan. :D

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan

I like to slosh on paint to kill the white of the canvas with a bit of turpentine. Then I start with a blur which looks something like the subject and I gradually refine it.
Rolf Harris

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

[babu]

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So brave.

[Hit Girl]

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[The Sci-Fi Slob]

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. — John Adams

2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. — Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. — Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. — Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. — P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan (1986)

12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. — Will Rogers

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! — P.J. O’Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. — Voltaire (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you! — Pericles ( 430 B.C.)

16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. — Mark Twain (1866)

17. Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it. — Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. — Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. — Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. — Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class…save Congress. — Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. — Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson

[MovieGal]

I could post quotes by the people I enjoy reading from but I wont... I will only post 2

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” ~ Lao Tzu

[Green]

We're all looking for the same thing, if only we'd work on the same look we might find it. - Manfred Wells

[babu]

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[MovieGal]

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” ~ Lao Tzu

"Speak the truth; do the truth; for it is great, it is mighty, it is everlasting. It will obtain for you merit, and will lead you to veneration." ~ The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, 1800 b.c

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." ~ Chinese Proverb

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."
David Gerrold

[MovieGal]

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” ~ Marcus Aurelius

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

(I think he was a great philosopher :) )

“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” ~ Lao Tzu

“If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.” ~ Lao Tzu

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” ~ Lao Tzu

(Another amazing philosopher)

"Great anger is more destructive than the sword." ~ Indian Proverb

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ~ John Milton (Paradise Lost)

[wintertriangles]

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

[honeykid]

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
David Letterman (1947 - )

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun

[MovieGal]

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” ~ Marcus Aurelius

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.” ~ Lao Tzu

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery." ~ Dante Alighieri

[Hit Girl]

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[Swan]

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

[honeykid]

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[babu]

House just started airing in my country, and I loved the first episode. Especially this part. Wise words.

http://i.imgur.com/8kGlLfo.jpg
____

"If you can't love me at my bulk, you don't deserve me at my cut"
Marilyn Monroe

[linespalsy]

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll120/abedalx/popeye01.jpg

E.C. Segar, Thimble Theatre (July 31, 1930).

.... Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It (ca. 1599).

[babu]

http://i.imgur.com/1gbTu.jpg
___

We burn the present for the sake of a brighter future and then act surprised when all it holds is ash. - Jack Morrison

[Green]

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. - Oscar Wilde

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“The finest virtue of a great thinker is the magnanimity with which, as a man of knowledge, he intrepidly, often with embarrassment, often with sublime mockery – offers himself and his life as a supreme sacrifice.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

[windsoc]

"I think in all probability, Wilma Flinstone is the most desirable woman who ever lived" - Cat, Red Dwarf

[The Duchess]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

[Hit Girl]

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

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Come on guys don't let this thread die. Honeykid used to post some good ones here.

“I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[honeykid]

Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Frank Wilczek (1951 - )

[n3wt]

"One more Sambuca shot wont hurt!" - n3wt last night in a family birthday party... Bad head today. :facepalm:

[Pussy Galore]

'' The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. '' Confucius, always fun to read these chinese proverb.

[Citizen Rules]

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." Orson Welles

[brightlikeme]

MInd your tongue , As I m Minding Mine ;P

[honeykid]

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fg8g2s9jvro/UzOG6112KwI/AAAAAAAAS-8/3-Oauf53-8M/s1600/nietzsche-quote.jpg

[Hit Girl]

Hatred is as blind as love. - Oscar Wilde

Experience is the hardest teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson afterwards. - Vernon Law

It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

A wise man doesn't need advice, and a fool won't take it. - Benjamin Franklin

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.- Carl Sagan

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.- Immanuel Kant

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh

[MovieGal]

Why lie? be honest... it might hurt but it will be better in the end. - The Dark Poet

I have no reason to lie, there is nothing positive about lying to others. - The Dark Poet

When Pandora opened the box, all atrocities of the world escaped and the only thing left when she closed it was "Hope". There is and will always be very little "Hope" for this world. - The Dark Poet

[honeykid]

It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal, except he was also immensely brilliant! Stupid and abnormal for allowing himself to reach insanity and brilliant for obvious reasons.
Leo Tolstoy

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato

[Citizen Rules]

I started at the top and worked my way down.
Orson Welles

[VFN]

"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember the second."

Mark Hanna - millionaire, Ohio senator and campaign manager for President McKinley.

[Cobpyth]

You look like a godd*mn rat pack! - Lauren Bacall

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

[MovieGal]

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ~ Marcus Aurelius

[Mr Minio]

"Kinky!" - Mr Minio

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Carl von Clausewitz

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
Adolf Hitler

[babu]

"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." ~Woody Allen

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." -Salvador Dalí

[honeykid]

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Eve Babitz

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Dan Millman

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905

[babu]

http://www.whatevo.com/media/posts/the-joker1.jpg

[n3wt]

My 5 yo daughter "Can I have redbull because I want wings?"

[honeykid]

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
Joan Rivers (1935 - 2014)

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.

[JulesKay]

"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

[Justin]

"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed." - Slavoj Zizek

[Justin]

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." - Henry Miller

[honeykid]

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Democritus

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[doubledenim]

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”


Mandela

[honeykid]

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Erma Bombeck

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

[John McClane]

“An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.” -Eve Ensler

[grampaglasses]

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

- Heath Ledger (1979 - 2008)

[Cobpyth]

Cynicism is for lazy people.

