Favorite Quotes

[randmc]

If this hasn't already been created , post you favorite quotes or personal philosophy in this thread.

I'll start us off:

1. "Stupid is, as stupid does"

2 "Those who hesitate are left behind."

3 "People want what they can't have."

4 "Knowledge is power, power is pain. If you don't understand, I won't try to explain."

5. "People tend to dislike what their minds can't comprehend."

[stevie]

'you laugh at me because im different, i laugh at you because youre all the same'

randomly true

[randmc]

^^that's one of my favorite quotes because it is true

[Bouter Boogie]

The one I use in my signature is my favorite one at the moment I also like "Veni, vidi, vicious" instead of "Veni, vidi, vici" I think that one is brilliant

- BB

[6ft 4]

'you laugh at me because im different, i laugh at you because youre all the same'

randomly true

ugh hate that quote.

Basically its an excuse for social outcasts.

[rob47]

"Drugs are bad, mmkay?"

"without evil there could be no good so it must be good to be evil sometimes"


ahaha the southpark influence. 

[stevie]

ugh hate that quote.

Basically its an excuse for social outcasts.

try this quote -

'*** off'

[Etude]

"Insects that are merely noisome like to think that they can also sting."

 

[gilad]

man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak.

a quote that stresses the importance of being pro-active in my opinion, and the value of experiencing the world.

[Floristan]

I think this one's particularly apropos to piano study:

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

[bernhard]

They know everything. They’re experts because they’ve done a course. My view is that they are so certain about what they say they can’t know very much. Nor do they sound very sensible or balanced, not when they’re threatening all the time, sometimes with death.

(Simon Carr on nutritionists – but equally applicable to religious zealots).

[bernhard]

And here is another one:

"It's a good idea, but it's a new idea; therefore, I fear it and must reject it."
(Homer Simpson)

[thalbergmad]

"When they hear the tourist coaches arrive, they drop their transistor radios and pick up their bows and arrows"

Arthur C Clarke about some "lost" tribe.

[bernhard]

"Drugs are bad, mmkay?"

Reality is a crutch for people who cannot deal with drugs (Lily Tomlin)

Cocaine is not addictive. I should know. I have been taking it for over 30 years (Talullah Bankhead)

Never drink water. Fish f*** in it (W. C. Fields)

[thalbergmad]

"They look like Tarzan, walk like Jane and smell like Cheetah"

Ronald Reagen on hippies.

[bernhard]

Happiness can’t buy money.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.

Quick, Cheap or Good. Choose Two. (advice regarding computers)

It's possible to do that. If you've got a basket with 3 oranges in it and you take 5 out, then you have to put 2 oranges in again in order for it to be empty.
  (Peter Gutmann)


Consistency is required in some cases but not in others.

You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me
(George Bush?)

[leahcim]

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)

Larry Wall.

I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did. [on the similarity of Denis Leary's act with his own]

Lets talk about abortion, lets talk about child killing and see if I cant get some chuckles, lets talk about mass murder of unborn children and see if we cant coaless into one big gutlaugh… hahahaha...

Wow, I’ve never seen a issue so divisive, its like a civil war isn’t it, even amongst my friends, who are all intelligent, they're totally divided, some of my friends believe that these pro-life people are annoying idiots, other of my friends think these pro-life people, are evil @#$s… how are we going to come to a consensus?… you should hear some of the arguments around my house… they're annoying, they're evil, they're idiots, they're @#$$s! Brothers, sisters come together, for once can we all just hold hands, come together and think of them and evil-annoying-idiot-#@$@s. I beseech you. But that’s me…

Bill Hicks

[6ft 4]

Bill Hicks and Stephen Wright quotes r where its at.


All Stephen Wright:

"How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?"

"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now."

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. "

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."

[bernhard]

"What year did Jesus think it was?"
(George Carlin)


"Religion easily—has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
(George Carlin)

"In the begining there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it."
(Dave Thomas)
 
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?"
(George Deacon)

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
(Quentin Crisp)

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
(Peter O'Toole)

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
(Mariah Carey)

[adamzampa7575]

I prefer to walk with a friend in the dark than to be alone in the light. (Helen Keller)

[j_tour]

"Most original people are forced to devote all their time to plagiarizing.  Their only difficulty is that if they have a spark of wit or wisdom themselves, they're given no credit."

— Wm Gaddis, The Recognitions

[themeandvariation]

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.” — Dmitri Shostakovich.

[joe000]

"Religion easily—has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
(George Carlin)

Indeed.

JOE

[gipsypiano]

One of my own quotes:

you are
THE ONE
you think
I AM


This one I made up about 2 years ago and I had this written on my backpack for some time already, works great if I do my gypsy style life travelling.

this quite new one:

a country without a king
is like a chicken
without a head.


Have a nice sunday:)