What makes you think?

Micheal Wittman

Quotes!

Lets see some of the quotes u like. They can be to do with anything love, friendship, Historical, funny. We all hear them and like them so lets see what makes u think!

I've quite a few quotes myself. It's mostly poetry form ancinet Rome, poetry in General. Basically anything that rhymes. A lot of good History quotes also I have picked up from reading and watching the History channel.

Some of you might find some usefull for Valantines cards :rolleyes:

Some movies also. I got quite a few from thequotationspage.com

Please contribute any thing you have!

Micheal Wittman

Here are some...

Take me, and I your slave will be,
As long as life endure;
Constant in my fidelity,
And in your service sure.

- Ovid


To flee vice is the beginning of virtue,
and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

- Horace


"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
office."

- Aesop


My life is pure and free from stain,
My heart is sound and true.
No gallant I, of conquests vain,
But faithful still to you

- Ovid


"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ,
they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear.
They asked me which one is different and does not belong,
they taught me different was wrong."

- Ani Difranco

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!

- Unknown


Nunc scio quit sit amor

- Virgil


You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."

- Edgar Allan Poe

With us the nineteenth centurys age of nerves is ended
There will be no other revoloution in Germany for the next thousand years!

- Hitler


O what would the world be, Once Bereft? Of wet and of wilderness -
let them be left, Oh let them be left wilderness and wet ,
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!

- Gerard Manly Hopkins


The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

- Otto Von Bismarck


Veni, vidi, vici

- Julius Caesar


The result justifies the deed
(Exitus acta probat)

- Ovid


If then thy soul rejoyce today,
Drive far tomorrow's cares away.
In laughter let them all be drowned;
No perfect good is to be found

- Horace


She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

- William Wordsworth


One mortal feels fate's sudden Blow,
Anothers lingering death comes slow;
And what of life they take from thee,
The gods may give to punish me

- Horace


For none my Heart more warmly grows.

- Horace


Long as I live, I shall prefer
A gay, good natured, easy friend.
To every blessing Heaven can send.

- Horace


You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie


I ’ve heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Hath oftener left me mourning.

- William Wordsworth


For me, a little cell I choose,
Fit for my mind, fit for my Muse,
Which soft content does best adorn,
Shunning the knaves and fools I scorn.

- Horace


It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich


Be wise! Drink free, and in so short a space
Do not protracted hopes of life embrace!

- Horace


Wohlt ihr dem TOTALIN KREIG?

- Goebbels


"Give a man fire and warm him for a night,
set a man on fire and keep him warm the rest of his life..."

- Unknown


We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

- Thucydides

That best portion of a good man’s life,—
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

- William Wordsworth


"Deutschland! Dein Lebensraum ist jetzt dein Sterbensraum"

- French patriots


Oh , The weather outside is frightful!
But that fire is.....mmn.. delightful..
Since we've no place to go..
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

- Frank Sinatra


The bard whom Mantua first with wonder heard.
The world no purer spirit knows,
For none my heart more warmly glows

- Horace


You may murder me,
But you cannot judge me,
That I denie you.

- Herman Goering (Nazi Gestapo Chief)


"Es gibt keine verzweifelten Lagen, es gibt nur verzweifelte Menschen".

- Heinz Guerderian


What we do in life,
Echo's in eternity.

- Maximus


And when he gets to heaven,
To St. Peter he will tell,
One more soldier reporting Sir...
I've served my time in hell.

- Unknown


The diference between insanity and sanity,
Is mesured only by success.

- Julian Carter


Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


What is life......Life is the Nation,
The individual must die anyway,
Because beyond the life of the individual
Is the Nation.

- Hitler


To give me an Ultimatim!
Now that really is the end.

- Hitler


The war in spite of all setbacks,
Will one day go down in history,
As the most glorious and heroic manifestation,
Of a people's will to live

- Hitler


"...people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders...All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce (opponents)
pacifists for lack of patriotism."

Why of course the people don't want war...It is the leaders...
who determine policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...
all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

- Herman Goering (Nazi Gestapo Chief)


Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

- Goethe.


"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor,
for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed,
the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."

-- Julius Caesar


Hitler's, not my Friend,
He's my Equal

- Unknown


The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein


You, can not be a part of our Movement!
Until we have been a part of yours!

- Hitler


"Virtue does not come from money,
but rather from virtue comes money,
and all other things good to man."

- Socrates


I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.


- Socrates, quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'


It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way

- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


Time crumbles things;
everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

- Aristotle, Physics


You want to know
Why any girl can catch my eye
Love has never heard
That silly word why

- Propertius


Though I may go blind with minstrel Thamyras, my grudging friend,
I'll keep my eye for beautiful girls till the very end.

- Propertius


Ten tongues, ten months - still could I not convey
The unholy tricks that all such women play.

- Ovid


Think of all the songs I made,
And the gifts I gave,
Yet in all the time I had her,
She would never say -
That silly word -
"I love you"

- Propertius


For who shall we fight for now?
...For the coming man.

- Hitler


I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

- Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment


May God Almighty give our work His blessing,
strengthen our purpose,
and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people,
for we are fighting not for ourselves,
but for Germany.

- Hitler


Should anyone here not know the art of love,
read this, and learn by reading how to love.

