Post your favorite quote...

[a completely inoffensive name]

Since the only quote threads ended in 2005, and I am not a fan of necroposting, I have made this thread for everyone to post any quotes that are thought provoking, funny or are just interesting in general. I will start with some Carl Sagan...

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." -Carl Sagan (Cosmos page 4)

There is no limit on quote length and sourcing would be nice for those who might want to read more from a particular person. (Got mine from wikiquotes, don't know how accurate they are).

-ACIN

[seireikhaan]

*blind man heckling a comic

"GET OFF THE STAGE!"

*waits a few seconds

"IS HE OFF THE STAGE YET?"

[Reverend Joe]

So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut.

[Csargo]

The sig.

[seireikhaan]

Sorry for the double post.

Stephen Colbert-

"Wait, they're actually selling sand to Iraq? That's like selling :daisy: to Washington!

[LeftEyeNine]

My recent times have been enlightened with the wisest set of words one mind could speak on behalf of me:



Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.


I should have been able to meet that brain so as to be better. Feeling understood always eases your pain since it yields a delusion of not being lonely at least to an extent.

[TevashSzat]

Refer to sig below

[Strike For The South]

sig

[pevergreen]

"Having fun there, with your abnormally low nipples?"
I havent got low nipples, their just right.
"You know the radiation there is going to kill you."
Ah, radiation, my one true foe. Wait no, I dont care. Begone with you


Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.


Do you want to Sarathos?

The entire Wine In Front Of Me speech.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Lemur's brilliant thoughts on Zimbabwe, which i have written down somewhere and am too lazy to find, so i shall type from (my awful) memory.

"Mugabe's hand-crafted hellhole is like a cross between one of Stalin's five year plans and the Khmer Rouge's Year Zero 'Everybody dies' adventure"

[drone]

.Org quotes - see sig

Non .Org quote:

"My advice to you, is to start drinking heavily." John Blutarsky

[AlexanderSextus]

In Science we have finally come back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who said everything is flow, flux, process. There are no "things." NOTHINGNESS in Eastern language is "no-thingness." We in the West think of nothingness as a void, an emptiness, an nonexistence. In Eastern philosophy and modern physical science, nothingness — no-thingness — is a form of process, ever moving. - Bruce Lee

[Hosakawa Tito]

It's impossible to pick a single favorite, here are three:


Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze


You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.—Wayne Gretzky


Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching —Unknown Author

[CountArach]

I seek clarification on whether or not political quotes are allowed in the Kingdom of Peace and Love.

Also, see sig.

[Hooahguy]

"a room without books is like a body without a soul"
-Cicero

i actually posted over 1,500 quotes on my bedroom wall....
ill post those later.... (jk)

[naut]

"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
Nikolai Gogol

[Andres]

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

- Einstein

[Kekvit Irae]

"From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
-Sun Tzu

"I am the state."
-Louis XIV

"Not one step back!"
"In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance."
"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."
-Joseph Stalin

"so i herd u liek mudkipz?"
-Anonymous

[Gregoshi]

Short ones:

"Yes" - Kosh (Babylon 5)

"I drank what?" - Socrates (joke)

[Kralizec]

Those who like sausage and respect the law shouldn't watch either being produced
(attributed to both Bismarck and William IV, probably apocryphal)

L'etat, c'est moi
Louis XIV (again apocryphal)

@LeftEyeNine: just curious, have you read Jung's works directly? I've become interested in some of his ideas lately.

[Subedei]

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
(both Zhuangzi)


"When the goinig gets weird, the weird turn pro!"
(Hunter S. Thompson)

[Meneldil]

'It's not that I'm old. Your music really does suck.'

My father.

[Lemur]

I seek clarification on whether or not political quotes are allowed in the Kingdom of Peace and Love.
I would say that depends on the quote, honestly. If you're not sure, just PM me and/or Hosa and we'll sort it out quickly.

While we're on quotes, here's a great one I read yesterday:

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." — Russell Baker

And a big one to live by:

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." — Mark Twain

[Hooahguy]

i need to add another one!

"you dont win wars by dieing for your country- you win wars by making the other poor dumb *bleep* die for his country!"
-General George S. Patton

[LeftEyeNine]

Those who like sausage and respect the law shouldn't watch either being produced
(attributed to both Bismarck and William IV, probably apocryphal)

L'etat, c'est moi
Louis XIV (again apocryphal)

@LeftEyeNine: just curious, have you read Jung's works directly? I've become interested in some of his ideas lately.

Well, all I knew about him was his theory of psyche up to now. After seeing this brilliant harmony of words, I've read several summaries about his life, his ideas/works and such, not that I can say I KNOW about him yet.

[Marius Dynamite]

"Such is the fate of all who oppose us!"

