Favourite quote

Paparazzo

All a bit deep and meaningful. So I'll go with: "You never see an old man eating a twix"

Greyfox

My fav is between "Enjoying the journey is more important then the destination" and the legendary...

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

I also love:

Were not here for a long time, were here for a good time

If oppertunity doesn't knock, build a door

I'll be back

If Butch goes to indo-China I want a N*gger in a bowl of rice ready to pop a cap in his ass

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

Ah nuts

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered. George Best

baltimore sun

He who is wise is intelligent enough to know that using another persons words to mask their own lack of mental capacity is truly pathetic.

-Anon

Alice1

"Our children are living messages we send forth to a time we will not see" - not sure who said it.

Terry

barbarians wrote: »

Experience is simply the name we give our past mistakes.
Oscar Wilde.

Couldn't agree more.
It's a shame that he was treated like a pariah.
Mind you, that was mostly by those who followed biblical teachings...

Jaafa wrote: »

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.

Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.

Jules (Pulp Fiction....oh and the bible originally)

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 wrote:

"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."

The bible. Full of wisdom.

FoxT wrote: »

" The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today, is that the foolish are cocksure, whilst the intelligent are full of doubt"

- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Things haven't changed much, have they?

I like that, but I'd argue it to a certain point.
The foolish are indeed cocksure, but a large majority of them are also intelligent enough to cause doubt amongst even the most intelligent people.

As well as that, some intelligent people are more than willing to cause doubt amongst the foolish for their own gain. Politicians are particularly adept at this.

While it may not be my favourite quote, it very much applies to the above:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt.

We are constantly being told by every politician and pundit that we are boned, but things are not that bad. All we need to do is have some faith in the economy, keep buying Irish produced products and we will slowly get back on our feet.

My own favourite quote is one from Shakespeare's Henry IV part 1.

I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness:
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That, when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behavior I throw off
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;
Redeeming time when men think least I will.

KeithM89_old

Is it sad that all i can come up with is a Simpsons quote??

Da Shins Kelly

'I'm as mad as hell, and I won't take it anymore!'

shane1992

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

dan1895

I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt. - Winston Smith, "1984"

Daroxtar

"Fúck your honda civic, I've a horse outside"
The rubber bandits

Star Bingo

"Hey Ho, believe"

- Jimmy McCarthy.

Pandoras Twist

"Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else"
- Tyler Durden


"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions."
- Joseph Heller, Catch 22


"There's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

The Shtig

"When Things got hard, you started looking for something to blame. Like a Big Shadow.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it...

You've gotta hit as hard as life. It ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much can you take and keep moving forward? That's how winning is done.

If you know what you're worth, Go out and Get What Your Worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that."

----Rocky Balboa


"You want something? Go get it. Period."

Pursuit of happiness

From the scene it's said, well worth a watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0wRkiPIUiE

Mr Marston

Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them. - Einstein

Originality is the act of remebering what you heard but not remembering where you heard it. - Some chap

clived2

"Goodnight Moon, goodnight stars, goodnight po-pos, goodnight fiends, goodnight hoppers, goodnight hustlers, goodnight scammers, goodnight to everybody, goodnight to one and all"

moneyman

People always say to me, "when you get to the NBA, don't forget about me." Well, I should've said back, "if I don't make it to the NBA, don't you forget about me." - William Gates

FoxT

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

LizT

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Sardonicat

"People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." Soren Kierkegaard

Glico Man

"Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl, Bart? Why did I have the bowl?" - Milhouse van Houten

FoxT

Anything from the O.T, that has 'smote' in it. 'Smote' is a wonderful word, and the world is a poorer place without it.

I am smitten with 'smote' but
I much prefer smut
I'd prefer to rut than watch smut
but if I rut,
I might end up with a mite...

crazyground2005

"your gonna need a bigger boat........"

Snakeblood

It matters not how strait the gate
nor how charg'd with punishment the scroll
For I am captain of my fate
And Master of my soul.

That or

If I'd known it was going to be this sort of party I'd have stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes.

BigDuffman

"I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
...
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.

An hour of wolfes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crushing down! But it is not this day!

THIS DAY WE FIGHT!

By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"


"If" By Rudyard Kipling is full of them but last verse in particular:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

BigDuffman

Particularly relevant for this thread:

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." Wilde

massdebater

"In order to live, you must be willing to die" Amir Vahedi

It's a quote about poker but I always thought it was a cool one for life in general

hondasam

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

- Oscar Wilde

Tar.Aldarion

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

'The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.'
— Albert Einstein

‘I am not young enough to know everything.’
— James M. Barrie

Lorcan78

If me granny had ball's she would be me grandad .. Del boy

Lukker-

Bitches ain't shít - Gandhi