The Quote Thread

“You can’t love anyone or anything until you love your own existence, first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. When you love yourself, your own existence, then you love someone who can enhance your existence, share it with you, and make it more pleasurable. When you hate yourself and believe your existence is evil, then you can only hate, you can only experience the shell of love, that longing for something good, but you have nothing to base it in but hatred.”

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
(Vitae Summa Brevis - Ernest Dowson 1859-1930)

The depth of the human expiriance lies within the compassion we have for others. To annoint yourself with the worldly goods will never satisfy the soul as helping someone who needs you. I never knew what true love until i saqw the wonderment of life through my daughters eyes and even though i may feel down ive got a child who thinks im just the awesomest daddy in the whole wide world

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

My Quotes

I dont get even i get Odd

Expiriance is being able to survive your mistakes

See the goodness that others see in you dont become jaded by your own blackness for blackness lurks in the heart of all men

I tried to bask in my own glow instead of tanned my ego got burnt

Profound thoughts rarely happen at oppertune moments they tend to be a result of deep reflection

Societies whims are designed for one thing to keep the populace capitulant

tears of sorrow are a private moment but yet they are felt by everyone that loves you

(The first two are old the rest i made up on the spot and that my freinds just goes to prove that my brain when idle is truely a scarey thought :crazyevil: :crazyevil: :crazyevil: )

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

(Philip K. Dick)

"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you" - Lao Tsu

the lyric of David Crosby's song "Cowboy Movie"

Me and my good partners
we were riding back to our camp
we were feeling very fine
and the air was clear and slightly damp
and we were riding back to have ourselves a party
to celebrate the robbing of the train.

We were talking kind of low and lazy
about not having to go out soon again
you know we hadn't been back home two hours
we heard a hawk cry out in the night
and you know that's a signal from young Billy, who's our sentry

He's saying something here ain't exactly right
so we quick grabbed some of our hardware
stumbled out of our home
in two minutes flat we had found her
an Indian girl all alone

and Eli said, "Let's take her back to the cabin"
I said, "You don't know she might be the law, yeah"
He said, smiling kind of nasty,
"It ain't too damn likely she'll beat me to the draw."

As we were walking back through the darkness,
I heard the Duke, he's our dynamiter, say,
he said, "What's your name, sweet little Indian girl?"
She said, "Raven." and she looked away.
Right then I didn't trust her, no and I said so, oh no.

Now, Eli, he's our fastest gunner
He's kind of mean and young from the South
he said, "Fat Albert, you're getting kind of old and weird now."
"You'd better get your twelve gauge shot gun right out."

Now Eli and the Duke they got down to it
they each wanted the Indian girl for their own
but when they finally got around to asking her
you know she said she'd come to take young Billy home
Eli said he'd kill young Billy
he'd kill the Duke, and probably me too, yeah

The Indian girl said, "Go ahead now do it"
I said "Stop it", and she bit my thumb nearly clean through
and when they finally started to break down the door
I smeared my face up with blood from my thumb
I laid down on the floor and played real good possum

You know I'm crazy but I ain't real dumb
now I'm dying here in Albuquerque
I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw
you know the reason I'm the only man here to tell it
you know that Indian girl, she wasn't an Indian she was the law..

At great risk to life and limb..
I risk a double-post upon a whim..

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This is a quote I heard a very long time ago and it just stuck with me through the years...
We have just enought religion to hate but not enough to love one another.

Here are some of the best quotes.

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." - Confucius

"If you want peace, prepare for war." - Vegetius

"The only thing neccesary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

"Never start a fight, but always finish it."

"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear." - Ferdinand Foch

“…the trappings to what lay beneath all superstition – nothing less than the call to surrender to the view of man as helpless in accomplishing his own ends and dealing with the reality of the world around him in order to further his own survival, instead embracing the notion that he existed only at the whim of vague and unknowable forces that can only be persuaded to stay their cruel and merciless impulses if man falls to his knees in supplication…
“…Even though people proclaimed with complete confidence that such mysterious forces were fundamentally unknowable to mere mortals, they nonetheless passionately believed, without evidence, that they could be certain that … faith was all that was necessary – as if faith were a mystical plaster with the power to patch over the yawning holes in their convictions.”

"History is written by the victors."

"It is better to appear stupid and keep your mouth shut, then to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

Tom Waits "Hold On"
They hung a sign up in out town
"if you live it up, you won't
live it down"
So, she left Monte Rio, son
Just like a bullet leaves a gun
With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips
She went and took that California trip
Well, the moon was gold, her
Hair like wind
She said don't look back just
Come on Jim

Oh you got to
Hold on, Hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here
You gotta hold on

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "
Soren Kierkegaard

Can't believe I missed this thread before now...these quotes sort of tie in with Lone Knight's. (at least I think so... )

Someone asked Dorothy Parker for a sentence using "horticulture".

Instantly, she replied: "You can lead a horticulture but you cannot make her think."

"Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion"
St. John Baptist de La Salle

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. "
Mahatma Gandhi

Oops, forgot this one:

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. "
Dorothy Parker

"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. "
Margaret Mitchell

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Murder is always a mistake. . . One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. "

Oscar Wilde

"I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means."
Oscar Wilde

“...harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding …”
“Good intentions, being kind, can encourage the lazy, and motivate sound minds to become indolent. The more help you give them, the more help they need. As long as your kindness is open-ended, they never gain discipline, dignity, or self-reliance. Your kindness impoverishes their humanity.”

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. "
Albert Camus

And now for something completely different (*me* blames Loup_Ombrage for the rampant Monty Pythonisms )

"Oh, what sad times are there when passing ruffians can say "Ni!" at will
to old ladies! There is a pestilence in this land! Nothing is sacred!
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable
economic stress at this period in history!"

"Roger the Shrubber" from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
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" NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is
suprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two
weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our
*three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an
almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no...
*Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as
fear, surprise.... I'll come in again."

"Ximinez" from Monty Python's Flying Circus

"He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
Raymond Chandler

"He's completely unspoiled by failure."
Noel Coward

Since I did some "snarky" quotes last time, here are some more inspiring ones...

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Albert Camus

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
Anon.

"Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you."
Proverbs 4: 7-8

“Morality comes from the top, such as parent to child… You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don’t punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.”

“You must find within yourself the ability to help yourself… only in that way can you truly succeed in life.”

“Life is the future, not the past.”

(all by Terry Goodkind)

..a dog is a man's best friend (- old proverb)

Just remember, always let your conscience be your guide…

http://www.inchoatus.com/Critical%20Essays/Essay--Goodkind's%20Rant.htm
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/critobj.html

Just for balance – I’m sure you understand..

"What you do today is very important. After all, you're exchanging a day of your life for it."
J/G Podleski