Quote-A-Thon

[sleepyjeff]

Gold is for the mistress
Silver for the maid
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade
'Good!' said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
'But Iron
Cold Iron
is master of them all'

---Kipling

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

"Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

- Mae West

[Matterhorn Fan]

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."

Ralph Waldo EmersonHooray! More Emerson!

"To be great is to be misunderstood."
~Self-Reliance

[mhrc4]

"Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

- Mae West

I always heard it as

"marriage is a beautiful institution, that is, if you like living in an institution"

:cheers:

[€uroMeinke]

listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go.

- e. e. cummings

[Gemini Cricket]

"They're all going to laugh at you!" ~ Carrie's mom

[mousepod]

I always heard it as

"marriage is a beautiful institution, that is, if you like living in an institution"

:cheers:

"Penguin dust, bring me penguin dust, I want penguin dust--"
(free mojo to the first Lounger to put this into context)

[wendybeth]

"Redrum! Redrum!"
Danny Torrence

[wendybeth]

"Penguin dust, bring me penguin dust, I want penguin dust--"
(free mojo to the first Lounger to put this into context)

Drawing a blank.

How about "Albatross! Albatross!!"

[mousepod]

Drawing a blank.

How about "Albatross! Albatross!!"

this? (http://paizo.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Store.woa/2/wa/browse?path=store/toys/plushes/montyPython/v5748btpy7771&wosid=kuKObTPZbtxoCqWcmd3mtM) http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/IMPTYV/IMPTYVMP034_360.jpeg

[wendybeth]

this? (http://paizo.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Store.woa/2/wa/browse?path=store/toys/plushes/montyPython/v5748btpy7771&wosid=kuKObTPZbtxoCqWcmd3mtM) http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/IMPTYV/IMPTYVMP034_360.jpeg

The same! Very good- you get Monty mojo!

[wendybeth]

"Penguin dust, bring me penguin dust, I want penguin dust--"
(free mojo to the first Lounger to put this into context)

Okay- I know now, but I cheated. Gregory Corso, right?

[mousepod]

ding! ding! It's Corso! ...from the poem Marriage, my all-time fave beat poem.

[wendybeth]

That is a very, very cool poem.:snap:

[lizziebith]

It might be apocryphal, but it certainly was prescient:

"The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art]; it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged." -- Raymond Chandler

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians."
-Homer Simpson

[wendybeth]

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
William Makepeace Thackery

[Gemini Cricket]

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
William Makepeace Thackery

I like that. :)

[Matterhorn Fan]

Gregory Corso, right?If I'm not mistaken, he's the only guy to ever get himself thrown out of his own poetry reading. That's talent. Or something.

[Kevy Baby]

Dr. Raymond Stantz (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000101/): Listen. You smell something?

[MickeyD]

I got friends in low places ~Garth Brooks

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning."

George Carlin

[Gemini Cricket]

"Deep in the bosom of the gentle night
Is when I search for the light
Pick up my pen and start to write
I struggle, fight dark forces
In the clear moon light
Without fear... insomnia
I can't get no sleep..."

~ Faithless

[CoasterMatt]

question authority
have they the right to say how it should be?
should one man be able to write it all down?
when half the time he can't tell right from wrong
question authority
another mans law is not right for me
another lie to bleed my sympathy
another time there will be no pity
is this what you wan to see?
is this the way you want things to be?
question authority
i'll pay the price the future belongs to me
this is the time
this is the hour
the worlds our dowery
the glory and the power
is this what you wan to see?
is this the way you want things to be?
things to be,things to be
question authority...

The Circle Jerks

[SacTown Chronic]

"We got into the cab -- the cab driver said
He recognized my girlie from the back of her head
He said a little something about tip to base
So I made him stop the cab to get out of the place"

~ Beastie Boys

[wendybeth]

Another thread made me think of this one:

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill



(http://www.quoteland.com/tellafriend/index.asp?QUOTE_ID=2334)

[Gemini Cricket]

Another thread made me think of this one:

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill



(http://www.quoteland.com/tellafriend/index.asp?QUOTE_ID=2334)
Wow. I really like that. :)

I just saw a Churchill documentary on PBS. Really interesting fellow. :)

[wendybeth]

You ought to see what his feelings were on Iraq.

