Post your favorite quotes

[Spacemom]

Here's one of mine.


Here's to the Crazy Ones

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

- Jack Kerouac

[Forkboy]

1. Ok, here's a few I like.

"I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country, or state, to my circle of friends or even my own family. These ties have always been accompanied by a vague aloofness, and the wish to withdraw into myself increases with the years. Such isolation is something bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it by being rendered independent of the customs, opinions, and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my piece of mind upon such shifting sands." - Albert Einstein

"The concept of mental health in our society is defined largely to the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system, and does so without showing signs of stress." - Unabomber

"A rat race if for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressure of society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardize your chances of promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts and, before you know it, you're a fully paid up member of the rat pack. The price is too high." - Jimmy Reed

[MajorChode]

4. Ah yes, the unabomber

Too bad there was only one (I think).

[Forkboy]

6. His manifesto was something else.

Both brilliant and insane at the same time.

His quote above is spot on though.

[Spacemom]

5. Yours reminded me of another one I like

"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." Ray Bradbury

[Forkboy]

9. Oooo, I like that.

Bradbury is an idiot in real life, but I could read his stuff forever. I have a huge volume of his short stories, and I've read most of them numerous times over the years. The short story "The Coffin" is probably my favorite short story of all time.

[Bucky]

36. "Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat"

I don't know who said that, probably some character in a book. But I like it.

[mcctatas]

2. Nice...

here are a few of my favorites:

"Half of life is fucking up the other half is dealing with it." Henry Rollins

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
Oscar Wilde

“I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host”

Dorothy Parker

[lightningandsnow]

3. "Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb!"

--My 10th grade English teacher

[NightWatcher]

7. The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

I'm on an Edward Abbey kick as of late. A few others.....

"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards."

We are all ONE, say the gurus. Aye, I might agree--but one WHAT?

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

[MajorChode]

8. "A turd by any other name still smells like shit."

Juliet, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2), circa 1594.

[Forkboy]

10. "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."

Harry Truman.

[MajorChode]

11. "You can't polish a turd."

-- Anonymous

[Bucky]

35. You can lead a turd to the White House, but he'll still be George

I said that. Just now.

[MajorChode]

46. "I came, I saw, I shat a turd"

To absurdity and beyond!

[Lil Missy]

12. "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." Author ??

[stuntcat]

13. "They say of me and so they should- it's doubtful if I come to good"

Dorothy Parker

[PassingFair]

14. "In a time of universal deceit;

telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

--Geo. Orwell

[Spacemom]

21. One of my favorites

You can always count on Orwell for the good ones.

[Dystopian]

22. Love that one, too

You gave me the urge to show off my rear end


peace~

[Haole Girl]

15. We cannot put off living until we are ready. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset

[MorningGlow]

16. My favorite these days

Is my sig.

[Initech]

17. Here is a few I like:

"You know something people? I'm not black but there a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white." - Frank Zappa

"Drinking and driving simply do not mix, so get your drinking done and out of the way, and THEN go driving." - George Carlin

"If the Bible has taught us anything, and it hasnt, its that girls should stick to girls sports like hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such." - Homer Simpson

[FloridaJudy]

18. Ignorance may be bliss,

But it's damned poor life insurance.

---Sheri S. Tepper

[Generic Brad]

19. Tracy Morgan said this on "30 Rock" last week:

N. O. E.

NO!

E!

[Xipe Totec]

20. I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.

- Will Rogers

[PBS Poll-435]

23. Phil Hartman in "Greedy"

Phil Hartman's character learns that his long-awaited inheritance is not going to happen because his cousin is actually broke.



Lawyer: I realize that this may come somewhat as a surprise...

PH: Shitting a sailboat; that is a surprise. This is a fucking catastrophe!


Cracks me up ever time I see it.

[krispos42]

24. "Can you form some kind of rudimentary lathe?"

Always cracks me up...



"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"

[leeroysphitz]

25. HST

[elshiva]

26. "There's one life and there's no return and no deposit...

One life so it's time to open up your closet."
-Jerry Herman "I Am What I Am"
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/iamwhati.htm

[SalmonChantedEvening]

27. "Remember my friends, there's nothing like Liberty!"

"Except for Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post." - Groucho Marx.

Your Gandhi sigline is one of my favorites as well.

[Twillig]

28. I was looking for an Oswald quote and found more than I expected:

letter to his brother Robert(emphasis mine):

"Do you remember the time you told me about the efforts of your milk company to form a union? Try to see why workers must form unions against their employers in the U.S. It is because the government supports an economic system which exploits all its workers; a system based upon credit which gives rise to the never ending cycle of depression, inflation, unlimited speculation (which is the phase America is in now) and war. In this system art, culture, and the spirit of man are subjected to commercial enterprising. Religion and education are used as a tool to suppress what would otherwise be a population questioning their government's unfair economic system and plans for war. Science is neglected unless it can be directly used in making war or producing more profit for the owners of businesses. These are some of the reasons, look around you, and look at yourself. See the degradation, see the unemployed, and what automation is, remember how you were laid off at..."

[no name no slogan]

29. "Do it today. Tomorrow, it may be illegal"

This was from a Vietnamese emigrant I worked with at a factory in the early 1990s, long before we had terror alerts. It's even more true today, 18 years later.

