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I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death...
I have no idea who said this, but I try to live the message:laugh:

Well, since I'm finishing my thesis (yes, I started studying again while I was away) I would like to quote the person I'm writing about:

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Oscar Wilde

That being said, I would also point out another good one:

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
Oscar Wilde

That last one.... :laugh:

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -HG Wells

A few quotes I had in mind:

"If we don't end war, war will end us." -H.G. Wells

"In peace, the sons bury their fathers but in war, the fathers bury their sons." -Croesus

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

lol That Oscar Wilde sure was something.

"I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist."
–Nikita Khrushchev

I was just looking at some Groucho Marx lines, some of these are pretty good

"Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age."

"I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks."

"You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker you are."

"We took pictures of the native girls but they weren't developed. But we're going back again in a couple of weeks!"

"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home."

"We'll set up a 75¢ meal that will knock their eyes out. After we knock their eyes out, we can charge them anything we want."

"I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

"Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!"

:laugh:

Well, I don't know if someone has written this before me and I don't recall exactly how it was said, but it was something like this:

"There are two things which are infinite, the universe and human idiocy. But I'm not sure about the first..." -Albert Einstein-

Speaking of Einstein...

"The secret to creativity is being good at hiding your sources."

it went something like that. Doesn't seem very Einstein-ish, but i always knew he was weird.

A few more I like:


Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
- William Blake

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
- Charles Dickens

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
-Willam Blake-


Q:"Where are you from?"
A:"Originally?"
-some movie-


"Men are like wine: some impove with age and others turn to vinegar"
-unknown (generally speaking)-

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." -Thomas Jefferson

"Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place." -Angela Carter

" No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn "
- Jim Morrison (The Doors) -

Andurbal wrote:" No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn "
- Jim Morrison (The Doors) -

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through' narrow chinks of his cavern."
-William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

A few quotes from, 'The Five People you meet in heaven' by Mitch Albom:

"Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down." -Passage from the book

"Listen to me, lad. War is no game. If there's a shot to be made, you make it, you hear? No guilt. No hesitation. You fire and you fire and you don't think about who you're shootin' or killin' or why, y'hear me? You want to come home again, you just fire. You don't think." -Mickey Shea (Eddie's uncle)

"War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them too. The things they saw, the things they did. They sometimes just want to forget." - Passage from the book

" It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich." -Alan Alda

Since Fable insists on puncturing all my flame bait, I guess it's time to step things up a bit...

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johan W. von Goethe


Edit: Oh, and I just had to add this one...

When the people fear the government you have tyranny...when the government fears the people you have liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Edit again: ...and another one. This one is so great my eyes water.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Man, they don't make presidents like they used to.

Silur wrote:Man, they don't make presidents like they used to.

Lincoln was elected by the community of US male voters, so if I understand you correctly, the problem today is that USian female voters (who got the vote many years later) do not know how to pick good presidents. Or have I misused logic, in an attempt to create humor? You think?

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -Justice Louis Brandeis

"Since the general civiization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -James Madison

I'm very fond of Madison's discerning intellect. Unlike Jefferson, he didn't know a little about a lot, but what he knew, he considered in depth.

fable wrote:Lincoln was elected by the community of US male voters, so if I understand you correctly, the problem today is that USian female voters (who got the vote many years later) do not know how to pick good presidents. Or have I misused logic, in an attempt to create humor? You think?

No, I agree. It's been all downhill since the time of the ancient Greeks. First we allow just any man to vote, and then women. What's next, our pets? On the other hand, I think Paris Hilton's lapdog is better equipped to select a good president than she is.

To not get evicted for post-herding or spamming or what-not, back on subject. Whenever you're depressed and life looks so bad it can't get any worse, you can always stand corrected by Nietzsche...

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

'If in any given situation it's possible for something to go wrong, it will', Murphy's Law - Anon

Here's a funny one, and it actually comes from a Robin Williams movie, believe it or not - Man of the year. I am in full agreement, but unfortunately the politicians might be in need of change long before they get to be elected if this criteria holds:

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.