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Ok, so I had to finish reading Macbeth today and I came across this quote:

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Ok, so it's a bit emo/nihilistic, but it had a pretty strong impact on me. Does anyone else have some good quotes? Happy? Sad? Inspiring? Insightful? Please share; I love quotes.

I drink because it makes the people around me less boring.-Chris Hutchinson(sp?)

oh and my sig. Che is actually full of good quotes.

:eek: How... how could you!! 'Tis bad luck to say the name of that play!

:eek: How... how could you!! 'Tis bad luck to say the name of that play!

Excuse me. *turns around three times and spits* I meant that Scottish play:p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqzcC_jf_0 :D

:eek: How... how could you!! 'Tis bad luck to say the name of that play!

Cue a thousand hilarious posts of people 'accidentally' saying "macbeth"

Cue a thousand hilarious posts of people 'accidentally' saying "macbeth"

And don't YOU encourage them! You... you... rapscallion! :p

"America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or Honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold on truth."

-Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Hegemon
Pg. 176

And don't YOU encourage them! You... you... rapscallion! :p

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Excuse me. That was quite a hiccup.:)

"America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or Honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold on truth."

-Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Hegemon
Pg. 176

Card said that?? I have a new-found respect for the man.

I've just started reading Oliver Twist in the original English text for the first time. I love it, the guy is a sarcastic bastard - the book is full of funny quotes.

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Excuse me. That was quite a hiccup.:)

There once was a Macbeth from Macbeth
Whose Macbeth could Macbeth with Macbeth
When Macbeth Macbethed his Macbeth
He could only Macbeth, "I am Macbeth."

There once was a Macbeth from Macbeth
Whose Macbeth could Macbeth with Macbeth
When Macbeth Macbethed his Macbeth
He could only Macbeth, "I am Macbeth."

Why, I outta macbeth the macbething macbeth out of you.

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Excuse me. That was quite a hiccup.:)

Dude, you're going to bring the server down.

Wait... I just quoted you saying MacBeth. Does that mean I just said MacBeth? Damn! I just said MacBeth! Twice!

Asm of eight-fangs: “Flee if you wish! I need the exercise."

Captain Baunt: “This is unreasonable! If he felt dejection, why not simply jump into the sea? Why suborn our valuable worm to his personal and private uses?”

Cugel: "I am not one to crouch passively with my hind-quarters raised, awaiting either the kick or the caress of destiny! I am Cugel! Fearless and indomitable, I confront every adversity!"

Bubach Angh: “A man I will kill for my eye! Do I toil thirty-one years for the benefit of a vagabond!”

Bunderwal: "I am a dignified citizen of the area, not a fox-faced vagabond in an over-fancy hat."

Chief Elder: “Though formerly a vagabond and a cut-throat, you are now a prince, a man of responsibility.”

Deodand: “I desire the one who has entered. I hunger for her flesh.”

Doulka: “Must your disgust be so blatant? True: we are anthropophages. True: we put strangers to succulent use. Is this truly good cause for hostility? The world is as it is and each of must hope to in some fashion to be of service to his fellows, even if only in the form of soup.”

Drofo: “After a hundred worms and ten-thousand leagues, then with justice you may say, 'I am wise!' or, to precisely the same effect: 'I am a worminger!'

Funambule: “Inconsequential claptrap!”

Fuscule: "I am a worminger, not a student of weird physiological mysteries.”

Guyal of Sfere: “My eye went to you like the nectar moth flits to jacynth.”

Iolo: “Surely you agree that this hole is half my property!”

Kindive the Golden: “Out of the room quickly! Mischief lurks somewhere and I must blast it with magic!”

Krasnark: "I suggest that Master Chernitz retract the term 'moral leaper' and Cugel his 'tree-weasel', and there let the matter rest."

Liane the Wayfarer: “I can suffocate you in pearls, blind you with diamonds.”

Lodermulch: “What have we here? I thought to detect knavery, and here is justification! Return my money on the instant!”

