Wise sentences

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:16 pm

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -Mark Twain

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:24 pm

I'm not so fond of quotes since one-liners tend to share the same oversimplifications as commercial slogans do, but one I like is the one I have in my sig.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:33 pm

Well, um, on that note-

"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
-John Huston

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
-Plato

"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. "
-Gioacchino Rossini

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
-Gore Vidal

"Always be yourself. Unless you suck."
-Joss Whedon

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it."
-W.C. Fields

CONSERVATIVE, n.
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
-Devil's dictionary

"If Your not a liberal at 30, you've got no heart. If you're still a liberal at 40, you've got no brain"
-Winston Churchill

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
-Orson Wells

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art"
-Tom Stoppard

“Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."
-Robin Williams

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it.”
-E.B.White

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:36 pm

P.S.- I just happen to have a lot of quotes, so I just threw them together (that's only a tiny sample of my collection, though). Some of them really hit the mark.

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:10 am

- You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams

- Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30

Nar · Post by **Nar** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:38 am

I forgot very important one :

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde

Very important to everyone who spends his/her whole day at school....

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:40 am

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

Intergalactic · Post by **Intergalactic** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:02 pm

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
- Johnson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

Repent · Post by **Repent** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:02 pm

Someone set up us the bomb!!!!!

"All your base are belong to us"

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:40 pm

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination
Voltaire

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post
George Bernard Shaw

How much has to be explored and discarded
before reaching the naked flesh of feeling!
Claude Debussy!

Place your desire beyond reach and you recreate it endlessly.
Andre Breton

frogus23 · Post by **frogus23** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:37 am

"There's no stopping the cretins from hopping, you can't stop beating for all the hopping cretins" - Ramones (Dee Dee probably)

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:08 am

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." -Mark Twain

Nar · Post by **Nar** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:31 pm

'Life is neither better nor worse than our dreams. It's just complitly different.'

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:46 pm

A Shakespearean quotation, eh?

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
-Hamlet

arno_v · Post by **arno_v** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:35 pm

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
Ghandi

frogus23 · Post by **frogus23** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:13 pm

[QUOTE=Vicsun]There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
-Hamlet[/QUOTE]
Oooh I do like that one...Hamlet is absolutely packed with good ones, but I wont bore you by pasting them...I like the quintessence of dust monologue the best...

dark_raven · Post by **dark_raven** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:27 pm

the curse of man is as follows:
1)pride infects the human nature
2)greed has an iron grip on man's heart
3)jelocy poisons the soul
-ÐR

Nar · Post by **Nar** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:01 pm

'If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.'

"The Hobbit"
J. R. R. Tolkien

This one is very, very wise...

CM · Post by CM » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:41 pm

Churchill Need I Say More?

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Lastly one by Khalil Gibran:

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

Bloodthroe · Post by **Bloodthroe** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:25 pm

"Find something worth dieing for, then live for it."

[QUOTE=Repent]"All your base are belong to us"[/QUOTE]
Nice one.