Your favorite quote(s) from the Famed & Famous

[Noir]

May i suggest:

One per post (not per poster) please and also state the quoted.

I'll make a start:

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her"

Oscar Wilde

[Ramses II CP]

"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.

[Noir]

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"

Charles Bukowski

[Spart]

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)

[Stig]

*points at sig*

[Noir]

"beati pauperes spiritu"

Latin Proverb

[Subedei]

"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]

[Beirut]

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

Machiavelli

[naut]

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix.

[Ronin]

"If given the choice to be the shepherd or the sheep... be the wolf"
-Josh Homme (Frontman for Queens of the Stone Age)

[naut]

A personal favourite:

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace"

Jimi Hendrix.

[Noir]

"A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not"

Dogen Zenji

[Noir]

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? "

Barbara Streisand

[Fragony]

'Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist'

Ben Gurion

[Noir]

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"

J D Salinger

[phoenix[illusion]]

"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War"

Plato

[Noir]

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

Vladimir Nabokov

[Noir]

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Herman Melville

[Noir]

“I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.”

Catherine the Great

[Lemur]

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

James Thurber (feel free to substitute scotch, vodka, etc.)

[Decker]

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.

-Ernie Pyle


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

[Caius]

Envy is a statement of inferiority

Napoleon Bonapart

[RoadKill]

"When there is no room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."

[El Diablo]

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)

[Avicenna]

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese"

Charles de Gaulle

[naut]

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."

[Noir]

"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."

Carl Zuckmayer

[Noir]

"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday"

Marcus Aurelius

[Noir]

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

Jean Paul Sartre

[sapi]

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth

-Marcus Aurelius