Morreion: ”To inflict but a pin prick upon a single one of my enemies I would have died by torture a hundred times!”

Mermalant: “Do you carry beer? We are beer-drinkers of nobles repute and show our bellies to all.”

Nisbet: “Two: hours of lose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch.”

Duk Orbal: “…your exhibit seems somewhat makeshift and impromptu. Contrast, if you will, the precision of Zaraflam’s cockroaches!”

Pharesm: “Ah! Five hundred years I have toiled to entice this creature, despairing, doubting, brooding by night, yet never abandoning hope that my calculations were accurate and my great talisman cogent. Then, when it finally appears, you fall upon it for no other reason then to sate your repulsive gluttony...! I can define the gravity of your act in this manner: should I explode you on this instant into the most minute of your parts the atonement would measure one ten-millionth of your offense. A more stringent retribution becomes necessary.”

Peasant: “Notice: I drink wine, though I may not live to become drunk. Does this deter me? No! I reject the future; I drink now, I become drunk as circumstances dictate.”

Rhialto: “Pryffwyd, your vision is dim; you do not recognize me for Rhialto. I am working to place your eyes at the end of foot-long stalks. You will soon be able to see in all directions at one.”

Shierl: “You are not uncomely.”

Shilko: “What do you perceive? Goblins disguised as pick rats? Or centipedes dancing the kazatska?”

Slaye: “I will make you a grandee of the realm! You shall have a barge of carved ivory, and two hundred maidens shall serve your wants; your enemies shall be clamped into a rotating cauldron—only give me the amulet!”

T’Sain: “I know not know how to explain beauty. You seem to find joy in nothing. Does nothing give you satisfaction?”

T’Sais: “Only killing and destruction. So these must be beautiful.”

Varmous: "I am not apt for magic; weirdness makes me ery."

Voynod: “Take care, you dunghill-cocks!”

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Macbeth has definitely derailed this thread.
However, my favorite quote is by Edith Wharton: "There are two ways to spread light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Alright it's not my favourite quote, but I felt like drizzling on people's organised celebratory march.

Here are two of my favorite quotes: "Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong." and, "Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense." Theodore Roosevelt said these quotes.

"Why don't you shut up?" -- King Juan Carlos I to Hugo Chavez. It brings a tear to my eye... *sniff*

:eek: How... how could you!! 'Tis bad luck to say the name of that play!

I thought that was only in a theater and when not actually performing it.

"Why don't you shut up?" -- King Juan Carlos I to Hugo Chavez. It brings a tear to my eye... *sniff*

So sixth grade, and yet so amusing. ;)

Ok, so it's a bit emo/nihilistic, but it had a pretty strong impact on me. Does anyone else have some good quotes? Happy? Sad? Inspiring? Insightful? Please share; I love quotes.

Ach! Such a cliche passage. So commonplace.
The key to finding great quotes is....darts. Or needles, if you have nothing to pin the book/manuscript/paper to the wall with. Just open to some text and either flick the wrist/jab. For example, I just stabbed my Crime and Punishment book, and got a quote. "I wanted to go back directly, but I kept thinking that. . .you would come."

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

You do know the author whose name escapes me, was being sarcastic, right?

You do know the author whose name escapes me, was being sarcastic, right?Of course. Who would take a Frenchmen seriously?

Of course. Who would take a Frenchmen seriously?

I could have sworn it was a Frenchwoman? Wii or No?

Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
-Lao Tzu

Artists aren't worth quoting. The Philosophers is where it's at, man.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

-Charles Caleb Colton

Oddly enough, my most inspiring quote is from MacBeth:"To thine own self be true, and then it follows, as Night the Day, thou canst not then be false with any other"
After that, it's from Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light:"I could have chosen your way, but crucifixion is too painful"

One of my favorites:

A. E. Housman (1859–1936). A Shropshire Lad. 1896.

LXII. Terence, this is stupid stuff

‘TERENCE, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, 5
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head:
We poor lads, ’tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow. 10
Pretty friendship ’tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.’

