NationStates Jolt Archive

Read/Add some quotes and feel free to pick them apart or worship them.

Some From Me:
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. -Otto von Bismarck

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
-J. B. Priestley

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
-Patricia Russell-McCloud

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas Jones

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone (1899-1947)

"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Douglas Adams quotes. He owned.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."

"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

i quote you on quoting that one...i like it

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

I love this one. :D

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."-- Lou Holtz

"Suicide hotline...please hold."

"Only two things are infinite. The Universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the first one." - Albert Einstein

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

"No matter which direction you start, it's always against the wind coming back."

"Suicide hotline...please hold."


Thats so horrible, but its way too funny.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. Steven Wright (I think)

"A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance."
-Stanislaw Lem

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
-Truman Capote

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
-Philip K. Dick

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
-Rabindranath Tagore

Remember wherever you go, there you are.

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." - Oscar Wilde

"Military music is to music what military justice is to justice." - Groucho Marx

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution." - Groucho Marx

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house." - Rod Stewart

I am the great cornSCOlio. I need I.P. for my bunghole.

The ITPO Theorem--The response time from IT is inversely proportional to the number of times you bugged the crap out of it in the past six months.

"The reason death sticks so closely to Life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can." Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

^best book ever

"Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moonbaths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Drive away fear. Play with everything. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters." SARK

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." Robert Frost

"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out!"
-Bishop Hugh Latimer to Bishop Nicholas Ridly, just before being burned at the stake for heresy.

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying, nothing." - Macbeth.

You only go around once, you might as well go around drunk.

Live fast, die young and leave a gorgeous corpse.

(Don't really know where either of these quotes came from - I used to live my life by them.)

"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."" - Julian the Apostate


"i hope you realize how fucking stupid you are. and the constant bitching about being fat and ugly. just shut the hell up bitch! the actual fat and ugly girls dont bitch about it, so why should you when you arent fat and you arent ugly? oh that's right, you're an attention whore" - Solitaire (some friend of mine)


"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain

"I don't care what the people do, as long as they don't do it in the streets and scare the horses." - Henry VIII

[QUOTE=Spotsvania]You only go around once, you might as well go around drunk.

and a bad life you must have had if you lived your life by that quote...

"people think alcohol makes them happier, but it ruins lives."
-quote from my mom :)

"i hope you realize how fucking stupid you are. and the constant bitching about being fat and ugly. just shut the hell up bitch! the actual fat and ugly girls dont bitch about it, so why should you when you arent fat and you arent ugly? oh that's right, you're an attention whore" - Solitaire (some friend of mine)

haha reminds me of my friend. thriving on attention when she knows she's skinny and beautiful...meanwhile i know she's prettier than me so if she's ugly, what am i? :)

"I would rather understand one cause, than be king of Persia."
Democritus of Abdera

"Nine words I remember."
Edda

"I've become the death, the destroyer of worlds."
Bhagavadgita

"The doors of heaven and hell lie next to each other, and are identical."
Nikos Kazantzakis

"I would rather understand one cause, than be king of Persia."
Democritus of Abdera

"Nine words I remember."
Edda

"I've become the death, the destroyer of worlds."
Bhagavadgita

"The doors of heaven and hell lie next to each other, and are identical."
Nikos Kazantzakis

you're confusing me, bud

Hyinda notes: "And a bad life you must have had if you lived your life by that quote..."

Actually, I had a great time! But, then I grew up. Bummer.

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"I've become the death, the destroyer of worlds.
Bhagavadgita


. . . I wait for that hour that ripens to their doom" (the rest of it)
-Bhagavad Gita uttered by Docter Robert Oppenheimer Director Los Alamos/Manhatten Project

great quote, its on one of my school binders

"you hang on to your pain
like it means something
like its worth something
well let me tell you
its not worth shit
let it go"

-this ruzz guy

"The knowledge that you exist is a burden on my soul." - Aram

. . . I wait for that hour that ripens to their doom" (the rest of it)
-Bhagavad Gita uttered by Docter Robert Oppenheimer Director Los Alamos/Manhatten Project

great quote, its on one of my school binders


who is this guy

" We must strive to hate envy, greed, lust , and pride; but only in ourselves and never in another" -Ghandi





"Every man dies,not every man really lives." --William Wallace in 'Braveheart'

. . . I wait for that hour that ripens to their doom" (the rest of it)
-Bhagavad Gita uttered by Docter Robert Oppenheimer Director Los Alamos/Manhatten Project

great quote, its on one of my school binders
i didn't know that, i only have it from a book :D great quote nontheless.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." Robert Frost

Excellent quote, I love Robert Frost!