[Thermal]

'STEWIE WILL RULE THE WORLD, WITH MR ZOMBIE....YES....YOU'LL SEE :shifty: -me

[Mouzafphaerre]

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My quotes.txt file:

QUOTE AUTHOR SOURCE
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Richard Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring Richard Feynman (Last words)
I think it would be a good idea! Mohandas Karamçand Gandhi (In reply to a reporter's question "What do you think of Western Civilization?")
A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and The Sea (1952)
On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées Victor Hugo
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein The World as I see it (1934)
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. Albert Einstein
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein Scientific American. New York: Sep 2002. Vol. 287, Iss. 3; pg. 102
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist. (1949)
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle; old age a regret. Benjamin D'Israeli Coningsby (1844)
Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin D'Israeli Speech in the House of Commons (May 14, 1866)
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin D'Israeli Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845)
Dubium sapientiae initium. René Descartes Meditationes de prima philosophiae
不患人之不己之，患不知人也。 (I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.) Kong Fu Zi
学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。 (To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.) Kong Fu Zi
见贤思齐焉；见不贤而内自省也。 (When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.) Kong Fu Zi
APPETITVS RATIONI PAREAT (Rule your desires by reason) Marcus Tullius Cicero
OBSEQVIVM PARIT AMICOS; VERITAS PARIT ODIVM (Compromice makes friends; truth makes hate) Marcus Tullius Cicero
INTER ARMA ENIM SILENT LEGES (Amongst arms, Law stands mute) Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Milone
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin The Great Dictator (The Jewish Barber) (1940)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington Letter to Harriet Washington
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. (The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.) Blaise Pascal Pensées
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. El-Hajj Malik el Shabazz (Malcolm X) Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. El-Hajj Malik el Shabazz (Malcolm X) Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。 (We shall support whatever our enemies oppose; and oppose whatever our enemies support) Mao Zedong Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
没有一个人民的军队，便没有人民的一切。 (Without the people an army has nothing.) Mao Zedong Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speech at the Great March on Detroit, 23/7/1963
NOS NVMERVS SVMVS ET FRVGES CONSVMERE NATI. (We are but numbers, born to consume resources.) Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epistles I,ii,27
IRA FVROR BREVIS EST. (Anger is a short madness.) Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epistles I,ii,62
DVLCE ET DECORVM EST PRO PATRIA MORI. (It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland.) Quintus Horatius Flaccus Odes III, ii, 13
PVLVIS ET VMBRA SVMVS. (We are dust and shadow.) Quintus Horatius Flaccus Odes IV, vii, 16
History is for the future not the past. The dead don't read. QwertyMIDX Totalwar.ORG forums
Nationalism is a serious mental disorder. Captain Lou Ellaybe Island
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Flameberge Ellaybe Island
We cannot choose who we are, but what are we but the sum of our choices? Flameberge Ellaybe Island
In view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible. Bertrand Russell
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, I/2, Gandalf's words)
...I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend... J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers, IV/5, Faramir's words)
The servant has a claim on the master for service, even service in fear. J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers, IV/6)
It is best to love first what you are fitted to love... J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King, V/8, Merry's words)
...tears are the very wine of blessedness. J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King, VI/4)
...those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel. J.R.R. Tolkien The Silmarillion (Quenta Silmarillion, VI)
...and we cannot dwell in the time that is to come, lest we lose our now for a phantom of our own design. J.R.R. Tolkien Unfinished Tales (Part Two: The Second Age, II: Aldarion and Erendis, Erendis's words)
But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song. J.R.R. Tolkien The Silmarillion (Quenta Silmarillion, X)
Þæs ofereode; þisses swa mæg. Déor the Minstrel Exeter Book
I plan to live forever!.. or die trying. Vila Restal Blake's 7 (1;4)
Je parle espagnol à Dieu, italien aux femmes, français aux hommes, et allemand à mon cheval. Karl V
The point of Zen is to confuse the intellect into seeing the futility of concrete ideas. D.C. Simpson Ozy and Millie ("Words, Wisdom, W.", 11/7/2000, Isolde's words)
I love modernism. It's the only time where you can fail elementary school art class and still make millions of dollars. Kekvit Irae Totalwar.ORG forums
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles
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[||Lz3||]

Wise men learn when they can, fools when they must

-Esto del cortejo es como el tango: absurdo y pura floritura. Pero usted es el hombre y le toca llevar la iniciativa.
-¿La iniciativa? ¿Yo?
-¿Qué quiere? Algún precio tenía que tener el poder mear de pie



(-Courtship is like tango, absurd and only flourish. But you're the man and is up to you to take the initiative
-Initiative? me?
-What do you want? , some price it had to had being able to pee standing)

[King Henry V]

Some quotes from a great film with Trevor Howard, "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End":

"I never met a man I didn't mutilate"

"If I had all the money that I'd spent on drink...I'd spend it on drink!"

