NationStates Jolt Archive

Whats your favorite quotes/sayings?Feel free to name more than one but try to keep it under 10.
Mine are:
SCREW YOU AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO!
History does not repeat itself,mankind does.
If you fail to study the past you are doomed to repeat it.
There is no spoon.
You have failed me for the last time commander.
None have ever caught him yet for Tom he is the master!

"Have no fear for atomic energy, 'cause none of it can stop the time." - Bob Marley

"Don't let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what is right." Isaac Asimov

"Music is a gift from God." - Martin Luther

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die." - Inigo Montoya

More will come to me later.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-Robert Heinlein

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

-John Cleese

"Anything that happens happens, anything that in happening causes something else to happen causes something else to happen, and anything that in happening causes itself to happen again, happens again.

Although not necessarily in chronological order."

-Douglas Adams

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."

-W. C. Fields

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "- Arthur C. Clarke.

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. " - Marcus Aurelius

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

“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

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Memento mori.

I keep wanting to memorize this but never do:

* Lucius. Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?

* Aaron. Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,—
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.


It doesn't get more hardcore than that.

Oh... wait... funny...

:upyours:Dammit Annelle, why don't you just take your bible and shove it where the sun don't shine! Shirley Maclaine-Steel Magnolias

Memento mori.

Hah, yeah. That's up there with 'periculum in mora' and 'prima caritas ab ego,' in my book. :p

I'M PASSING OUT BANS AS IF THEY WERE CANDY! WHOOOOO!
:D :D

My favorite quote here in NS.

Et In Arcadia Ego.

I keep wanting to memorize this but never do:

* Lucius. Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?

* Aaron. Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,—
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.


It doesn't get more hardcore than that.

Oh... wait... funny...

"Hark villains, for I shall grind your bones to dust"

Whats your favorite quotes/sayings?Feel free to name more than one but try to keep it under 10.
Mine are:
SCREW YOU AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO!
History does not repeat itself,mankind does.
If you fail to study the past you are doomed to repeat it.
There is no spoon.
You have failed me for the last time commander.
None have ever caught him yet for Tom he is the master!

This has got to be the un-funniest collection of quotations ever.

live in the now rember then - thomas danese {aka me }

anything possable has been done anything inpossible will be done evil kinnevil

damn right i am good in bed i can sleep for days - ?????

there's only us there's only this forget regret or life is your's to miss - rent

i solemnly swear that i am up to no good - fred & gourge wesley

were only young once let's fuck it up right - ????

thoese are my faveret quotes

I have millions of 'em.

Well then I guess there's only one thing left to do...win the whole damn thing."
- Jake Taylor, Major League

"He ho lets the world...choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation."
-J.S. Mill

"Are you on thorazine? What the hell?"

"Eh."
- Ask Tyler or Friday, they'll tell you.

”Wir sitzen hier am runden Tisch und saufen bis er eckig ist!”

”Hello....my name is Inigo Montoya...you killed my father.....prepare to die”
-Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride

”They're as tough as woodpecker lips”
- General Barry McCafferey (ret.)

”America is in good shape even if...5% of our population are whackjobs.”
- General Barry McCafferey (ret.)


”It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark outside and we're wearing sunglasses.”
-Elwood

”Hit it.”
-Jake

The men who create power make an indispensible contribution to the nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensible, espescially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power, or power uses us.
-John F. Kennedy

“In eros bodies are naked; in friendship personalities are naked.”
-C.S. Lewis

“They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?”
-Michael Chaban as Hadden Suit in Contact

”Charlie don't surf!”
-Robert Duvall as Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now

”Carpe Crustoleum!”

”There was no eulogy for central planning. It just ceased to be mentioned, leaving the principles of Adam Smith and his followers ... as the seemingly sole remaining effective paradigm for economic organization. A large majority of developing nations quietly shifted to more market-oriented economies.”
-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan

”Hey, the box is there for a reason, I like thinking inside of it, I feel safe in there.”
– Private Tucker from Red vs Blue.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Thomas 1914-1953

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)." --Ayn Rand

"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

"Sometimes I wish I’d went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything, but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn’t have been worth remembering."
-Ernest Hemingway

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle [sic] their pockets for new vocabulary."
– James D. Nichol

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
- A.A. Milne

"My actions prove that God takes care of idiots,"
-Guy Gabaldon, the “Pied Piper of Saipan”

“We allow ourselves the luxury of being aristocrats and democrats, conservatives and progressives, reactionaries and revolutionaries, legitimists and illegitimists; according to conditions of time, place and circumstance.”
-Benito Mussolini, Dictator of Fascist Italy.

"Where there is no hope, one must invent hope."
-Albert Camus

“And then there is indifference. Everyone can fall into this trap. It's so easy to enter into indifference and stay there. An indifferent person remains indifferent unless shaken up.”
-Elie Wiesel

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
-Thomas Edison




And, of course, Nobel Hobos in my sig.