[MovieGal]

"Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets." ~ Indian Proverb

"When Elephants walk, dogs bark." ~ Indian Proverb

[honeykid]

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)

The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today.
James Carville

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

[MovieGal]

With great power there must also come ... great responsibility!

There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love

I dont think I need to post who said them.. the first one should be known by many

[babu]

http://i.imgur.com/CC74vcS.jpg

[babu]

If at first you don't succeed, cheat, repeat until caught, then lie - Anonymous

[honeykid]

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
Sidney J. Harris

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

The Mother

“When your mother has grown older,
When her dear, faithful eyes
no longer see life as they once did,
When her feet, grown tired,
No longer want to carry her as she walks –
Then lend her your arm in support,
Escort her with happy pleasure.
The hour will come when, weeping, you
Must accompany her on her final walk.
And if she asks you something,
Then give her an answer.
And if she asks again, then speak!
And if she asks yet again, respond to her,
Not impatiently, but with gentle calm.
And if she cannot understand you properly
Explain all to her happily.
The hour will come, the bitter hour,
When her mouth asks for nothing more.”

Adolf Hitler, 1923.

[puyo]

"Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell

[earlsmoviepicks]

"Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell

Good one! (except for this guy...)
http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m599/Eric_Pannell/alex.jpg

[Gatsby]

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

- Bruce Lee

"F*ck you and f*ck your marker."

- Issac Clarke from Dead Space

[honeykid]

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

https://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Yevgeny-Zamyatin-yourself-Meetville-Quotes-157421.jpg

[honeykid]

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
William Hale White

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.

― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

She is an animal. Servile as a dog. And yet if he is careful to make no demands, to leave the air between them open, another version of the windup girl emerges. As precious and rare as a living bo tree. Her soul, emerging from within the strangling strands of her engineered DNA.

― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl

[-KhaN-]

"Crazy people fight in wars, wise ones drink wine"
"No more gold, no more friends"
"Don't be in dept to country, don't be friend with police, don't tell secrets to women"
"Protect your country from enemy's and your wife from friends"
"Watch for men who never cry"
"When old dog barks, you check what its about"
"Devil dose not look for humans, humans look for Devil"
"Whoever lies for you, will lie against you"

- Vuk Karadzic
NOTE - All of these are translated from Serbian by me.

[honeykid]

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! ”
― George Orwell, 1984

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

Into my heart on air that kills
from yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman (1859–1936).

[tatmmw2]

Offence is never given, only taken..

[deepwater]

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." ~Charlie Chaplin

[honeykid]

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Marcus Brigstocke

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)

[MovieGal]

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing;

[honeykid]

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp (1909 - 1979)

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman (1941 - )

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008), Clarke's first law

[BlueStar]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a9/ab/b7/a9abb7bcc4f9bf8e48fd6e36aec59bc4.jpg

No one is better than Doom.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

XL. "Into my heart an air that kills..."
by A. E. Housman (http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/alfrededwardhousman/menu.html) (1859-1936) Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

[doubledenim]

"It is better to suffer wrong

than do it,

and happier to be sometimes cheated

than not to trust."

Samuel Johnson

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible! - Supposing we could judge value, what follows? The idea of recurrence as a selective principle, in the service of strength (and barbarism!!)...
--Friedrich Nietzsche

[Swan]

"A cage went in search of a bird."

- Kafka

[honeykid]

That's the worst joke I've ever heard.

[Swan]

"That's the worst joke I've ever heard."

- honeykid

[Friendly Mushroom!]

"My take on all these things is pretty simple. It's all on the table, every bit of it, and you should use anything that improves the quality of your wiring and doesn't get in the way of your story. If you like an alliterative phrases-the knights of nowhere battling the nabobs of nullity-by all means throw it in and see how it looks on paper. If it seems to work, it can stay. If it doesn't (and to me this one sounds pretty bad, like Spiro Agnew crossed with Robert Jordan), well that delete key is on your machine for a good reason."

-Stephen King, On Writing

:p

[MovieMeditation]

"A cage went in search of a bird."

- Kafka
http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/7/25/15/grid-cell-4059-1374779934-0.jpg

[honeykid]

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen (1935 - )

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Lane Olinghouse

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)

[Tugg]

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."
"... there could be no happiness, cheerfulness, hope, pride, immediacy, without forgetfulness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche


"Ed: Do you own a video camera?
Renee Madison: No. Fred hates them.
Fred Madison: I like to remember things my own way.
Ed: What do you mean by that?
Fred Madison: How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened."

"Lost Highway" (1997) quote

[mistique]

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
- Kurt Vonnegut

[honeykid]

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

[carlspackler]

"The Earth is a planet utilised by other planets as lunatic asylum"

[Citizen Rules]

"Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?" Orson Welles

[Mr Minio]

"The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it." - Al Jourgensen

[Citizen Rules]

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles

[Mr Minio]

http://i.imgur.com/juebepq.jpg

[MovieGal]

"I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best."


“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

[honeykid]

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Darrin Weinberg

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)

[edarsenal]

If you can't be a good example; be a horrible warning

~Unknown

[MovieGal]

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”

"Understanding is deeper than knowledge. There are many people who know you, but there are very few who understand you..."

[Yoda]

Chesterton is the best:

https://twitter.com/sladesr/status/715988013101289472

[Gatsby]

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct to hold him in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

- F. Nietzsche

[honeykid]

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one
Mother Teresa

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
Alan Bennett

[honeykid]

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

[Zotis]

Don't like sex.


:D

[Omnizoa]

Don't like sex.


:D
I like that one too.