Thread: Favorite Quotations

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

-Robert Walser

"I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds."- Michael Faraday

"My word, how mortals take the gods to task!
All their afflictions came from us, we hear,
And what of their own failings?
Greed and folly double the suffering in the lot of man."

-Zeus in Homer's Odyssey

"I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire,—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"- Hamlet

Originally Posted by Phion

Who said that?

I think it was on the Friendly Atheist site

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

-Charles Bukowski

That one is just excellent XD

"The state has no business in the bedrooms of its people" -Pierre Trudeau.

Real eyes realize real lies

- 9gag

Originally Posted by Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Originally Posted by Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.

Originally Posted by Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Originally Posted by Niels Bohr

No, no you're not thinking. You're just being logical.

Originally Posted by Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies

Originally Posted by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry. When times change the two can meet again on a higher plane as friends

poop

Today is the tomorrow that we worried about yesterday

~Unknown

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it

~ can't remember...

Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticise them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

~ can't remember this either...

The third one was Jack Handey I believe.

"The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness."- Emerson

I love dream quotes

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
~Walt Disney

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~Colin Powell

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
~Harriet Tubman

I always liked these quotes-

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Holding in anger is like holding a hot coal you intend to hurl at someone; you are the one getting burned.
-Ancient Wisdom

"Buy the ticket, take the ride." -Hunter S. Thompson

"Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific Ocean!" -Captain Ahab

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" ~Lao Tzu

"The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself." -Wear Sunscreen [Mary Schmich]

"If it reeks of truth, the glands will obey." -...

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
- G. C. Lichtenberg

The devil has many forms, some designed to deceive the young, some designed to deceive the old and serious. If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not, perhaps, the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment?...And it is from just such condemnations, when widespread, that wars proceed. I have never heard of a war that proceeded from dance halls.
- Bertrand Russell

Such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

-George Orwell

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

"In certain situations , replying 'nothing' when asked what one is thinking may be pretense in a man. Those who are loved are well aware of this. But if that reply is sincere, if it symbolizes the odd state of the soul in which the void becomes eloquent, in which the chain of daily gestures is broken, in which the heart vainly seeks the link that will connect it again, then it is as it were the first sign of absurdity."

-- Albert Camus

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

"No matter where you go - there ya are" - Buckaroo Bansai

"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."- Emerson

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."- Emerson

"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age."- Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."- Einstein

Let it be. -John Lennon

Originally Posted by apurtell

Let it be. -John Lennon

I think you should have kept your first post