Famous Quotes

[SolyWack 482]

Ill be honest with you, I just want more qoutes to throw around so i look smart (-er than i already am, haha). So heres how we will do it: each new post needs 1-3 quotes that either the quote itself is famous, the person who said it is famous, or both. No quotes from your 6th grade English teacher.

 

Ill start:

 

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse" - Henry Ford

 

"When ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise" - Thomas Gray

 

"If you know your enemy, and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of one hundred battles" - Sun Tzu

[Guest]

"... you know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Because the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all." - Thomas Angelo

Edited June 30, 2015 by Guest

[Ninja(Pinkie)Midget 180]

Glad I did a search for this.  I was hoping someone would have started this already.  So here are my first 3, from George Carlin *language alert!*

 

On Mickey Mouse

"I hope Mickey dies, lonely and forgotten behind the baseboard of soiled bathroom in a poor neighborhood.  With his hand in Goofy's pants.

 

On Flamethrowers

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done."

 

Waffles Vs Pancakes

"And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National Institute of Pancakes: It reads, and I quote, “Fuck waffles."

[Aurora Rains 164]

"When made equal to man woman becomes his superior" Albert Einstein 

 

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together"  Marilyn Monroe

 

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever" Ghandi 

[Foliha 395]

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx

 

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Inigo Montoya

Edited June 30, 2015 by Foliha

[P-Jay 1,987]

"Do you think if good things lasted forever, would people still appreciate them?" 

                                                                                             ~Calvin and Hobbes

 

"To be the best, you must first accept that your not the best, and strive to become better." 

                                                                                            ~Zoro (i think XD)

[Codelyy 1,281]

"This is not war, this is pest control!"~ Dalek Sec

 

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't"~ Lyall Watson

[nolongerabout 403]

A female member of parliament once accused Churchill of being drunk during a speech. He replied with;

"Madame that may be true, but in the morning I shall be sober whereas you will still be ugly".

 

"Being born in a stable does not make a man a horse".- Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.

 

"All is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds". Candide, by Voltaire.

Edited June 30, 2015 by ForthEorl

[SolyWack 482]

Excellent, I'll add three more.

 

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

 

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody, is to trust them" - Ernest Hemingway

 

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this." - Karl Marx

 

(That last ones a personal favorite)

Edited July 2, 2015 by AppleJack_Wack

[P-Jay 1,987]

"I prayed for a bike, but I know god doesn't work that way, so I stole a bike, and asked for forgiveness"

                                                                                                                                       ~Al Pacino

[sweetolebob18 724]

"3 things can not long be hidden: The sun, the moon and the truth" Buddha

 

"You say that I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself.  I am vast, I contain multitudes" Walt Whitman (IIRC)

 

"The future will not only be stranger than we imagine, it will be stranger than we can imagine" Arthur C Clarke + "A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

 

+ somebody who ICR defined an intelligent alien as "someone you could trust to take out the garbage & not eat it"

[#1FluttershyFan 206]

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits but I see you are unarmed." -William Shakespeare 

[Film Reel 75]

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran

[APegLegPirate 168]

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke

 

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

 

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein

Edited July 2, 2015 by APegLegPirate

[Tao 6,719]

Last Unicorn

 

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

 

“It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”

 

“there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.”

 

[SparklingSwirls 21,261]

Heh, I like this one: "There are only two types of people in the world. Strive to be the third." -Adam Bohn

[Alto 437]

 "I reject your reality and substitute my own. - Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

[Randimaxis 8,633]

"Tragedy is when I stub my toe; comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die." - Mel Brooks

[Gearbox10mm 794]

"Speak softly and carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt

 

"From my cold, dead hands." - Charlton Heston

 

"Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?" - Ted Nugent 

[Lisa 5,552]

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russel

[Ochre_Dust 329]

"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs." 

    — Rhetoric by Charles James Napier (attributed), 1843, during his governorship in British India

 

"There are only four questions of importance, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the soul made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is this: only love."

     - Don Juan

 

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” 
― C.S. Lewis

Edited July 3, 2015 by Ochre_Dust

[P-Jay 1,987]

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win." 

                                                                                                                                ~Gandhi

[Guest]

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left" -Bertrand Russell