"Nails can be far apart, or they can be close together. It's science."
-man with the hammer hands
"You do not rewrite history. I can only affect what happens here just as easily as you can. Why do people in this time period worry so much about time traveler's destroying their world line when they have no problem doing it themselves every day?
I suppose we could agree that no particular era in history is famous for its development of humanity but just once I would like to hear questions like, "What is family life like in the future? How does society deal with poverty? Is AIDS, abortion and drug use still a problem?"
And that's why I find it so amusing that the latter day saints of our business, one, attribute to me motives that just weren't there, and two, accuse me of corrupting morality, which, I wish I had the power to do.
Prepare to die.
- God I wish I could find what that quote is originally from.
And that's why I find it so amusing that the latter day saints of our business, one, attribute to me motives that just weren't there, and two, accuse me of corrupting morality, which, I wish I had the power to do.
Prepare to die.
- God I wish I could find what that quote is originally from.
its the intro to a Carcass song off one of their earlier albums. It sounds like a film, but I'll be buggered if I've ever been able to find out what.
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"There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics." -Mark Twain
"You go to Heaven for the climate and Hell for the company." -Mark Twain AGAIN!
"Yo homes, to Bel-Air!" -Willhelm Renaldo Smith, Esq.
The concept of Anacyclosis:
"Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos."
"the glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.â€
"There can be no rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones."
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
That's from a war poem. I remember reading that in class, but I can't remember which one.
One of my best friends is a poet. A for real one. He's getting published and everything. He wrote a wonderful poem in honour of our dead English teacher. I'm going to try to find it.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
That's from a war poem. I remember reading that in class, but I can't remember which one.
One of my best friends is a poet. A for real one. He's getting published and everything. He wrote a wonderful poem in honour of our dead English teacher. I'm going to try to find it.
its part of a Laurence Binyon poem called For The Fallen.
That particular verse is called the Ode of Remembrance, and is read out every Remembrance Sunday, as well as adorning almost every war memorial in the UK
“I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.â€
Billy Connolly
"May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face."
to Mrs. Gore about parental advisory labels on album covers
Frank Zappa
Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"
"Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands."
Frank Zappa
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
-Albert Einstein
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
- Benjamin Franklin
Two very very brilliant men, heroes of mine you might say.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy,
drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead,
the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
The cut worm forgives the plow.
Dip him in the river who loves water.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.
Bring out number, weight & measure in a year of dearth.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
A dead body revenges not injuries.
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.
Folly is the cloke of knavery.
Shame is pride's cloke.
Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are
portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
Joys impregnate.
Sorrows bring forth.
Let man wear the feel of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The selfish smiling fool,& the sullen, frowning fool shall be thought wise, that they may be a rod.
What is now proved was only once imagin'd.
The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet watch the roots; the lion the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits.
The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.
One thought fills immensity, always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Every thing possible to be beliv'd is an image of truth.
The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you.
As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.
The tygers of wrath are the wiser than the horses of instruction.
Expect poison from the standing water.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow; nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his pray. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
The soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd.
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on. So the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
Damn braces: bless relaxes.
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
Prayers plow not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
The head sublime, the heart pathos, the genitals beauty, the hands & feet proportion.
As the air to bird or the sea to fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl that every thing was white.
Exuberance is beauty.
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
Improvement makes strait roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Where man is not, nature is barren.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be beliv'd.
"There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics." -Mark Twain
Actually it was Benjamin Disraeli who said that and if you look at the complete quote from Mark Twain, he even attributes it to Disraeli.
"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.'"
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
"People are just bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling."
"I suppose I could riff a list of things that I care as litle about as our last week. Let's see... low carb diets, Michael Moore, the Republican National Convention, Kabbalah & all Kabbalah-related products, Hi-Def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hotspots, the OC, the UN, recycling, getting Punk'd, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys, Jeff that Wiggle that sleeps too darn much, the Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show, everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything everything everything everything everythingeverythingevery-everything that exists past present & future, in discovered and undiscovered dimensions!
Man, I just got a nice book of Churchhill quotes from my trip to Europe.
Also a sweet poster of him holding a tommy gun. .
Anyway, here are some of my favorites.
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."
"I am prepard to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
and "This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
"Welcome. And congratulations. I'm delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realise."
