“In nature there’s no blemish but the mind;
None can be call’d deform’d but the unkind.”
-fr. Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
“You want to live forever?” - Anon.
“They’ve got a cave troll.” Boromir, LOTR film. ( I dunno why, I just love that line and the way he says it.)
“Meow” means “woof” in Cat - George Carlin
Also, my sig
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there, that’s better
“I like my coffee and my beer dark and bitter,
that way they mesh well with the rest of my life.” - anon.
and the obligatory Discworld [sup]TM[/sup] quote:
“Oook. Ooook. Eeeek!” - The Librarian
“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
-
Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” -
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” -
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” -
Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
“Don’t be so humble - you are not that great.” -
Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
“His ignorance is encyclopedic” -
Abba Eban (1915-)
“If a man does his best, what else is there?” -
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster,
and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.” -
A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
“People demand freedom of speech to make up
for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” -
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” -
Saint Augustine (354-430)
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted.” -
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on.” -
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo
their use.” -
Galileo Galilei
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work.” -
Emile Zola (1840-1902)
“This book fills a much-needed gap.” -
Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
[Quotes Galore.]
(http://www.doorbell.net/tlr/quotes.htm)
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
-Shakespeare
“If that wasn’t funny, there were a lot of things that weren’t even funnier.”
-Joseph Heller
“I think we agree, the past is over.”
-George W Bush
“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one” - George Mikes.
A favourite of mine and the opening sentence to an essay I wrote a few months back.
“A hard-on has no conscience.”
My great-grandfather.
“In the end we are all terminal cases.” -John Irving The World According to Garp
“It’s good to be of use.” -John Irving The Cider House Rules
“Keep passing the open windows.” -John Irving The Hotel Newhampshire
“Pimps are nothing more than whores for whores.” -Iceberg Slim Pimp
“The trick to flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
-Douglas Adams Life the Universe and Everything
“If I love you, what business is that of yours?”
-Goethe
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labour.
– Oscar Wilde
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
– G. K. Chesterton
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
– P. J. O’Rourke
ON FEAR:
. . . behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. . .
– Job 28:28
To Conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
– Bertrand Russell
How about some quotes from closer to home?
I will concur that it does show that God has a problem with people who forcibly buttfuck angels. But that hasn’t been a particularly common sin, so far as I know.
~Polycarp (SDMB Poster)
… you seem to enjoy assuming a stance of Willful Ignorance, as though it were a cologne you splash on in order to ward off serious scrutiny of your opinions.
~Mandelstam (SDMB Poster)
I recommend dropping a tree on the existentialists, right away, and encouraging every one to pretend they didn’t hear it.
~Triskadecamus (SDMB Poster)
And the wisest Presidential quote, ever; my sig:
“The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief.”
-fr. Shakespeare’s “Othello”.
Lots of
[quotes]
(http://users.telerama.com/~megabee/quotes.html).
Mostly depressing quotes,one spurious, many stolen from more intelligent Doper sigs…
"I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
–John Adams, Second President of the United States, on moving into the White House, November 20, 1800.
Oh John, somebody wasn’t listening… Instead of an answer to our prayers, we got Dubya! Geez, who would’ve thought?!?
“Bullshit makes the flowers grow, and that’s beautiful.”
The Principia Discordia
“There is no humorist like history.”
Will Durant (~1935)