[Gemini Cricket]

You ought to see what his feelings were on Iraq.
I can only imagine. Which is true because he's dead. :D

I'd love to research his thoughts on Iraq. We need more Churchills around today. Although, he's made some huge Bushesque mistakes in his time...

[wendybeth]

When the Brits colonised the area, they had many of the same problems and experiences that we are having. He despaired of them ever getting their crap together. Yeah, he was the leader they needed during the war, but he was not the best peacetime leader.

[Kevy Baby]

"My virginity is squishy" - GusGus

[Gemini Cricket]

"We can’t return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game..."

~ Joni

[sleepyjeff]

Low in the south one star shone red. Every night, as the Moon waned again, it shone brighter and brighter.

---Tolkien

[Matterhorn Fan]

Luck is not chance--
It's toil--
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned.

~Emily Dickinson

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

~Nietzsche

[mousepod]

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
-Mark Twain

[Kevy Baby]

If our ancestors were alive today, they would be asking, "Why is it so dark in here?"
--Terry Pratchett

[lizziebith]

Caminante, no hay camino...Se hace camino al andar. -- Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

Often tranlated as: Traveller, there is no road. We build the road by walking.

My all-time fave quote. :)

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."

Nikita Khrushchev

[sleepyjeff]

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."

Nikita Khrushchev

Love Krushchev, this commie always was good for a nice one liner :cool:

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

[blueerica]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

- TS Eliot

:coffee:

[sleepyjeff]

"...the cost of freedom is always high,
Yet one path we shall never choose; that is the path of surrender or submission."

---J F Kennedy

[€uroMeinke]

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk: The best of life is but intoxication.

- Lord Byron

[blueerica]

"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure."

Lord Byron

[MerryPrankster]

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[FEJ]

Then, brothers, it came. Oh bliss, bliss and heaven. -Anthony Burgess

[Gemini Cricket]

One of my favorite quotes. Bette Davis upon hearing the news of Joan Crawford's death:

"My mother always said that it was polite to say something good about the dead. Joan Crawford: She's dead. Good."

:D

[wendybeth]

"I rant, therefore I am."
Dennis Miller

[lizziebith]

"Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real passionate painter who dares." - Vincent Van Gogh

[Claire]

All Tobias Funke's:

Well, yes, but I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I’m afraid I have something of a mess on my hands.

...even it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up.

Well, Michael, you really are quite the Cupid, aren’t you? I tell you, you can zing your arrow into my buttocks any time.

Oh, great. And now you’re mocking me. You selfish... coun.. try-music-loving lady. Hello, Maeby

Ah... the clumsy adolescent. It’s a phase we’ve all been through. Except for me. I was like a cat. I always ended up on all fours. (Long pause.) Like a cat.

Well, I’ve always wanted to remake Annie Hall. Except, I wouldn’t want to get in bed with a green producer like a Sofia Coppola though. Oh, but give me an old pro like a Robert Redford. Oh, I’d jump into bed with him in a second. And I wouldn’t just lie there, Michael Bluth, if that’s what you’re thinking.

Well, you certainly didn’t help my reputation as a ladies man with Jeff. But we’ll clear all that up in the spa when I get my facial.

Well, I won’t know officially until 8:01. But I figured if I blue myself early, I’d be nice and relaxed for a 9:00 dinner reservation.

Nice to be back in a queen.

[sleepyjeff]

"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are."

---Frederick L Collins

[€uroMeinke]

Inaction may be the highest form of action.

- Jerry Brown

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire

[wendybeth]

"True friends stab you in the front".
Oscar Wilde

[Betty]

How did I miss this thread for so long? OMG! Quotes are totally my thing. But I'll hold back and give you one ( or there abouts) a day...


