Sayings.

[zelda12]

This is a thread for any quotes or sayings that you have heard or made up that have touched you or anyone else.

It can be deep, it can be funny, it can just be plain weird. I don't care.

Here’s some I made myself.

There’s the one in my Sig.

"As long as you hold true to your beliefs, in your heart they will live on. Stay true to the cause and help it back onto the path that it has strayed from."

I created this one when talking to my Dad, he was disillusioned with the Labour Party as were his colleagues and they were considering leaving the party. I came up with this and he told his colleagues, they didn't leave the party


This one came to me when I was talking to a friend, he had just revealed to me a secret that I had guessed. He had held it for three years, and he told me this quote summed up in words what he had felt.

“Some secrets hurt so much. You just want to shout them out to the world, because if you don’t you feel that you’ll explode. But the pain from that explosion is as nothing to the mental anguish that you know that shouting the secret will cause to the person.

Sometimes you just have to put up with the pain in order to keep a person safe. It’s the only ‘right’ thing to do.”


This one was written as way of an explanation.

“A writer is just a person who writes, he may write poems he may write stories. But a writer’s true hope is to touch a person’s soul to inspire in them all the emotions that they feel when writing the piece. The pain, the anguish, the love, the elation. Its what makes it all worth it. It makes the world seem more real. It makes those words worth it. It allows the writer to live on. Its why we write.”


I wrote this when talking to a friend about the nature of trust in a relationship, whether Friendship or any other kind.

“Trust is a wonderful thing in a place of chaos; it’s an anchor in a storm. It binds us together. Makes all the things in the world seem more real. It gives us something to hold onto, something to confirm our lives, something to give us hope for the future. It’s what binds humans together. It’s what has allowed us to create such beauty, despite such evil, in this world.”


This one was created today. It’s hard to explain why but it was.

“It’s like living in a glass cage, looking out on a world with so much in it wrong. But with nothing I can do about any of it. It rends my heart to see such injustice and pain, perpetrated on fellow human beings.

My heart weeps cold tears of pain because I can do nothing to stop it. Someday I shall, but right now I cannot, and it hurts.”

My Friend read it and said "it makes me cry" I apologised and he said, "It is not a bad thing, it shows it works doesn't it?" My answer was, "it does, but it is never a good thing to make a person cry. Necessary at times but never good." He answered, "necessary?" I replied, "There is only such pain and injustice in the world because not enough people are prepared to help stop it. If I can move a person enough to make them cry and make them realise they can help stop it then it was necessary." This was via msn.

[Sjakihata]

'Red sky at night, shepherds delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning'

Really helpful saying

[Sasaki Kojiro]

“Those who are unable to motivate themselves are doomed to mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents” – Andrew Carnegie

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I came to die, find that I had not lived” – Thoreau

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Devastatin Dave]

I got this from my first NCOIC. He wanted me to run some backups on one of our systems then take the tapes to the alternate site. I was looking at him with a confused expression and he said, "What's wrong Cheney, you look like you don't know whether to fight, ***k, or run a foot race." I think I continued looking at him the same way. If I ever aksed him "who" when he was telling me about someone, he'd say, "Who, who? Do you sh** through feathers Cheney or are you still confused about who's your daddy still?". The guy was full of sayings that would probably make a sailer blush.

[Beirut]

"Always fight your battles with constant regard to the peace you wish to live in afterwards."

Nicolo Machiavelli


"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

Hunter S. Thompson


"**** you ***hole."

The Terminator

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Here's my compilation, mostly gathered at Wikiquotes and completed with others:

[table 1 3 3]Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind. | Dostoyevski | Notes from the Underground (1864)
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too. | Dostoyevski | The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880)
Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. | Dostoyevski | The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880)
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. | Dostoyevski | The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880)
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. | Dostoyevski | The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880)
God is the infinite All. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him. | Tolstoy | Entry in Tolstoy's Diary (1 November 1910)
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)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. | Aristoteles |
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. | George Washington | Letter to Harriet Washington
There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance. | Platon |
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[/table]

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[Quietus]

"Everybody wants to go up to heaven, I say, nobody wants to die. Followers of Jesus.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, I saaay, but none of them want to die. I don't know why." - Equal Rights (live), Peter Tosh (Complete Captured Live)