Favourite quotes or statements?

Mascatodreams

"Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."

"Honesty without compassion is brutality"

Morlar

Man is the cruellest animal.

Nieszthceztest (Nietzsche)

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson.

You do not know true fear unless you have seen your dead grandmother crawl up your leg with a knife between her teeth.

Hunter S Thompson.

Fromthetrees

'You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.'

Mark Twain

Chris P. Bacon

"Trying is the first step towards failure"

arse..biscuits

Andrewh1984 wrote: »

"That was A1 Sharon"

George Burgess

He didn't say that.

It wasn't me!

Actually, Morlar's given me the impetus to go through some of Hunter Thompson's. I have an enormous amount of regard for a lot of his perspectives on life, even if I don't live in a way that emulates him at all, but I feel his opinions were extremely well and honestly derived and expressed in ways that were cutting, brutal, laugh out loud hilarious or sweet, perfectly in tune with what he was saying. The world's a little bit the worse and a lot the safer for his passing.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...
Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat **** and die.

Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

arse..biscuits

“[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”

Mike Tyson

Chuck Stone

'If I bought a duck it would drown'.

Remember some guy saying that after screwing something up at work.

Lady Chatterton

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

Oscar Wilde

chinomel

Say you will marry me and I promise I will never look at another horse.

And of course the classic. " I would,nt want to join any club that would have me as a member
Groucho.

Lady Chatterton

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde

plys

"Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire."

George Bernard Shaw

foxinsox

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die."

Roy - Bladerunner 1982

JessicaRabbit

ibarelycare wrote: »

I love quotes by Dr Seuss. This is my favourite:

Love it

dynamot

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Mascatodreams

"Be who you are and say what you mean because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."

Izzy j

My lifestyle determains my death style! A sobering thought

Lady Chatterton

"The Irish are lovely people but they lack a sense of outrage".

Wife of a former Ambassador to Ireland.

Celly Smunt

"we have turned a corner"

Lon.C

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Latchy

When asked by a british journalist what he thought of british civilisation , Mahatma Gandhi replied '' Yes ...that would be nice '' .

The Max

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world

Terry

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

"In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I want to kill that guy...'"

- Paul Hewson



Irish culture, beautifully summed up.

I haven't read the thread but I imagine that you have been completely and utterly reamed for quoting Bono.
The irony of the quote would be lost on most people. ****ing brilliant. I love it.

Anyway, here's mine:


So, when this loose behaviour 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.

pavb2

“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.”

and another

Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

44leto

In 1995 the Norwegians launched a rocket to study the Aurora. Although they informed Russia what it was doing the message never got passed on to the Russian nuclear missile launch early warning system. So all the panels went red. They brought the equivalent of the football to Yeltsin to authorise a full retaliatory launch. But Yelsin refused to authorise the the launch. The general been interviewed about the incident then gave the quote of all time.

.....He wouldn't authorise the launch....."HE WASN'T DRUNK AT THE TIME"

gamgsam

To anyone who is oppressed by the dullness of existence, to the neurasthenic who find each day as hard to endure as the one before, let me recommend spelaeology. It is a sport and a branch of knowledge as well as a diversion, whose pursuit, however much appearances belie the fact, presents widely different and unexpected features, and at the same time calls for all sorts of bodily activity and brings within reach some engrossing subjects for research.

Norbert Casteret in Mes Caverns 1947

rubadub

"I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
- Barack Obama

whydoibother?

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade".

Don't know who said it first.

Sauve

"You can't pick a good hurley out of a bag with only one in it"

Lady Chatterton

Sauvignon82 wrote: »

"You can't pick a good hurley out of a bag with only one in it"

Who said that?? -My money is on Brian Cody

Jaxxy

"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?"

- Tuco, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

billymitchell

"Go fuck yourself"

- Me, at various stages

Kxiii

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and confirm it.

The King of Moo

Jaxxy wrote: »

"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?"

- Tuco, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Ah, that reminds me of this classic from A Fistful of Dollars:

"You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people my friend, those with loaded guns, and those who dig...you dig!"

- The Man with no Name.

DEFTLEFTHAND

'Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.'

Jaxxy

The King of Moo wrote: »

Ah, that reminds me of this classic from A Fistful of Dollars:

"You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people my friend, those with loaded guns, and those who dig...you dig!"

- The Man with no Name.

Wasn't that from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly too?

My fav from Fistful is:

"When a man's got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace."

- Joe.

Sooo many great quotes from the westerns. :cool:

bodhrandude

Brendan Behans dying words to a nun: "God bless you sister, may your son grow up to be a bishop."

The King of Moo

Jaxxy wrote: »

Wasn't that from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly too?

My fav from Fistful is:

"When a man's got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace."

- Joe.

Sooo many great quotes from the westerns. :cool:

Yeah, it was either in that or For a Few Dollars More.

I remember I watched all three for the first time in quick succession years ago, and noticing the line popping up again!

Another great one from Once Upon a Time in the West:

"How can you trust a man who wears a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants!"

- Frank.

Napper Hawkins

"Shag me while I eat chips"

Kerry Katona

tfitzgerald

"You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer."
- Hal Roach

Saila

there are lies, damned lies, and statistics - mark twain

he who goes to bed with an itchy arse wakes up with a smelly finger.

never eat yellow snow

Mascatodreams

Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.

One minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you're standing on!

kieranfitz

going forward *pig like snort*

Brian Cowen

Mascatodreams

(When I'm feeling..less than nice.)

It's not my job to blow sunshine up your axx!

My middle fingeer gets a boner every time you go by!

Hells Belle

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

- Albert Einstein

smurgen

architects, think by the inch, measure by the millimeter and shoud be kicked by the foot - Price Charles.

Skid

"When I was 5 my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

So at school when the teacher asked us what we wanted us what we wanted to be when we grow up, I wrote down "happy"

The teacher said I didn't understand the Question.
I told her she didn't understand life"


John Lennon

sbsquarepants

Josey Whales: You a bounty hunter?
Bounty Hunter: A man's got to make a living.
Josey Whales: Dying aint much of a living boy!

The outlaw Josey Whales

Is god willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?

Epicurus

whydoibother?

Mascatodreams wrote: »

Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.

I heard a similar one.

"Never argue with a fool. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

krustydoyle

"You've a better chance of seeing a rocking horse shít"

Darby the leprechaun..