Most of these quotes are too deep for me (especially after imbiding in Christmas cheer) -

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."

- David Berry

P.S. This is the most entertaining thread I have visited. Thank you!

"The clothes make the man.. naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain


"The Aztecs killed virgins and called it a religion. The Europeans enslaved blacks and called it economics. Americans tease each other sexually and call it fashion." - Michael Ventura


"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it." - Groucho Marx


"A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen." - Emily Lotney

Life of Pi. I remember that book. It was great. Then threw me at the end. Damn it to hell.

Oh yeah. And "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind." - Terry Pratchett.

Life of Pi. I remembere that book. It was great. Then threw me at the end. Damn it to hell.

3.14 has a life? 3.14 has a book? There is no end to PI.

Excellent quote, I love Robert Frost!


Keep the RF flowing:

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

" Outside of the arts, we tend to lump things into two categories: Can I eat it or Can I Screw It? "

"I'm fully aware that you have no idea how to play the song, but jeez, you guys, at least put more effort into faking it"

Ah, the things one learns in high school band. :eek:

3.14 has a life? 3.14 has a book? There is no end to PI.

no it's this kid's name . well actually his name is piscine but it's shortened to PI. read the book and be inspired! :)

Life of Pi. I remember that book. It was great. Then threw me at the end. Damn it to hell.

Oh yeah. And "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind." - Terry Pratchett.

how dare you criticize that book!!!!! haha notice the 5 exclamation marks! i think that's what the quote was referring to...

It seems like so many good books are about Indian children. Read Midnights children. I can't remember who wrote it. It owns though.

" Outside of the arts, we tend to lump things into two categories: Can I eat it or Can I Screw It? "

"I'm fully aware that you have no idea how to play the song, but jeez, you guys, at least put more effort into faking it"

Ah, the things one learns in high school band. :eek:


but if everyone in the band fakes it, will there be any music for the parents to hear at the concert? will there be any point of your teacher sweating like a pig and waving his pointless composing stick?

It seems like so many good books are about Indian children. Read Midnights children. I can't remember who wrote it. It owns though.

if it's anything like life of pi i will read it.

p.s. did you find it strange when the stranger from the other boat tried to eat pi when he was blind? i did.

^maybe it was richard parker! i think i remember that...i think it was richard parker (the tiger)

strange how this quote thread has turned into a life of pi discussion

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

and it was also kinda weird when the tiger was talking...

Rome didn't create a great empire by having meetings. they did it by killing all those who opposed them

the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off due to financial constraints.

I promise I will not judge any person as a teenager, if you will constantly remind yourself that some of my generation judge people by their race, their belief, of the color of their skin. And this is no more right than saying all teenagers are drunken dope addics who are glue sniffers

We're not 21, but the sooner we are, the sooner the fun

"Your not supposed to do that Max" "You'r not supposed to smoke pot out the back of the store either" "touche" - I'm a manager at a pizza place and Max is my driver.

if it's anything like life of pi i will read it.

p.s. did you find it strange when the stranger from the other boat tried to eat pi when he was blind? i did.

^maybe it was richard parker! i think i remember that...i think it was richard parker (the tiger)

strange how this quote thread has turned into a life of pi discussion

I didn't find it strange. If I was stranded I would eat a young boy. And I don't think it was the tiger. The tiger killed him. What confused me was the end. Whenb he said it was all a metaphor. Was it or was it not?!.
Also. That book needs a thread. It owns.

Rome didn't create a great empire by having meetings. they did it by killing all those who opposed them

the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off due to financial constraints.

I promise I will not judge any person as a teenager, if you will constantly remind yourself that some of my generation judge people by their race, their belief, of the color of their skin. And this is no more right than saying all teenagers are drunken dope addics who are glue sniffers

We're not 21, but the sooner we are, the sooner the fun

"Your not supposed to do that Max" "You'r not supposed to smoke pot out the back of the store either" "touche" - I'm a manager at a pizza place and Max is my driver.


sounds like there is no hope in max and he needs to be fired and sent to a military academy ... all boys can be corrected by military academies

Military acadamies are the devil. The devil I say! Heresy!. Not that I have ever been..........

