View Full Version : Your favorite quote(s) from the Famed & Famous
May i suggest:
One per post (not per poster) please and also state the quoted.
I'll make a start:
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her"
Oscar Wilde
Ramses II CP
09-05-2007, 00:27
"Don't sweat the small stuff, and it's all small stuff."
Richard Carlson (As far as I know anyway).
Not a very interesting book, but a very useful idea.
:egypt:
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
Charles Bukowski
Fotune Favours the Bold
Ovid (I think if I remember correctly or Alex the Great)
I keep this in mind when meeting new people (ladies in particular)
"beati pauperes spiritu"
Latin Proverb
"If the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!"
"Buy the ticket, take the ride!"
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
[all: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson]
:elephant:
"Always fight your battles with a constant regard to the peace you wish to live in afterwards."
Machiavelli
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix.
"If given the choice to be the shepherd or the sheep... be the wolf"
-Josh Homme (Frontman for Queens of the Stone Age)
A personal favourite:
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace"
Jimi Hendrix.
"A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not"
Dogen Zenji
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? "
Barbara Streisand
'Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist'
Ben Gurion
"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"
J D Salinger
phoenix[illusion]
09-07-2007, 14:52
"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War"
Plato
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
Vladimir Nabokov
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
“I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.”
Catherine the Great
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
James Thurber (feel free to substitute scotch, vodka, etc.)
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.
-Ernie Pyle
My fav of all time, it's about the US infantry in North Africa during World War Two. Here's the link to it: The God-****** Infantry (http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/news/erniepyle/goddamninfantry.html)
Envy is a statement of inferiority
Napoleon Bonapart
RoadKill
09-11-2007, 01:14
"When there is no room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."
El Diablo
09-11-2007, 04:47
When people in New Zealand were emigrating to Aussie in droves during the '80's the Prime Mininster of NZ (Muldoon) was asked
"Prime Minister, what do you think about all these people moving to Australia?"
His reply..
"Well I feel it raises the IQ of both countries"
Classic.
(no offence to my skippy neighbours)
Avicenna
09-11-2007, 08:06
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese"
Charles de Gaulle
Another Hendrix quote:
"The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again."
"Half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck."
Carl Zuckmayer
"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday"
Marcus Aurelius
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Jean Paul Sartre
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth
-Marcus Aurelius
I am my actions.
Jean Paul Sartre
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchil
Reverend Joe
09-12-2007, 20:37
"Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard."
"Old people are rotting. I'm rotting. You're rotting."
-Grace Slick (earlier this year)
"Always fight your battles with a constant regard to the peace you wish to live in afterwards."
Machiavelli
Love that one. I am a fan of Machiavelli. :P
How's this one?
Any colour is acceptable for a car...as long as it is black.
Henry Ford
RoadKill
09-14-2007, 00:10
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
edyzmedieval
09-17-2007, 14:52
I'm going to put two, since I love them both.
"Luck is the residue of design" - John Milton
"I am the King of Rome, and above grammar." - Sigismund of Luxemburg
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume
R'as al Ghul
09-19-2007, 11:49
I'm always right & never wrong.Once I thought i was wrong & went and checked it out...turned out i was right
:laugh4:
macsen rufus
09-19-2007, 12:34
Well, this is a story that is told, not 100% sure it's true, but it made me laugh....
Sean Connery was apparently visiting a certain country where there is a large Irish and Scottish descended community, and was approached by a fan (I have to spell things phonetically to get the point across):
FAN: Gee, Mr Connery, it's a pleasure to meet you. You know we have something in common?
CONNERY: Oh yesh, what might that be?
FAN: We're both Selts...
CONNERY: No.... I'm a Kelt, you're a sunt.
:laugh4:
Ayachuco
09-21-2007, 01:55
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
-Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst
"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac"
George Carlin
Lord Winter
09-24-2007, 01:55
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
Marshal Murat
09-24-2007, 02:12
Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones to the captain of the H.M.S. Serapis.
I always found these two from Charles de Gaulle funny:
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Innocentius
09-24-2007, 09:47
"Wenn ein Engel im Zundlock brünzt, sinde alle Künste zunicht."
(I'm not very good at German so a native speaker may translate that better than me)
- Frederick the Great
"It is better to travel well than to arrive"
Siddhārtha Gautama
InsaneApache
09-24-2007, 18:03
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977
:inquisitive: :idea2: :oops: :laugh4:
"If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter"
Anton Chekov
"The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do."
William S. Burroughs
R'as al Ghul
09-26-2007, 12:57
"My center gives way, my right recedes; the situation is excellent. I shall attack."
Ferdinand Foch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Foch)
InsaneApache
09-26-2007, 18:37
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes".
anon.
"The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil"
Turkish proverb
The Wizard
09-27-2007, 23:24
The Pope? How many divisions does he have?
- Joseph Vissarionovich Dzugashvili, "Stalin"
EDIT: Also
Those are regulars, by God!
- [British] Mj. Gen. Phineas Riall at the battle of Chippawa
"I am so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before it was dark"- Muhammad Ali
Mouzafphaerre
09-28-2007, 08:20
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Turkish proverb
Never heard of that... What may its original be?
:thinking2:
Here we go:
...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 (Aldarion and Erendis, Erendis' words)
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"Only the insane prosper, and only those who prosper can truly judge what is sane."
Warhammer 40k Rulebook
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis"
Humphrey Bogart
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"
Lewis Carroll
The Wizard
09-29-2007, 23:52
"Only the insane prosper, and only those who prosper can truly judge what is sane."
Warhammer 40k Rulebook
Innocence proves nothing.
And
Blessed is a mind too small for doubt.
