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A few quotes I found entertaining from L.J. Peter's "Peter's Quotations"
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" until you can pick up a rock.--Wynn Catlin
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-- hoping it will eat him last.--Winston Churchill
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.--Polish Proverb
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat--Will Rogers
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.--Confucious
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding.-- Justice Brandeis
Christ died for our sins! Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?-- Jules Feiffer
When they said Canada, I thought it would be up in the mountains somewhere.--Marilyn Monroe
Anybody else have any quotes?
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" until you can pick up a rock.--Wynn Catlin
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-- hoping it will eat him last.--Winston Churchill
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.--Polish Proverb
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat--Will Rogers
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.--Confucious
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding.-- Justice Brandeis
Christ died for our sins! Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?-- Jules Feiffer
When they said Canada, I thought it would be up in the mountains somewhere.--Marilyn Monroe
Anybody else have any quotes?
Never get me started on quotes... Love quotes... from the humourous:
"Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine."
— David Moulton
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
— Dick Cavett (mocking the TV-violence debate)
"You can't take something off the Internet! It's like taking pee out of a swimming pool."
-Newsradio
"If my dog had eaten as much homework as I said he did, he'd be passing firelogs!"
-Red Green Show
Women! Can't live with them...pass the beer nuts.
-Norm (Cheers)
To the bewildering:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
— Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
— Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
-Re: The Wizard of Oz
To the romantic:
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao-Tzu (570?-490? B.C.)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-William Butler Yeats
To the profound:
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
vita non est vivere sed valere vita est
-Latin proverb
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
-Joseph Roux
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King, Jr
"Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine."
— David Moulton
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
— Dick Cavett (mocking the TV-violence debate)
"You can't take something off the Internet! It's like taking pee out of a swimming pool."
-Newsradio
"If my dog had eaten as much homework as I said he did, he'd be passing firelogs!"
-Red Green Show
Women! Can't live with them...pass the beer nuts.
-Norm (Cheers)
To the bewildering:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
— Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
— Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
-Re: The Wizard of Oz
To the romantic:
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao-Tzu (570?-490? B.C.)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-William Butler Yeats
To the profound:
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
vita non est vivere sed valere vita est
-Latin proverb
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
-Joseph Roux
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King, Jr
This is one i found freaky and funny at the same time:
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
--Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Then there is this:
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
--Adlai E. Stevenson Jr, Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
--Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Then there is this:
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
--Adlai E. Stevenson Jr, Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
"The principle of worship is pride. It is rdiculous to address Elohim as did Job, Jeremiah, David, Solomon, Turqety. Prayer is a false act. The best way to please him is indirect, more in keeping with our strength. It consists in making our race happy. There are no two ways of pleasing Elohim. The concept of the good is indivisible. Since virtue in little is virtue in much, I allow mention of the example of maternity. To please his mother, a son will not proclaim to her that she is modest, radiant, that he will behave himself so as to merit most of her praises. He does otherwise. Instead of saying it himself, he reminds her by his actions, rids himself of that sadness that puffs up Newfoundland dogs. One must not confuse Elohim's goodness with triviality. Each is to be presumed. Familiarity breeds contempt; veneration breeds the opposite. Work destroys misuse of the feelings."
-Isidore Ducasse, on God, from his Poesies.
Bill:
Cheer up, Jim. You're thinking of a quotation,
"Abandon hope, all ye that enter here." I used to
learn quotations; they are awfully genteel. A fellow
named Shakespeare used to make them. But there is n't
any sense in them. What's the use of saying "ye" when
you mean "you"? Don't be thinking of quotations, Jim.
Lord Dunsany, a play by.
-Isidore Ducasse, on God, from his Poesies.
Bill:
Cheer up, Jim. You're thinking of a quotation,
"Abandon hope, all ye that enter here." I used to
learn quotations; they are awfully genteel. A fellow
named Shakespeare used to make them. But there is n't
any sense in them. What's the use of saying "ye" when
you mean "you"? Don't be thinking of quotations, Jim.
Lord Dunsany, a play by.
Nothing is imposiible for STUPENDOUS MAN!!
-Calvin.
-Calvin.
"religion is poison" -- mao zedong
"Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
-- Karl Marx, from Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?" -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell', avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history' -- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!" -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate -- and quickly." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"While the state exists there will be no freedom;
When freedom exists there will be no state." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, "The State and Revolution"
"It is better to die on your feet then to live on your knees" -- Emiliano Zapata
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine" -- Che Guevera
"There is no freedom without the freedom to say no" -- Michael Rivero
"Secerecy is the beginning of tyranny" -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Humans, at this point, are definitely not prepared for communism but they are definitely prepared for the road to it." -- marxman, russia.com/forums
"Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
-- Karl Marx, from Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?" -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell', avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history' -- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!" -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate -- and quickly." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage." -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"While the state exists there will be no freedom;
When freedom exists there will be no state." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, "The State and Revolution"
"It is better to die on your feet then to live on your knees" -- Emiliano Zapata
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine" -- Che Guevera
"There is no freedom without the freedom to say no" -- Michael Rivero
"Secerecy is the beginning of tyranny" -- Lazarus Long (AKA Robert A. Heinlein)
"Humans, at this point, are definitely not prepared for communism but they are definitely prepared for the road to it." -- marxman, russia.com/forums
"‘Truth is a pathless land’. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security – religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.
When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.
Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence."
J. Krishnamurti
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.
When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.
Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence."
J. Krishnamurti
I'm gonna have a hard time rememberin' that last one.
[quote=Isaac Asimov]Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.[/quote]
[quote=Isaac Asimov]Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.[/quote]
Both from the "Foundation" series. The latter might just be my favorite quote ever.
[quote=Robert Heinlein]Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.[/quote]
[quote=Robert Heinlein]Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.[/quote]
[quote=Robert Heinlein]The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.[/quote]
[quote=Mark Twain]I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.[/quote]
[quote=FDR]I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.[/quote]
[quote=George Bernard Shaw]If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.[/quote]
[quote=George Bernard Shaw]My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.[/quote]
[quote=George Bernard Shaw]"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."[/quote]
[quote=Mark Twain]It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.[/quote]
and finally
[quote=Mother Teresa]I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.[/quote]
[quote=Isaac Asimov]Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.[/quote]
Both from the "Foundation" series. The latter might just be my favorite quote ever.
[quote=Robert Heinlein]Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.[/quote]
[quote=Robert Heinlein]Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.[/quote]
[quote=Robert Heinlein]The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.[/quote]
[quote=Mark Twain]I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.[/quote]
[quote=FDR]I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.[/quote]
[quote=George Bernard Shaw]If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.[/quote]
[quote=George Bernard Shaw]My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.[/quote]
[quote=George Bernard Shaw]"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."[/quote]
[quote=Mark Twain]It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.[/quote]
and finally
[quote=Mother Teresa]I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.[/quote]
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