Favorite Quotes

[Spaatz965]

In other threads, I've mentioned something about collecting quotes (weird, I know...but I like it).

Anyhow, are there any quotes that you particularly identify with, enjoy, etc?

Here are some of my favorites to get started.

Everything to excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Plato was a bore.
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

[bUs]

urmm i was thinking along the lines of ...

"Hasta la vista baby."

"Do you feel lucky? PUNK? DO YOU?"

and my all time fav..

"Riba riba andere andere!" (i can't spell...)

Arnie, Clint and Speedy is where its at :D

sorry the rest are too intellectual for me at this point in time coz i'm tired as hell...

[Korrupt]

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."


Theodore Roosevelt

[Bob]

"You're a fucking ass. Fuck you and the fucktruck you fucked in on" -some dude

[renegade]

"yee pee ka yey mother fucker" is my all time cheesy favorite

and also "say good night dorothy. cause kansas, is going bye bye."

[p1c4z0]

urmm i was thinking along the lines of ...

"Hasta la vista baby."

"Do you feel lucky? PUNK? DO YOU?"

and my all time fav..

"ariba ariba, andale andale!" (i can't spell...)

Arnie, Clint and Speedy is where its at :D

sorry the rest are too intellectual for me at this point in time coz i'm tired as hell...

fixed it for you

[Balain]

Well, whenever I'm confused, I just check my underwear. It holds the answer to all the important questions.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I understand. Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.


Yeah okay I like Bertrand Russell lol

[Spaatz965]

Yeah okay I like Bertrand Russell lol
I like Heinlein...probably the single largest source of quotes in my list. Here's some others for your entertainment.

Robert A. Heinlein: Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Unknown: Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Unknown: Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

Herm Albright: A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Robert A. Heinlein: Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate – and quickly.

[history1me]

"a girls calls me over and tells me no one is home. I go over, and no one was home" Danger-field, Rodney.

[D-pad]

Happiness is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

[Shamu]

Ralph Wiggum is one of my favorite characters on the Simpsons, so I will quote him :D .
"Me fail English? That's unpossible."
"Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers!"
"Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and then the baby looked at me."
"Then, the doctor told me that BOTH my eyes were lazy! And that's why it was the best summer ever."
"I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning"

I realize that there are many quotes that are far more intelligent and serious, and I like those too. But I honestly think after the computer and peanut butter, the Simpsons are the best thing we Americans have to offer the world. :p

[LJustus]

Here's a Simpsons one for Shamu:
"I'm like Michael Moore, except I'm skinny, my jeans are washed, and God loves me." - Ned Flanders

[Soli]

‘I’d tell you to get a clue, but you couldn’t get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.’

If you keep going round and round and round and round like that, you're going to get stupid! -Ryuchi

What's it like, living in a constant haze of stupidity? -Hiei

Vini Vidi Vici (I came I saw I conquered)

They usually say curiosity killed the cat. I usually say curiosity laughed in the cat's face before maiming it and throwing it into a lake to drown.

I remember the future.

"Questioning a man with a gun. Either you're more stupid than I thought or you're a lot bolder."
"Or I'm not scared to die."

[RDClip]

"They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." - Jack Nicholson

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" - Mark Twain

"The Fox knows many tricks
the hedgehog only one...
but it's a winner"
- Elegy - Archilochos

[Shamu]

Here's a Simpsons one for Shamu:
"I'm like Michael Moore, except I'm skinny, my jeans are washed, and God loves me." - Ned Flanders
ROTFLMAO!!!! I love that one! Oh Neddy, you funny guy you! :p

[Jiant Flying Panda]

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"The point of war is to not die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- Gen. George S. Patton

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
- Plato

"I think therefor I am"
- Rene (sp?) Deacrte

"In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine"
- Erwin Rommel AKA The Desert Fox (this is actually my sig)

"Dude. I would lick whip cream out the crack of her hot ass."
- My friend: We were having a conversation about the girl he had a crush on since freshman year (This was in the summer between Junior and Senoir year)

[Firefly]

I LOVE Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. =\

Raoul Duke: Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era - -the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Raoul Duke: There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Raoul Duke: There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.


