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Post by Sightspitter on Jan 21, 2004 14:50:35 GMT -5
This is a place to post your favorite quotes. If you have a quote, or numerous quotes that have special meaning to you or if you just see one that tickles your fancy, here is the place to post them. Xerxes (in a message): Deliver up your arms!Leonidas (in reponse): Come and take them!- Leonidas The man who seeks to do what is good and genuine, must avoid what is bad and be ready to defy the opinions of the mob, nay, even to despise it and its misleaders.- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Post by Khyron1144 on Mar 19, 2004 15:36:22 GMT -5
When asked what wine he found most pleasant to drink, Diogenes replied, "That for which other people pay." -A story about Diogenes the Cynic from Diogenes Laertius's book on the lives of the philosophers. I found it on this web site.
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Post by corvus on Apr 1, 2004 23:25:43 GMT -5
*'Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is one step beyond logic.' --Paul Mua'dib Atreides, Dune
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Post by Khyron1144 on Nov 7, 2004 1:09:59 GMT -5
Happy happy happy All the time Shock treatment I'm doing fine Gimme gimme shock treatment. -The Ramones
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Post by Khyron1144 on Nov 8, 2004 13:41:17 GMT -5
When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever seems to turn out right I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog That's always changing things Makes me wish that I could be a dog When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't ever wanna be that way I don't wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn into things That they'd never want The only thing to live for Is today... I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set I don't wanna grow up Open up the medicine chest And I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up They all go out and drinking all night And I don't wanna grow up I'd rather stay here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news I don't wanna grow up Comb their hair and shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money down I don't wanna get me a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone I don't wanna float a broom Fall in love and get married then boom How the hell did I get here so soon I don't wanna grow up -Tom Waits, "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"
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Post by Psirrow on Nov 8, 2004 14:03:17 GMT -5
Looks more like a song than a quote to me Anyway, some of my faves that occour atm are: "There are four lights" cptn Piccard "My 1337 senses never tingle wrong" Largo
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Post by Psirrow on Nov 8, 2004 18:24:06 GMT -5
Label: [warning: May cause amnesia, drowsiness, asthma, pregnancy, athlete's foot, heart attack, drooling, PMS, PSL, seizures, sarcasm fits, spontaneous human combustion, amoeba, greasy hair or evil eye.]
*Chugs container*
Thinks: Minty
~Mike from CRFH!!!
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Post by Psirrow on Nov 8, 2004 23:25:38 GMT -5
"We hit that bullseye and the rest of the dominos fall like a house of cards... checkmate" ~Zaph Branigan
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Post by Khyron1144 on Nov 8, 2004 23:49:55 GMT -5
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is bruised and spongey. -Zap Brannagan
A classic strategy right out of Sun Tzu's Art of War or my own book, Zap Brannagan's Big Book of War. -Zap Brannagan
What makes a good man go neutral? -Zap Brannagan
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Post by Psirrow on Nov 8, 2004 23:57:30 GMT -5
"I said fire across her nose, not up it!" "Sorry, sir...I'm doing my best!" "Who made that man a gunner?" "I did, sir--he's my cousin!" "Who's he?" "He's an A**hole, sir" "I KNOW THAT! What's his name?" "A**hole, sir. Major A**hole" "And who's he?" "Gunner's mate, First Class Phillip A**hole" "How many A**holes we got on this ship anyhow?" [all]"YO!!!" "I knew it...I'm surrounded by a**holes"
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Post by Khyron1144 on Nov 9, 2004 13:03:54 GMT -5
You tell me that you've got everything you want And your bird can sing But you don't get me, you don't get me
You say you've seen seven wonders and your bird is green But you can't see me, you can't see me
When your prized possessions start to wear you down Look in my direction, I'll be round, I'll be round
When your bird is broken will it bring you down? You may be awoken, I'll be round, I'll be round -The Beatles, "And Your Bird Can Sing
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Post by RowanMoonWynd on Nov 9, 2004 23:29:32 GMT -5
I have amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I have forgotten this before.
Tellyna, on SD's forum.
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Post by Psirrow on Nov 9, 2004 23:58:09 GMT -5
"When bored and half-squirrel, only one solution exists: bounce around the house mindlessly!!!" ~Grace
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Post by jerodrinkus on Nov 16, 2004 17:39:26 GMT -5
" Dennis Rodman, take off that plaid! We ain't got no green-haired Scotsman where I come from!" ~Roddy Piper, WCW Nitro
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Corran Star
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I will NOT be stopped by random confusion!
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Post by Corran Star on Nov 21, 2004 18:48:56 GMT -5
"I'm too young and too male to the the mother of a 17-year olf female me!" ~ Elliot Dunkel Aslo, see sig. Psirrow seems to have already take the original of the one on my sig. I paraphrased it to save characters.
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Post by RowanMoonWynd on Nov 22, 2004 13:49:45 GMT -5
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC)
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Post by Khyron1144 on Jan 17, 2005 20:38:59 GMT -5
I've been wading thorugh some of my favorite books for quotes recently due to a contest to see who can come up with something witty or insightful to put on a t-shirt. Here's some of the best from my 3.5 page submission:
Whether we listen with aloof amusement to the dreamlike mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated rapture thin translations from the sonnets of the mystic Lao-tse; now and again crack the hard nutshell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch suddenly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will be always the one shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find, together with a challengingly persistent suggestion of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told. -Joseph Campbell
This time, like all times, is a very god one, if we but know what to do with it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paradise is where I am. -Voltaire
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain’t so. -Mark Twain
Everyone is ignorant, only in different subjects. -Will Rogers
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. -Mignon McLaughlin
The world is our school for spiritual discovery. -Paul Brunton
Fortune favors the audacious. -Erasmus
A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live. -Lao-tzu
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. -Georges Danton
Fear always springs from ignorance. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. -Thomas Aquinas
Whatever you do or dream you can do- begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. -Johann Goethe
The idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -Elbert Hubbard
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said, has its origin in the Spirit. -Thomas Aquinas
The words of truth are always paradoxical. -Lao-tzu
You must be the change you wish to see in the world -Mahatma Gandhi
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. -Buddha
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -Abraham Lincoln
A crank is a man with a new idea – until it catches on. -Mark Twain
Higher good is like water: The good in water benefits all, And does so without contention. It rests where people dislike to be, So it is close to the Way. -Lao-tzu, in the Tao Te Ching as presented in the Essential Tao translated by Thomas Cleary
There’s no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -George Santayana
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. -William Blake
Those who are humorless should not be taken seriously. They take themselves so seriously, they eave no room for others to do likewise. -Anton Szandor LaVey
Only a fool mistakes laughter for humor and fashion for style. -Anton Szandor LaVey
To study a text, we should take into account the circumstances, the situation, the time, the society, and the community where a book was originally written or a teaching taught. -His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama
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