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
I am my actions.
Jean Paul Sartre
Winston ChurchilQuote:
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
"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)
Love that one. I am a fan of Machiavelli. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Beirut
How's this one?
Henry FordQuote:
Any colour is acceptable for a car...as long as it is black.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Lee Lewis
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:
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
-Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst
George CarlinQuote:
"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac"
Sir Winston ChurchillQuote:
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
John Paul Jones to the captain of the H.M.S. Serapis.Quote:
Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!
I always found these two from Charles de Gaulle funny:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Charles de Gaulle
Quote:
Originally Posted by Charles de Gaulle
"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
Siddhārtha GautamaQuote:
"It is better to travel well than to arrive"
:inquisitive: :idea2: :oops: :laugh4:Quote:
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
:laugh4:
Anton ChekovQuote:
"If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter"
William S. BurroughsQuote:
"The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do."
Ferdinand FochQuote:
"My center gives way, my right recedes; the situation is excellent. I shall attack."
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes".
anon.
Turkish proverbQuote:
"The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil"
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
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Never heard of that... What may its original be?Quote:
Originally Posted by Noir
: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)
"Only the insane prosper, and only those who prosper can truly judge what is sane."
Warhammer 40k Rulebook
Humphrey BogartQuote:
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis"
Lewis CarrollQuote:
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"
Innocence proves nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ratbarf
And
Blessed is a mind too small for doubt.
David Daye.Quote:
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
Woodrow WilsonQuote:
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly thinks.
"Man is the measure of all things."
Protagoras
"I herd you liek mudkips"
Who knows...
Greek proverbQuote:
"The camel does not see her own hump"
Mention that to Mithrandir, why don't you...
Unknown to me... General logic, really :wink2:Quote:
"All is relative"
"To fathom Hell or soar Angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic."
Humphrey Osmond.
I can hear the violins now...
Lemmy, MotörheadQuote:
Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean that they don't follow you
(I don't remember the exact words, it was in a German magazine)
Good band, he was better with Hawkwind though.Quote:
Originally Posted by R'as al Ghul
~ Benjamin FranklinQuote:
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
Al Capone.Quote:
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
:book:Quote:
"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
David RyanQuote:
“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living
until the escape becomes the habit.”
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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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Bhagavad-Gita, later quoted by Robert Oppenheimer after the Trinity TestsQuote:
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
Andy WarholQuote:
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches"
Katharine HepburnQuote:
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then"
The one above's hilarious. :laugh4:
But I think that life's too short to bother with suing Andrew ******* Lloyd Webber.
Roger Waters
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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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Since de Gaulle seems to be popular, I'll add a few more ~:)
Churchill to De Gaulle on 5 June 1944Quote:
"No quarrel will ever arise between Britain and the United States on account of France"
Roy Jenkins perfectly describes how he drove his supposed allies round the bendQuote:
"tiresome pirouetting on a slender power base"
de Gaulle after vetoing Britains entry into the European Common MarketQuote:
"Britain belongs to the open sea"
Churchill's special envoy to France on de GaulleQuote:
"Of all the crosses I had to bear in this war, the heaviest was the Cross of Lorraine"
Jean Paul Satre on de Gaulle running for electionQuote:
"I would rather vote for God"