The quotations thread

[Quietus]

1) "Can you explain why blue looks blue?" - Francis Crick

2) "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind" - Redemption Song (live in Germany 1980) by Bob Marley.

3) "Only a fool, lean upon, lean upon his own misunderstanding, oh yeah." - Forever Loving Jah by Bob Marley.

4) "I am that I am, I am, I am, I am." - I Am That I Am by Peter Tosh.

[Caius]

Veni,Vidi,Vici.Gaius Julius Cesar

[ajaxfetish]

Well, in lieu of having a bunch of excellent quotations stored away in my mind or on a personal list somewhere, I'll just bust out my Franklin Day Planner and see what ones I like. Here goes.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy--Robert Louis Stevenson

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them--David Hume

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday--Don Marquis

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact--George Eliot

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly--Thomas Paine

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected--Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them--Norman Vincent Peale

Ajax

[pevergreen]

Off the calander in front of me

I am never afraid of what I know - Anna Sewell
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen

[Beirut]

"Me fail English? That's unpossible."

Ralph Wiggum

[Bava]

No quotations thread without Lord Byron:


A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

[Bijo]

"Man hath intelligence, emotion, instinct, and desires aplenty: how unfortunate."


"When flowers are around, look for a coffin.... if you have time left, look for a corpse."


"Power doth people not change; it merely unmasks them."


"If one multiplies humanity's goodness by 100, th'outcome'd still equal 0. Or it would equal a negative number of course... perhaps -100 000."


"I will find one good, virtuous, peaceful, well-minded, intelligent human being, when pigs can fly, when hell freezes, when God shows Himself, when my ***hole learns how to chew gum."


"If there really is a God, he's either not so almighty, or he's a plain sadist."


"No political system is good, whether democracy, communism, and so forth: it's still led by humans."


"As far as I know, death is the only easy sure direct way to achieve peace."


"God has done a poor job of creating humans, a poor job of creating nature. Look at it and tell me with a straight truthful face He cares about us."


"God is like a Lemmings Commander: He sometimes, too, makes painful mistakes."

[Louis VI the Fat]

Veni,Vidi,Vici. Gaius Julius Cesar

Vidi, Vici, Veni - I saw, I conquered, I came.


Louis VI the Fat.

[Randarkmaan]

Stalin (for all his brutality) does have some very good quotes/sayings:

"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic"

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

Rumored to be said after receiving a report about Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's inappropriately large number of female lovers.

"Quantity is quality"
or
"Quantity has a quality all its own"

There are also some good ones from Warhammer 40k (the board game)

"There are some who question your right to order millions of people to death, what they do not understand is that you have no right to let those people live"

"A small mind is easily filled with faith"

"Blessed is the mind too small for doubt"

Ofcourse there are others, but I don't want to make a long post, now do I?