Re: Know any good quotes?

[ForTheLoveOfAll]

"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."
- Tommy Smothers

[tubbyman]

The world was here long before man dreamed up deity, it'll be here long after we're gone. Grow up and enjoy the time you have here, you're the luckiest gathering of atoms in the universe.

[Icarus]

Perception is reality.

[terranus]

George W. Bush: Trust the government? Heck, I'm in the government and I don't even trust it.

[danny boy]

"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates

[Extropian]

When I read about the evils of drink, I gave up reading..........Henny Youngman

Arguing with a creationist is like playing chess with a pigeon. It struts around the squares knocking pieces over, craps on the board and flies off to its friends claiming victory............an Anonymous book reviewer

We seek to remind all who despise, ridicule and oppress our race that we share with them a common nature, are with them susceptible of equal refinement and capable of equal achievement in all that adorns and dignifies mankind..........an extract from an early Liberian Constitution.

A stitch in time saves two in the bush

A fool and his money makes the heart grow fonder

A bird in the hand gathers no moss

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring............Carl Sagan

For a while she strove,
And much repented, whisper'd
"I will ne'er consent.........."
......consented.                    ..Lord Byron

"Your obligation isn't to die for your country - it's to make the other bastard die for his!.........Gen. George Patton.

Extropian

[skwurll]

Sun Tzu is a man I could've gotten along with.

-Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

-Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

-He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

-You have to believe in yourself.

[Extropian]

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell fury like a woman scorned.     William Congreve

It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.     INVICTUS  W.E.Henley

Winston! If you were my husband I'd poison your tea!
Madam, if I were your husband I would drink it!
            Winston Churchill and Lady Astor [I believe]

When I'm good, I'm very, very good
But when I'm bad, I'm better.     Mae West

Extropian

[Alexander]

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

[Extropian]

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich addressing John Wilkes, wit, rake, British MP and member of the Hellfire Club

"Sir! You will die either on the gallows or of the pox!"

Wilkes; "That depends my lord on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress"


He is not only dull himself, but is the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote, British playwright.


Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
                                           Samuel Taylor Coleridge. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening  

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
 

 Extropian

[Extropian]

"But I have dream'd a dreary dream,
Beyond the Isle of Skye;
I saw a dead man win a fight,
And I think that man was I."

Sir Walter Scott, THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN from The Border Minstrelsy 1833
The battle was fought in 1388............a curious conjunction of figures.

Extropian

[Alexander]

He who loves music can never be truly unhappy.

- Franz Schubert

[Davin]

Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back.

-Malcolm Reynolds

[Extropian]

I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.

Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence.
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.

Only those elements time cannot wear.
Were made before me and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri, THE INFERNO Canto lll The Vestibule of Hell.

[ForTheLoveOfAll]

Found a fantastic video that would fit here quite nicely.

[youtube:3rb298z4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKPVECn0J0[/youtube:3rb298z4]