quotations thread!

TheSilenceEchoes · Post by **TheSilenceEchoes** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:52 pm

being a twoism.org newbie i couldnt really see if there's a similar thread somewhere floating around in this gigantic forum.. i'll just give it a shot.
I myself am a fervent quotation collectoress (only the ones worth mentioning of course) and thought perhaps there are more people here?
If so, post your favourites!

One should absorb the colour of life but never remember its details. - Oscar Wilde in the Picture of Dorian Gray

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:05 pm

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were your wife, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:06 pm

Oh judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people won't follow them, so what good are they?

This sucks. Change it.

TheSilenceEchoes · Post by **TheSilenceEchoes** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:25 pm

nice ones! definitely going to be part of my collection!

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -A. Einstein

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - josh billings

- How do you write women so well?
- I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability. - as good as it gets

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - Tolkien

88marquis · Post by **88marquis** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:33 pm

Very nice silence! That Einstein one is pretty awesome I'll have to agree.

I dig this one a bit more though:

“Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.” - Jim Carrey

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:34 pm

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. - Peter Ustinov

jonnyjj74 · Post by **jonnyjj74** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:50 am

"The United States is the oldest country in the world because it's been in the twentieth century the longest." - Gertrude Stein

saturdayindex · Post by **saturdayindex** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:06 pm

Know thyself. - Socrates
A friend is a second self. - Aristotle
He was a wise man who invented beer. - Plato
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. - C. S. Lewis
Every step is a victory - Lao Tsu

harpoon dodger · Post by **harpoon dodger** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:10 am

"When others drink, I like to help." - Mark Twain

"No matter where you go..there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai (I think it's actually a Confucius quote)

Earthbound · Post by **Earthbound** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:15 am

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. --> Bob Dylan

TheSilenceEchoes · Post by **TheSilenceEchoes** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:30 pm

Earthbound wrote:Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. --> Bob Dylan

thanks bro!

Skytree · Post by **Skytree** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:39 pm

Just read this one recently and found it especially stirring:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed...To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primite forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in thise sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men."

- Albert Einstein (1930)

saturdayindex · Post by **saturdayindex** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:10 pm

Skytree wrote:Just read this one recently and found it especially stirring:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed...To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primite forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in thise sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men."

- Albert Einstein (1930)

Beautiful that!

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:43 am

saturdayindex wrote:
Skytree wrote:Just read this one recently and found it especially stirring:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed...To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primite forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in thise sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men."

- Albert Einstein (1930)
Beautiful that!

Abso lutely.

hills west · Post by **hills west** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:53 am

-"the planet is fine. the people are fucked!"
-"it goes without saying. well then shutup!!"
-"WALKIIING for christ's sake, WAALKIIIIIING!!"

saturdayindex · Post by **saturdayindex** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:04 am

"The world is naturally averse, To all truth it sees or hears, But swallows nonsense and a lie With greediness and gluttony" - Samuel Butler.

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:46 pm

To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?", you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks."

- Jack Handy

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:04 pm

thedisavowed wrote:To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?", you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks."

- Jack Handy

the best so far! more Jack Handy!

"Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is not say anything at all. But sometimes the second-smartest thing you can do is just start blabbing away, blah blah blah, saying anything that comes to mind."

"To become a knife thrower in the circus, they probably don't start you off with the live woman. They start you off with a little girl."

mouse_bums · Post by **mouse_bums** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:27 am

"I'd rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six."

Earthbound · Post by **Earthbound** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:36 pm

mouse_bums wrote:"I'd rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six."

I like this one!