NationStates Jolt Archive

It's been two days and I'm running low on good quotes for Rotovia.com (http://www.rotovia.com). So far I've had quotes by Hitler, Nelson Mandela & Julius Caesar.

I'd prefer the quotes not be form NS, because I have enough random ramblings by Colodia laying about on my computer as is.

Thanks for the help you sexy, sex muffins ya'll. ;) :fluffle:

"There are 'super-kids;' kids who thrive in spite of anything thrown at them in their young lives. I believe this is true because I have seen people build cathedrals from the stones others throw at them." - flh

"What really makes us decide we have a friend is when we look into our soul and see a part of them smiling back."

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt!" - Shakespeare

"That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons
who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse." - Mark Twain

"Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color.
They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.
The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen.
He rises by lifting others." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." - Mark Twain

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane." - Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain

"To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." - Ambrose Bierce

"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." - Robert Ingersoll

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life:
if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has
regulated it cannot be a bad one." - Thomas Jefferson

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a
lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all
participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes. - Anne C. Weisberg

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise
than saved by criticism. - Norman Vincent Peale

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't;
it just keeps you from enjoying it. - Salvador de Madariaga

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. - Bodie Thoene

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour
and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the
greatest improvement of the soul? - Socrates

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres
along with them in their orbits. - Thomas Hardy

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily.
All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
(Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.) - Robert A. Heinlein

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. - Arthur Freed

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are
too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by,
and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. - J.C. Watts

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity,
personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. - Dr. William Menninger

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business
dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself. -
Frank Perdue

AFL shares this quote from Mark Twain: "It is curious that physical
courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

AFL shares this quote from Abraham Lincoln: "Nearly all men can stand
adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

AFL shares this quote from Bertrand Russell: "The trouble with the
world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of
doubt."

AFL shares this quote from Edith Wharton: "There are two ways of
spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it"

AFL shares this quote from George Bernard Shaw: "Liberty means
responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

AFL shares this quote from Maya Angelou: "History, despite its
wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not
be lived again."

AFL shares this quote from Mark Twain: "Let us so live that when we
come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.
His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."
- Askitiki

"Think not those who praise all thy words and actions faithful, but
rather those who kindly reprove thy faults." - Askitiki

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Askitiki

"All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it." - Neald Donald Walsh

"Don't wish me happiness. I don't expect to be happy all the time ... It's gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and
strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"At this very moment, there are people only you can reach ... and
differences only you can make." - Michael Dooley

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." - James A. Michener

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims,
new plans, new thoughts... and whether one is twenty, forty, sixty, or
eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along - life
begins each morning!" - L. M. Hodges

"Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and
lies exhausted on the field of battle." - Vince Lombardi

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." - The Qur'an

"Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of
us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take
time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be
rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game." - Harvey Mackay

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." -
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

"None of us who have always been free can understand the terrible
fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." - Pearl S. Buck

"The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human." - Pablo Casals

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W.M. Lewis

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"The most important promises are the ones I make to myself." - Mary Anne Radmacher

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to
excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."

"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed
possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can
change your beliefs." - Maxwell Maltz

"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as
the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the
Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up." - Alice Walker

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

"When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones!
When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth." - Hafiz, Persian Poet

"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point." -
Susan Sarandon

"Experience teaches only the teachable." - Aldous Huxley

"Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Katherine Mansfield

"Don't let other people tell you what you want." - Pat Riley

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye." - Helen Keller

"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear." - Maya Angelou

"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three
meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and
dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what
self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." - Marlene Dietrich

"May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand.
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced
give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.
Always know that there are those whose love and understanding will always be there, even when you feel most alone.
May a kind word, a reassuring touch, and a warm smile be yours every day of your life, and may you give these gifts as well
as receive them.
May the teachings of those you admire become part of you, so that you may call upon them.
Remember, those whose lives you have touched and who have touched yours are always a part of you, even if the encounters
were less than you would have wished.
It is the content of the encounter that is more important than its form.
May you not become too concerned with material matters, but instead place immeasurable value on the goodness in your heart.
Find time in each day to see beauty and love in the world around you.
Realize that what you feel you lack in one regard you may be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present may become one of your strengths in the future.
May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.
May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by yourself, and not be dependent on another's judgment of
your accomplishments.
May you always feel loved." - Sandra Sturtz Hauss

