quotes

"young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young" caesar augustus

"almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane" h.p. lovecraft

"the most mercyful thing in the world, i think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all it´s contents." h.p. lovecraft

Two from Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.


People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Honesty is the key to a relationship - If you can fake that,
you're in... -- Emo Phillips

"Veni Vedi Vici" - (I came, I saw, I conquered) - Julius Ceaser

"Veni Vedi Veni" - Hugh Hefner

"Veni Vedi Vedi" - The Texas Chainsaw Massacrerer

threadkiller killed the thread...

Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable -- because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup. An English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
CSM..

This is a bit of a long one, but it is from a truely delightful novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, entitled The Dispossessed. I highly reccomend reading it as it just may make you think, and it is an amazing SciFi novel, written by one of the genre's best!



"...of what men deserve, for we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think."

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw.

Threadkiller,

You have some of the best quotes there. I like them.

"If something is hard to do then it's not worth doing, lesson is: never try" - Homer Simpson pearl of wisdom

"It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see" - James Hetfield from Metallica

arabic sayings translated ight not sound the best ever:

"sneaky people rely on others stupidity"

"every pot finds its cover" used to describe people who hang wit same kind of ppl etc..

" dont ask what your country can do for you, but what your country can do for you" - gibran 5alil gibran ( written around 40 years b4 the kennedy speech from his book the prophet)

" people shouldnt b afraid of their governments, governments should b afraid fo their people"

more to come later...

not sure if its been posted but

" man is wise as long as he searches for knowledge, the moment he finds it he becomes a fool" - martin luther

"man is strongest if he thinks himself weakest" martin luther ( i think)

"dont drink warm apple juice chances are its not apple juice" no clue

"dont drink gasoline and try to piss on a fire to put it out" me and a friend

"Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought." -- Milan Kundera (Unbearable Lightness of Being, I believe)

"C'est singulier! Moi, je pense jamais, mes idées pensent pour moi." -- Alphonse de Lamartine

"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it." -- John Perry Barlow

"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." -- [u]Evolution as Fact and Theory[\u] by Stephen Jay Gould

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you." -- Frank Wilczek

"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." -- Gene Spafford

"Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity." -- Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." -- Mark Stephens

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." -- Archimedes


and of course, no quote thread would be complete without a mockery of the usefullness of a quote thread!

"You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quote:

Originally posted by shimavak

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov

very good
nice ones, keep on adding!

Good thread Mikro

ill see what i can find.

Ambition is the last refuge of faliure
There is only one thing worse than being talked about,and thats NOT being talked about

"Life is something that happens while you're busy doing something else" - John Lennon

"If you can't beat them, buy them" (no idea, but probably Microsoft's company motto)

"Soccer is a simple game: 22 men running after a ball and in the end Germany wins" - Gary Lineker

"hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper" sir francis bacon

"history will be kind to me for i intend to write it" winston churchill

"Those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands, those of
you in the more expensive ones rattle your jewelry."
---John Lennon

"Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it" - Monty Python

"Ecce homo, ergo elk" - Monty Python

"...and now to something completely different" - Monty Python

"she turned me into a NEWT!!" ... "I got better".