Why, if ’tis dancing you would be, 15
There’s brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse, 20
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot 25
To see the world as the world’s not.
And faith, ’tis pleasant till ’tis past:
The mischief is that ’twill not last.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where, 30
And carried half way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a sterling lad;
And down in lovely muck I’ve lain, 35
Happy till I woke again.
Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet, 40
And nothing now remained to do
But begin the game anew.

Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure 45
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure,
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
Is not so brisk a brew as ale: 50
Out of a stem that scored the hand
I wrung it in a weary land.
But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the embittered hour;
It should do good to heart and head 55
When your soul is in my soul’s stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.

There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast, 60
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all the springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more, 65
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat; 70
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
—I tell the tale that I heard told. 75
Mithridates, he died old.

"How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?"

Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Oddly enough, my most inspiring quote is from MacBeth:"To thine own self be true, and then it follows, as Night the Day, thou canst not then be false with any other"

Good quote. But that's Polonius from Hamlet.

And some profane wisdom from Jane's Addiction (http://www.janesaddiction.com/janesaddiction.html), "Whores":

I love them whores they never judge you
What can you say when you're a whore?

Both of my favorite quotes these days come from songs :

Is this bass really strong enough ?

C’est la rue qui paye ton salaire de ministre, augmentation de 70% comprise
La rue qui cotisera pour ta retraite de ministre

Et des fois c’est la rue qui vote. Je le dis avec une grande humanité mais je le dis avec une grande fermeté. Je suis dans la rue. J’y suis bien et je t'emmerde !

“Eat my baby! Are you mad?... Nothing and I might eat it, but you couldn’t have any… Not one drop. Not one pink sugar drop.” – Zillah, Lost Souls (Poppy Z. Brite)

“Please die and go away. I’m going to have the world’s worst hangover if I don’t get back to sleep soon.” – Alec, Swordspoint (Ellen Kushner)

Mmm... Lost Souls makes me happy all over. I think I'll read it again. X3

"Independent of my love for freedom, I still would prefer to live under a lion's paw than under the teeth of a thousand rats who are my fellow citizens."
-Voltaire


"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
-Milton Friedman


"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
-Thomas Sowell


"Capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man."
-Walter E. Williams


"Collectivism is a doctrine of war, intolerance, and persecution. If any of the collectivist creeds should succeed in its endeavors, all people but the great dictator would be deprived of their essential human quality. They would become mere soulless pawns in the hands of a monster."
-Ludwig von Mises


"Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today."
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


“While it is perhaps true that "one cannot fool all the people all the time," it seems that one can fool millions for centuries.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


"For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution."
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


"There is no equality in Heaven, nor for that matter in purgatory, but there may very well be equality in Hell, where it belongs."
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


"Nature" (i.e., the absence of human intervention) is anything but egalitarian; if we want to establish a complete plain we have to blast the mountains away and fill the valleys; equality, thus presupposes the continuous intervention of force which, as a principle, is opposed to freedom. Liberty and equality are in essence contradictory."
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


"[T]he rule of 999 people over one is more stable, less subject to change, than the rule of one over 999. The one can always be assassinated; majorities are never exterminated, only minorities, by the majorities."
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


“Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen. The ethnic nationalist who wants a linguistically and culturally uniform nation is akin to the racist who is intolerant toward those who look (and behave) differently. The patriot is a "diversitarian"; he is pleased, indeed proud of the variety within the borders of his country; he looks for loyalty from all citizens. And he looks up and down, not left and right.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


“Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn


"The three fundamentally leftist revolutions, those that spawned France's democracy, Russian's international socialism, and Germany's national socialism, formed and fashioned the history of the last two hundred years and established the 'Centuries of the G' — guillotines, gaols, gallows, gas chambers, and gulags."
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat. - Saladin