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." - Pablo Picasso

"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." - Karl Barth

"Get great at the wait. Be patient - the ability to persevere is what separates whiners from winners." - Michelle Burford

"Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now
they will seem mediocre... You will wonder why you did not make them 50
times as great." - Henry Curtis

"It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it." - Somerset Maugham

"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung to this day."-
Rabindranath Tagore

"Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." - Benjamin Disraeli

"There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no
sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are
here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was
good." - Brian Andreas

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we
crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always
attained by giving them to someone else." - Peyton Conway March

"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." - Muriel Spark

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty." - Stanislaw J. Lee

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are
eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new
way of looking at things." - Henry Miller

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."
- Will Durant

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were
not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how
many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came
back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing
they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very
risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in
the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk." - Osho

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them." - Aughey

"A warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he
feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any
conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be
free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and
deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask,
mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?'" - Carlos Castaneda

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

"Democracy is the road to socialism."


All three from the Great Bearded One.

"All your base are belong to us"-CATS from Zero Wing intro.

"Praising an assassination for not being a war is like praising genital herpes for not being AIDS"-Me, Zexaland.

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Good God man... :eek:

Good God man... :eek:
LOL! Well, you said you wanted guotes! :p

"The number one tip for video games is: don't get hit"-seanbaby.com gives us some excellent advice.

"Dead people can't write letters"-James, hero of the game Silent Hill 2, helpfully explaining what dead people can and can not do.

"Stand for New Zealand"-Howard Kippenburger Commander 20th Battalion Crete when the line was faltering from a German Offence he stood up with pistol and yelled this and the line held. Yay!

LOL! Well, you said you wanted guotes! :p
lol That I did, thank you. I'll probally be set for a year on that pile :D

"If it moves, f--k it. If it doesn't move, f--k it 'til it does." ~Errol Flynn

"I'm perfectly comfortable in telling you, our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity, and we resolve our disputes in a peaceful way." ~President George W. Bush

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow..." ~Slim (Lauren Bacall)

"Read my lips: No New Taxes" ~President George Bush

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly... it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” ~Joseph Goebbels

''There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" ~Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens)

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Never try to outstubborn a cat." ~Robert A. Heinlein

"It doesn't matter who you vote for, you're still going to wind up with a Politician." ~Will Rogers

"Of the best rulers the people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise; The next they fear; And the next they revile." ~Lao-tse

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." ~Tacitus

"You exceed your rights when you urge that laws be made in the shape of your conscience to block the pleasures permitted by mine. When you people prevail, you commit a crime against freedom, and that is the greatest immorality I know." ~Vance Bourjaily

"How soon not now becomes never"
Martin Luther

"Blood moves the wheels of history"
Martin Luther

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." ~Tacitus

"You exceed your rights when you urge that laws be made in the shape of your conscience to block the pleasures permitted by mine. When you people prevail, you commit a crime against freedom, and that is the greatest immorality I know." ~Vance Bourjaily
Those two are my favourite yet. I love Tacitus. I've just about worn holes in my copy of The Annals.

We all do no end of feeling and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
- Mark Twain "Corn-pone Opinions" essay, 1900

"You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death."
-Socrates

"For there is one thing we must never forget…the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will a heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards."
- Adolf Hitler

"I do not fear failure. I only fear the 'slowing up' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?'"
-George S. Patton

"If you kill one, it is a tragedy. If you kill a million, it is a statistic."
-Josef Stalin

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?"
Joseph Stalin

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
Joseph Stalin

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'"
-George Carlin

"Punk is the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions."
-Greg Graffin

Not that you need anymore or anything, I'm just going to pimp some cats I like:

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.
Lenny Bruce


Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government"
- Lenny Bruce


"I sort of felt sorry for the damn flies. They never hurt anybody. Even though they were supposed to carry diseases I never heard of anybody saying they caught something form a fly. My cousin gave two guys the clap and nobody ever whacked her with a paper."
- Lenny Bruce


"You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth..."
- Lenny Bruce


"And since they condone capital punishment , I want them to stop bitching about Jesus getting nailed up."
- Lenny Bruce


"I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."
- Lenny Bruce

"If something about the human body disgusts you complain to the manufacturer."
- Lenny Bruce

"If a titty is pretty, its dirty but not if its bloody and maimed."
- Lenny Bruce

"Now the problem I had in understanding the law was because of the language of the law. Instead of taking each word and finding out the case that the word related to, once in a while I got lazy and I would apply common sense. And then I got really screwed up."
- Lenny Bruce

From my sig-

Like an old junk pusher once told me; watch whose money you take.
- William S. Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs

The face of evil is always the face of total need.
William S. Burroughs

I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. Burroughs

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die or boredom.
William S. Burroughs

Alright, two cats I like. I really should stop there...

