The quotations thread

[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."

[Fisherking]

Did those quotes come from the suicide hotline?

[Rodion Romanovich]

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/

Some favorites from the first page:
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. "

"I am not young enough to know everything. "

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. "

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. "

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures. "

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. "

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. "

[Bijo]

Did those quotes come from the suicide hotline?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

My personal favourite quotation is the one from the front of "For Whom the Bell Tolls";

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."-John Donne.