And my favorite...

Raoul Duke: You better take care of me, Lord. If you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

[NERD]

Hell is other people.

Jean Paul Sartre

[D-pad]

"All the porn-stars go to hell"

[renegade]

"so long, and thanks for all the fish" oh and, "don't panic"

[Jiant Flying Panda]

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

"Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies."
- Aristotle (I never heard this one until today. It's pretty cool.)

[Kragar]

"God is not on the side fo the biggest batallions, but of the best shots." Voltaire

"You think you can do it without help, but that's like thinking one hand can fix what it took two to break." Angelica Elizalde Sullivan

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river." Nikita Khrushchev

"They made a desert and called it peace." Tacitus

"These are those who came this way without the Cup of Sympathy. Each imagines the others to be terrifying demaons and thinks he acts only in self-defense. Tragic and ironic, is it not?" Nud the Allmousey

"We slept like babies. We woke up every two hours and cried." Todd Skinner

"There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell. At some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us. It is not having been in the dark house, but having left it that counts." Theodore Roosevelt

"...all things have conspired to show your greatness. The rest you must do yourself. God is unwilling to do everything Himself lest He deprive us of our free will and of that portion of glory that belongs to us." Niccolo Machiavelli

"And, failing that, we will die nobly, against heavy odds. Thus my plan is foolproof." Ivar Forksbeard

[Daishikaze]

Eddie Izzard: We stole countries! That's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Just sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain." And they're going, "You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us." "Do you have a flag?" "We don't need a bloody flag, this is our country you bastard!" "No flag, no country! You can't have one. That's the rules... that... I've just made up! And I'm backing it up with this gun... that was lent from the National Rifle Association."

Eddie Izzard talking about Darth Vader:
‘Cause he was only impressive ‘cause he had that James Earl Jones voice. ( deep voice )”I am Vader. The Force is strong with you." If he had a much more,

( camp Cockney accent ) “Hello. Look, I'm Lord Vader and just pay a-bloody-ttention, all right? Luke, Luke, the Force is strong with you."

"Is it?"

"Yeah."

"Well, who told you that?"

"Some bloke! Yeah, he said the Force was really rather strong with you."

"Well, how strong?"

"Uh, as strong as a small pony."

"Oooh, that's quite strong, that is."

The film would never have fucking worked, would it


[Tom's poem, "A Child's Christmas in Space"]Tom Servo: It's quiet in the cold of our own little orbit, starless and Bible black. And as I look down on the big blue beam we would call home I think it so near, yet... oh, I wish on that star and I hope that in a little snow-covered house with a warm hearth and a loving family, maybe some kid is looking up tonight and wishing upon us. Oh, and how I hope sweet Santa will fly by tonight because if he does I'm gonna reach right out and hug that big guy. Oh, for the sound of hooves against the steel hull of the ship. Oh, to see the rosy face of Santa in the portal offering me a Coke and a smile... [gradually gets more and more upset and hysterical]Tom Servo: ... of course, his cheeks would be rosy because there's a vacuum out there, I mean Santa's heart would explode. But he wouldn't feel it because the capillaries in his brain would pop like little firecrackers...
Joel Hodgson: Tom...
Tom Servo: ...due to the blood boiling away in his face like pudding in a copper... OH THE HUMANITY.
Joel Hodgson, Crow: Tom.
Tom Servo: And his jolly old belly would start bubbling like a roasted marshmallow, eyes bulging and popping out... AND THE REINDEER - OH THE REINDEER. - keep floating like holiday floats and in turn exploding in a hail of blood and entrails. Prancer - BOOM. Dancer - BOOM.
Joel Hodgson: HEY.
Crow: Tom.
Joel Hodgson: Tom take it easy, Santa's gonna be okay, buddy.
Tom Servo: You sure?
Joel Hodgson: Yeah, give him a little credit, okay?
Tom Servo: Phew, what a relief.



