Quotes

[Jonsi]

Here's a list of random quotes I just compiled from a book I have consisting of exactly 2,548 quotes. I'd post this at a later date had I saw the Mike Tyson thread before I spent 40 minutes reading tons of quotes and extracting the ones I like, hah... but here's just a few. Some are serious, some are funny... it's all over the map:

"Only the shallow know themselves."
-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?"
-Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900)

"I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries."
-H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Most of my friends are not Christians, but I have some who are Anglicans or Roman Catholics."
-Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958)

"The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless."
-Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794)

"Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."
-J.P. Donleavy

"While you're saving your face you're losing your ass."
-President Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973)

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-General George Patton (1885-1945)

"Humorists always sit at the children's table."
-Woody Allen

"When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'"
-Rita Rudner

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth- anonymously and posthumously."
-Thomas Sowell

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
-George Jean Nathan (1882-1958)

"I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest."
-Steven Pearl

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
-Barry LePatner

"A censor is a man who knows more then he thinks you ought to."
-Granville Hicks (1901-1982)

"Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink."
-Gore Vidal

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
-Wilson Mizner (1876-1933

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."
-George Burns (1896-1996)

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
-Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
-Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

And to bid you adieu,

"There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe."
-George Orwell (1903-1950)

[Opivy]

I'll add a few of my favorites later on

[Jonsi]

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me as i forgot to add this:

Please feel free to add your favorite quotes.

[litta_j]

the grass is always greener on the other side

[high as hell]

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. " - Chuck Palahniuk

"If you feel smart, you aren't challenging yourself enough." -Anonymous


"It's only in drugs or death that we experience anything new and death is just too controling" - Chuck Palahniuk

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddah

"Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." -George Carlin


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[adayinthelife]

"In times of universal deceipt, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

[Rasta_Man]

Originally Posted by adayinthelife

"In times of universal deceipt, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

+ rep.

I was going to put that.

This is my contribution:

"There is no distance between us. No false veil of time or space may intervene."

[Mud]

You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose, demand your right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules and no borders except for those you choose to accept and live by - Corporate