[triguy46]

30. No good deed goes unpunished.

[Arugula Latte]

31. "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." -- Mark Twain

[hellbound-liberal]

32. "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a fundamentally sick society"

by J. Krishnamurti

One of my other favorites is my sig line which is now overwritten with my former username.

"For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become".-James Baldwin

[kentauros]

33. I only know movie quotes; like "Blast from the Past" -

"Leave my elevator alone!"




Yeah, I'm a heathen

[elshiva]

37. I can't leave it alone, it's so HUGE.

[Bucky]

34. Alexander Hamilton: "Even a 1000 Socrates would still be a mob"

Goes well with James Wilson's "Gentlemen, we must rely on our experience. Reason may mislead us."

[kwassa]

38. From that great philosopher, Al Swearengen

"Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man and give some back."

"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't fucking want to do. Many times, that's what the fuck life is... one vile fucking task after another. "

"Here's my counter-offer to your counter-offer: go fuck yourself."

[Inchworm]

42. Let's not forget

"Get a fucking haircut. Looks like your mother fucked a monkey."

My favorite was Jane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddklu3wKzwo



(none of the really good parts on youtube)

[kwassa]

45. "I apologize, I apologize."

drunk, banging her head against the wall

[Inchworm]

47. Was looking up a few on imdb

Calamity Jane: Maybe I will have a fuckin' drink, for sociability's sake and 'cause I'm a fuckin' drunk.
Joanie Stubbs: What's your preference?
Calamity Jane: That it ain't been previously swallowed
___

E.B. Farnum: Be brief.
Calamity Jane: Be fucked!
______________

Calamity Jane: I'm drunk. Correct. What the fuck is it to you?



Good times.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

49. Bad Planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part

eom

[Doc_Technical]

39. You guys have some great quotations here.

"To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge."

Benjamin Disraeli

"A Patriot must always be ready
to defend his country against
his government."

Mark Twain

[underpants]

40. "The people have spoke, the bastards."

A woman to Adlai Stevenson while running against Eisenhower
"There isn't a thinking man or woman in this country who won't vote for you"

Adlai
"That's fine ma'am but I need a majority"
---

New York City mayor Jimmy Walker after being told of a survey that found that 3/4 of the women polled would sleep with a man on the first date
"I am encouraged by this information but dammit we need NAMES!"
---

California Democrat Dick Tuck

As the ballot totals piled against him on Election Night, the candidate was asked his reaction. Referring back to his cemetery speech, Tuck quipped, "Just wait till the dead vote comes in." When defeat became inevitable, Tuck made the now notorious statement, "The people have spoke, the bastards."
---

Ghandi was asked by a reporter what he thought of Western Civilization
Ghandi "I think it is a good idea"
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This account says that Thoreau's one night in jail was due to refusal to pay the poll tax because of slavery.
Other accounts mention his opposition to slavery as well as "Polk's War"- the Mexican-American War which is eerily similar to the War on Iraq.

“Civil Disobedience” is an analysis of the individual’s relationship to the state that focuses on why men obey governmental law even when they believe it to be unjust. But “Civil Disobedience” is not an essay of abstract theory. It is Thoreau’s extremely personal response to being imprisoned for breaking the law. Because he detested slavery and because tax revenues contributed to the support of it, Thoreau decided to become a tax rebel. There were no income taxes and Thoreau did not own enough land to worry about property taxes; but there was the hated poll tax — a capital tax levied equally on all adults within a community.

Thoreau declined to pay the tax and so, in July 1846, he was arrested and jailed. He was supposed to remain in jail until a fine was paid which he also declined to pay. Without his knowledge or consent, however, relatives settled the “debt” and a disgruntled Thoreau was released after only one night.

Thoreau may have also brooded over the reaction of Emerson, who criticized the imprisonment as pointless.
According to some accounts, Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, “Henry, what are you doing in there?”

Thoreau replied, “Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[keroro gunsou]

41. my favorite is from star trek

(go figure)

"the more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to plug up the drain."

[CBHagman]

43. My sig line is my current favorite.

I first read the quote when Michael Dirda of The Washington Post wrote a column on de la Rochefoucauld.

[mwooldri]

44. Monty Python has my favourites:

"Never expect the Spanish Inquisition!"
"Always look on the bright side of life..."
"Only a flesh wound!"

[sfpcjock]

48. "We have not arrived...

but we're almost there." - Older sister to D.L. Hughly on the Mall Tuesday.

[BlueDissenter]

50. My three favorite....

People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.--River Tam Serenity

I just think it's better to have an idea. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier. People die for it, people kill for it.--Rufus Dogma

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.--Claude Pepper

[Nevernose]

51. Ad astra per alia porci; Gandhi; Hemingway; damn near anything by Mark Twain

Steinbeck's motto: "To the stars on the wings of a pig."

Gandhi: You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Hemingway: I am a writer of fiction who tells the truth.

Practically anything by Mark Twain:
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

And on and on...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

52. From the greatest living American novelist -

"The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps."

Jim Harrison

And from the greatest stand up comic who didn't live long enough -

“I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage.”

[crimsonblue]

53. Here's my favorite drinking toast (or two)

"To the ships of the sea, and the ladies of the land. May the first be well rigged, and the latter well manned."

"I'll show you how to chug a beer, motherfucker, you fat fuckin' cow. Lekhaim!"

[busybl]

54. Mark Twain

I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm scared of them anyway.