Quotes

I realise we have favourite movie/tv quote threads, but what about quotes in just general?

You hear some amazing ones, some funny, uplifting, depressing, yet utterly memorable.

I have a calenday at work that has a new quote every day, I'll start posting them daily, and feel free to add your own favourite quotes.

Some personal favourites of mine include;
"Such is life" - Ned Kelly
"A true friend stabs you in the front" - Oscar Wilde
"Only those who dare to fall greatly, can ever achieve greatly" - Robert F. Kennedy
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left" - Bertrand Russell


Wednesday November 12, 2008 - "Those who only tell half the truth often live to regret it" - W.G.P

Sarah wrote:
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left" - Bertrand Russell

That's deep and very true.

live hard, die young and leave a good lookin corpse - Jason McD

Im an optimist, everyone i hate will die eventualy - Ash Pitt

macca wrote:Im an optimist, everyone i hate will die eventualy - Ash Pitt

just a paraphrased version of;

Tom Green wrote:"Be more optimistic: Because all the people you hate are going to die eventually"

although I think Tom Green stole the quote form somewhere else. Sounds like an Oscar Wilde type quote

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” - William Shakespeare [Romeo & Juliet]

"There’s no such thing as society." - Margaret Thatcher

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher

Sarah wrote:
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

"That is really amazing," he said. "That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it." –Zaphod

Ford stood up. "We're safe," he said.
"Oh good," said Arthur.
"We're in a small galley cabin," said Ford, "in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet."
"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of."

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."

"No, no Marvin," lilted Trillian, "that's just fine, really...just part of life." [...]
"Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life."

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." –Zaphod

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Books Are The Funnyest Damn Things Ever
And If Anyone wants a read send you a e-copy!
Douglas Adams is king!

"I'll have to send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker!" - Frank Booth

Ten Bucks to anyone who can find out what band this relates to

"One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you." - Bella Swan.


That quote is from the book New Moon (I think).
One of the twilight books anyways.

Thursday November 13, 2008
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." - Benjamin Disraeli.

I think the first two points (seeing much, suffering much) refer to life in general... although i guess you could relate the last point (studying much) to the study of ones self.

Friday, November 14 - 2008
"He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne." - Russian Proverb

I'd have thought it would have been vodka considering it's Russian.

What a gross stereotype on my behalf.

I AM OFFENDED!!!! SO MUCH SO that ill just post this

go back to wrestling bears.

Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November, 2008
"Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one." - Bel Kaufman

So what Kaufman is saying is that without education you can't get money? Well duh, you need some form of education. Hate to state the fucking obvious.

Monday 17th November, 2008
"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing." - Clive James.

I don't mind this quote... It's a nice little analysis.

"stupid is what stupid does" -Forrest Gump
couldn't have said it better my self

Tuesday, 18th November 2008
"The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity." - Nancy Astor

Indeed they are practical, but too bad these days neither things are "common".

Sarah wrote:go back to wrestling bears.

thats just not nice at all.....(now i have to think of a comeback and i really cant be stuffed)

could just call me a drunk and tell me to go back to eating potatoes and hitting my wife.

or tell me to go back to raping and pillaging villages?

"Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind, don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind." - Dr Seuss

Argh, I've neglected this.

Wednesday, November 19 2008
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell.

Thursday, November 20 2008
"Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubles with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friday, November 21 2008
"It's a shame, that when we have a good dream, we have to be asleep at the time". - P.K. Shaw

Saturday, November 22 & Sunday, November 23 2008
"He who laughs, lasts." - Mary Pettibone Poole

Monday, November 24 2008
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." - Roy Goodman

Tuesday, November 25 2008
"Keep your mouth shut and you will never bite off more than you can chew." - W.G.P.

Wednesday, 26 November 2008
"If opportunity doesn't knock... build a door." - Milton Berle

Thursday, 27 November 2008
"To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee - " - Emily Dickinson

aaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnd

Friday, 28 November 2008
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set. I go into the other room and read a book" - Groucho Marx

"B'fhearr liom bás a fháil ar mo bhoinn ná bheith beo ar mo ghlúine"

Translation: I'd rather die on my feet, than live on a knee.

Irish Gaelic. I love it

The Sand Trout wrote:"I'll have to send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker!" - Frank Booth

Ten Bucks to anyone who can find out what band this relates to

Sigh.. Alexisonfire, Ryan?

The Sand Trout wrote:

Sarah wrote:
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

"That is really amazing," he said. "That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it." –Zaphod

Ford stood up. "We're safe," he said.
"Oh good," said Arthur.
"We're in a small galley cabin," said Ford, "in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet."
"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of."

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."

"No, no Marvin," lilted Trillian, "that's just fine, really...just part of life." [...]
"Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life."

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." –Zaphod

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Books Are The Funnyest Damn Things Ever
And If Anyone wants a read send you a e-copy!
Douglas Adams is king!

I feel I need to add..

'The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'

'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
'But,' say Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't though of that' and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.

'It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.'

live for today, as yesturday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

"Undermine thier pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you alive"
- Sid Vicious

Another one from him for the the "lols";

"I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror"


And of course Kurt Cobains:

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not"