Favorite quotes ever!

[Cavalry]

post your favorite quote that you've ever heard (you can have multiple)


"Only imagination can detect what is basic and what is not . The values with which architecture should be concerned are elementary values."-A. Van Eyck

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[Raziaar]

I'm not a real big quote person. I mean sure when I hear ones they can sound great to me, but I don't generally hold onto and remember them.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I usually just chuck them in my sig if I feel like remembering them. One of my favourites though -

"I'm a suspension bridge made of pizza crusts!" - Bernard Black('s puppet)

 

[evil^milk]

The one in Ennui's sig

"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."

"And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time."

Have tons, shall post moar later.

Your avatar rocks, Bow.

 

[ailevation]

The only good quote I can recall(which probably would qualify as my favorite) is by John Stuart Mill and his take on Utilitarianism.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. If the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

 

[Ravioli]

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in a delusion, however satisfying and reasuring" - CARL SAGAN

 

[[Matt]]

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell

 

[-Psy-]

Samon: I vote no, and I count for three.
Samon: /vote
[HL2.net] Psycho: lol
Dubbl3: Rofl
[HL2.net] Psycho: Is your vote count based on the size of your ego Samon?
Au-heppa: in that case it would count to BILLION

Dubbl3: Yorick. I know where you live. Im coming for you
Yorick: zomg
Yorick: I'll light candles and put on Dido

JossiRossi entered chat.
Yorick: like your vagina
[HL2.net] Psycho: rofl
Samon: massive.
JossiRossi: Well, there goes my appetite.
JossiRossi left chat.

Yorick: you realize
Yorick: that Pi, Samon, and myself
Yorick: have egos that
Yorick: if harnessed
Yorick: could produce more power than anything ever

Au-heppa: respect your roots!
Au-heppa: now, take a globe map and point where Finland is, if you don't get it correct, you are going to get a beating
[HL2.net] Psycho: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...81 3&z=5&om=1
Au-heppa: lol

I think you'll agree that I win the thread.

 

[[Matt]]

I find this quote relevant to the internet

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

 

[ericms]

"Ching chang ping chong." - Mao Zedong

Sorry.

 

[ríomhaire]

See sig.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Basically all the quotes that are attributed to Oscar Wilde.

This one suits pretty much every thread about how much people hate [insert commonly hated celebrity here]:
"It is no good everyone repeating that tiresome clich? about x, y and z ?only being famous for being famous? ? their fame exists in our heads and it is therefore our fault, not theirs, if fault there is. I can?t blame Jade Goody for the fact that I know her name. Many famous people may well be guilty of being ambitious for fame, for ?hunting after it all their lives?, but while I could be guilty of wanting everyone in Britain to send me ten pounds such an ambition is useless unless others are foolish enough to realise it for me. It is our curiosity, admiration, idolatry, envy, rage, resentment or obsession that privileges the famous with their fame and the only way we can take it away from them is by forgetting." - Stephen Fry

Horribly translated from swedish:

"Computer games puts the senses to the test and offers both relaxation and adrenaline rush in a way no other medium comes close to." - Joakim Bennet

 

[Emporius]

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed by the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" - William Shakespeare

and sig, which is Richard Gere.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Hunter S. Thompson and George Carlin have said some very brilliant / quotable things, and are authors well worth reading.

 

[Bad^Hat]

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed by the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" - William Shakespeare

Nope. -- Hitler

 

[MJ12]

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
Oscar Wilde

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
Oscar Wilde

"Most modern calendars mark the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."
Oscar Wilde

...yeah i like his stuff

 

[AJ Rimmer]

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
Oscar Wilde

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
Oscar Wilde

...yeah i like his stuff

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

 

[MJ12]

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

He's full of great stuff IMO, I could fill up half a page of his quotes


My favorite by him is such an irony-

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
-Oscar Wilde

more by him-

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.


Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.


The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

 

[Slug Advisor]

"Professor! Lava! HOT!" - Professor Farnsworth, Futurama.

I'm pretty sure I know where to get ahold of some great stuff.