"Police the lives of those around you and get your sensibilities way the heck outta whack! Parade up and down the street in your underwear. Impose your ideas on others! It's easy! Crush someone with an emotional word or an enigmatic look." - Crow T. Robot

[GTARob]

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having thier skulls split, as a general thing.

-Conan

Thats from the Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. I've always like that one.

[Daishikaze]

R.E. Howard Ruled. I love those Conan stories

[baslisks]

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Charlie Parker

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
Charlie Parker

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker

"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail."
guess who

"Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain straight liar . . . You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation."

"I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born."

and then theres another one where it goes something like this.
Fuck whats written down.

[Jormungand]

"inteligence is the greatest weapon u have but brute force comes in very handy on ocasion"

[DarkFire168]

"I could die for my country, but I'd much rather kill for it." ---Unknown

"Give me liberty or give me death. Preferably give me liberty."--- Nathan Hale

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."--- Teddy Roosevelt

Thomas Edison, when questioned about how he felt after failing 200 odd times before finally getting the fillament for the lightbulb done right
"I didn't fail 237 (I think that's the number). I just succeeded in finding 237 ways that didn't work."

[Katiekoneko]

"'Allo, 'allo, 'allo"

-Carson..my grampa

who died tonite ...RIP

[Lateli]

I'm sorry to hear that Katie :(



"Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!!!" Good ol' Minsc.

[Dana]

I am a big quotes geek, and I have a page of them (which I haven't updated in a while) here:

My ridiculous collection of quotes I like (http://www.to-the-sky.com/words/)

[bUs]

sorry to hear that Katie...

[jaychou]

"Yo, i'm not going in there, there's a vampire in the bathtub...!"

bang bang bang bang bang click click click *throws gun at vampire*

"Dude that's awsome! you didn't know you were gonna kill somebody and jackson didn't know he was gonna get killed! it's a double punk'd, i'm ashton kutcher, i'm awsome!"

-special MTV edition of my latest dvd "Punk'd: barely legal", sold everywhere that's AWSOME!

[Ev0]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
If you want anything in life, you've got to work for it. Now be quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.

And one that has absolutely no meaning...
Holy crip he's a crapple!

[kyaa the catlord]

"Tais Tois! Tu Es Folle, Salope!!!"

[Katiekoneko]

thanks ppl... :(

[Mastiker]

"Whoa. I know kung fu." - Neo

"The pen is mightier than the sword..." -Ben Franklin

"...if it had been sharpened to a fine point, dipped in deadly poison and is thrown from ten feet away. But really, you're better off with a sword."- Ben Franklin five seconds later.

[bloop]

"Abandon thought and let the dream descend" (Phantom of the Opera - taken out of context, but I like it this way)

"They say when you talk to God it's prayer. But when God talks to you, it's schizophrenia." - Mulder (X-Files)

Daphne: Oh, come on now, Dr Crane. It's not like men have never used sex to get what they want.
Frasier: How can we possibly USE sex to get what we want? Sex IS what we want.
(Frasier)

[kyaa the catlord]

Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here.

[Spaatz965]

Here's some more from my collection...enjoy!
There are two essential rules to management. One, the customer is always right; and two, they must be punished for their arrogance. – Dogbert

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. – Milton Friedman

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. – Robert A. Heinlein

Never appeal to a man’s “better nature.” He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. – Robert A. Heinlein

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. – George S. Patton

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

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Mein favourites.
Naruto[/i]"]"Do not forget to protect those important to you, no matter what path you choose... Those you accept, believe and love from your heart."

And the favourite old saying, "Carpe Diem".

[Random]

Some of my favourites are already taken:
"Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted"
being one of them. However, I have 3 more:

"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."
------
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
------
"All men have something to hide. The brighter the picture, the darker the negative."

The first one (Rest not!...) is my all time favourite ever.

[psychicstooge]

"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."—George Burns

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."—Douglas Adams

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes."—Adolf Hitler

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge."—Adolf Hitler

“When I was just a baby
My momma told me, ‘Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don’t ever play with guns.’
But I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die.
When I hear that whistle blowin’,
I hang my head and cry.”—Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Blues”

From my all-time favorite quote source, George Carlin (I had to weed out a LOT from this list):

“Sometimes a little brain damage can help.”