"I don't know what I want, but I want it now!"

[Lord Winter]

“Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic he fights his fate, ofter desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.”
-H. L. Mencken

[Decker]

My all-time favorite quote:

Ernie Pyle-
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
The ******** Infantry (http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/erniepyle/wartime-columns/the-god-damned-infantry/)

He was talking about getting a Masters and Doctorate Degree....

A Friend of Mine-
"No one said it was gonna be easy! If it was, everyone would do it..that's who you know who really wants it."

Our beloved Bierut discussing the tragedies of life

Bierut-
All us men suffer in equal parts, it's our lot in life, and no man goes without a broken heart or a lost love. Like holding your dog as he takes his last breath and dies in your arms, it's a rite of passage. Unavoidable. And honestly, I can't imagine life without that depth of feeling.-Bierut
Bierut's Post (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1731951&postcount=7)


Just some good ones I like:

Cullen Hightower-
"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."


Robert McNamara-
And the conventional wisdom is: don't make the same mistake twice. Learn from your mistakes. And we all do. Maybe we make the mistake three times, but hopefully not four or five.


And two random ones:


"Trying is just a easy way of saying you didn't do it"


"Due to the presence of fools wise people stand out"

[Caius]

I distrust camels.

[Kralizec]

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
-Ronald Reagan

:laugh4:

[woad&fangs]

Love truth, but pardon error.

~Voltaire

[Reverend Joe]

“Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic he fights his fate, ofter desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.”
-H. L. Mencken

That is beautiful.

[KarlXII]

BUTTSCRATCHA! BUTTSCRATCHA HERE!

[Monk]

"Not even time to finish my cake?"

"No. There is no more time, even for cake. For you, the cake is over. You have reached the end of cake."

[LittleGrizzly]

One with some personal meaning...

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have them.

And a funny one...

Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”

[Legosoldier]

Refer to the sig

[drone]

"Not even time to finish my cake?"

"No. There is no more time, even for cake. For you, the cake is over. You have reached the end of cake."

The cake is a lie....

[Gregoshi]

Our beloved Beirut discussing the tragedies of life

That is one of my favourite's too. Thanks for the reminder Decker.

[Louis VI the Fat]

My favourite is what should be the epitaph to the Backroom:


'After reading this thread, I must say my posts managed to convince me' - TuffStuff.

[naut]

"An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away"
-George Clinton/Eddie Hazel

[Decker]

That is one of my favorite's too. Thanks for the reminder Decker.
Yeah... it's one of those rarities that someone will say every-know-and-again. And yeah np...

[Caius]

The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you - Max Payne

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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-Warman8







"It's Not The People you fire who make you miserable, it's the people who you don't fire that do."
- (Can't remember).

[spmetla]

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience
- Otto Von Bismark


Edit: Just noticed it said favorite quote, as in a single quote. Out of those I posted this is my favorite one.

[InsaneApache]

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....

Major General John Sedgwicks' last words.

[naut]

But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only a minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water. - Nikolai Gogol

Excuse me, do these effectively hide my thunder? - Tobias Fünke

Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist. - Tobias Fünke

Don't leave your uncle teabag hanging. - Tobias Fünke
Please don't call yourself that. - George Michael Bluth

[King Henry V]

"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"

Scaramouche

[ajaxfetish]

"But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant." --St. Paul

Ajax

[Viking]

Ancient wisdom is modern nonsense.

This quote is stuck inside my head; but I am not sure where I first read it. Could be anywhere, really.

[yesdachi]

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....

Major General John Sedgwicks' last words.

That made me laugh out loud! ~D

I like this one...
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

[Strike For The South]

sig

[Mouzafphaerre]

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There's no dying honourably. You can live honourably but when you die you rot... or something like that. From "House" the series.
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[KarlXII]

"But Aqua man, you can't marry a woman without gills... you're from two different worlds!"

Comic Book Guy

[Hax]

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word.

Al Capone.

[Martok]

Aside from the one in my sig, one of my other favorite Org quotes comes courtesy of Big John:

"Shakespeare and jazz = not good. Under any circumstances. Dissenters will be ostracized." :laugh4:



As for more well-known quotes, one of my favorites -- those not already mentioned here, anyway -- is from Robert E. Lee (apologies if I don't get it quite right):

"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it."

[Thermal]

'it's not that i want to kill you, i just don't want you to be alive' - Stewie - Family Guy

[a completely inoffensive name]

"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
-Theodore Roosevelt

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

That is a very appropriate quote, but I'd rather not explain why in the Frontroom


Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Something we should all keep in mind during election time. ~;)


Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!