- Ovid


The girl I loved has left me.She has left me.
Do not tell me, friend I have no cause for distress?
There are no enemies save those we love...
Kill me and my anger would be less.

- Propertius


In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


O how can I see her leaning on another,
Who was mine, who was mine, so lately?

- Propertius


Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

- Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems


But, oh! how blest! how more than blest thy bride,
Allied in bliss, if any get allied:
If so, let mine the stolen enjoyment be;
If not, behold a willing bride to me.

- Ovid


Let us return, then, for a time,
To our accustomed round of rhyme;
And let my songs' familiar art
Not fail to move my lady's heart.

- Horace


It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

- Horace, Odes

fragile

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani Difranco

home was not home
your room was home
a corner was home
the place they weren't- that was home
Henry Rollins

munkeehaven

"To be, or not to be: that is the question." Shakespeare, Hamlet
"To be or not to be is not the question; to be is not to be." Alan Watts
"To be and not to be arise mutually." Lao, Tao Te Ching

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." —Phillip K. Dick

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away

"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."
Marquis de Sade

Spunj

I've always loved "A done bun can't be undone". Says it all in a lot of lifes trials and tribulations

RE*AC*TOR

Fletch: I'm John.
Gail Stanwyk: Ohhhh, John. John who?
Fletch: John Cock...tos...ton.
Gail Stanwyk: Thats a beautiful name.
Fletch: It's Scotch/Romanian.
Gail Stanwyk: That's an odd combination.
Fletch: So were my parents.

---

[Fletch is being interrogated by Chief Karlin and is giving him attitude]
Chief Karlin: What's your name?
Fletch: Fletch.
Chief Karlin: What's your full name?
Fletch: Fletch F. Fletch.
Chief Karlin: What do you do for a living, Mr. Fletch?
Fletch: I'm a shepherd.
Chief Karlin: Why are you doing this, Mr. Fletch?
Fletch: I like men. I like to be manhandled. I like you.

____________________________________________

[Fletch is being framed for drug possession by two very large cops]
Fletch: Aren't you gonna read me my rights?
Cop: You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to have your face kicked in by me. You have the right to have your balls stomped on by him.
Fletch: I think I'll waive my rights.

Barry Aldwell

"Never mind what Clausewitz thought, what do you think?"
- Rommel

Quite appropriate to this thread, I think :rolleyes:

keu

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

A mind that has been stretched will never return to it's original dimension. Albert Einstein

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

[me likes alberto]

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS. Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful. Confucius

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tsu

Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real

The Hunger for Love is much more difficult to remove than the Hunger for Bread Mother Teresa

The grape passes through the press to yield wine. Your life must pass through the press of passion and pain to yield the wine of wisdom

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another...

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic. But, I will say that if you're alive - you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got make lots of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. Mel Brooks

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need. Mick Jagger

....

Musashi

"God must love the common man because he made so many of them"

blondie83

"I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above,
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that i guard I do not love..."

William Butler Yeats, from "An Irish Airman Forsees his Death"

shiv

Any Ani DiFranco quote kicks ass, she's a brilliant word-poet
i'm especially partial to the lyrics below in ~to the teeth~:

are we really going to sleep through another century
while the rich profit off our blood
yeah it may take some doing
to see this undoing through
but in my humble opinion
here's what i suggest we do
open fire on hollywood
open fire on mtv
open fire on nbc and cbs and abc
open fire on the nra
and all the lies they told us along the way
open fire on each weapons manufacturer
while he's giving head to some republican senator
and if i hear one more time
about a fools right to his tools of rage
i'm gonna take all my friends
and i'm going to move to canada
and we're going to die of old age

Esel

"Take it easy, but take it." Woody Guthrie

btw, the first post is one of the longest I've seen! Does this signify anything?

Thread Starter good at Ctrl-C Ctrl-V maybe.

Fwaggle

I can resist everthing but temptation

- Oscar Wilde

"Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy."

- Homer Simpson

Sleepy

I was texted the last line of this by a great friend during a particularly difficult point in my life and I've found it to be one of the most inspirational things I've ever heard:

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the
spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of it's own
mystery is not love but a net cast forth, and only the unprofitable is
caught... And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter,
and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart
finds it's morning and is refreshed."

- Kahlil Gibran

Sleepy

Who gave me the nice comment in the Reputation thingy? Thanks

Zulu

Simplicity is the key to truth.

-Unknown.

dudara

As a scientist, I've always loved this little verse from Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
when the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide and measure them,
when I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars

fjon

A bit cheesy, but I like it:

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." - Einstein

munkeehaven

"Are you a God?" they asked the Buddha.
"No," he replied.
"Are you an angel, then?"
"No."
"A saint?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
Replied the Buddha, "I am awake."
—Huston Smith

Micheal Wittman

Sleepy wrote:

Who gave me the nice comment in the Reputation thingy? Thanks

:rolleyes:

ChumpStain

I'm not sure where I heard it but;

"If practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, why practice?"

Silent Grape

'only the insane have strength enough to prosper, only those who prosper truly judge what is sane'

'when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammer seems an impertinece' (said about Emily Dickinson).

'got kicked and spat at today.
saw a jackdaw building its nest.

salvation comes in little ways'