Albareth Posted August 31, 2003 Share Posted August 31, 2003 Ok, please no spamming quotes of every sort here please... you know what I mean, game quotes, etc... just quotes that make you think, sound reasonable, etc... I got quite a few, some humorous maybe but all wise to some extent... :P Yay, here goes... (I got rather a large list so be prepared! :P ) "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -Jeseph Joubert "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." -Josh Billings "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." -Dudley Field Malone "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." -John Morley "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -Anon. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." -Bertrand Russell "'He means well' is useless unless he does well." -Plautus "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." -Robert Frost "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -Louis D. Brandeis "The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously." -Hubert Humphrey "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."(This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.)-S. G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buechner "We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory." -Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain "Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells." -J. Paul Getty "Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it." -Roger Starr "Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?" -Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet" "Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war." -John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses "All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own." -Oscar W. Firkins, Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters "One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force." -David Borenstein, October 26, 1999 "There is no way to peace; peace is the way." -A. J. Muste "Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." -William Proxmire "Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." -David Broder "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi "The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -Eden Phillpotts "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." -George Bernard Shaw "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes "When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." -Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -Bertrand Russell "The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious." -André Gide, The Journals of André Gide "Don't steal. The government hates competition." -Anon. "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." -Josef Stalin "Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down." -Gen. Joseph Stilwell Done! :D (and no I did not type all of that by hand, I copied many of them from a file where I keep quotes I like... :P ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miltonic Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 I like this one, it defines my state of mind. "The good life is one led by reason, and inspired by love." -Bertrand Russel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darmoth Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Some great ones on fear I got from Phobia List "The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."----FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."---- Francis Bacon "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."--- H.P. Lovecraft "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."----Coleridge "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."---Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear "What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!"----Wordsworth "- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs."----Will - The Taming of the Shrew "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."----German Proverb "All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."----Dave Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darmoth Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 One of my all time favorites... :D "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."- Autobiography of Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darmoth Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 I have some great ones... ((Censored... sorta)) by General George S. Patton. ^_^ "An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse sh*t. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about f*cking!" -- George S. Patton "Magnificent! Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so!" -- George S. Patton "No b*stard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b*stard die for his country". -- George S. Patton "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." -- George S. Patton ((On his black tank squads)) "Men, you are the first Negro tankers ever to fight in the American army. I would never have asked for you if you weren't good. I have nothing but the best in my army. I don't care what color you are, so long as you go up there and kill those Kraut sonsab*tches!" -- George S. Patton ((On the alliance with Russia)) "Tin soldier politicians in Washington have allowed us to kick the Hell out of one b*stard and at the same time forced us to help establish a second one as evil or more evil than the first...This time we'll need almighty God's constant help if we're to live in the same world with Stalin and his murdering cutthroats." -- George S. Patton "I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood." -- George S. Patton "Better to fight for something than live for nothing." -- George S. Patton "Many of you have in your veins Geman and Italian blood. But remember that these ancestors of yours so loved freedom that they gave up home and country to cross the ocean in search of liberty. The ancestors of the people we shall kill lacked the courage to make such a sacrifice and remained slaves." -- George S. Patton "I don't want to get any messages saying that, "We are holding out position." We're not holding anything! Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the *ss; we're going to go through him like crap through a goose." -- George S. Patton "We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-b*tches, we're going to rip out their living Godd*mned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun c*cksuckers by the bushel-f*cking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!" -- George S. Patton "Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the b*stards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-b*tch Hitler just like I'd shoot a snake". -- George S. Patton He was a... colorful individual. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darmoth Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Another great military quote... even though it's only one word. On December 22, Hitler sent a message to American Major-General Anthony Mcauliffe, at the Bartongre Garrison, telling him to surrender. His response to Hitler's request was simply "Nuts!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biafra_jt Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 "You should not be reading the forums when you should study katakana and hiragana." -Biafra_jt "You should not drink beer when you are supposed to study" -Biafra_jt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Reaper Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Look at my sig. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baphomet Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 "Life is not so short, but that there is always time for courtesy." "As I dig for wild orchids in the autumn fields, it is the deeply bedded root I seek; and not the flower." "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condtion; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived: This is to have succeeded." (( All from R.W. Emerson )) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThetaOrionis01 Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt Lisa Simpson :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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