Hey what are everone's favorite quotes. I have so many. I thought I would post a few of my fav's.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Hey what are everone's favorite quotes. I have so many. I thought I would post a few of my fav's.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of my favorite quotes is in my bio:
"Don't just seize the day,seize the lifetime."
Check my profile by clicking on my name, lots of faves in there.
Plus i have one in my sig...
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
Here, i'll just post them all...
"Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible."
--Joseph Campbell
"Many of us, like Newt Gingrich, have acknowledged smoking dope and reading Toffler in the early 70s. But after reading his book, I think Newt's dirty little secret is that he smoked dope and watched The Jetsons"
--Al Franken
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
--Jean Kerr
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
--Homer, The Iliad
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
--Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."
--Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
--Aristotle
"Veni, vidi, vici."
[I came, I saw, I conquered]
--Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
--Mark Twain
"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."
--Al Capone
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
--Mark Twain
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
--Socrates
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Your the best madcap :-*
*Preens* ;D
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
--Socrates
Ummm... Wasen't socrates a philosopher? ;D
LOL, yes, Socrates has a lot of quotes like that. He had a great sense of humor.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The good die young, this is why Immortality is reserved only for the greatest of Evils."
~Daniel Baldwin (No, not one of the baldwins you are thinking of)
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Ayn Rand
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
~George S. Patton
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
~General George Patton
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
~General George Patton
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
~General George Patton
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
~General George Patton
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."
~General George Patton
"You're never beaten until you admit it."
~General George S. Patton
"All glory is fleeting."
~General George S. Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
~General George S. Patton
"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."
~General George Patton
;D
Madcap, great quotes from Einstein & Hellen Keller--I have two new favorites! Some of the old ones:
"We can do no great things; only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"I don't want to live...I want to love first and live incidentally." -Zelda Fitzgerald
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." -John Lennon
"In the US, you have to be a deviant or die of boredom."
-William Burroughs
Love that :)Quote:
Originally Posted by aphrodite link=board=1;threadid=13880;start=msg182425#msg182 425 date=1096270021
I thought we were going to do movie quotes....dammit :'(
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cuz there's bugger-all here on earth.
Eric Idle
Good, bad... I'm the guy with the gun.
Bruce Campbell
Army of Darkness
Well, hello, Mr. Fancy Pants. I got news for ya. Yer not leading but 2 things right now, Jack and shit, and Jack left town.
Bruce Campbell
Army of Darkness
Never take yourself too seriously. If you do, no one else will.
Me
And my all-time Ultimate fav...
"I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
Rowdy Roddy Piper
They Live
Those are great! ;)