great quotes... post 'em if you got em

lets see what you have, i need to find something good.

the only one i can think of right now is 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'

 

hmmm

 

'what goes up must come down'

"lets see what you have, i need to find something good."

 

-Eros, 2001 A.D.

EVEN IF JEHOVAH WITNESS, MAN HE'LL NEVER TESTIFY

 

 

MERODOGS NIGGAZ KNOW THE FLAVE,

MLBTKKKK:king:

"life is beautiful, really it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great, without it, you'd be dead."

Solomon from Gummo

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.:) :( :o :D ;) :P :cool: :rolleyes: :mad: :eek: :confused: :crazy: :dazed: :idea:

"there is only one thing that i can guarantee you...someday...you will die

"......and i may need help with this on guys because no matter how hard i try, i just can not figure out why blind people don't fall asleep all the damn time."

the only truth i can guarantee is that real truth can not me guaranteed or explained with words.

"That cat needs to get peppered with fisties"

"He who hears not the music thinks the dancers mad."

One of my favorites is "Dont ask me for shit!!!"

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs." - Salvador Dali

"...the combination of flat black fumes coupled with the spicy hot wings i had eaten just before...." -webmaster

Dont you wish you would have taken the red one.

 

This is a classic for biatches.

"When I first saw you I thought there was something wrong with my eye, Now I wish there was.":rolleyes:

"can you count suckas? I say the future is ours...if you..can COUNT"

 

-Cyrus

 

:king: who's the mac?

"I'm taking this class because I never have happy thoughts when I look at rectangles."

 

-Some fat kid in my Visual Perception class

YOU CAN TAKE THE TRASH OUT OF THE TRAILER BUT YOU CANT TAKE THE TRAILER OUT OF THE TRASH!

Its very narcissistic to quote my self,but here it is:

 

"Chocolate makes me horny,Masturbation keeps me thin."

A shitload from my personal collection:

 

"To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into

either total light or total darkness."

 

- Jeremy Preston Johnson

 

"Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment.

Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things

can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet

except the beating of your heart."

 

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

 

Tweedledee: "Contrariwise. If it was so, it might be; and if it were

so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

 

- Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"

 

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

 

- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)

 

"If a person foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the

protection of my boundless love. The

the more good will go from me. I will always give off only the

fragrance of goodness."

 

- Buddha

 

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water

exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.

. .to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's

nest or a wildflower in spring - - these are some of the rewards of

the simple life."

 

- John Burroughs (1837-1921)

 

"A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my

excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit

is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters,

and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at

present, at least, I am a Pagan."

 

- Zitkala-Sa

 

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have

to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the

present."

 

- Marcus Aurelius

 

"...Visit either you like: they’re both mad."

"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."

"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here."

 

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

 

"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own."

 

- Antonio Porchi

 

"The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows

not discreetly how to use it."

 

- Micel De Montaigne

 

"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in

a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in

a lake is almost unnoticed."

 

- Buddha

 

"The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who

comes not, To try to please and please not."

 

- Egyptian Proverb

 

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies,

private citizens will occasionally kill theirs."

 

- Elbert Hubbard

 

"Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream

controlled."

 

- George Santayana

 

"Even in the presence of others, he was completely alone."

 

- Robert Pirsig

 

"I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men,

enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four."

 

- Joel Rosenberg

 

 

"Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you to forget the question."

 

- Lt. Henry Mon, USAF

 

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of

education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse

neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

 

- Epictetus

 

"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."

 

- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III:2

 

"The human doesn't see things as they are, but as he is."

 

- Racter

 

"I will not bow before the Iron Crown, nor cast my own small golden scepter down."

 

- J.R.R. Tolkien in 'Mythopoeia'

 

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

 

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"You gotta learn how to play golf in the rain."

 

- Joseph Cook

 

"I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand."

 

- Louis Armstrong

 

"Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts,

to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking."

 

- Kelly Fordyce

 

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."

 

- Franz Kafka

 

"The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it."

 

- Reggie Jackson

 

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would

still plant my apple tree."

 

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there

lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we

occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."

 

- Albert Camus

 

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is

to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

 

- Carl Jung

 

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you

poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

 

- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

 

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at

least once. And we should call every truth false which was not

accompanied by at least one laugh."

 

- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

 

- Confucius

 

"If I had to choose between a government without newspapers or

newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to choose the latter."

 

- Thomas Jefferson

 

"Patience will achieve more than force."

 

- Edmund Burke

 

"Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until

they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born."

 

- Anais Nin

 

"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you,

but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand

him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say."

 

- Kahlil Gibran

 

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a

dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows

how to combine them."

 

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."

 

- James Broughton

 

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.

It goes on."

 

- Robert Frost

 

"Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days your're the

statue."

 

- Roger C. Anderson

 

"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice;

and love by love."

 

- Thomas Szasz

 

"What fools these mortals be. (Tanta Stultitia Mortalium Est.)"

 

- Seneca

 

"Silence is the haven of a purposeful mind."

 

- Michael J. Theriaque Jr.

 

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But l can't accept

not trying."

 

- Michael Jordan

 

"Counting time is not so important as making time count."

 

- Fortune cookie

 

"We don't change over time. We only become more ourselves."

 

- Lestat, from Tale of the Body Thief

 

 

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with one simple step."

 

- Lao Tzu

 

"God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was

good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether

he was good or not?"

 

- Isak Dinesen

 

"The words of the prophets were written on the subway walls and the

tenement halls..."

 

- Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence"

 

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent

to the dark place where it leads."

 

- Erica Jong

 

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant

intelligence."

 

- Henrik Tikkanen

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."

 

- Albert Einstein

 

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

 

- Jules de Gaultier

 

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens."

 

- Nick Diamos

 

"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of

thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken

one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our

character and of our thoughts, as well."

 

- George Matthew Adams

 

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the

center."

 

- Kurt Vonnegut

 

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.

Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to

fit their views."

 

- Doctor Who

 

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to

make mistakes."

 

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the

dreams shall never die."

 

- Edward Kennedy

 

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not

smart enought to know they were impossible."

 

- Doug Larson

 

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted

30 years of his life."

 

- Muhammad Ali

 

"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions."

 

- Charles Steinmetz

 

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of

improving, and that's your own self."

 

- Aldous Huxley

 

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at

night, and in between he does what he wants to do."

 

- Bob Dylan

 

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless

manner, you have learned how to live."

 

- Lin Yutang

 

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a

while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same."

 

- Anonymous

 

"We just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives

while they're happening."

 

- Field of Dreams

 

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the

center."

 

- Kurt Vonnegut

 

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says

something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far

is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

 

- Stephen Hawking

 

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it."

 

- Aristotle

 

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands,

hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

 

- H. L. Mencken

 

"True is the grief you carry without witnesses."

 

- Marcus Martialis

 

"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

 

- Sally Kempton

 

"In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence."

 

- Cesar Chavez

 

"It is not power that corrupts, but fear- fear of losing power and

fear of the scourge of those who wield it."

 

- Aung Sung Suu Kyi

 

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort

to go hand in hand."

 

- Emily Kimbrough

 

 

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up

somewhere else."

 

- Lawrence J. Peter

 

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with

his fools."

 

- Ernest Hemmingway

 

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being

unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone."

 

- Blaise Pascal

 

"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you?

But when you take him in a car, he sticks his head out the window."

 

- Steve Bluestone

 

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace

unless he has his freedom."

 

- Malcolm X

 

"Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you."

 

- Thomas Carlyle

 

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.

Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.

World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.

Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems."

 

- Arthur O'Shaunessey

 

"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental

experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than

those of a gregarious man."

 

- Thomas Mann

 

"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that

he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed

and think themselves superior to."

 

- George Santayana

 

"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen

four beautiful sunsets."

 

- John Glenn

 

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start

a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."

 

- Kin Hubbard

 

"Everything flows; nothing remains."

 

- Heraclitus

 

"Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol."

 

- Anonymous

 

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or

compete, everybody will respect you."

 

- Lao Tzu

 

"He who angers you conquers you."

 

- Elizabeth Kenny

 

"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need."

 

- Karl Marx

 

"There are no mistakes, just happy discoveries."

 

- Bob Ross

 

"We didn't get into this 'space' cuz we're internet gold seeking cockos.

We're legitimately nihilistic media terrorists as history will no doubt

canonize us."

 

- Rob Lord

 

"I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element,

a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art,

this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with

energy is disturbing - not perfect."

 

- Henry Moore

 

"I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds and

broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord

does not intend to repair."

 

- John Quincy Adams

 

"Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that

are gone in the shortest while."

 

- Simone Weil

 

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both

consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you

can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom

that comes from being in charge of yourself."

 

- Robert F. Bennett

 

"Coming to an impasse, change, having changed, you will get through."

 

- ICHING

 

"And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain

crucify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome

ones."

 

- Frederick Nietzsche

 

"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with

a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about

drugs."

 

- Roy Blount, Jr.

 

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed

us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their

use."

 

- Galileo Galilei

 

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a

victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

 

- Harvey Fierstein

 

"Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy."

 

- Henri de Lubac

 

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient

premises."

 

- Samuel Butler

 

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restrainst it imposes

on itself, and dies of all others."

 

- Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

 

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming,

is the only end of life."

 

- Baruch Spinoza

 

"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his

dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."

 

- Margaret Fuller

 

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

 

- Edgar Allan Poe

 

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

 

- Richard L. Evans

 

"I need a prison in order to dream of being free."

 

- John Popper

 

"i sit on the edge of my couch.. with elbows on my knees and my face press down in the

palm of my hands. DAMN now my head's spinnin cause i tried to figure out this complicated

thing called women."

