Quote Of The Day

This is a long post, it contains most of my collection of quotes. I think there are some gems in here. I have not read all 86 pages of this thread so there may be some repeats in here. I will read them all at some point.

ENJOY.

The world will end when we get nostalgic for the present.
Frank Zappa

Man plans, god laughs
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."
Alexander Pope

In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is
weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

"To begin, begin."
William Wordsworth

To teach how to live without certainty,
and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief
thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."
Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and
that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash,

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't
want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Rogers

The opposite of depression is expression
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he
resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
-Archibald MacLeish, poet and librarian (1892-1982)

"To be is to do"--Socrates.
"To do is to be"--Jean-Paul Sartre.
"Do be do be do"--Frank Sinatra.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the
edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

"...who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, 'You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass.' ... you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows."
Bill Bryson

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it
turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-Anne Lamott, writer

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the
same.
-Carlos Castenada

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
-Alfred North Whitehead

How quickly our future becomes our past.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations
and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with
human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of
intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well
demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists
grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the
'dumb' animals made for the hills.
-B.R. Myers

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know
Peace
Jimi Hendrix

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
-John Keats

Knowledge is "digested experience"
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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
e.e. cummings

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
Pablo Casals

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the
offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes

"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."
George Carlin

I've got a lot of patience,
That's a lot of patience to lose.
Laura Nyro

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
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"The poor aren't our problem, we're their problem."
Sir Brian Heap

"We don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
Howard Zinn

Reaching Nirvana is difficult.
Reaching Nirvana and not forgetting your zip code is very hard.
-Something I think I heard Ram Dass say.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by
bolts of lightning.
-Bill Watterson

"We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction."
Douglas MacArthur

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the
necessary may speak.
-Hans Hofmann

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in
a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.
-Holmes Rolston

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for
forgiveness.
-Emo Philips

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
-Thomas Paine

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
Dan Rather

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and
the prudence to practice neither.
-Mark Twain

"I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture." – Vincent Van Gogh
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
Voltaire

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely
challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn
between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
-E.B. White

"It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men."
Joyce Kilmer

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and
deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
-William Cowper

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a
man is wise by his questions.
-Naguib Mahfouz

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and
be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is
another theory which states that this has already happened.
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Rice to meet the experience.
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^^very nice collection, Symple

" If you want to find the trith in life, dont pass music by"
- Eric Burdon

"The only proof neede for the existence of God is music"
- Vonnegut

"Saepre Aude"-Dare to Know
-Immanuel Kant

"The worst tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong."
- Wilson Mizner

"Any frontal attack on ignorance is boud to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious posession - their ignorance."
- Hendrik Willem van Loon

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter"
-Jack Benny

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
-Rene Descartes

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
-Charlotte Bronte

"True excellence is rarely found, even more rarely is it cherished."
- Goethe

"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."
- Bergen Baldwin Evans

 

"Hey, you there! With the erection! Stand up so everyone can see!"

 

Quote: Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

"When you're swimmin' in the creek and an eel bites you in your cheek, that's a moray ."

 

Originally posted by Meths:

"Very little of my point was in capital. Admittedly a great deal did contain swearing, but that's because I'm a foul-mouthed asshole. That doesn't invalidate my opinion."

 

Quote: Unknown

"Fuck new friends. If they weren't your friends before, why would you think they would be now?"

 

"If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?"

 

Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.

 

'And the Germans killed the Jews and the Jews killed the Arabs and the Arabs killed the hostages and that is the news'.

Roger Waters - 'Perfect Sense, Part 1'

 

The higher we soar, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly - Friedrich Nietzsche.

 

Very nice!

 

Why thank you...how about another


In the theatre that I call my soul, I always play the starring role.
- The Police, "So Lonely"

 

fighting 4 peace is like fucking 4 virginity

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

-Aristotle

 

This kept me laughing for a while.

 

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When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different . . . we laughed at them. Smug in our certain awareness that . . . communal life must be more difficult even than nuclear family life, which we know, to our very nerve endings, is disastrous. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakeable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.
- - June Jordan

 

One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh - Robert A. Heinlein

 

"Yes!"
- Oprah

 

"Money isn't everything but it's right up there wit oxygen" - Zig Ziglar