Your favourite quotes

[I'm Your God Now]

"Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route" - Steven Wright


"What fucking use is that? Can I Eat it? Drink it? Smoke it? Snort it? Fuck it? No, then it's worthless." - Me on a drunken rant.

[The_librarian]

"Everything I know makes me believe Imo is in the order which is inherent, amazingly, in all things, and in the way the universe opens to our questioning. WhenI see the shinning path over the lagoon, on an eveninglike this, at the end of a good day, I believe"

"in Imo?" said the girl.

This got a smile."Perhaps. I just believe. You know, in things generally. That work too. Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course,neither is science"

Terry Pratchett, Nation.

[Kirsten]

I used to have a mild obsession with Big Che when I was 13 or 14. Here are my favourite quotes from him:


If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.



At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.




I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. (While facing his assassin)



Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!



I would rather die standing up, than live life on my knees.



To accomplish much you must first lose everything.



We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.



Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.



Silence is argument carried out by other means.



~ Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

[GoddamnElectric]

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none

Benjamin Franklin

[UncleDave]

Originally Posted by Kirsten

I would rather die standing up, than live life on my knees.

That one is actually Emiliano Zapata. Although perhaps paraphrased by Guevara.

Cheers.

[Cam-E]

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
- Groucho Marx

[Hammer]

I don't agree with Ayn Rand's philosophy whole-sale (although I also don't reject it whole-sale like most academics), but she does make some good points with Objectivism. I particularly like this quote:

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason, Purpose, Self-esteem.

And despite his reputation, de Sade is probably my favorite French philosopher:

I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.

Sex without pain is like food without taste.

[Eulonima]

"I may be a bastard, but im not a FUCKING bastard" - Seth Gecko/Dusk til dawn

dunno, just always stuck

[Kirsten]

Originally Posted by UncleDave

That one is actually Emiliano Zapata. Although perhaps paraphrased by Guevara.

Cheers.

Correctomundo
I've always associate it more with Che though!


Todays quote(s) of the day, are:

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren


It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

[crazydiamond85]

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day - Frank Sinatra

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered - George Best

Work is the curse of the drinking classes - Oscar Wilde

[Eulonima]

I do not aim with my hand.
He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my Eye.

I do not shoot with my hand.
He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my Mind.

I do not kill with my hand.
He who kills with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my Heart.

Dark Tower Book 3 "The Waste lands"

[empty_inbetween]

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson


Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. - Charles Bukowski


I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe


If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. - Sylvia Plath

[Bunnylingus]

Man, theres some amazing pratchett ones Ill find.

Always liked - 'as dawns grey fingers infiltrated the night'. Sue Townsend, from an Adrian Mole book. might not be exactly right, but I dont have it to hand.

[Eulonima]

my favorite pratchett one of all time is

"Theres no justice, theres Just...us..."

[Hammer]

"May you live in Interesting Times" is a good Pratchett one, although it was a Scottish and Chinese saying before he got to it