- Bill Bryson, opening lines of A Short History of Nearly Everything
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- Charles Bukowski
-man with the hammer hands
"You do not rewrite history. I can only affect what happens here just as easily as you can. Why do people in this time period worry so much about time traveler's destroying their world line when they have no problem doing it themselves every day?
I suppose we could agree that no particular era in history is famous for its development of humanity but just once I would like to hear questions like, "What is family life like in the future? How does society deal with poverty? Is AIDS, abortion and drug use still a problem?"
-John Titor
-David Letterman
STEAM!
I don't remember this at all
My early foruming days were an embarrassing blur
Prepare to die.
- God I wish I could find what that quote is originally from.
Howard Stern, Private Parts.
Okay, no it's not.
"You go to Heaven for the climate and Hell for the company." -Mark Twain AGAIN!
"Yo homes, to Bel-Air!" -Willhelm Renaldo Smith, Esq.
"If you play acoustic guitar, you're the depressed, sensitive kind of guy." - Elliott Smith
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" - Oscar Wilde
"Oh fuck, I'm dead." -Aristotle
-Confederate Infantry officer
"Those bloody Colonials aren't fighting honoura-" -Every fucking horsed British officer within range, circa 1776.... and 1812-1814, as well.
"either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"
The concept of Anacyclosis:
"Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos."
"the glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.â€
"There can be no rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones."
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
That's from a war poem. I remember reading that in class, but I can't remember which one.
One of my best friends is a poet. A for real one. He's getting published and everything. He wrote a wonderful poem in honour of our dead English teacher. I'm going to try to find it.
its part of a Laurence Binyon poem called For The Fallen.
--Truman Capote
Billy Connolly
"May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face."
to Mrs. Gore about parental advisory labels on album covers
Frank Zappa
Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"
"Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands."
Frank Zappa
-“When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.”
-Albert Einstein
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
- Benjamin Franklin
Two very very brilliant men, heroes of mine you might say.
drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead,
the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
The cut worm forgives the plow.
Dip him in the river who loves water.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.
Bring out number, weight & measure in a year of dearth.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
A dead body revenges not injuries.
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.
Folly is the cloke of knavery.
Shame is pride's cloke.
Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are
portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
Joys impregnate.
Sorrows bring forth.
Let man wear the feel of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The selfish smiling fool,& the sullen, frowning fool shall be thought wise, that they may be a rod.
What is now proved was only once imagin'd.
The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet watch the roots; the lion the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits.
The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.
One thought fills immensity, always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Every thing possible to be beliv'd is an image of truth.
The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you.
As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.
The tygers of wrath are the wiser than the horses of instruction.
Expect poison from the standing water.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow; nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his pray. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
The soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd.
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on. So the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
Damn braces: bless relaxes.
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
Prayers plow not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
The head sublime, the heart pathos, the genitals beauty, the hands & feet proportion.
As the air to bird or the sea to fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl that every thing was white.
Exuberance is beauty.
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
Improvement makes strait roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Where man is not, nature is barren.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be beliv'd.
- William Blake - Proverbs of Hell
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Stage direction in "The Winter's Tale"
- Mike Tyson
You thrust your pelvis, ha!
You thrust your pelvis, ha!
You thrust your pelvis, ha!
You thrust your pelvis, ha!
You thrust your pelvis, ha!"
-Duckman
Actually it was Benjamin Disraeli who said that and if you look at the complete quote from Mark Twain, he even attributes it to Disraeli.
"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.'"
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
-Benjamin Disraeli
EDIT: Druhim was right v
Quick correction, this being one of my favorite quotes ever:
"They couldn't hit an elephant from this dist-"
-Union Gen. John Sedgewick, 1868
"I suppose I could riff a list of things that I care as litle about as our last week. Let's see... low carb diets, Michael Moore, the Republican National Convention, Kabbalah & all Kabbalah-related products, Hi-Def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hotspots, the OC, the UN, recycling, getting Punk'd, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys, Jeff that Wiggle that sleeps too darn much, the Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show, everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything everything everything everything everythingeverythingevery-everything that exists past present & future, in discovered and undiscovered dimensions!
Oh. And Hugh Jackman."
Also a sweet poster of him holding a tommy gun.
Anyway, here are some of my favorites.
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."
"I am prepard to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
and "This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
- Bill Bryson, opening lines of A Short History of Nearly Everything
Joe? GEORGE! For fuck's sake.
I don't like your girlfriend!"
-Avril Lavigne (1984 - ?)