Favorite Quotations

[dartagnan]

I'm wondering what people's favorite quotations are? Just checked my FB page and discovered mine are basically an overview of the type:


When the great lord passes by, the wise peasant bows low and silently farts" - Old Chinese proverb

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Voltaire

"I object" - Senator Al Franken.

“Be confident, not certain.” Madeleine Albright

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things...it doesn't frighten me." - Nobel laureate Richard Feynman

 

[Melkor]

I'm sure we have ten dozen of these threads hidden away somewhere.

Uhrm...

I think I have a list of my favourite quotes, but I always smirk at Einsteins conclusion that the only thing as infinite as the universe is human stupidity.

Of course, he wasn't being smart, just sarky, thats all it takes these days....

 

[Words]

I don't know...

The simplest are my favorites.

"Yes."

"No."

"Go."

"Realize."

etc.

 

[Fallenman]

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Twain

Power corrupts; absolute power absolutely corrupts.
-Lord Acton

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
-Albert Einstein

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle

procrastination is a dirty slut from hell, and its best not to get involved with her
-Stephanie Aguilar

 

[Anchorite]

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -
Gautama Buddha

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
Confucius

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire

 

[Anthile]

"A witty saying proves nothing."
~Voltaire

 

[Saeros]

English translation:
"Everything that exists is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance." - Jean-Paul Sartre

Original:
«Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse, et meurt par rencontre.» - Jean-Paul Sartre

my favourite quote

 

[dartagnan]

Anchorite, LOL! That's why I'm a Buddhist. After leavig Christianity, I finally found a non-theistic religion, and one that made sense.

 

[Dormouse]

That Aristotle quote very well sums up my view of the world. Thank you, Fallenman.

As for my own favourite quotes... I should probably order them alphabetically by author. But since I'm unorganized, let's start with Douglas Adams.

-I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

-The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

-He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And many others... But I hardly have the time to list them here. Einstein's another great person to quote... I'll get to him later.

So, do any of you consider lyrics quotes? Or do they deserve a category of their own?

 

[y4r5xeym5]

I'm pretty much in love with anything said on this site. LINK

Surprised I hadn't shared that sooner, come to think of it.

 

[ashitaria]

"May you live everyday of your life"
-Unknown

"If you want to shoot the general, shoot the general!"
-Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist

"Are you asexual?"
-A friend upon meeting my dad.

 

[Sparrow]

"The hardest battle is to keep on living."

"This is mankind's dream! ...To be stronger than others. To be ahead of others. To be above others!"

"Even I...have things I can understand but can't agree with."

 

[vash22]

"Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance"- Virgil

And pretty much anything from Einstein & Voltaire is worth a chuckle followed by a moment of reflection.
Oh, and then there is the quote by Groucho Marx that is in my signature. But that is mostly because I use it to get out of conversations I don't want to be in. Especially fun at parties!

 

[shadowdrums4]

The movie "The adventures of Mark Twain" has some of my favorite quotes in it.

"There's nothing worse than a young pessimist except an old optimist"
"Before I go, there are a number of things I want to say, always obey your parents" [dark side] "When they are present" "Always respect your superiors" [dark side] "if you have any" "and always remember the early bird gets the worm" "I once knew a man who tried it, he got up at sunrise. A horse bit him"

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody, if he can help it. "

"A harp, a hymn book and wings? Good god, what a swindle. I'm led to consider a different path. Heaven for climate, Hell for company. "

"Do you think there is a heaven or hell?" "Oh I don't know that nor do I wish to give an opinion I have friends in both places."

" Don't worry. Providence protects children, and idiots. I know it's true. I've tested it."

"You look about as disappointed as Presbyterians in Hell! "
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"You look as tight as a nun in a condom factory"
- a friend
A lot of the stuff from "The Cloak" and "V for Vendetta" are good ones too. I do love Voltaire's quotes as well and Ozzy. I'm sure I'll add more later.

Edit: My absolute favorite quotes have to be from Genkai off Yu Yu Hakusho (though I like a lot of quotes off that show, she seems to have the best ones.

"No human being is a one man show, every decision you make affects the countless people who care about you"
"Oh, silly me. I must have forgotten to turn on my hearing aid. When you're a washed up old hag like me, the memory is the first to go."

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[NeverAmI]

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. " -Plato


"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual" -Socrates

 

[Lobstrich]

"Omnia mea mecum porto" - Cicero

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau

"Gud er en illussion og voksne mennesker med usynlige venner burde... blive voksne." - Me


In that order =)
I prefer to keep them in their original language. That is what they were all intended for. Hence one is Latin, one is English and one is Danish.

 

[Alice?]

Anything from Firefly and Serenity is genius. I love me some Whedon.

Mal: "Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say."
River: "I do. But I like to hear you say it."
Mal: "Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home."

...Among others, but I'll leave it at that.

 

[Double-Think]

"I champion the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the simple and the persecuted. I maintain that whosoever benefits or hurts a man benefits or hurts the whole species. I sought my liberty and the liberty of all, my happiness and the happiness of all. I wanted a roof for every family, bread for every mouth, education for every heart, light for every intellect. I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric. I see with the eyes of my soul how the sky is diffused with the rays of the new millennium." - Bartolomeo Vanzetti

and

"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. " - Emma Goldman

 

[walfin]

When the great lord passes by, the wise peasant bows low and silently farts" - Old Chinese proverb

Ethiopian according to this page; no wonder I did not find it familiar.

 

[ijustprotectedmyidentity]

trust yourself then you will know how to live

live dangerously and you live right

we usually lose today because yesterday has come and tommorow is coming



- von goethe

 

[WeAreTheStrange]

"What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous."

"To do all that one is able to do , is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, would be to be a god."

Napoleon Bonapartehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France

 

[dartagnan]

Thanks everyone - these are great.