"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

-Michel de Montaigne




"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"

-Sydney Harris

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Not no. Yes."
-Kid Notorious

[mousepod]

"I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat."
Djuna Chappell Barnes (1892-1982)

[Gemini Cricket]

"Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men." ~ Bette Davis as Margo Channing in 'All About Eve'.

;)

[MerryPrankster]

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will not forget how you made them feel."

-- Maya Angelou

[Betty]

"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." ....."I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."


-George McGovern




Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."

-Salvador Dali


"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

-Will Rogers

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."

-Rainer Maria Rilke

[wendybeth]

"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
Mark Twain

[€uroMeinke]

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it.

- Joseph Campbell

[mousepod]

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Philip K Dick

[MickeyD]

Nothing in the world takes the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” ~Calvin Coolidge

[Betty]

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."

-Milton Berle





"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

-Nelson Henderson




"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

-Mark Twain

[Gemini Cricket]

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

~ Quentin Crisp

:D

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

Bertrand Russell

[sleepyjeff]

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."


--- Aristotle

[Ghoulish Delight]

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
-George Carlin

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
-George Carlin

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"There is no reason, at all, to believe that the flow of our country's history will always be in the direction of more and greater democracy." ~Another Editorial Cartoon (http://www.anothereditorialcartoon.com/)

[MerryPrankster]

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells and constellations."

-- Anais Nin

[Not Afraid]

Pretty is as pretty does - My Mother

Or, the grown up version:

... If you want self esteem, do esteemable acts

[blueerica]

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. "

William Faulkner

Did I mention I'm going through one of my "no watch" phases again?

[lizziebith]

Here's quote wherein is contained a short, short story, in its entirety:

A RADICALLY CONDENSED HISTORY OF POSTINDUSTRIAL LIFE

David Foster Wallace
Ploughshares, Spring 1998

When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She
laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,
staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he
acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all
times. One never knew, after all, now did one.

[MerryPrankster]

"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

-- Kahlil Gibran

[sleepyjeff]

"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

--- Bill Cosby

[MickeyD]

"I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up" ~Sheryl Crow

[mousepod]

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
Mel Brooks

[tracilicious]

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Ghoulish Delight]

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. "
-Kurt Vonnegut

[Kevy Baby]

"I did not have sex with that woman... Monica Lewinski"

B. Clinton

[Kevy Baby]

The number four talking to the number two:

"Six, six, six. That's all you ever think about!"

[sleepyjeff]

"We guarantee the quality of our product or return the boy."


--- Abbot Lawrence Lowell (Former Harvard President)

[SacTown Chronic]

Now we're Anthrax
And we take no ****
And we don't care for writing hits
'Cause the sound you hear is what we like
And I'll steal your pop tarts like I stole your...
socks
Yo man, what's a matter with you

Charlie beats the beats the beats you beat
The only thing harder is the smell of my feet
So listen up 'cause you might get dissed
Go drain the lizard or take a...
chair

Watch the beat!

I'm on your case
I'm in your face
Put you and your father back in place
Step up sucker understand
Don't you know that I'm the Man
I'm the Man
I'm so bad
I should be in detention
I'm the Man

Shut up!

We got real def rhythms and fresh new jams
If you think we got egos, well we're all just hams
Scott plays stickball and likes to skate
Frankie's never on time; he's always...
Sleeping
Late!

They drink the drinks they drinks they drank
I put my money in the bank
They cut their crack; they offer joints
We don't do drugs do you get our...
Meaning!
POINT!

Watch the beat!

I'm on your case
I'm in your face
Put you and your father back in place
Step up sucker understand
Don't you know that I'm the Man
I'm the Man
I'm so bad
I should be in detention
I'm the Man

For a heavy metal band raps a different way
We like to be different and not cliche
Well they say rap and metal can never mix
Well of them can suck our...
Sexual organ located in the lower abdominal area
No man, it's dick!

Danny farted the farts the farts he farted
I pick my nose but I'm not retarded
So like El Duce says, "smell my anal vapor"
And wipe my butt with your...
Face!
Toilet paper! Watch the beat!