I didn't find it strange. If I was stranded I would eat a young boy. And I don't think it was the tiger. The tiger killed him. What confused me was the end. Whenb he said it was all a metaphor. Was it or was it not?!.
Also. That book needs a thread. It owns.

true...the ending was really confusing.


another strange part: the teeth in the rolled up balls of leaves. ew.

good idea about a life of pi thread...

Growing up is inevitable,
maturing is optional. ;) :D :D
- Me

"God is dead: but considering the state the species of man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be show." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Friedrich Nietzche was stupid and abnormal" - Leo Tolstoy

"The State is not 'abolished' it withers away" - Friedrich Engels

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" - St. John

"The good of the people is the chief law" - Cicero

"Man was born free and is everywhere in chains" - Rousseau

A nice collection of obvious ones.....

Thank God for minatures. How else would they know how to make the big ones.

"God is dead."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Friedrich Nietzsche is dead"
-God

Who got the last word here?

Growing up is inevitable,
maturing is optional. ;) :D :D
- Me


applause, applause

Children should be forced to work in coal mines. That's what I heard.

I hope someone famous said that. If not I just did. It is my quote.

ah, but military academies beat coal mines

ah, but military academies beat coal mines

Hell no. Coal mines rule. Children should be forced to work 25 hours a day and be beaten if they fail to do so.

"somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile
and finds in your presence that life is worth while
so if you are lonely remember it's true,
somebody somewhere is thinking of you!"

-my friend meghan

Hell no. Coal mines rule. Children should be forced to work 25 hours a day and be beaten if they fail to do so.

what can a weak little kid do in a coal mine? nothing
what can a weak little kid do in a military academy? beef up and then make somethin happen

what can a weak little kid do in a coal mine? nothing
what can a weak little kid do in a military academy? beef up and then make somethin happen

A kid can beef up in a coal mine. And it can eat as many rocks as it wants.

"The best time to go to Disneyland, if you want to avoid lines and crowds is 1962" -Dave Barry

but if everyone in the band fakes it, will there be any music for the parents to hear at the concert? will there be any point of your teacher sweating like a pig and waving his pointless composing stick?

It would be greatly amusing for band members, and few are the parents that will fork over five bucks Canadian to see high school band. Besides, some people actually take initive and practice.

"what is right is not always popular, what is popular is not always right."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Ghandi

"I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward."
Firdtjof Nansen

"The first and greatest commandment is,
Don't let them scare you."
Elmer Davis

A kid can beef up in a coal mine. And it can eat as many rocks as it wants.

yum...rocks. but in the military academy we get mushy oatmeal stuff

"Life hurts.
Pain makes one think.
Thinking makes one wise.
Wisdom makes life bearable"
Teahouse of the August Moon


"Man walks the moon, but his soul remains tethered to the earth. Once upon a time this was the opposite." Elie Wiesel

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen


"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato


"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin & Hobbes

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

'bump'
many posters, on many fora.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin & Hobbes
"Either that, or our phones could be off the hook, our emails not working, etc"

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to
trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both
commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never
developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia
really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations
between two gangs of frauds.
HL Mencken

Theology: An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms
of the not worth knowing.
HL Mencken

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense
and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful
and his children smart.
HL Mencken

"And I see no reason why anyone should suppose that in the future the same motifs already heard will not be sounding still ... put to use by reasonable men to reasonable ends, or by madmen to nonsense and disaster.",
Joseph Campbell

"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
(Shana Alexander)

"The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think."
(The Ladies Home Journal)

"Dear Sirs, man to man, manpower, craftsman, working men, the thinking man, the man in the street, fellow countrymen, the history of mankind, one-man show, man in his wisdom, statesman, forefathers, masterful, masterpiece, old masters, the brotherhood of man, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, sons of free men, faith of our fathers, god the father, god the son, yours fraternally, amen. Words fail me."
(Stephanie Dowrick)

"Women are expected to do twice as much as men in half the time and for no credit. Fortunately this isn't difficult."
(Charlotte Whitton)

"Everything you can imagine is real."
(Picasso)

"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."
(Spike Milligan)

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by those who annoy me."
(Noel Coward)

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
(Benjamin Disraeli)

"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate."
(Jo Brand)

"If I really was two faced, why would I be wearing this one?"

Abe Lincoln