 

[MJ12]

I love throwing this one at people, especially theology teachers-


"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
-Oscar Wilde

 

[Insano]

"Your pony died because it wasn't pretty enough... Aaaaarrggh!" - Jeremy
"Hi, my name is Doug... FFFUCK!" - FPSDoug
"This here is my computer, yeah, it owns... it OWNS!" - FPSDoug

I've been watching all the pure pwnage episodes again lately

 

[Slug Advisor]

This is so long it probably doesn't count as a quote, but it's still srsly awesome.

Spoiler

<Books> Ashi, are you married yet?
<Ashi> no.......
<Ashi> thats not for a good while
<Books> Josh won't have sex till he's married
<Books> Unlike YOU!
<Ashi> sux for josh
<BackupJosh> Yup
<BackupJosh> Ashi, wanna do it?
<BackupJosh> Oh damn wait
<BackupJosh> That's against my bogus religion
<Ashi> your really missing something....... unless you jerk off..... then your not really missing anything
<Ashi> no
<BackupJosh> I do jerk off...
<Books> :O
<BackupJosh> lol
<Books> How?
<Ashi> then you know the feeling just not the work
<BackupJosh> That's okay
<BackupJosh> I don't want to have to do any work
<BackupJosh> XD
<Ashi> lol
<Ashi> then get some chick to do the work
<Ashi> its all gravity
<BackupJosh> nah
<BackupJosh> that would take work
<Books> I have to admit, ejaculating feels kinda good
<Books> BUt I feel bad after
<BackupJosh> I'd have to convince her
<BackupJosh> ...
<BackupJosh> o0
<Ashi> what
<BackupJosh> Wait, what Books?
<BackupJosh> WHAT?!
<BackupJosh> o_0
<Books> >_>
<Books> <_<
<Ashi> I feel bad when I start thinking about it..... well I used to.... now I don't as much
<BackupJosh> what?
<BackupJosh> Why?
<BackupJosh> YOU FEEL BAD?
<Ashi> y what
* BackupJosh cannot comprehend.
<Books> ok
<Ashi> Idk I think about it..... then I remember something that happened to me a while ago and it makes me feel bad
<BackupJosh> ...
<Books> Its such a shallow physical pleasure
* BackupJosh waits for the story.
<Ashi> and that I lost my ears........ its kinda an inside joke with this one
<BackupJosh> WHAT?
<BackupJosh> YOU LOST YOU
<BackupJosh> YOUR EARS?
<BackupJosh> MASTURBATING?
<Ashi> its a joke with a manga
<Ashi> no
<Ashi> I don't do that
<BackupJosh> YOU LOST YOUR EARS MASTURBATING?
<BackupJosh> ANDY!
<Books> Nick is cuming
<BackupJosh> ASHI LOST HER EARS MASTURBATING!
<Ashi> I don't masturbate
<Books> Sometimes, near the end of a pee, my urine gets all thick and stringy
<Ashi> I'm hightly against that.
<BackupJosh> Because one time you lost your ears masturbating!
<Ashi> I don't masturbate
<Books> And it stick againt my pants sometimes
<BackupJosh> Books, we did NOT need to know that.
<Ashi> its an inside joke wit the ears thing
<Books> Why?
<Ashi> search for loveless manga
<Ashi> y what
<BackupJosh> Ashi losing her ears masturbating should be the topic.
<Books> You tell about your heimerhoids.
<Ashi> wtf
<BackupJosh> hemorrhoids!
<BackupJosh> And I had ONE hemorroid!
<BackupJosh> OKAY!
<Books> I have one now
<BackupJosh> +h
<Books> It sucks
<BackupJosh> ...
<BackupJosh> You do?
<BackupJosh> Did you wipe your ass and there was blood?
<Books> I cant really wipe
<Books> Only if I'm super careful
<Books> It isnt that bad though
<Books> First one in years and years
<Nick> Anything being sexual or having to do with sex is evil
<Ashi> y
<Books> hemorroid sex?!
<Books> <Nick> You let your own shit and piss sit in a bottle and ferment, then you huff it
<Ashi> waite what are we talking about

 

[Cole]

I hope it feels so good to be right. Theres nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?

