Thread: Lets hear your favorite quotes. Funny, serious, even political cheapshots welcome !

You can't reason anyone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.

"That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it."

(...I use this one a LOT...)


-whatever

-Lou

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.- Sidney Sheldon


I find both to be especially true. I've seen good people go through a lot and still be good people, but once power hits them, all bets are off.

a few of my favorites:

It should be the great Business of our Lives to Plant and Propagate our Kind, To throw our Seed into every fruitful Corner, To get it vigorously into the gaping Bottom of every sweet-watered Vale..... ~The Rev. Daniel MacLauchlan, An Essay upon Improving and Adding to the Strength of Great Britain and Ireland, by Fornication, justifying the same from Scripture and Reason, by a Young Clergyman (1735)


If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. --Thomas Carlyle

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the law: all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 31a

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.-Abraham Lincoln

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.--Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac [1733], June"

To discuss evil, in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it. –Ayn Rand

"Ruprecht. RUPRECHT! Do you want me to bring out the genital cuffs again?"
Michael Caine, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

"Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - hell if I know





Justin

That would be Mr. Tom Waits.

What good is strength without a double dose of wisdom?

"Deny your friends and family
To serve you must betray
Break and enter heaven
Steal but never save
Squander every penny
Empty every heart
Travel every darkened road
Never finish what you start
Always talk to strangers
Make love with whom you may
For God will find good company
for your drinking in the day

So spend your youth on poetry, and spend your cash at play
Each line upon my face is for a girl who went away
A kiss, a song, are fleeting things and fame will always stray
So I'll tell the truth, the best spent youth, is the one you give away"
-T. Duggins of the Tossers
from the song Drinking In The Day

i just love the last line of that



nà trà thaisme is nà trà chinniúint -irish gaelic for "not by chance, not by fat" (family motto)

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -- Terry Pratchett (he's an English fantasy writer)

Originally Posted by syslight

When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.
--Paul Goodman

Indeed! Bravo!

Greg