I'm quoting, here (no spam)

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 12:00 am

"There is no beginning or end..Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift"

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:44 pm

Time to take this old horse out of the stable once again, I think. To quote from my original post: "Feel free to add your own choice quotes. One rule: you have to state the originator of your quote, if known. (So if you make it up, you have to own up to it.)" And try to keep 'em clever. If we wanted a topic of stupid quotes, we could create a political thread.

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?" -Stanislaw Lem

"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusement." -Baudelaire

"Brass bands are all very well in their place: outdoors, and several miles away." -Thomas Beecham

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:38 pm

I am God - Obike Fixx

God is dead - Nietche (sp?)

When i'm 15, i'm not stupid anymore - Rigo2000

Memento mori (remember your mortality, or remember to die) - Don't know

Mundus vult decipi (the world wants to be decieved) - Don't know

Randolph Carter · Post by **Randolph Carter** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:33 pm

"If at first you don't succeed, keep sucking till you do suck seed."
-Curly Howard

R.C

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:03 pm

@UU, "Mundi vult decipi" was the motto coined by American writer James Branch Cabell, back in the 1920s. I don't know how you came by it, but doing so allows you to get away with misspelling Nietzsche's name.

Once.

Do it again, and you will be forced to work with mimes.

And now, your public station would like to bring you several musical quotes:

"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." -Bertrand Russell

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." -HL Mencken

"I would like to hear Elliot Carter's 4th String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony." -James Sellars

Randolph Carter · Post by **Randolph Carter** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 6:21 am

"Facts are stupid things" and the legendary "Ketchup is a vegetable."
-Ronald Wilson Reagan

R.C

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:07 am

Guys, try to keep the quotes clever. If you want thread for dumb quotes, that we can do, too.

der Moench · Post by **der Moench** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:07 am

Originally posted by fable
"Brass bands are all very well in their place: outdoors, and several miles away." -Thomas Beecham

Silly fable, you quoted the same thing on the last page.

Well, perhaps it bears repeating. And just so I'm not spamming ...

Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind,
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird, of flow'r, or shape, which it doth latch;
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favor or deformed'st creature,
The mountain, or the sea, the day, the night,
The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.

Incapable of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus maketh my eye untrue.

We needn't say the author's name - I'm sure we all can guess.

Peace.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 5:44 pm

Wrong thread: you want the poetry one.

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:55 am

Do it again, and you will be forced to work with mimes.

NOOOOOOOOO

And some more quotes:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup (I love this one)

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato

"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins

"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus

"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:48 pm

@Ihateusernames: quality, not quantity. There's no joy in reading a list simply pulled verbatim from the Web. Find those that really sing to you.

Lazarus · Post by **Lazarus** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:43 am

Gosh, I'm kinda scared to even try my input, as fable has reprimanded the last three posts!

But the discussion of Arnold as governor reminded me of this one:

“What’s the point of having a democracy if people go around voting wrong!?” **** Soloman

I could write a paper on the implications of that statement!

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:46 pm

Wow: guess somebody released a flock of pigeons over somebody else's favorite statue of Ayn Rand.

Good quote, though. The kind that makes you think. Here's another I've long enjoyed:

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man." -Bertrand Russell

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:47 pm

Well, I found one.

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket or breaks my leg."
- Thomas Jefferson

I hate when people tell me what to believe, or argue about this subject. Each man, (woman,) his (her) belief.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:15 pm

Originally posted by IHateUsernames
Well, I found one.

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket or breaks my leg."
- Thomas Jefferson

You've hit one of my favorites on the subject of religion--wish Chanak was still around (I understand he's pretty busy, these days) to see it and comment. I've been very fond for years of this one:

"I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -Susan B Anthony

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:52 am

Originally posted by fable
"I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -Susan B Anthony

Nice one!
There's nothing that can make you dislike religion quite as much as spending a year or two in an (almost) catholic school. And just so that I'm not spamming here's one of my personal favorites:

Please do not throw cigarette butts in our urinal. We don't piss in your ashtrays!

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:09 am

I hope this will be of sufficient quality fable

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
-George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1

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

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
-Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:06 am

Originally posted by IHateUsernames
God is dead - Nietzsche

Nietzsche is dead - God

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 7:54 pm

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." -Marcel Proust

dios · Post by **dios** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 3:19 pm

"You'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone for the times they are a-changing

-Bob Dylan