"Evil is the absence of empathy"-got it off a ep of the Dragnet remake series, best line I heard on the show ever.

"Evil is the absence of empathy"-got it off a ep of the Dragnet remake series, best line I heard on the show ever.
Wow, that is pretty good. I dig Dragnet for some reason...

"Neutrals never dominate events, they always sink. Blood alone moves the wheels of history."--Benito Mussolini

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
George W. Bush

If you must you must.

Veni Vedi Vici - I came, I saw, I conquered - Caesar.
....what?

or, alternatively, stirring British stuff from Auchinleck.

"…(you must) dispel by all possible means the idea that Rommel represents anything other than the ordinary German general……….PS, I’m not jealous of Rommel."

"an eye for an eye and the world will go blind" - Gandhi

"I dont wana die but i aint keen on living either"

"any holes a goal"

"The world around me is shrinking and the four horesmen of the apocalyps are coming to see me today and there not bringing any flowers, wich makes its reall hard to get organised" - The Jacket

From each as the choose; to each as they are chosen.-Robert Nozick

I've still got this copied since I posted it on another thread.

"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one." - Marilyn Monroe.

I likeed this when I first heard it, and it made an odd kind of sense.

"There he goes, one of G/god's own prototypes. A high powered mutant never considered for mass production.
Too wiered to live and too rare to die."

(Form Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

One of my favorites.

"If you would make the most of your money, take it, and buy a pup.
You will have purchased Love, Unconditional."
-Rudyard Kipling.

"I know not what course others may take, but as for me sir, give me liberty, or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry.

-- The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery,
a metaphor for a proof,
a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths,
and oneself for an oracle,
is inborn in us.
~ Paul Valéry, 1895

MAYOR NAGIN: I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man. We ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out here.


"Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, let alone getting them out of the city in front of a hurricane." –Sen. Mary Landrieu (Democrat-LA), on why New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin failed to follow the city's evacuation plan and press the buses into service.

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"Humanity is measured by the soul, not the flesh." ~ Layla

"The thief can steal many things, but can he burgle back his soul?" ~ Layla again

"The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless." ~ Miriam Godwinson

"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides." ~ Havelock Vetenari

"I'm nae listenin' to them! They've got warts!" ~ Arthur J. Nightingale, The Short Comedy of MacBeth

" Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us." PJ O'Rourke

I have a really bad quote in my signature by the loathsome Nietzsche, but I'm afraid I'm out of good quotes. Let's see, here's some:

"Property is theft" — Pierre Joseph Proudhon

"From each according to ability, to each according to need" — Karl Marx

"The world around me is shrinking and the four horesmen of the apocalyps are coming to see me today and there not bringing any flowers, wich makes its reall hard to get organised" - The Jacket
Corrected for grammar and spelling:

"The world around me is shrinking, and the four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming to see me today and they're not bringing any flowers, which makes it real hard to get organised."

:)

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

"If you are going through Hell, keep going". Winston Churchill

i used to collect quotes in my blog. you're welcome to them:

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http://spaces.msn.com/members/megadude666/Blog/cns!1pvYOmib1mjt3wk4YfXDqbPA!240.entry

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"Never be seperated from the Americans".

"Americans always do the right thing...eventually".

more Winston Churchill...

"War is just menstrual envy." - Lydia Lunch

"Corporations are unaccountable private tyrannies." - Noam Chomsky

"With a face like this I won't break any hearts. And thinking like that I won't make any friends." - Therapy?

"I need you around to remind me what not to become." - Nirvana

"You're so vain, you probably think this quote is about you." - Carly Simon, edited by myself

"Everyone should have a Willy" - Margaret Thatcher.

'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may;
Old time is still a-flying.
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying'

'The tempest will not give me leave to ponder
On things would hurt me more'

'Now Gods stand up for bastards'

All Shakespeare

*Life is short.. Party naked* - Calvin and Hobbes sticker

"I like pie." Unknown

"When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pant beneath, and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang." -Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

I always liked quoting this one:

"Untimely storms make men expect a dearth:
All may be well; but, if God sort it so,
'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect."

