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I have a few that have really hit me, for various reasons.

First, there are 2 from the Dragonlance novel series (sorry, not TOTALLY certain which book. "Flint the King," I think)

"Stew like life" and "Life like stew."

They're funny as heck on the surface, but they really do have a deeper connotation.


I'm fond of:
"I'd rather keep my mouth shut, and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln
Discovering that quote in my late teens really made me think about talking, just to be saying something. MAN, I was a motor-mouth back then. It was one of the things that helped me to ensure that my words had more impact.



Unfortunately, I cannot recall the last quote, verbatim, but it was, essentially, as follows:

A man is not defined by how he acts when others are near. Rather, he is defined by how he acts when he is alone.

Basically, it says that you aren't a nice guy because you do nice things when there are witnesses. You're a nice guy because you do them, even if there aren't.


Oh....
"Never trust a man who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter."




Eric

Ahtman wrote:

Grignard wrote:Actually Ive read a bit of Nietzsche and I thought it was funny. I imagine that Nietzsche was enough of a smartass to think it was funny too.

Then you haven't read enough.

Why do you have to be personal attack removed and continually naysay whatever I post here? I gave my opinion on a quote, and you make the logical leap that I just havent read enough, or aren't smart enough, or whatever you have to say concerning whatever my opinion is on any subject that is being discussed. I really can't see any good reason for doing so.

Personal attacks are not tolerated here, Grignard. If you have a problem with another poster, please either respond politely or notify a mod. Attacks on the contents of a post are perfectly acceptable, but don't make it personal.

- Iorek

MagickalMemories wrote:I have a few that have really hit me, for various reasons.

First, there are 2 from the Dragonlance novel series (sorry, not TOTALLY certain which book. "Flint the King," I think)

"Stew like life" and "Life like stew."

"Never trust a man who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter."




Eric

Both quite intresting, i have the whole dragon lance seris and the dragons of a fallen sun/moon/stars and the sister arc great book all of them alround, know before i go off topic

That last quote is one i can relate to usally thier only bein nice to you because you have something they want!

This is probably going to sound corny (note: NOT Khorney), but I don't care. It's true.

I was a preteen wbefore I started really paying atention to the WORDS in songs.
I came across a song by one Mr. Billy Joel called, "Only the Good Die Young."

This quote didn't change my life but, at the time, I thought it was quite profound (though, at that age, I wouldn't have said "rpofound."). It DID affect me and the way I thought about life in general.

"... I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints. The sinners are much more fun..."


Eric

Here's one I read recently that was quoted in the book
Do Nothing and is from Samuel Johnson:

"Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler." Samuel Johnson

"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."
-Bertrand Russell

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. "
-Bertrand Russell

Nurglitch wrote:"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

Bertrand "The Bastard" Russell

Heh. I didn't read the entire thread before posting. I quite like that one too.

Where did "The Bastard" come from though?

"Who is the greater Fool? The Fool, or the Fool who follows?"
Obi-wan Kenobi.

It just reeks of superiority, balanced by the knowledge of self remonstration. Love it.....

Grignard wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Grignard wrote:Actually Ive read a bit of Nietzsche and I thought it was funny. I imagine that Nietzsche was enough of a smartass to think it was funny too.

Then you haven't read enough.

Why do you have to be personal attack removed and continually naysay whatever I post here? I gave my opinion on a quote, and you make the logical leap that I just havent read enough, or aren't smart enough, or whatever you have to say concerning whatever my opinion is on any subject that is being discussed. I really can't see any good reason for doing so.

Personal attacks are not tolerated here, Grignard. If you have a problem with another poster, please either respond politely or notify a mod. Attacks on the contents of a post are perfectly acceptable, but don't make it personal.

- Iorek

What makes you think I look at who is posting? I don't even know what you are talking about naysaying every post. You seem to be the one keeping a book of petty grudges. I have no idea what you are getting at are who you are. That is how much some made up name on an forum means to me: nothing. I went by the content of the post.

"Never trust an elf!"

-words of wisdom if there ever were any.

"Good.. Bad... I'm the guy with the Gun."

I had to do it, because no one else had yet. You can't have a quote thread without a line from Ash.

"Nobody move, or there will be.............Trouble"
ROBOCOP

"Gimme some sugar, baby"
ASH-he rules, Alex! lol

"Go Robo!"
ROBOCOP.

"Gentlemen, there is no Santa Claus! If we want to live with the machine, we must understand the machine, we must not worship the machine."
- Norbert Wiener

Was talking about Terminator 4 with a coworker today, and was reminded of the above advice from Mr. Wiener. You have been warned, fleshbags!

- Salvage

We all know there is no devil, it's just God when he's drunk.
From a song by tom waits

Lol these are all good another one i heard that has stuck is

"No matter what we do in life, no matter how smart or skilled, we will all end up on the same compost heap"

And

"We all live in the gutter of life but some of us are looking towards the sky"



The first one basicly means that No matter what we do -

"All men are equal in death" ( had to get that one in their somewhere!)