 

[Dan]

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

If only more forum members took heed of old Ludwig.

 

[ericms]

I'll stop trolling like I've seemingly been doing for the past couple of days.

Thousands of years of civilization have obscured to you what you are, have made you believe you are not egoists but are called to be idealists ("good men"). Shake that off! Do not seek for freedom, which does precisely deprive you of yourselves, in "self denial;" but seek for yourselves, become egoists, become each of you an almighty ego. - Max Stirner

LOL @ civilized man.

 

[Polaris]

See sig.

Yes, that's my favourite quote too. <3 A.C. Clarke



"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk."
Stephen Hawking

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
John Milton, Paradise Lost

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
Mark Twain

 

[MJ12]

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
John Milton, Paradise Lost

Good quote. We just read that in english class, kind of surprised they would have us read that in a catholic school

 

[Acepilotf14]

"But, I guess a lot of people without brains talk a lot. Hm?"
Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz.

Also, on that note of the above quote, you don't reign in hell. At all. Maybe Satan makes you think you reign in hell, but you definately don't. I would rather serve in heaven than suffer in hell.
Also, just noting your signature, Polaris, the fact you made a group praising and showing your fanship for a particular atheist makes me consider atheism even more as an organized group of people who believe in a certain thing. [Read: RELIGON.]

 

[MJ12]

I obviously like the quote in my sig-
"Speak not to me of blasphemy, man, I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
It's said by Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. I often say it when people get angry at me for, well, blasphemizing religion.

 

[Acepilotf14]

/is angry

 

[MJ12]

Why? You can't honestly be upset when someone makes a joke about your religion? I don't get upset when someone makes a joke about my beliefs.

 

[Polaris]

Also, just noting your signature, Polaris, the fact you made a group praising and showing your fanship for a particular atheist makes me consider atheism even more as an organized group of people who believe in a certain thing. [Read: RELIGON.]

I made group for particular scientist and great intellectual, there are atheists who want to be organized and want to share their thoughts with others. Samon was our first collaborator, be careful.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I'm not afraid of Samon! We slept together last night!

 

[MJ12]

I'm not afraid of Samon! We slept together last night!

You bastard! Don't you touch my man!

 

[The Monkey]

Albert Einstein and Gandhi have a lot of great ones.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained. -Gandhi

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. The materialism of affluent Christian countries appears to contradict the claims of Jesus Christ that says it's not possible to worship both Mammon and God at the same time. -Gandhi

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. -Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? -Ghandi

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. -Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. -Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -Einstein

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. -Einstein

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -George Eliot

 

[Crushenator 500]

Empty vessels make the most noise

I don't know who said it, but it is applicable to many people on here

 

[Krynn72]

I heard one on the television over the holiday, but I cant remember who said it, or the exact words, but it went somewhat like this:

"When laying on my deathbed, I would rather look back on the events of my life and say 'I shouldnt have done that' than 'I wish I had'"

 

[Acepilotf14]

All that glitters, is not gold.

 

[Gray Fox]

I have a whole word doc filled with great quotes

In any case anything by Mark Twain

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.( Mark Twain)

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
(Mark Twain)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
congress. But I repeat myself. (Mark Twain)

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
society. (Mark Twain)

Also

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole
one and asked Him to forgive me." -Emo Philips.

'Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just
the opposite' - JK Galbraith

"Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to
shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to
bury the dead." - Arundhati Roy

"Whether you believe in gravity or not, when you fall, you hit
the ground the same way everyone else does."

"Human beings are animals. We are sometimes monsters,
sometimes magnificent, but always animals. We may prefer to think of
ourselves as fallen angels but in reality we are risen apes."
- Desmond Morris




If you give a man a fire he?ll be warm for the night, if you set
a man on fire he?ll be warm for the rest of his life.

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality." ~Einstein


News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest
is advertising. (Lord Northcliffe)

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points
clearly to a political career. (George Bernard Shaw)

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
(Victor Borge)


Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the
statue. David Brent

 

[PvtRyan]

Always loved this one:

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.