 

- Lexicon

 

"Success is that peace of mind that comes from knowing you've done

everything in your power to become the very best you're capable of

becoming."

 

- John Wooden

 

"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion

for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their

tyranny."

 

- James Fenimore Cooper

 

"On a whole, I don't have any friends. Friends come and go; I've lost my trust factor. I

believe I have people who think they're my friends. And believe that there are people

probably in their heart are friendly towards me or are friends to me. But they're not my

friends because what I learned is that fear is stronger than love. So soon as

somebody scarier comes along, they won't be my friend anymore. I learned that on the

floor at Times Square--so I don't have friends, I have family. You're either my all the

way family or just somebody on the outside. "

 

- 2Pac Shakur

 

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his

punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

 

- Oscar Wilde

 

"We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.

Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts,

words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all

that is."

 

- Serge Kahili King

 

"Paranoia is reality on a finer scale."

 

- Anonymous

 

"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The

more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the

defects of others."

 

- Joseph Addison

 

"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry

heart; for God now accepteth thy works."

 

- Ecclesiastes 9:7

 

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."

 

- Tacitus

 

"Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream."

 

- John Edgar Wideman, The Cattle Killing

 

"I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood

about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and

masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught

with action, richer in achievement and experience."

 

- Eddie Rickenbacker

 

 

"If you live on this land, and you have ancestors sleeping in this

land, I believe that makes you a native to this land. It has nothing

to do with the color of your skin. I was not raised to look at people

racially. What I was taught is that we're flowers in the Great Spirit's

garden. We share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth."

 

- Oh Shinnah

 

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and

tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been

all these."

 

- George Washington Carver

 

"Sitting silent and looking wise cannot be compared to drinking wine

and making a racket."

 

- Manyoshu

 

"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we

have of a man's success in life."

 

- Edward Everett Hale

 

 

"A window of opportunity won't open itself."

 

- Dave Weinbaum

 

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty

recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find that it was vanity.

But the dreamers of the day are dangerouus men, for they may act their

dreams with open eyes to make it reality."

 

- T.E. Lawrence

 

"The sound of the water says what I think."

 

- Chuang-Tzu

 

"Most of us don't know what we want and spend our lives wondering why

we don't get it."

 

- Arnold H. Glasow

 

"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes

would have sacrificed his life."

 

- Ernest Renan

 

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him

by heart and his friends can only read the title."

 

- Virginia Woolf

 

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."

 

- Elsa Schiapirelli

 

"Don't wait to be noticed -- Being discovered by an influential patron

would be ideal, but it's best not to depend on this. Become a

discoverer yourself instead of passively hoping someone out there will notice

you. While the show business artist needs a big break, the visual

artist needs to concentrate on faithful practice of one work after

another. Good work will eventually be noticed."

 

- Ruth Ann Molyneaux

 

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the

intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these

teachers."

 

- Kahlil Gibran

 

"I wish they would only take me as I am."

 

- Vincent van Gogh

 

"He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened."

 

- Lao Tzi, Tao Te Ching

 

"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before

you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good

man."

 

- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

 

"We're here for a good time not a long time."

 

- Bill Huber

 

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means

he uses to frighten you."

 

- Eric Hoffer

 

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

 

- Muriel Rukeyser

 

That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue,

they remember everything and they don't drink all your beer.

 

- Paul Leary

 

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

 

- Jim Morrison

 

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life

seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take

your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously,

you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

 

- Timothy Leary

 

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

 

- Mao Tse-Tung

 

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small

nations like prostitutes.

 

- Stanley Kubrick

 

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,

but what they become by it.

 

- John Ruskin

 

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated

simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

 

- Charles Mingus

 

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

 

- Humphrey Bogart

 

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

 

- Winston Churchill

 

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change -- this

is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of

our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

 

- Bruce Barton

 

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

 

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight. Make me a child

again just for to-night.

 

- Elizabeth Chase Akers

 

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People

imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each

other by.

 

- Franz Schubert

THE KING OF HELL demands that your post never be that long again. We suggest you get a hobby. penalties for you the next time this happens. :mad:

"Your suffering will be legendary. even in hell"

beardo wants to take his freinds wind and ruin all their fun. and in public too.

 

haha sorry man, youre right, poor form. first post of the day, my sour mood from yesterday still hangin on a bit.

"fuck you in your ass america, with your atom bomb."

--Allen Ginsberg--

its cool. THE KING OF HELL still luzzz ya.

constipation is the theif of time,

diahreaha waits for no man.

even jesus was killed by the polices' - the late great you just cant hate big pun

time wounds all heels. a personal favorite of THE KING OF HELL. WE specialize in the collection of karmic debt.

some of those make me feel like i'm polluting the world with my english.

always up for a good quote read. and i like roast beef sandwiches and pickles. word.

 

"He who hears not the music thinks the dancers mad."

Aymet, do you know who said this?

 

thank you

Damn that post was long. But it did have some good ones in there. At least the ones I read.