“If a man smiles all the time he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.”

“We’re all fucked. It helps to remember that.”

“The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.”

“It is a sad thing to see an Indian wearing a cowboy hat.”

“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”

“I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.”

“You know why I stopped eating processed foods? I began to picture the people who might be processing them.”

“When you buy a six-foot dildo, and call it a marital aid, you are stretching not just the anatomy, but the limits of credibility.”

“Someone said to me, ‘Make yourself a sandwich.’ Well, if I could make myself a sandwich, I wouldn’t make myself a sandwich. I’d make myself a horny, 18-year-old billionaire.”

“I’ll bet there aren’t too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.”

“’No comment’ is a comment.”

“It’s better if an entire family gets Alzheimer’s Disease. That way they can all sit around and wonder who they are.”

“Regarding Red Riding Hood: Wolves can’t be all bad if they’ll eat your grandmother. Even Grandpa won’t do that.”

“I don’t believe there’s any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can’t completely ignore.”

“There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.”

“You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch.”

“I’m in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn’t include malignant tumors.”

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that shit.”

And finally:

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it sure as hell ain’t a cow.”—me at work a couple days ago (don’t ask, I don’t remember the context).

[Your Biggest Fan]

Delita Hyral:
Don't Blame me, blame yourself, or God.

Stealing! How could you? Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives sermons at church? Captain what's-his-name?
-Homer Simpson

You're everywhere. You're omnivorous.
-Homer Simpson, Homer's attitude to God

Operator, give me the number for nine-one-one!
-Homer Simpson

Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
-Homer Simpson

[kensei]

"Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!"

Not nearly enough Durden in this thread.

[Arilou]

And they asked the master: "What is Goodness?"
And Master Kong Answered: "It is to love man."
And they asked the master: "What then, is Wisdom?"
And Master Kong answered: "It is to understand man."
-The Analects of Confucius.

[The Laughing Man]

"...to err is human, but getting even THAT is divine!"

James Spader's character in 'The Practice'

[Uh_oh]

"Such is Life" -Ned Kelly when asked for his last words before being hanged.

"The goal of life is not to arrive at the grave sedatly in a perfectly preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "HOLY SH*T - WHAT A RIDE". - not sure who.

"Rest not, life is sweeping by/ go and dare before you die/ something mighty and sublime/ leave behind to conqure time" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Life is a terminal illness." - my father

[Random]

"Rest not, life is sweeping by/ go and dare before you die/ something mighty and sublime/ leave behind to conqure time" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ah, so that's who wrote it. Thanks.

[Y.T.]

This guy's just moved in next door. I believe he is an alien, and arrived on earth fully formed about a week ago. He insists this is untrue, and that he developed from a single cell into his present state. I found this a little hard to swallow, so I asked him to prove it. He showed me a biology textbook, and also half a dozen pictures showing a person not dissimilar to himself in various stages of development. I asked him if he could supply transitionals to fill in the gaps. He found a couple more pictures. I asked him if he could supply transitionals to fill in the gaps. He couldn't. I have examined him minutely over the past week, and can find no evidence that he is changing NOW. He was completely unable to demonstrate to my satisfaction any evidence to support his proposition. So I shot him."
-"allanm" (allangmiller#madasafish.com) in talk.origins

Victim Number 35 is a 26-year-old Navy lieutnant. While walking through the hallway, he was pinched on the buttocks by an unknown woman. A short time later he was grabbed in the crotch by a different woman. He retaliated by pinching the woman on the buttocks.
Notes from the investigation of a certain scandal among the US.Navy pilots..

[kyaa the catlord]

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S. Burroughs

[MNJetter]

Favorite official quote:

by John Stuart Mill
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing all mankind."


And from the mouth of the redoubtable Dr. S., the most brilliant and sadistic mind ever to grace the campus of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN...

"This test is, and I quote, 'an abomination before God.'
....This does not mean, however, that we are not going to take it."

