Interesting Quotes

[Disco Muppet]

Evening folks.
We've had movie quotes, air traffic controller quotes, US military manual quotes, and lots more.
How about some thoughtful/intellectual quotes that people like/find interesting or thought provoking?

Here are a few that I like...

"The true power of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who oppose it to imitate it" Adolf Hitler

"The Bible has some notable poetry in it...and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies" Mark Twain

"Tolerance has become so important that no exception is tolerated" Charles Colson

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened" Dr Seuss

And clubagreenies sig. love it.
Note that these quotes don't necessarily mean I support the people who said them, I just find them interesting.
Cheers
Muppet

[Cobber]

It's not one that is particularly intellectual, but one that I can't really argue with :

'There's nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll' (John Lennon)

The other is:
'In love, all life's contradictions will dissolve and disappear' (Rabindranath Thukur)

:BigThumb:

[Tombie]

"Whatever you are: Be a good one."

[Sparksdisco]

money is not everything, As long as you have it.

nobody gives a **** about what you do

A mountian starts with one stone

[lebanon]

From Khalil Gibran one of our poets, painters, sculpturers and thinkers

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." From the Prophet

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

[lebanon]

From Antoine de saint Exupèry the writer of the Little Prince

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. "

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

[bob10]

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― Omar Khayyám (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2742325.Omar_Khayy_m), رباعيات خيام (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1231363)



“A book of verses underneath the bough
A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness
And wilderness is paradise now.”
― Omar Khayyám (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2742325.Omar_Khayy_m), The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Euphranor and Salaman and Absal (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1231363)


“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2742325.Omar_Khayy_m), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1231363)


As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.”
― Omar Khayyám (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2742325.Omar_Khayy_m), Quatrains (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1231363)

[sheerluck]

From a guy who knew how to put together a thought provoking line or two - Mahatma Ghandi:

'Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth'

[The Cone of Silence]

One I always say with my mate before a big ocean race, particularly the Sydney to Hobart when one can almost be guaranteed some dangerous conditions:

"When I see the sea once more
will the sea have seen or not seen me ?" - Pablo Neruda

[Redback]

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."


"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

Douglas Adams

[Disco Muppet]

"Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once."
- Evan Esar

"You can't have a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER."
- Frank Zappa

Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best. - Townes Van Zandt

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant person in an argument."
- William McAdoo

"It's not that I'm antisocial. I just don't like you."
- Unknown

"Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk."
- Unknown

[Basil135]

"Never loose sight of the bigger picture. Never loose sight of what you set out to achieve"


Give you a hint... it was in a TV commercial a long time ago... ;)

[Disco Muppet]

"Never loose sight of the bigger picture. Never loose sight of what you set out to achieve"


Give you a hint... it was in a TV commercial a long time ago... ;)

Sounds like something a Bank would say :p

[Basil135]

Sounds like something a Bank would say :p

You are wise beyond your years, my young friend... :D

[Disco Muppet]

You are wise beyond your years, my young friend... :D

Perhaps, but I was assisted by google :wasntme:
I have seen the ad though :)

[sheerluck]

You are wise beyond your years, my young friend... :D

Yes, is this a new deep, philosophical and sophisticated Muppet that we're seeing here, or will normal service resume shortly? :D

[Disco Muppet]

Yes, is this a new deep, philosophical and sophisticated Muppet that we're seeing here, or will normal service resume shortly? :D

Hey! I'm the pinnacle of sophistimacation! :soapbox:
I don't want to talk to you no more! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!

On a more civilised note :p

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

--Nelson Mandela

[Cobber]

it was in a TV commercial a long time ago... ;)the quote I remember from a commercial most clearly is this:

'Charter boat? What Charter boat?!' :D

[bushrover]

Thomas Jefferson -

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors

[bob10]

Yoda, Jedi Master, wise, He is, Bob

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[Eevo]

Who dares wins
SASR motto


Luck favours the bold.

[Basil135]

"Laugh it up, Fuzzball" - for daughter #2

"Why do you ask, Two Dogs" - for daughter #1

[schuy1]

to know one knows nothing is to be truely wise .Anon

[mikehzz]

You can't know you know nothing, because it means you know 1 thing...that you know nothing...is Anon trying to trick us? :)

[Disco Muppet]

Typical Anon, ****ing with people.

To err is human. To make the same mistake twice is stupid.

[digger]

"NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE"
(MAD MAX)

"HE CANT BE NOWHERE HE MUST BE SOMEWHERE"
a quote of tribal elders consistantly used (over the 15 years I was involved with them and the area), who are asked if they know where someone is and they dont... It is their way of saying that they dont know where he is but he is still around the area.. But I love that (and the fact they and most in the far north of the state refer to all vehicles as "MOTOR CARS" still :) )


“WHEN I WAS A BOY OF FOURTEEN, MY FATHER WAS SO IGNORANT I COULD HARDLY STAND TO HAVE THE OLD MAN AROUND. BUT WHEN I GOT TO BE TWENTY-ONE, I WAS ASTONISHED AT HOW MUCH HE HAD LEARNED IN SEVEN YEARS.”-
Mark Twain

[Fifth Columnist]

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Spike Millgan

[Homestar]

There are lots of variations to my favourite...