I'm on your case
I'm in your face
Put you and your father back in place
Step up sucker understand
Don't you know that I'm the Man
I'm the Man
I'm so bad
I should be in detention
I'm the Man

So as this rap is winding down
Can't you see we wear the crown
You know Anthrax is number one
But we really don't care; we just want to have...
A festival!
FUN, you stupid idiot!

Joey mailed the mail the mail he mailed
We are the kings and all shall hail
We're like a diamond that is forever
And we'll remain the hardest ever

I'm so bad
It's a crime

NOT!

~ Anthrax's groundbreaking 1987 single "I'm The Man" -- a delightful, and funny, fusion of metal and rap. The song was both a playful poke at the rap genre and an homage to the rappers of Brooklyn, NY.

[mousepod]

". . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already."
Robert Anton Wildon

[MickeyLumbo]

"There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."


Timothy Leary

[MickeyLumbo]

One morning, the Mother Superior calls her nuns together for a conference.
"I must tell you all something important," she says. "We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent."

"Thank the Lord," sighs an elderly nun from the back, "I'm so tired of Chardonnay!"

[MickeyLumbo]

Scott plays stickball and likes to skate
.

:blush:




jason picks his nose

[MickeyD]

"It seems to me that all you need is a rag-top car and a ride with me." ~Pat Green

[MickeyLumbo]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

[MerryPrankster]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

-- Dr. Seuss

[MickeyLumbo]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

-- Dr. Seuss

omg. i should recite this ten times every day.

[Claire]

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre




Hell is for children.

Pat Benatar

[Not Afraid]

Same subject (good one BTW):

"Hell is paved with good intentions."
James Boswell

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
Aldous Huxley

And, my favorite:

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

[blueerica]

New subject:

"Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."

Marquis de Sade

[Not Afraid]

"Quim"

Marquis de Sade


That's for my husband

[blueerica]

"Quim"

Marquis de Sade


That's for my husband

Who must be fortunate, indeed.

[MickeyLumbo]

"Quim"

Marquis de Sade


That's for my husband

i'm wondering which husband. whoops. wrong thread. err, i mean:


"She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine."
Robert Burns

[MickeyD]

On hell:

"Heather, when you die, will you come back and tell me what hell is like?" ~one of my teen leaders

[€uroMeinke]

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bare it: it would be hell on earth.

- George Bernard Shaw

[Gemini Cricket]

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

~ Laurence Olivier

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience."

"There is no proverb which is not true."

-Don Quixote

[MerryPrankster]

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

-- Washington Irving

[sleepyjeff]

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

-- Washington Irving


My favorite Author :)

[mistyisjafo]

"You suck my battleship" - Not Afraid and the jingle-a-thon

[Motorboat Cruiser]

From CNN this morning:

"Earlier in the day, the pope read a short blessing from a hospital window in Rome, his first public statement since undergoing throat last month."

[blueerica]

"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."

Rene Descartes

[blueerica]

"€uromeinke, FEJ. and Ghoulish Delight RULE!!!"

-- anonymous

"Wendybeth, Not Afraid, innerSpaceman, and blueerica also RULE!!! Hhmmpf!!"

--blueerica

(And if we're just sticking to admins, I'd say that Not Afraid rules, too....)

[MerryPrankster]

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

-- Drew Carey

[BarTopDancer]

Did you ever notice how important the last bite of a candy bar is? All the while you're eating it, you're always aware that you have less and less remaining. Then, as you get to the end, if something happens to that last peice you feel freally cheated.

~George Carlin

[blueerica]

"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
--Soren Kierkegaard

[CoasterMatt]

"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
Salvador Dali

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I dedicate this quote to the married insomniacs of LoT:

"How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things." - Dorothy Parker

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

"€uromeinke, FEJ. and Ghoulish Delight RULE!!!"

-- anonymous

"Wendybeth, Not Afraid, innerSpaceman, and blueerica also RULE!!! Hhmmpf!!"

--blueerica

(And if we're just sticking to admins, I'd say that Not Afraid rules, too....)