[denjin]

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, who am I? And if not now, when?" --Hillel

"There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein

[FireWolf238]

"if you come to shoot, shoot, don't talk" -good, bad & ugly

[jingi893]

"eh, what the fuck are you looking at?" shozo hirono from "jingi naki tatakai"

"i refuse to belong to any organization that would have me as a member" - groucho marx

"the problem with the anarchists is that they can't get their shit together" - one of my friends in a debate with an anarchist

"i don't know...suddenly i've gone gay" - cary grant from "bringing up baby"

"when you come to a fork in the road, you take it" - yogi berra

"if you take a black cat and throw it in the oven, bake it until there is nothing left but skin and bone, then eat the bones, you will become invisible" - michael laemle from "parents"

"religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." - bertrand russell

"sin is geographical." - bertrand russell

"we are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." - bertrand russell

"thank god i'm an atheist" - unknown

"catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." - karl marx

"the rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs." - karl marx

"the depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. people reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves." - leon trotsky

"until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunters" - old african proverb

[Kwiz]

Minds are like parachutes: they only work when open.

Once you can get someone to laugh, that person's mind is then opened to all sorts of ideas; people with senses of humor generally tend to be happy with themselves and others.

There are lies, there are damned lies... and then there are statistics.

..........

[Sangokyu]

"Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake" - Dean Koontz (Taken from Life Expectancy)

[Digital Masta]

"The elevator to success is ALWAYS broken. But the stairs are always available"--some inspirational speaker guy.

[Shishio]

In this infernal world, the flesh of the weak is the food of the strong.

Man is cruel by nature, and there is no truer hell than the world we live in.

I prefer my history dead, the living sort tends to be writ in blood.

Chataya runs a nice establishment. I've half a mind to buy it. Whores seldom sink, and when they're boarded by pirates, why, the pirates pay good coin like everyone else.

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[Snake eyeS]

"God... i hate you kenny..." - Cartman.

"Timmeh!" - Timmy.

[General_Failure]

Light travels faster than sound which is why people seem intelligent, until they open their mouth

[master of my domain]

george costanza- seinfeld

"I don't want hope. Hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless. When you're hopeless you don't care. And when you don't care, that indifference makes you attractive."
"So, hopelessness is the key?"
"It's my only hope."


" these pretzels are making me thirsty"

and obviously "master of my domain"

[Yachiru]

My favourite one
When we are born, we cry for we are come to this great stage of fools - William Shakespeare

"Ageing is like climbing a mountain; you get out of breath but you have a magnificent view."

[MoosecatcherPrime]

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"If man does his best what else is there?"
-George S. Patton

[Buckwheat]

"Electricity is made actually made of very small particles called electrons that can't be seen with the naked eye unless you have been drinking"

-Dave Barry

[Collapse]

Marcus Aurelius:

- "If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

- "The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself."

- "Everything is right for me, which is right for you, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which comes in due time for you. Everything is fruit to me which your seasons bring, O Nature. From you are all things, in you are all things, to you all things return."

- "If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you were bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, but satisfied to live now according to nature, speaking heroic truth in every word which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no man able to prevent this."

- "Let there be freedom from perturbation with respect to the things which come from external causes, and in actions whose cause lies in yourself, be just; that is, let impulse and action terminate in social acts, for this is according to your nature."


Epictetus:

- "Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress."

- "Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do."

- "I am formed by nature for my own good: I am not formed for my own evil."

- "In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind, is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our opinions and the decisions of our will."

- "Every person must deal with each thing according to the opinion that he holds about it."

- "Where is the good? In the will. Where is the evil? In the will. Where is neither of them? In those things which are independent of the will."

- "No man is free who is not master of himself."


Seneca:

- "The soul should know whither it is going and whence it came, what is good for it and what is evil, what it seeks and what it avoids, and what is that Reason which distinguishes between the desirable and the undesirable, and thereby tames the madness of our desires and calms the violence of our fears."

- "The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live."

- "Let Nature deal with matter, which is her own, as she pleases; let us be cheerful and brave in the face of everything, reflecting that it is nothing of our own that perishes."

- "Virtue is nothing else than right reason."




And more to come.