Famous Quotes and not so Famous Quotes

[JustBlazed]

People post your favorite quotes here. They can be from Greek philosophers to Comedians. I will start with a couple.
"Prepare for the worst, hope for the best" - ?
"You see me doing thrill-seeking holdups with a `Born to Lose' tattoo on my chest?"-Niel McCauley (Heat 1995)
"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways." - 1 Corinthians 13:11

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

Ihave a few of my more personally meaningfull quotes in my sig.

But how about poetry or rather quotes from poetry.


"gather ye rosebuds while ye may"

by Robert Herrick from "To Virgins, To make To Much Of Time"

minds_I

 

[T.Baggins]

heres some of my favorite Steven wright quotes..

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.

 

[DitBaMay]

don't mess with the best

 

[centralcoastbud]

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -Mark Twain

 

[h^2 O]

cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am
consuetudo loci observanda est - when in Rome do as the Romans do

 

[TrichyTrichy]

'ainsi sera sera, groigne qui groigne' Marquess Anne Boleyn
That's how it's going to be let them groan

 

[NOKUY]

"Kids are great... You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all."

homer simpson

 

[Chamba]

here's a quote that really resonates with me every time I read it ....not just with my (infrequent) yoga practice, but this also applies to other parts of my life too.

Keep challenging yourself to stay in this pose longer. If you find the stimulation of the midsection becoming intense, just persist with it, knowing your mind has ultimate control over the body.

Al Hall, yoga.org.nz

 

[DitBaMay]

NEVER LOVE A WOMEN, JUST LOVE THE MOMENTS!!-DRAKE DRIZZIE

 

[NOKUY]

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

 

[NOKUY]

...and my fav...i could fill pages with Thoreau:

"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living." - Walden

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." - Walden

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." - Walden

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." - Walden

"Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps." - "Walking"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Walden

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Walden

"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls." - Walden

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." - Walden

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Walden

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." - Walden

"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience." - Walden

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." - Walden

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Walden

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names." - Walden

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." - Walden

"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields." - Walden

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Walden

"Simplify, simplify." - also: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" - Walden

"The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that they are thieves."' - "Slavery in Massachusetts"

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly." - Walden

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Walden

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Walden

"The universe is wider than our views of it." - Walden

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." - Walden

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." - "Civil Disobedience"

"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new." - Walden

 

[StoneByName]

Not sure who said it but I like it...

"the distance between madness and genius is measured by success"

 

[SkareCrow]

"Its not who votes that counts, its who counts the votes" -stalin

 

[Jah (b)less]

Taking on more than you can deal with makes ya strong-me

 

[DitBaMay]

your not the fuking greatest, stop being so fucking humble!!!

 

[Stoner4Life]

First part of my signature is my favorite quote, it's a partial quote of a
longer and very profound statement of the inequities of written law. I'm
not saying that if all you do is sit back and read MAD magazine & comic
books you'll wander through life uninformed but.......

The parrallel between his statements in 1894 and the evil that we see
in our justice system today are amazing, the full context of his quote
will appeal to your overall sense of fair play for all. And finally, the entire
quote seems as if it were written about weed and the battle we gentle
stoners face every day. It might also call out to those prefer to be a bit
reclusive w/o govt intrusions.

The context of Anatole France's quote is below:

Nowadays it is a duty for a poor peasant to be a soldier. He is exiled from his house, the roof of which smokes in the silence of night; from the fat prairies where the oxen graze; from the fields and the paternal woods. He is taught how to kill men; he is threatened, insulted, put in prison and told that it is an honor; and, if he does not care for that sort of honor, he is fusilladed. He obeys because he is terrorized, and is of all domestic animals the gentlest and most docile. We are warlike in France, and we are citizens. Another reason to be proud, this being a citizen! For the poor it consists in sustaining and preserving the wealthy in their power and their laziness. The poor must work for this, in presence of the majestic quality of the law which prohibits the wealthy as well as the poor from sleeping under the bridges, from begging in the streets, and from stealing bread.

.......One of the most famous quotes of Anatole France (the pen-name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, 1844-1924), winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and supporter of the French Communist Party (he was French). It is from the tragic love story The Red Lily (Le Lys Rouge), 1894, chapter 7.

As one person has put it, allowing the stealing of bread is hardly fair for the baker - and it wouldn't
be much of a society, with everyone running around sleeping under bridges, begging, and stealing.
However, faced with the limited options available to the poor, hungry, and unemployed, breaking
existing laws may be only way to survive.

It is the laws that need to be changed - laws that were written to protect the wealthy and the powerful, but defended by working class soldiers and police officers. While stealing bread doesn't make for a successful society, other currently illegal actions may be necessary in the formation of a just society. Strikes, for example, were once illegal. However, through the tireless work of generations of workers, strikes are now part of the legal framework - though limited in many situations (for example, governments can force striking workers back to work in certain instances, under the same conditions they were striking against).

If laws are supposed to provide for the greater good of the society, those laws, which when applied, work against it must be ignored and abolished. This is difficult, however, when the wealthy have a far greater influence on the politics of the country than everyone else.

The Red Lily is apparently in the public domain. Its full text can be found
at the following places:
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.2422/
http://www.online-literature.com/anatole-france/red-lily/
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/im06b10.txt

what can I say but to please try expanding your mind not only through the
sacrament of our beloved flower but then by reading something more
profound than the ingredients off the side of a 'Cheeto's' bag (hi Chester!).
I don't know how close to home the entire quote (in blue) hits you but it is
straight up a lot of the reason I've moved to the country doing what I do.......

 

[Snagglepuss]

"The road to hell,is paved with good intentions"

 

[madrecinco]

NEVER LOVE A WOMEN, JUST LOVE THE MOMENTS!!-DRAKE DRIZZIE

Naughty....naughty




Jennifer Anniston said

"A relationship isn't going to make me survive, it's the cherry on the top."

A woman granny relates to as I espouse that "Men are just desserts"


She also said and I agree....
"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."

Those Greeks are so deep.....I always had a crush on her actor father.....still would do him if I could.

 

[C6H6]

just keep movin straight ahead. every now and then you find your self in a different place.
-George Carlin

anyone whos sees life as anything more then pure entertainment are missing the point.
-George Carlin

avoide any action with an unacceptable outcome.

get your facts first then you can distort them as you please
Mark Twain

your born alone you die alone the rest is yours to fill the gap. the world goes on without you here. Adjust or just collapse.
5FDP, Stranger Than Fiction