~ Shakespeare, King Richard the Third - Act II Scene III

"What is history but fraud agreed upon?"

-Napoleon Bonaparte

"No cask ever gapes so wide for loss
of mid- side-stave as the soul I saw
cleft from the chin right down to where men fart.

Between the legs the entrails dangled. I saw
the innards and the loathsome sack
that turns what one has swallowed into shit."
Dante's Inferno Canto XXVIII
Hollander Translation

"False she was, and unrelenting;
When my last joys strewed the ground,
Even Sorrow saw, repenting,
Those sad relics scattered round;

Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!"

--Hope, by Emile Jane Bronte

"I love my grandma."

-me

It's been two days and I'm running low on good quotes for Rotovia.com (http://www.rotovia.com). So far I've had quotes by Hitler, Nelson Mandela & Julius Caesar.

I'd prefer the quotes not be form NS, because I have enough random ramblings by Colodia laying about on my computer as is.

Thanks for the help you sexy, sex muffins ya'll. ;) :fluffle:
"The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third." -Gale Sayer, RB Chicago Bears

"Smile, it brightens two days"-Lark Flannigan

"Democrats make me ashamed to be American, Republicans make me ashamed to be human"-anon

"Start every day in the hopes that flip-flops are a good idea"-Val Mechling

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."-??

"If you like garlic salt and tabasco sauce, you can make anything taste good." -anon

More to come later....

May I also suggest that you back log all the past qoutes so we can find them.

An old feminist one that I enjoyed reading......
"It begins when you sink in his arms. It ends with your arms in his sink"

{snip}
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."-??
{snip}
I know not if this is the original source; but, I remember reading it in Frank Herbets' Dune.

It was a simple creed of the Been Gezunthei, um, the Burn Grope, er, that sisterhood of whackjobs.

:( Somebody help me out here ...

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
-Peck

I know not if this is the original source; but, I remember reading it in Frank Herbets' Dune.

It was a simple creed of the Been Gezunthei, um, the Burn Grope, er, that sisterhood of whackjobs.

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Bene Gesserit.

And I am almost 100% sure it is the original source--Dune...

"Free flow of information is only true safe guard against tyranny."

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx

"nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission" - Elenore Roosevelt

"I imagine that both bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel joke on them, but they lack the intelligence to really fathom the magnitude of it."
--Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

"I have a hammer! I can put things together. I can tear things apart. I can alter my environment while making a horrible din the entire time. Ah, how I love being a man!"
--Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

"Yessiree, made in God's own image!"
--Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
"God must have a goofy sense of humor."
--Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes

"The best form of revenge is not to become like your enemy."
--Marcus Aurelius

"Never fight a battle you don't have to win."
--Ardak Kumerian

"Build a golden bridge for a fleeing enemy."
--Roman Proverb

You can use the ones in my siggi if ya'd like to, theres a site called quotationspage.com or net or something that has tons.

"If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit."

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"

"It's not the quanity, but the quality."

;)

"If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit."


Yo, s'that yours? Can i use it?

"The exquisite gut-wrenching beautiful painful joyful sorrow I feel when I look at the ways of my people makes me want to soar like an eagle, or kill myself, depending on what day it is." - Michael James


"Revenge is like a margarita: salty, with a twist of lime" - Leon Jester


"I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists."
-- Jubal Harshaw (Bonus cookie to the person who can name the book without googling.)


"There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Mundus Vult Decipi(Translation: The world wants to be deceived)" - James Branch Cabell


"An important difference between a military operation and a surgical operation is that the patient is not tied down. But it is the common fault of generalship to assume that he is." - Captain Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart


".... the most expensive thing in the world is a second best military establishment, good but not good enough to win" - Robert Anston Heinlein


"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser then one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that one over again too. Who decides?" - Robert Anston Heinlein


"You never hear anyone say 'Yeah, but it's a dry cold." - Charles A. Budreau


"Prostitution involves sex and free enterprise. Which of these are you opposed to?" - Joseph A. Hauptman

"Better that the whole world be destroyed and perish utterly than that a free man refrain from an act to which his nature moves him."

"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living..."

Both are Marx

"I am not a Marxist"
-Karl Marx, later in his life after seeing (and apparently disagreeing) with the interpritations of some of his writings.