E, your signature quote is giving me a lump in my throat, and suddenly I have the urge to have all my east coast friends relocate to the west coast so I can SEE them more than once a year.

[blueerica]

E, your signature quote is giving me a lump in my throat, and suddenly I have the urge to have all my east coast friends relocate to the west coast so I can SEE them more than once a year.

I can't even begin to tell you how many times throughout the course of time since I moved from Michigan that I felt that. I'm finally at peace that they're not here for me to see, and hold as many times as my whims might have.

Thanks for the kind words about my signature. It's something I've come to realize about myself, others, and life in general. I feel like we can all be measured, not so much by the people whom we call friends, although that's a part, but by the relationships we develop over our lives. In the end, I feel, it's all we have, even if we can't have them by our side.

I've been very fortunate to have made some really great friends throughout my short history.

[MerryPrankster]

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[sleepyjeff]

"I took a speed-reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."


--- Woody Allen

[mousepod]

"To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
Gustave Flaubert

[Gemini Cricket]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

~ Edmund Burke

(I don't know who EB is, but I like his quote....) :D

[MickeyD]

"Reject if button is up. Reject if button is up." ~The lid of my Prego jar

[Not Afraid]

ALL DAY LONG!

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

[mhrc4]

"its merely a flesh wound, ive had worse"

The Black Knight

[CoasterMatt]

"I've got two penises but no wife, but I am hoping when I get rid of one of the penises I will get her back."

- Michael Gruber

[Not Afraid]

"Please provide the date of your death."
-from an IRS letter

[Kevy Baby]

(I don't know who EB is, but I like his quote....) :DHe is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Burke

[Cadaverous Pallor]

From Thus Spoke Zarathustra:

"It is already too much for me to remember my own opinions; and many a bird flies away. And now and then I also find a stray in my dovecot that is strange to me and trembles when I place my hand on it."

Stray opinions lingering in the confines of one's mind...:snap:

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Ack, another one, on the same page!

"This, however, all poets believe: that whoever pricks up his ears as he lies in the grass or on lonely slopes will find out something about those things that are between heaven and earth."

:snap:

[Claire]

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

~Coach John Wooden

[CoasterMatt]

"What's the difference between the day and a year?" - random guests at Universal Studios - THOUSANDS of times a month

[CoasterMatt]

"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." - J. Edgar Hoover

[CoasterMatt]

Last words of Thomas J. Grasso, executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection: "I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."

[MerryPrankster]

"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of it's simple charm. If every flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose it's loveliness."

-- Therese of Lisieux

[sleepyjeff]

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

--- Snoopy

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Crooks don't know."
-Jack Kerouac

[MerryPrankster]

Garrison Keillor quotes (I'm cheating with more than one today):

"They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on the sole."

"The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles."

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

"God writes a lot of comedy...the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors that don't know how to play funny."

[sleepyjeff]

"...it was a dark and damp cave with countless Buddah statues standing in the foreground, soon after entering we were stumbling around in the dark. I meant to bring my flashlight, but I forgot, so I fumbled around for a pack of matches.

When I lit each match, it formed a small cirlce of light around us. In that circle the thin tall Buddhas stood sentry. Each time I lit another match this gentle army sprang to life, and each time it flickered out, we were plunged back into darkness. It was a remarkable effect, very spiritual, and it made me consider how far we'd come...

...it struck me that life was like that, too. You light a match, and you're just a child. Light another, and you're married with children of your own. A few more brief, and bright flares, and our babies have left home. A few more after that and your pack is used up.

...Know that we must make each brief combustion a bright, shinning moment that pierces the darkness and illuninates a thousand gods."

---David Elliot Cohen

[Kevy Baby]

Sadly, the quote that comes to mind after reading the one above is:

"It was a dark and stormy night..."

[sleepyjeff]

Hehe, I considered only quoting the final seciton, as it was what I really was touched by; but I thought it would make a little more sense with the extra content :D

btw: the quote is from the David Cohen book "One Year Off", in which he, his wife and two children take a year off from work and school to tour Planet Earth and her many nations....great read.

[€uroMeinke]

It takes so many years

To learn that one is dead.

- T. S. Elliot

[mousepod]

In honor of the Disneyland merch thread:
"Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country, its prosperity and limitless bounty. They have shops the way that lesser countries have statues."
Simon Hoggart

[Kevy Baby]

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- Phillips Brooks

[MerryPrankster]

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."

-- T.S. Eliot

[MerryPrankster]

"The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched."

-- Henry David Thoreau

[MerryPrankster]

"You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?"

-- Dr. Seuss

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan

[Ghoulish Delight]

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
-Joseph Heller

[Ghoulish Delight]

And just because it's fitting considering where I'll be in a couple hours...

"We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist."
-Joseph Heller

[Prudence]

Okay -- it's a whole poem, not a quote, but it's one of my all time favorites.

John Donne - The Flea

MARK but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ;
And this, alas ! is more than we would do.

O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?
Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou
Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now.
'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,
Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.

[MerryPrankster]

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it -- oh, you don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"

-- Mark Twain

[blueerica]

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, (opening line)


"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

J. D. Salinger

[mousepod]

"Boys, when you see the enemy, fire and then run, and as I am a little lame, I will run now."

order of General John B. Stedman to the Rhode Island militia during the Dorr Rebellion (1842)

[blueerica]

A quote before I hop into my bed:

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

Rene Descartes

[MerryPrankster]

"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

-- Oscar Wilde

[Ghoulish Delight]

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-Thomas Mann

[MerryPrankster]

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

-- Eleanora Duse

[MickeyD]

"History doesn't repeat itself, at best it sometimes rhymes." --Mark Twain

[CoasterMatt]

"I was getting so screwed up that getting fvcked up was more important than getting fvcked. Part of me is still bummed out that I didn't have all of the sex I could have had in the seventies." - Steven Tyler, Aerosmith :cheers:

[Kevy Baby]

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

- Woody Allen

[FEJ]

Trey: "pigf*cker.. I'm sorry, may I call you pigf*cker?"
Matt: "no, only my friends can call me pigf*cker."

-BaseketBall

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Every great thinker is someone else's moron."

--Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

[mousepod]

"I just let off in a tax inspector's face, and it was mostly deliberate."
Alan Partridge

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

"By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged." - Sir Alexander Dane

[FEJ]

"Dammit Mom, I got my headgear on"- The Geek in Sixteen Candles

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Burt Bacharach

[wendybeth]

"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
Buck Henry

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."

Gerald R. Ford

[mousepod]

"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."

Gerald R. Ford

Can't give you mojo yet, MBC, so here's a quote:

"Popular government rests in the common sense, and the self-restraint of the American people. It rests in the knowledge of the majority that it must keep within the checks of the law and the Constitution if the Government is to be preserved. And it must rest in the view that the minority that it is much more important that the government should be sustained than that the minority should should have for the time being control of or a voice in the government. It rests in the knowledge of the majority that the rights of the minority and in the individuals of that minority are exactly as sacred as the rights in the individuals of the majority."

William Howard Taft

[Prudence]

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

I loved that book. We had a whole existentialism unit when I was in the 10th grade.

[Kevy Baby]

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night

- Marilyn Monroe

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MerryPrankster]

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and valuable existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."

-- Henry David Thoreau

[sleepyjeff]

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ('I found it!') but 'That's funny...'.."

- Isaac Asimov

[wendybeth]

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."
Will Durant

[Kevy Baby]

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
—Jim Horning

[lindyhop]

"You should never marry someone who doesn't make you laugh."

Garrison Keillor

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

Buddha

[SzczerbiakManiac]

"If I can't turn him on, he ain't got switches!"
—blonde bombshell Sally DeBains in Reefer Madness: The Musical (http://www.reefermadness.org/film2005/film2005.html)

[MerryPrankster]

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

(No wonder he rejected me -- I guess he doesn't like pack rats)


"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"Simplify, simplify."