"People are dumb" or as my Farther always said (In his strong Yorkshire accent) - "There's nowt so dumb as folk"

Then there's 'The Yorkshireman's Creed'
" 'Ear all, see all, say nowt"
" Eat all, sup all, pay nowt"
" And if 'tha ever do owt for nowt, the do is for tha sen"

Translates to
Hear everything, see everything, say nothing
Eat everything, drink everything, pay nothing
And if ever you anything for nothing, then do it for yourself

Cheers - Gav

[korg20000bc]

When you can balance a tack hammer on your head you'll be able to head off your opponent with a balanced attack
- The Sphinx

“I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis


"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
— J.R.R. Tolkien


"Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Disco Muppet]

Losers complain about 'their best'.
Winners go home to **** the prom queen.
- Sean Connery, The Rock

[korg20000bc]

...

[roverrescue]

“Mankind owns four things
That are no good at sea:
Rudder, anchor, oars,
And the fear of going down.”

― Antonio Machado

[wrinklearthur]

so long as you put a minimum of 1 part on the new car from the old car my belief is that the soul from the old one lives on!
...

[BMKal]

From my long departed Irish grandmother .................

"All the world's mad save thee and me ............. and I've my doubts about thee".

[korg20000bc]

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
-Sir Charles James Napier

[schuy1]

"It is a long road that has no turn"

"An old dog for the road, A pup for the footpath"

[B.S.F.]

"Land Rovers don't rust."

..Car salesman...

[bob10]

Seamans saying, long ago. " To whistle in a calm will bring a wind, but to whistle on board when the wind is blowing will bring a gale. " Bob

[stallie]

The fool that would persist in his folly will become wise.

William Blake.

[bob10]

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain122378.html)
Mark Twain (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain122378.html)

[bob10]

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain100303.html)
Mark Twain (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain100303.html)

[Fifth Columnist]

1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.
3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left..
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.
12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'
13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.
20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.
22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
25. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
26. Where there's a will, there's relatives.

[Chucaro]

"No matter how hostile the environment in which we are working is, we must never cease to insist that development is about people and not about objects."

Manfred Max Neef

[wrinklearthur]

"Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority."
Capt. Robert Falcon Scott:


"I'm just going outside; I may be away some time."
Capt. L.E.G. Oates:

"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last."
Capt. Robert Falcon Scott:

[bob10]

John Petrie’s Collection of

Winston Churchill Quotes


http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/churchill1.jpg
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

[korg20000bc]

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit- its the only way to be sure...

Ellen Ripley

[korg20000bc]

I'll be damned if I let some foreign, graffiti writin', soul suckin', son of a bitch in an oversized cowboy hat and boots take my friend's souls and **** 'em down the visitors toilet!
- Elvis Presley.

[p38arover]

"Never loose sight of the bigger picture. Never loose sight of what you set out to achieve"


Give you a hint... it was in a TV commercial a long time ago... ;)

Hopefully with correct spelling! :p

[Basil135]

Hopefully with correct spelling! :p

Damn....:mad: :censored:


Sorry, Ron...:angel:

[bob10]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend, inside of a dog , it is too dark to read. Groucho Marx . Bob

[Disco Muppet]

"Why do you have so many children?"
"Well Groucho, I love my wife"
"And I love my cigar but I take it out of my mouth every once in a while"
:Rolling:

[Redback]

“For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while.”
― Douglas Adams (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4.Douglas_Adams), The Salmon of Doubt (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/809325)


Baz:D

[TerryO]

While I sit here on my fourth glass of a cheeky little Shiraz I thought I'd quote some other famous drunks.

'Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk, that will teach you to keep your mouth shut.'

Earnest Hemingway

'Being sober on a bus, like, is totally different to being drunk on a bus.'

Ozzy Osbourne

'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly'

Winston Churchill

And for something a bit deaper ...Wars are caused by undefended wealth!

Mr E Hemingway

[Redback]

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken

Oscar Wilde

[adm333]

If you see someone crying, ask if it's because of their haircut ....

[digger]

Winston Churchill, fantastic for quotes...

My favorite from British parliament was apparently as CHURCHILL was aging and yet his reply was apparently very quick...

Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”




some of his quotes would be good if read by todays politicians..

Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.


Theres a few more classics:

some funny;
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

some very very famous;
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

and

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”

[wrinklearthur]

"In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of his equipment facilities. If greater progress were to be made it would be necessary to construct new and different equipment especially designed to measure the cosmic static." Grote Reber

"The Big Bang Is Bunk" Grote Reber
.

[Eevo]

I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

[Eevo]

If you see someone crying, ask if it's because of their haircut ....

haha, i like that

[Disco Muppet]

Bump :) lets have some more words of wisdom folks

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[Brett1066]

Man has two ears but only one tongue, so that he may hear twice as much as he speaks.
Epictetus

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[B92 8NW]

As paraphrased by the late Malcolm Fraser

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[solmanic]

"If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have said 'a faster horse'". Henry Ford.

[Disco Muppet]

The mark of a mature man is a certain scar he bears; the memory of a perfect woman never won, or of a once-true love forever lost. However much he may love you, he is only here because she is not. - Unknown


Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense dancing. - William James


And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light - Dylan Thomas


Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks

[spudboy]

Alcohol and religion are much the same.
Too much of either clouds your judgement.

- Oft repeated by my late grandfather (probably 'stolen' from someone famous)

[BMKal]

All the world's mad, save thee and me.

And I've my doubts about thee.




Often quoted by my long departed Irish grandmother. :)

[sarge270]

It is better to keep ones mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Apparently from the bible but has been paraphrased by Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain