Know any good quotes?

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"Quotes are just a pathetic way of making someone look intelligent."

"Natural selection has not caused a flowering of intelligence or evolution of the spirit, at the first opportunity, we destroy one another like rats trapped in a too-small box." - Isabel Allende

"Only by becoming fire will you ever be free from burning" - David Zindell

"If I were headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher, and get a chocolate teacher instead, and my pupils could study a subject that affected all of them." - Ronald Dahl

"Life isn't a story. It doesn't have a happy ending" - David Zindell

"Seamanship, just like anything else, is an art. It is not something that can be picked up and studied in one's spare time; indeed, it allows one no spare time for anything else." - Thucydides

and ect..

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Sokrates

Know thyself. - Anonymous Ancient Greek saying.

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. (There are tears shed for things and all that is mortal touches the heart.) - Virgil

My friend and companion whom I held dear above all others, dear as myself... -Spoken by Achilles about Patroklos in Homer's Iliad.

I expect you can guess that my current perseveration is the classics.

I always have a quotation for everything- it saves original thinking. - Dorothy L. Sayers

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."- Albert Einstein

Ugh! - Pre-historic Cave Man
Ugh! - Post-historic Slob Man

at this juncture, can i be a complete pain in the arse and mention that the title should read "... good quotations". i only mention it as my director of studies has just picked me up on this in my thesis, and i'm cut to the quick. "quote" is the verb; "quotation" is the noun.

so call me an aspie pedant - see if i care.

i thank you.

This quote is from a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburn and isn't all punctuated the way it's supposed to be, but I have it to memory and don't feel like pulling out the book, so...

"But having made me, me He shall not slay. Nor slay nor satiate like those herds of His who laugh and live a little. And their kiss contents them and their loves are swift and sweet. And sure Death grasps and gains them with slow feet. Love they or hate they, strive or bow their knees. And all these end. God hath His will of these... Of me the high God hath not all His will."

And here's another fave from Poe's short story, The Assignation. Ditto on what I said before about the puncuation since this one is memorized as well:

"There are surely other worlds than this. Other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude. Other speculations than the speculations of the sophist. Who then shall call thy conduct into question? who blame thee for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as the wasting away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting energies."

And also my signature for this forum is another favorite of mine.

My personal favorite King quotation:

There's an audience out there, and the key is to kick it in the ass.
--Stephen King

Muaha.



How about some more...

The great are only great because we are on our knees.
--Pierre Joseph Proudhon

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
--Bertrand Russell

Men will cease to commit atrocities only when they cease to believe absurdities.
--Voltaire

Sticking feathers in your butt does not make you a chicken.
--Tyler Durden

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
-- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
-- Mark Twain

And since writing seems to be a recurrent theme:
"Easy reading is damn hard writing." -- my thesis advisor

H.L.Menken

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.


Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

and of course any Ambrose Beirce.

http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/

But when it's history it's called "olds".