Re: Know any good quotes?

[terranus]

Depending on the way you define and count, it certainly may be so. A matter of free definitions and application of personal perspective.

Hmm....yes I guess you're right. Just seems like a mildly "Ahmadinejadistic" statement to me.

[JuggernautJon]

Pretty much anything from George Carlin's mouth is quotable. Although I may be biased because he is my hero haha.

[wildfire_emissary]

"If they can do it, let them do it."
"Practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect. So, why practice?"

-Gary Lising

[Asmodean]

Veni, vedi, vici -Julius Caesar (allegedly)

[Sireal]

"The most merciful in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents" H.P. Lovecraft

[ZombiePhysics]

I've got a whole folder dedicated to awesome quotes, so I'll unload some here.

Awesome Quote 6: (By Frasier Crane)
"I saw my fellow psychiatrists on the ski slopes today. I've never seen so many Freudians slip."

Awesome Quote 7: (By The Ghost Host from The Haunted Mansion)
"Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as if you sense a disquieting metamorphosis."

Awesome Quote 8: (By Caligula)
"I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the heavens. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and so I am a god."

Awesome Quote 11: (By V)
"But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive not in vain for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Awesome Quote 27: (By George Carlin)
"If someone asked me to swear on the bible, 'Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, & nothin' but the truth so help you god,' I'd say yeah! I'll tell you about as much truth as the people who wrote that fuckin' bible, how'd you like that?"

Awesome Quote 31: (By Bill Hicks)
"These two guys came up to me after the show and said, 'Hey, buddy, c'mere! Mr. Comedian...Hey, buddy we're Christian and we didn't like what you said,' and I said 'Then forgive me.'"

Awesome Quote 33: (Again By Bill Hicks)
"Strangers, people I don't even know come up to me out of the blue and go, 'What's wrong?' '...Nothin...' 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' 'Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?'"

And my last one is right under this comment. Ain't that the point of the quote feature?

[Cooper20]

"If life gives you melons, you might be dislexic." - Unknown

"The one thing about internet quotes is they might not be legit." - Abraham Lincoln

[Crow]

A few of my favorite quotes.

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy" - Alexander Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory." - Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the shore)

"The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men." - Lao Tse

"To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease." - Lao Tse

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." - Lao Tse

[Illbethewriter]

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." - Anthony Hopkins in Meet Joe Black

"Oh, really? When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side." - Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally
"May you live long enough to shit yourself."
"Your Facebook profile makes you sound like a rapist."
"I don't let my porn define me".
"This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers." - Rennee Zellwegger in Bridget Jones's Diary
"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
"Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

[xSilverPhinx]

I would paste the entire Sun Tzu's "Art Of War" here, since it's all so relevant (dark personal times) but I didn't want to bore anyone to death so here are a few good snippets:

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperilled in every single battle.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Now the reason the wise general conquers the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Know your enemy.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

You have to believe in yourself.

A few are a bit redundant, but some might find that absolutly necessary.  

[Melmoth]

"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n." - Satan, Paradise Lost.

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde. This, and pretty much every other sentence that he produced, deserves to be here.

"What to do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough." - EM Cioran.

[Cooper20]

"God is a God of war" -Exodus 15

"God is a God of peace" -Romans 15

Somethings fishy...

[Stevil]

"Turn the light on, turn the light on" - Dave Dobbyn
"You light up my life" - Joe Brooks
"turn the light off" - Nelly Furtado
"I can't turn the lights out" - Rick Astley
"Hit the lights" - Metallica
"Darkness be my friend" - Bruce Dickinson

[Crow]

- Oscar Wilde. This, and pretty much every other sentence that he produced, deserves to be here.

So true. Some of my favorite quotes by the man.

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

[OldGit]

True evil is when the rose begins to sing.  Arthur Machen

I can resist anything but temptation.  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Man kann a l l e s kaufen. (You can buy anything.) Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplaît pas.  (In the adversity of our best friends we always find something that is not displeasing.)  de la Rochefoucauld