Yo, s'that yours? Can i use it?

You can use it. It was used in the OJ Simpson trial.

By the way BistroLand is my other character, but he got banned today.

"we're on a mission from God"
-Dan Akroyd
"He-He keeps changing positions"
- George W Bush

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Philips

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
Emo Philips

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
Emo Philips

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, "If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference."
Emo Philips

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
Emo Philips

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.
Emo Philips

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
Emo Philips

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Emo Philips

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips

I ran three miles today. Finally I said, "Lady take your purse."
Emo Philips

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, "I don't know... reelection to the Senate?"
Emo Philips

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
Emo Philips

I'm a great lover, I'll bet.
Emo Philips

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Emo Philips

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
Emo Philips

My girlfiend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert' I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of nine'.
Emo Philips

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.
Emo Philips

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.
Emo Philips

People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
Emo Philips

People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?"
Emo Philips

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo Philips

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Emo Philips

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Emo Philips

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.
Emo Philips

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
Emo Philips

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
Emo Philips

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.
Emo Philips

worth reading eh?

Who is Emo Philips?

Who is Emo Philips?
should i quote lewis black instead?

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall". - Eleanor Roosevelt
Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. - Mark Twain
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible. - George Burns
Santa Claus has the right idea -- visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. - Mark Twain
My wife is a sex object -- every time I ask for sex, she objects. - Les Dawson
By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech -- every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: Alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.- Alex Levine
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.- Mark Twain
My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. - Ed Furgol
Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. - Henny Youngman
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith
I don't feel old - I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. - Bob Hope
A woman drove me to drink -- and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her. - W.C. Fields
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. - W.C. Fields
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. - George Burns
We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.- Unknown
Don't worry about avoiding temptation...As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Unknown
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Unknown
Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. - Mel Brooks
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul - George Bernard Shaw
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me - Hunter S. Thompson
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force - Dorothy Parker
At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual. - Patrick Moore
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate - Ambrose Bierce
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there - George Burns
My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often. -Emo Phillips
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one. - Woody Allen
Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy. -
Steve Martin
My girlfiend said to me in bed last night, ' You're a pervert.' I said, 'That's a big word for a girl of nine'. - Emo Philips
When I'm good I'm very, very good but when I'm bad I'm even better. - Mae West
An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer. -Evelle Younger
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me - Emo Phillips
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing - Emo Phillips
I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks. - Emo Phillips
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. - Adrienne Gusoff
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. - Emo Philips
An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from but not enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce
A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat - Ambrose Bierce
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy - Benjamin Franklin
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day. - Dean Martin
The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings. - Arthur Lewis
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. - Fulton Sheen
Thank God I'm an atheist. - Luis Bunuel
I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. - Groucho Marx.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift" ... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git”. - Alexai Sayle
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. - Steven Wright
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female. - Desmond Morris
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. - JP Getty
A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. - Franklin Jones
I'm not a paranoid derranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire. - Howard Hughes
The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did - Yogi Berra
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's
genitals through his wallet. -Robin Williams

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the
only time of the month that I can be myself. -Roseanne

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. -Billy Crystal

I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was,
"You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope
not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?" -Larry Miller

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this
look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of
that!" -Dave Barry

According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable
undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other
women. They say that women are too judgemental, where, of course, men
are just grateful. -Jay Leno

When the sun comes up, I have morals again. -Elayne Boosler

Men look at women the way men look at cars. Everyone looks at Ferraris.
Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all buy station wagons. -Tim Allen

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin

After making love I said to my girl, "Was it good for you too?" And
she said, "I don't think this was good for anybody." - Gary Shandling

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job.
But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end
of the night, drop them off at the wrong house. -Jeff Foxworthy

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

It sounds like a Paul Atriedes quote (Maud'dib) from the most excellent sci-fi novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert, actually. It was the Bene Gesserit prayer his mother taught him.

It's either that or Frank Herbert stole it from someone else.

You can use it. It was used in the OJ Simpson trial.



Sounded famaliar..

By the way BistroLand is my other character, but he got banned today.
Why?

Myotisinia - Theres no way I'm reading all those quotes so excuse me if i post one you've used.

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
_Aristotle
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Why?


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I invaded a region, I broke a bunch of rules in the invasion. So the mods banned me.