Favorite Quotes
 

I guess this topic must have been there at some time in cellar. Still feel like digging the grave again (Sigh! when will this rain stop<add bored to death smiley here>).
Anyway, my all time fav:

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"

Life is strange, grasshopper. Here's an ice cream cone to help soften the blow.
- Flint.

"Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!"
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The Road to enlightenment is long and difficult, which is why I've asked all of you to bring sandwiches and a change of clothes.

-B. Kliban

"It must be nice to lead a life unburdened by reality."

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
J. Wellington Wimpy

"Thank you, Bacon.

Sincerely,

Water Chestnut the Third"

Well I couldn't choose between several I thought of, but the cookie generator offers this:

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
--Edgar Allan Poe

I don't have the source in front of me, so this will be a paraphrase rather than a direct quote.

"No rocks causing ripples to be dropped in the pond" (The girl who kicked the hornet's list, Steig Larrson)

Here's the exact quote (but I think I actually prefer the essence of it).


"Edklinth had told her: no rings in the water. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond."


Larsson, S 2009 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Macelhose Press, London, p. 242

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth"

- Plato

"That's when the fecal material hit the oscillating device."

Variation:

"The feces have definitely hit the rotating oscillator" ;)

"You just shot an unarmed man!"
"He should have armed himself"

:lol:

I'm watching that right now!! (AMC)

[William Munny] Who owns this shithole?[/William Munny]

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ~Mark Twain 1894

Little Bill: You'd be William Munny, outta Kansas. Killer of women and children.

William Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children, killed just about everything that walked or crawled...And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill.
.................................~Unforgiven

"I don't mind people thinking I'm an asshole, I just don't want to be an asshole" -- Jonathan Ross

"To no man shall I kneel" (ManOwaR from "Call to arms")

"To know man shall I kneel" (One of my ex-girlfriends)

More seriously :

"Potius mori quam foedari" (Death rather than stain) - motto of the Ducal House of Brittany

"Potius mori quam Scat foedari" (Death rather than shit stain) - motto of the Fecal House of Brittany

--James D. Nicoll

Probably the same author, paraphrased:

The English language was created by Norman soldiers trying to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids, and the result is no more legitimate than any of the other products of such unions.

No. That's H. Beam Piper. IIRC it's from one of his Fuzzy books.

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-- J. Petit-Senn

I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

OMG it's blue! How ya been, man?!

I'm fab thanks, just checked your profile and learned 2 things I never knew about autism. btw Is the old "this is a picture of me" thread still around? I'm much older and having problem with some of the names... plus I'm just all around slow today.

blue, my old friend. I miss you.

feel like this week like I can't buy a friend, maybe subconsciously that's what brought me back here, missed you too man, but let's not gay up the quotes thread.

-- R. A. H.

Just ran across this today...

Gay it up all you want, blue. This is where we keep the good stuff. Come on in, the water's fine.

E. Fuller Torrey, MD
Mind Games

Nil illegitimi Carborundum

Or
Don't let the Bastards grind you down

Quoted by Wolf: "Spiritualists and Shamans do the same job psychiatrists and psychologists do, using the same tools, and obtaining about the same results. "

Time to trot out another one of my theories: the psychologist fulfills the same function as the Catholic confessional.

Well, sorta ...

The Catholic Church can't bill your insurance. Instead they make you pay up in weekly increments that probably add up to more than a typical co-pay.

A psychologist works to try to make you feel better about yourself, regardless of your past actions. The Catholic Church aims for the opposite.

A psychologist may give you "homework" to do before your next session, but most of it will not require that you spend time on your knees repeating some words as though you were obsessive-compulsive.

The Catholic Church frequently offers family sessions, where an ethical psychological provider will refer you to another provider.

"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'." -Andy Dufresne

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, I'll have you on your back with your pants around your ankles so fast it will make your head spin.

When you go to a restaurant on the weekends and it’s busy so they start a waiting list, they say, “DuFresnes, party of two, table ready for DuFresnes, party of two.” And if no one answers they’ll say the name again: “DuFresnes, party of two.” But then if no one answers, they’ll move on to the next name. “Bush, party of three.” Yeah, but what happened to the DuFresnes!? No one seems to care! Who can eat at a time like this!? People are missing. You people are selfish. The DuFresnes are in someone’s trunk right now, with duct tape over their mouths. And they’re hungry. That’s a double whammy. We need help. “Bush, search party of three.” You can eat once you find the DuFresnes.

-- Mitch Hedberg

Mmmmm...Hedburg

Everyone needs believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer. :beer:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Not a quote as such, but a line from Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street

"looking down on empty streets, all she can see
are the dreams all made solid
are the dreams all made real

all of the buildings, all of those cars
were once just a dream
in somebody's head"

"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

I laughed way too hard at that :thumb:

blue's sig line has always been one of my favorite quotes.

"hurt and bitterness are like acid on the soul, but anger is like fire, burning it clean, so fuck it and fuck you"

~ me, kinda (yeah I have an anger problem lately)

-Dr. Adrian Rogers

I like that one classic.





yeah, sometimes enough is enough! Whomever said," What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is nuts.

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." - Ayn Rand

"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

--Wilde

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 - 1919, 26th President of the United States; historian, naturalist and author; Nobel Prize 1906.

"My father told me I could grow up to be anything I wanted to be. I decided to be an asshole." -Unknown

"This is business not personal."

The Godfather, an ex-boss, a hooker, a car-salesman, or an asshole at large...take your pick.

"Are you a thinking man?"

"Aww, I can get outta the rain."

~"The Lusty Men"