Big King Sanctaphrax
09-30-2007, 00:00
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
David Daye.
Conradus
09-30-2007, 09:42
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly thinks.
Woodrow Wilson
"Man is the measure of all things."
Protagoras
"I herd you liek mudkips"
Who knows...
"The camel does not see her own hump"
Greek proverb
Warmaster Horus
10-01-2007, 18:15
Mention that to Mithrandir, why don't you...
"All is relative"
Unknown to me... General logic, really :wink2:
"To fathom Hell or soar Angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic."
Humphrey Osmond.
I can hear the violins now...
R'as al Ghul
10-02-2007, 14:18
Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean that they don't follow you
Lemmy, Motörhead
(I don't remember the exact words, it was in a German magazine)
Lemmy, Motörhead
Good band, he was better with Hawkwind though.
silverster
10-02-2007, 15:12
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
~ Benjamin Franklin
Craterus
10-02-2007, 19:50
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
10-02-2007, 22:32
"The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and the resolutions of majorities, but by blood and iron."
-Otto Von Bismarck
:book:
“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living
until the escape becomes the habit.”
David Ryan
Mouzafphaerre
10-05-2007, 05:47
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"Some days are better than others"
Section Leader
Blake's 7, S.3 E.8 "Rumours of death"
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Samurai Waki
10-05-2007, 07:04
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
Bhagavad-Gita, later quoted by Robert Oppenheimer after the Trinity Tests
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches"
Andy Warhol
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then"
Katharine Hepburn
The one above's hilarious. :laugh4:
But I think that life's too short to bother with suing Andrew ******* Lloyd Webber.
Roger Waters
Mouzafphaerre
10-07-2007, 20:15
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"I plan to live forever!.. or die trying."
Vila Restal, Blake's 7 (S.1 Ep.4 "Time Squad")
That series is a gem! :2thumbsup:
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Mount Suribachi
10-07-2007, 21:24
Since de Gaulle seems to be popular, I'll add a few more ~:)
"No quarrel will ever arise between Britain and the United States on account of France" Churchill to De Gaulle on 5 June 1944
"tiresome pirouetting on a slender power base" Roy Jenkins perfectly describes how he drove his supposed allies round the bend
"Britain belongs to the open sea" de Gaulle after vetoing Britains entry into the European Common Market
"Of all the crosses I had to bear in this war, the heaviest was the Cross of Lorraine" Churchill's special envoy to France on de Gaulle
"I would rather vote for God" Jean Paul Satre on de Gaulle running for election
IrishArmenian
10-08-2007, 03:10
There is no evil without a measure of good
-Armenian Proverb (This has to be one of my favorite lines, despite my hearing it at least fifteen times a day as a child)
RoadKill
10-08-2007, 03:30
"All who fight for the sword, will perish with the sword"
- The bible.
“Little by little one walks far”
Peruvian Proverb
Conradus
10-09-2007, 21:29
Come on, do you want to live forever?!
Rico in Starship Troopers -Robert Heinlein
IrishArmenian
10-10-2007, 01:15
At last we meet again, dear God/When the Angels Sing/The Funerals are nicer when we know you're there. . . somtimes I try so hard/to understand the things you do/am I to question you when it all comes down?
-Mike Ness; Social D!
That song is "When Angels Sing"
Mouzafphaerre
10-10-2007, 06:35
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"After a generation or two, the people were speaking German with a French accent and calling it English."
The History of the English Language (http://www.itasca.net/~corrie/english.htm)
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"
Winston Churchill
Tribesman
10-11-2007, 15:28
Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.
Milligan
Mouzafphaerre
10-12-2007, 03:18
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"Because it symbolizes the everything-inity of nothingness vis a vis the singular mass concept of Gah!"
Beirut
:toff:
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“Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.”
Eugene Ionesco
Tratorix
10-15-2007, 00:20
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
David Lee Roth
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Oscar Wilde
"Don't stand in the sun if you've got butter on your head"
Dutch proverb
Conradus
10-18-2007, 21:01
Is it, never heard of it before...
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne
Mouzafphaerre
10-19-2007, 07:15
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How do I invade Ireland?
Anonymous MTW player, ca. 2002
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Prodigal
10-19-2007, 08:12
We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right
Extract from the Magna Carta clause 29
Kralizec
10-19-2007, 11:27
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."
Unknown (well, to me anyway)
Sounds like Monty Python.
"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl"
Jean Luc Godard
What have the Romans ever done for us?
---Life of Brian
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
Myrddraal
10-23-2007, 13:39
Since we've had a few Churchill quotes, here's one that was in my sig for a while:
"If you're going through hell, keep going"
He's got a talent for getting quoted that man:
"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. "
And my current sig:
When exactly does a lie-in become a coma?
My advice to you, is to start drinking heavily.
John Blutarsky
Evil_Maniac From Mars
10-24-2007, 02:19
And my current sig:
When exactly does a lie-in become a coma?
Or, for the slightly more...ahem...well...
When exactly does a -some become an orgy?
I think the answer's four. :laugh4:
"The deepest defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become"
Ashley Montague
Mouzafphaerre
11-13-2007, 19:13
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Por qué no te callas?
Juan Carlos I
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Makanyane
11-13-2007, 23:36
One from RTW, that complies with my personal philosophy that I wish I could persuade rest of family (who seem to have excessive anxiety problems) towards:
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
Herodotus
Cowhead418
11-15-2007, 00:47
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.- Emo Phillips
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 from the Life Laughed at me Again thread
I will rip out their guts and feast on their entrails.........I will devour their hearts and **** out their souls, they will all taste oblivion, which taste just like red bull, which is disgusting.
-O' Malley from Red vs Blue episode 36
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