So basicly everyone can live however they want it wont make any diffrence in the end

The second one is basicly saying that where all doomend for eventuall failure but some of us look towards greater things, of course hardly anyone makes it! But as one of my teachers is always saying

"Aim for the moon, even if you miss you will still land amost the stars"

So i guss the theam for these is aim high, you may not get what you aimed for but at least it's a improvment on what you had before

Tharamanthar

That Tom Waits song would be Heartattack & Vine...

One of the lines I really like of his is:

"Come down off the cross, we can use the wood"

From come on up to the house. I like the 'quit posturing and posing and do something useful' bit but not with a cruel delivery.

RZ

"Failure only happens from originality."

-Buckethead

How about

'In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war!!'

tee hee

LL

"Life doesn't cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

Bertrand Russel

Anything by Nietzsche usually fits, but the one that probably struck me deepest a long, long time ago was:

"The question is. . .which is to be master---that's all." - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
IIRC its a Thomas Jefferson quote.

The way I look at it is that if you want to make everyone the same (usually communism) or a leftist leaning govt, rights have to be trodden on. But let people get on and do the best they can (i.e. the meritocracy ideal) then the cream rises to the top and the detrius ends up at the bottom with the rest of us somewhere in the middle.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
IIRC its a Thomas Jefferson quote.

The way I look at it is that if you want to make everyone the same (usually communism) or a leftist leaning govt, rights have to be trodden on. But let people get on and do the best they can (i.e. the meritocracy ideal) then the cream rises to the top and the detrius ends up at the bottom with the rest of us somewhere in the middle.

Credit for that quote is listed as Unknown. It's definitely not something Jefferson would have ever said, demi-Socialist that he was. It's currently used as a Libertarian slogan.

It actually looks more like something John Stuart Mill would have said. . .or Plato.

I don't remember where I saw this, but I've always kept in my thoughts.

"It does not matter what you believe in sometimes. Sometimes, it just matters that you believe in something!"

I am not exactly liked for my views on religion, faith, and all those things. But I have something I believe in, a faith as deep as my soul, and it's kept me going through harsh, harsh school years.

Oh, and MM, the quote you refer to, while I'm never good at remembering names, is:

"A man's character can not be defined by what he does in the light, but by what he does in the dark."

Ebullient wrote:I don't remember where I saw this, but I've always kept in my thoughts.

"It does not matter what you believe in sometimes. Sometimes, it just matters that you believe in something!"

Wouldn't be Shepherd Book from Serenity, would it? He says something very similar to Mal in the film.

A pretty random assortment, but words to live by…


“I’ll try anything in life one, except incest and country dancing.”
Sir Arnold Bax


"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."
GK Chesterton


“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”
Joseph Heller

Khestra the Unbeheld wrote:

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
IIRC its a Thomas Jefferson quote.

The way I look at it is that if you want to make everyone the same (usually communism) or a leftist leaning govt, rights have to be trodden on. But let people get on and do the best they can (i.e. the meritocracy ideal) then the cream rises to the top and the detrius ends up at the bottom with the rest of us somewhere in the middle.

Credit for that quote is listed as Unknown. It's definitely not something Jefferson would have ever said, demi-Socialist that he was. It's currently used as a Libertarian slogan.

It actually looks more like something John Stuart Mill would have said. . .or Plato.

Its an odd quote. I could see it coming from Plato were it not for the fact that he never considered any man to be the equal of another; its simply an idea which is fully foreign to his philosophy. I doubt it was Mill either, as many of his ideas were actually quite left-leaning. On Liberty spends a great deal of time outlining the extent to which a man might be permitted to profit at the expense of another; usually erring on the side of the disadvantaged.

It was lawrence reed, a economic historian/thinker/pundit:

http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=3138

It's probably cribbed from an earlier source, but there's at least a first hand account.

I've been thinking about my words of wisdom for a while now. My dad taught us to "always use the can on company time," which is more pragmatic than most of the wisdom here. One of my favorite lines from any book has to be from the Fellowship of the Ring, near the end of the Council of Elrond, when Frodo says "I will take the ring, although I do not know the way." I've always found that very moving, when I found out how pious Tolkien was it made sense. The line is all about accepting the path given to you by a higher power, and simply having faith that wanting to do good and trusting in the people around you will see you succeed.

There is no such thing as a worthless person ... you can always be used as a bad example.

@ Khestra: Hmmm... possibly, I was a huge Firefly fan, didn't care for Serenity cause way too many people were unnescesarilly killed off. It's still a good quote!

"Let no one tell you your destiny. All life has but one universal destiny, and that is to die. You must fulfill your own prophecy and become a legend within your own right. You have but one destiny, until you create more for yourself."
Mr. Julson, 7th Grade History Teacher

He told me that when I was feeling the pressure of high expectations and floundering. It's helped me out and given me plenty no think about everyday.