May i suggest:
One per post (not per poster) please and also state the quoted.
I'll make a start:
Oscar WildeQuote:
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her"
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May i suggest:
One per post (not per poster) please and also state the quoted.
I'll make a start:
Oscar WildeQuote:
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her"
"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:
Charles BukowskiQuote:
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
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)
*points at sig* ~D
Latin ProverbQuote:
"beati pauperes spiritu"
"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.
Dogen ZenjiQuote:
"A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not"
Barbara StreisandQuote:
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? "
'Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist'
Ben Gurion
J D SalingerQuote:
"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"
"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War"
Plato
Vladimir NabokovQuote:
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
Herman MelvilleQuote:
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Catherine the GreatQuote:
“I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.”
James Thurber (feel free to substitute scotch, vodka, etc.)Quote:
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
-Ernie PyleQuote:
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.
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
Envy is a statement of inferiority
Napoleon Bonapart
"When there is no room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."
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)
"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."
Carl ZuckmayerQuote:
"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."
Marcus AureliusQuote:
"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday"
Jean Paul SartreQuote:
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
-Marcus AureliusQuote:
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth