The Favorite Quotes thread

Be them from whoever whenever...

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi

Speaking of Gandhi, I always liked this one:

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

Fuck, I hope I didn't set it off...

Or how about this one from the B-MG:

I like your Christ, he's the sexiest of ALL the saviors! (Ghandi, 1941)

While we are quoting the greats...I'll add this

Tahoe - "Fucking Blackberry Brandy"

Her's one I seldom observe:

"Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and prove them right"

Or from Crazy Bill Shakespeare: "Go thou, and fill another room in Hell"

More from Crazy Bill Shakespeare: "I hate thee, pronounce thee a gross lout and a slave, or else a hovering temprizer who canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, inclining to them both"

"Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right"--Woody Allen

"I'm such a good lover because I practice alot when I'm alone"--Woody Allen

"If it turns out that there is a god, I don;t think he's eveil, but you can say he is an underachiever"--Woody Allen

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don;t want to be there when it happens"--Woody Allen

This little mensch is a fountain of wisdom.

It's easy to grin...

"Ah! Don;t say you agree with me! When people agree with me I feel I must be wrong"--Oscar Wilde

"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true"--
Oscar Wilde

"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes"--
Oscar Wilde

"The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining"--John F Kennedy

I've never been one to have favorite quotes or really care about quotes, but this thread gets five stars.

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job"--Douglass Adams, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.--T. S. Eliot

Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.--T. S. Eliot

Zip going to work on this thread!

I think e-ray needs to rename it the "Zip....Thread"

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.--Mark Twain

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?--Mark Twain

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.--Mark Twain

Dogs smoke in France.--Ozzy Osbourne

Beer is living proof that God wants us to be happy--Ben Franklin

Women are living proof that God wants us to drink beer--Zip Goshboots

Oh, now no one is readin this thread after all the work I've put into it? That's OK, I'll get these fuckers: I
ll make EVERY thread the "Famous Quotes Thread" Thread! And, maybe not tomorrow, or the next day, but soon, soon, SOON the world shall be mine, all mine! MINE

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Now there's the Zip I love and humorless fags hate!

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Originally Posted by Sir Douche Baggins

Now there's the Zip I love and humorless fags hate!

Always::cogent:

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Originally Posted by H.L. Mencken

It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous. The men of the educated minority, no doubt, know more than their predecessors, and of some of them, perhaps, it may be said that they are more civilized - though I should not like to be put to giving names - but the great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.

Such immortal vermin, true enough, get their share of the fruits of human progress, and so they may be said, in a way to have their part in it. .... He has at hand a thousand devices for making life less wearisome and more tolerable: the telephone, railroads, bichloride tablets, newspapers, sewers, correspondence schools, delicatessen. But he had no more to do with bringing these things into the world than the horned cattle in the fields, and he does no more to increase them today than the birds of the air.

On the contrary, he is generally against them, and sometimes with immense violence. Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men.

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Originally Posted by Eugene V. Debs

Your Honor,years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

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Originally Posted by Malcolm X

[As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be murdered, you haven't got no blood. You bleed when the white man says bleed; you bite when the white man says bite; and you bark when the white man says bark. I hate to say this about us, but it's true. How are you going to be nonviolent in Mississippi, as violent as you were in Korea? How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Alabama, when your churches are being bombed, and your little girls are being murdered, and at the same time you're going to violent with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else that you don't even know?

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

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Originally Posted by Gotama Buddha

Mind is the forerunner of all phenomena. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-made. If, with an impure mind, a person speaks or acts, suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

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"He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me." Those who harbor such thoughts will not overcome their anger.

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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

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Just as rain breaks through a badly-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.

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The doer of good delights here and hereafter; he delights in this life and future lives. He thinks "I have done good things" and this makes him happy, and he is even happier in the hereafter.

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Originally Posted by Winnie the Pooh

"Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."

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Originally posted by Reggie Jackson

“The only reason I don’t like playing in the World Series is I can’t watch myself play.”

He who go to bed with itchy butt wake up with smelly finger--Confucious

heres a quote from my igoogle quotes of the day. amazingly on topic:

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux

heres another one from said page i enjoyed:

Life is the farce that everyone has to perform.
- Arthur Rimbaud

I like the Rambo quote, but i admit, i read his work and couldnt get into it. im thinking i'll eventually try it again, but with my good friend charles shaw to help me out.

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Originally Posted by b-diddy

Life is the farce that everyone has to perform.
- Arthur Rimbaud
I like the Rambo quote, but i admit, i read his work and couldnt get into it. im thinking i'll eventually try it again, but with my good friend charles shaw to help me out.

diddy: My favorite Rambo quote is this: "Duuuhyahh Yo Adduhhh Adrian, we duhhh dahhh DID IT!"

if were talking shakespeare and quotes, and badass, julius ceasar is literally (pun!!) filled with them.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me
Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished.

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” -Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself, or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation relating itself to itself." -Kierkegaard, in one of his less lucid moments

Damnit. I just put in like 10 quotes, went to post, and it had already logged me out (can't autologin at work). What a waste of 15 minutes.

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Originally Posted by Glenn

It's easy to grin...

Damn, no one took the bait.