-- Henry David Thoreau


I will repeat these quotes over and over to myself as I attempt to clean out my closets and garage. My mantra will be -- simplify. Ommmmmm.

[MerryPrankster]

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and then roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."

-- Amelia Earhart

[MerryPrankster]

Winston Churchill quotes:

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

[Kevy Baby]

"$76.23/mo"

Quote for a term life insurance policy.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

"As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the Federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institute of marriage. Today, it seems to be the other way around."
—Former Republican senator from Mississippi John Danforth, in a New York Times op-ed, March 30
according to The Advocate

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"I've worked my whole life to create the image of what 'Walt Disney' is. It's not me. I smoke, and I drink, and all the things that we don't want the public to know about."
--Walt Disney

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Tom, regarding The Perfect Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380623/) :

"The only time I want to see Hilary Duff and Chris Noth onscreen together is when he's finding her dead body on Law and Order."

[BarTopDancer]

"The Pentagon is getting ready to announce the latest base closures... Why not start with the ones in Iraq?" ~ Leno

[Kels]

"Your ignorance is not my problem." ~ a co-worker, because scientific researchers cannot follow simple directions.

[Gemini Cricket]

''In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,'' Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere. ''The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable... On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person, and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are good people, they are doing it for the right reasons..."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/16/cannes.starwars/index.html

[SacTown Chronic]

"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war." ~ George W Bush


;)

[MerryPrankster]

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."

--Woody Allen

[MerryPrankster]

Hmmm....I'm thinking about doors today:

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

--Flora Whittemore

"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."

--Mark Twain

"Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?"

--Anonymous

[Ghoulish Delight]

Ooh, I like that. We should have themed quote days.

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
-Ogden Nash

[Gemini Cricket]

"It's like that, y'all. That, y'all. Like th-th-th-th-that, y'all."
~ Mariah Carey
:D

[Kevy Baby]

"You put your right side in,
You put your right side out;
You put your right side in,
And you shake it all about."

Roland Lawrence LaPrise

My question is this: how do you shake your right side without shaking your left side?!?

[blueerica]

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

Walt Disney

[SacTown Chronic]

Mission Accomplished ~ George Bush, May 2003


We must honor them (fallen soldiers) by completing the mission ~ George Bush, May 2005

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"How am I not myself?"


~I Heart Huckabees

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Achilles: I wish that I had a HUNDRED wishes, instead of just three!
Genie: I am sorry, Achilles, but I don't grant meta-wishes.


~Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

[Tref]

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it is crunchy.

[€uroMeinke]

Bump - because if I responded in the So thread, it would remain lost

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Holy crap, this thread is old. Perhaps I was thinking of a newer thread? At any rate...

My iPod has been kicking some great tunes at me lately. I tried to cut it down to a small quote but this really is a whole, perfect piece of poetry that defies editing.

---

I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you or classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

No an' i ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or uptighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I aint lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up
Analyse you, categorize you
Finalize you or advertise you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I don't want to straightface you
Race or chase you, track or trace you
Or disgrace you or displace you
Or define you or confine you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you
I aint lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.

-Bob Dylan

[Capt Jack]

I:18 - All warfare is based on deception.
-Sun Tzu

[blueerica]

OH - the Lyrics thread??? That's in Beatnik somewhere...

[Kevy Baby]

"ZZZZsssnnnrrrtt"
- Me at Camp Swank apparently

[Capt Jack]

and here I thought they were clear cutting the other side of the hill

[Cadaverous Pallor]

OH - the Lyrics thread??? That's in Beatnik somewhere...Maybe that was it. Oh well, I'm sticking with this one now...even though I have more lyrics to post.

This one isn't just amazing poetry - you have to hear it too.

---

This is the first day of my life
Swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach
Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am, don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go

And so I thought I'd let you know
That these things take forever, I especially am slow
But I realized that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up

And you said, "This is the first day of my life.
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you.
But, now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you
And I'd probably be happy."

So if you wanna be with me
With these things there's no telling
We'll just have to wait and see
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery

Besides, maybe this time it's different
I mean I really think you like me

~ Bright Eyes