Preferably the ones that teach you something valuable in life.
Ps: Keep The thread Serious(Dom)
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:04 am
by Locketart
We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:27 am
by destructionmama
my favorite is:
An eye for an eye, the whole world will be blind.
Forgot who said it though..
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:35 am
by Ashikiheyun
destructionmama wrote:my favorite is:
An eye for an eye, the whole world will be blind.
Forgot who said it though..
I'm pretty sure that was Gandhi.
A few of my favorite quotes are:
"When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." I believe that's in my sig, I wish I knew who said it.
Then that quote from Coach Carter
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:40 am
by Backfire
destructionmama wrote:my favorite is:
An eye for an eye, the whole world will be blind.
Forgot who said it though..
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth would leave the nation blind and toothless." -Ghandi
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:43 am
by Grandpa
Proverbs wrote:Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
For lack of wood the fire goes out; Where there is no gossip, a quarrel dies down.
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:02 am
by dom
A quote from a book that really stuck with me, opening sentence from the second chapter:
Richard Dawkins wrote:The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction; jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthisty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Another from one of my favorite movies:
Yuri Orlov wrote: Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: a federation of worse oppressors than the last bunch of oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom-fighters.
And tons of great quotes from my childhood hero, here's a couple:
General Patton wrote: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.
General Patton wrote:It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
General Patton wrote:If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.
General Patton wrote:Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
General Patton wrote:Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
General Patton wrote:May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
General Patton wrote:You're never beaten until you admit it.
General Patton wrote:A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
General Patton wrote:I dont give a damn about the color of your skin, just kill as many sons of bitches wearing green as you can.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:05 am
by m0nstah
WARNING! not for the squeamish
Spoiler!
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:55 am
by Rainigul
m0nstah wrote:WARNING! not for the squeamish
Spoiler!
No way is that real!
Hmmm, quotes...
I like Arnold quotes, like:
Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote:Everybody pities the weak, jealousy you have to earn.
Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote:Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Hmmm...
Of course!
Fry wrote:Fine, I've got a toast. To Captain Bender, he's the best... at being a big jerk who's stupid and his big ugly face is as dumb as a butt!
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:04 am
by .Higinia
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." Michael Jordan
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:53 am
by Doron
To be is to do.
- Socrates
To do is to be.
- Sartre
Do be do be do.
- Sinatra
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:56 am
by takolin
[quote]Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.[/quote Franklin P. Adams
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:35 am
by Shimrod
Blackadder wrote:There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:07 pm
by Priam
One for the dutch people.
"Om te winnen, moet je één doelpunt meer maken als je tegenstander".
If your dutch, you know who said this
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:57 pm
by Jantje
"De Italianen kunnen niet van je winnen, maar je kan wel van ze verliezen" Translated: Italians can't win from you, but you can lose from them.
ORLLY ^,^
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:03 pm
by [SD]Twysta
I made this one up a while ago, and i find it quite good lmao.
"If your best friend is an online friend, <cant think of a good finisher>"
Sorry, but i don't have any other i can think of right now.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:13 pm
by Pan_Raider(`_´)
Priam wrote:One for the dutch people.
"Om te winnen, moet je één doelpunt meer maken als je tegenstander".
If your dutch, you know who said this
you guys succeeded against Italy
Icealya wrote:
To be is to do.
- Socrates
To do is to be.
- Sartre
Do be do be do.
- Sinatra
Dammit, i wanted 2 post
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:31 pm
by Draquish
Spoiler!
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. -John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. -John Keats
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. -Lord Byron
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. -Lord Byron
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. -Lord Byron
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. -Lord Byron
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. -Lord Byron
In solitude, where we are least alone. -Lord Byron
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. -Lord Byron
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. -Lord Byron
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. -Lord Byron
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. -Lord Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. -Lord Byron
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. -John Keats
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:36 pm
by woutR
Knowledge is power
Scienta est potentia.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:38 pm
by ^owned^
Eteenpäin sano mummo hanges
A finnish famous quote. translated = Keep going said the granny in the deep snow (about)
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:08 pm
by Cereal_Killer
"I can smell a lie like a fart in a car..."
Happy Harry Hardon
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:45 pm
by Doron
Well, it's not really catchy or anything, but in a conversation with a friend of mine I said:
I wrote:Dammit. I'm still waiting to get fired.
Well, she found it funny and yelled
My Friend wrote:Quote!
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:59 pm
by Grandpa
[SD]Twysta wrote:I made this one up a while ago, and i find it quite good lmao.
"If your best friend is an online friend, <cant think of a good finisher>"
Sorry, but i don't have any other i can think of right now.
If your best friend is an online friend, then your best weekend is... ...your own business.
Malachi wrote:"He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers"
What one thing can heal our land? Our world? The quote above from the last message of the LORD prior to 400 years of >SILENCE< that proceeded the birth of The Christ. Oftentimes silence can be more eloquent than the SHOUT, n'est-ce pas?
I've imagined a day where dads would pick up their kids at school. Imagined myself doing this. I've imagined a day where dads thought playing with their kids was more important than work. Imagined myself doing this as well. I've imagined a day where dads understood the needs of women and wives. Imagined this, but never realized. It takes two together to make one.
~Grandpa
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:22 pm
by heroo
You know you're experienced, when you see other people making your old mistakes.
en natuurlijk:
'' Elk voordeel heb z'n nadeel.''
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:42 pm
by Starrie
Forgot from who it is:
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
And the version of one of our fellow SRFers:
It takes one tree to make a thousand matches, but it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:54 pm
by Grandpa
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will go out and buy expensive fishing equipment, stupid looking clothes, a sports utility vehicle, travel 1000 miles to the "hottest" fishing spot, and stand waist deep in cold water just so he can outsmart a fish.
-Anonymous (I'm guessing female?)
Pardon me, Mr. Grimm - I know you asked "Keep it Serious" but sometimes I can't resist. Like this one: "Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time."
On a more serious note, why do we find humor in things that are oftentimes boiled down to their lowest basic elements as sadness or fear?
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:57 pm
by Doron
Grandpa wrote:Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will go out and buy expensive fishing equipment, stupid looking clothes, a sports utility vehicle, travel 1000 miles to the "hottest" fishing spot, and stand waist deep in cold water just so he can outsmart a fish.
-Anonymous (I'm guessing female?)
I don't care who wrote it, cuz I agree, fishing sucks...
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:06 pm
by Leon
Dunno who said it but:
It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:12 pm
by Doron
I've got one, but if I translate it, it will get damned and the clue is gone, so: here's in dutch:
Beter goed gejat dan slecht verzonnen.
My sister once told me that.
Re: Quotes
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:28 pm
by Rainigul
Leon wrote:Dunno who said it but:
It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Dammit, i wanted 2 post 