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
-Thomas Edison
I thought Albert Einstein said that. :confused::confused::confused:

I thought Albert Einstein said that. :confused::confused::confused:

He was quoting Edison.

My personal favourite:

'Above all, this: To thine own self be true.'

Shakespeare.

This has got to be the un-funniest collection of quotations ever.
You're just jealous that I already took "screw you and your little dog too!"

"I sucked dick for crack" Bob Saget. "I seen 'em" random guy off screen.

He was quoting Edison.

My personal favourite:

'Above all, this: To thine own self be true.'

Shakespeare.

"And it follows, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man."

The rest of that quote, from Hamlet.

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

“Whatever ‘it’ is, you’re gonna make ‘it’ happen.” -- Mr. Cappuccio

“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.” -- Albert Camus

“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me — ever.” -- Jim Morrison

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." -- Albert Camus

"Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead."
--James Thurber.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
^

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Wouldn't necessarily say this is my favorite, but I do really like it

"If violence isn't the answer you aren't using enough!"
"If somone should strike you on one cheek, SMASH them on the other!"
"Your god died nailed to a tree. My god wields a hammer. Any questions?"

the first one is funny and somewhat useful. The second is my philosophy in life and the third is just funny :p

"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun."-- Ash from Evil Dead

The philosophical implications are staggering...

"Truth is beauty, beauty truth. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" Keats, Ode on Grecian Urn.

"if a double decker bus, kills the both of us, to die by your side, would be a heavenly way to die" The Smiths, There is a Light that never goes out.


"You can dress upside down and inside out, you're still going to eat your spaghetti like a pig" Bernard Black

'My politics are based...on things I and millions like me were brought up with. An honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.' Baroness Margaret Thatcher.

"The memory of a novel or a painting or a symphony is just a memory, or at best a partial retrieval. If you can remember a poem, it is the poem. Which is why learning a poem by heart is such a gift to yourself; you own it outright" Don Paterson

'Above all, this: To thine own self be true.'

Shakespeare.

Is that Polonius advising Laertes before he leaves for Paris to continue his education? and is it intolerably sad that I know that?:D

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As you can probably imagine, I don’t share your sentiments about Thatcher’s statement, but I can’t agree more with The Smiths’ quote.

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is one of the most beautiful declarations of absolute love I’ve ever heard.

As you can probably imagine, I don’t share your sentiments about Thatcher’s statement, but I can’t agree more with The Smiths’ quote.

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is one of the most beautiful declarations of absolute love I’ve ever heard.

Yep. And guess what? My favourite, and I mean favourite, musician, of all time, announces tour dates in London in January, which I'd happily have as a Christmas present, the fucking year I move to university in York, as opposed to 1 hour away from London!

Sometimes I wonder if there are merits to the idea that Morrissey is a musical genius, and a complete wanker.:D

"It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with pleasures to satiate hearts both bold and adventurous - but it's not for the timid."

Hey. Why are you putting barbed wire on that fence? Is this how you rich people amuse yourselves? You put barbed wire on the fence so innocent people like me can hurt themselves lurking in?-Bill Foster from Falling Down

A while ago, I left my apartment building and walked my dog... on the ledge. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
-Steven Wright

Just look up all of the quotes by him. That guy is ridiculous.

"I speak French to women, I speak Italian to men, I speak Castillian to God, and I speak German to my horse."
-Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-Napoleon Bonaparte I

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
-Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

"Oh, Gnomes now!"
Chicken Run

"Or perhaps not. The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternate theory as 'Things just happen, what the hell.'"
-Terry Pratchet, The Hogfather

"You have died of dysentary."
-Oregon Trail

ANYTHING from The Animaniacs.

"How can you possibly govern a nation with 246 varieties of cheese?"
-Charles DeGaulle

"The less people know about how laws and sausages are made, the better people will sleep at night."
-Otto Von Bismark

"We'll fight with the broken ends of beer bottles because that's all we've got left."
-Sir Winston Churchill, after giving the famous "We Will Never Surrender Speech."

Sometimes I wonder if there are merits to the idea that Morrissey is a musical genius, and a complete wanker.:D
Mmm.

Not too sure about Morrissey’s solo stuff; I think he needs someone like Johnny Marr to keep him tethered down on the plane of us mere mortals.

Mmm.

Not too sure about Morrissey’s solo stuff; I think he needs someone like Johnny Marr to keep him tethered down on the plane of us mere mortals.

He did write "Everyday is Like Sunday" and "Suedehead". I think.

Admittedly, the rest of his solo stuff has been poor fare compared to the Smiths, but they're good.

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another..."

"There are two ways to spread light: to be the candle or the mirror which reflects it." -Edith Wharton