Favorite Quotes

God damn it you stole my fave Nietzsche quote!!!Oh well...

A witty saying proves nothing.-Voltaire.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.-Voltaire.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.-Voltaire.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.-Friedrich Nietzsche

Whis is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?-Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.-Friedrich Nietzsche

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.-Malcolm X

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.-Malcolm X

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.-Malcolm X

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.-George Bernard Shaw

You can not put a rope around the neck of
an idea; you can not put an idea up against
the barrack-square wall and riddle it with
bullets; you can not confine it in the strongest
prison cell your slaves could ever build.-Sean O'Casey

The British Government has no right in Ireland,
never had any right in Ireland,
and never can have any right in Ireland.-James Connolly.

'Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage'-Anais Nin.

'Life is a sum of all your choices'-Albert Camus

'Live each day as if it's your last,learn each day as if you live forever'.-Ghandi

'We seem to have lost.We have not lost.To refuse to fight would have been to lose;to fight is to win'-Padraig Pearse,at court-martial on day before his execution,May 2,1916.

'When I was a young man,I wanted to change the world.
I found it difficult to change the world,so I tried to change my nation.
When I found it difficult to change my nation,I began to focus on my town.
I couldn't change the town and as an older man,I tried to change my family.
Now,as an older man,I realize the only thing I can change is myself,
and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself,
I could have made an impact on my family.
My family and I could have made an impact on our town.
Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.' - attributed to an Unknown Monk(c.1100AD)

Not very deep or profound but.....

"I'm not homophobic, my brother's black"- My friend, Helen

"I do not think that now would be a wise time to make enemies"
Voltaire on his deathbead when asked by a preist if he renounced satan and all his works

(DOH!! that was Voltaire not Descartes)

Yups it was Voltaire.

'Its not about the high ball , the low ball , the long ball , the short ball , the direct ball , the quick ball or the delayed ball.................its about the right ball'

[Bob Paisley] .

This quote may have elements that are wrong , but it gives the same message as what the right quote would be .

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." ~Muhammad Ali

"Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked." ~Muhammad Ali

"Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.']" ~Muhammad Ali

seeing as the Ali ones were going down well , anyone got any good Groucho
Marx ones?

Better to sit in silence and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Not sure who said that, although I know he was Irish

"Freedom is slavery. Slavery is freedom." - me.

blondie83 wrote:

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Not sure who said that, although I know he was Irish

Edmund Burke apparently.

Great battles are won with artillery - Napoleon

I want you to remember that no son of a bitch has ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country - General George Patton

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
Let him who desires peace, prepare for war - Vegetius

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre
It's magnificent, but it's not war - Pierre Bosquet, after witnessing the charge of the Light Brigade, 1854

He's either never been to Umm Qasar, or he's never been to Southampton. There's no beer, no prostitutes, and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth - British trooper, after Geoff Hoon compared the two towns

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... - Last words of General John Sedgewick, 1864

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself - John Stuart Mill