What's your favourite quote?

chatticusfinch · 11-11-2017 1:46am

"The Ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." Somerset Maugham

ancapailldorcha · 11-11-2017 1:46am

“There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.”

― Steven Erikson

RikkFlair · 11-11-2017 1:52am

"I don't hate people, I just feel better when they're not around" Charles Bukowski

11-11-2017 1:52am

"What we think, we become" - Buddha

the_pen_turner · 11-11-2017 1:54am

I'm not racist , I hate everybody

uch · 11-11-2017 1:55am

Yer an awful prick - George Gershwin

MadDog76 · 11-11-2017 1:56am

"Never trust anything that can bleed for three days without dying .........."

- My Dad

jonon9 · 11-11-2017 1:58am

Keep your dick in a vice - AVE

Lorelli! · 11-11-2017 2:12am

From Watership Down..

Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

Summer wind · 11-11-2017 2:19am

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.

uch · 11-11-2017 2:26am

Summer wind wrote: »

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.

Was that Cheech Marin ?

B.A._Baracus · 11-11-2017 2:27am

"Don't expect fair play"

My dad likes that one and he is right. That's not to say you cannot experience situations that are fair, honest and above board. But let's be honest.... very few and fair between. So don't expect fair play because you will rarely get it overall.

commuterbelt · 11-11-2017 2:37am

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ― Bob Dylan

liam7831 · 11-11-2017 2:40am

What's your favourite humming noise

GMSA · 11-11-2017 2:42am

Two things that can cost a man dearly - his tongue and his tool. -My solicitor

Summer wind · 11-11-2017 2:47am

uch wrote: »

Was that Cheech Marin ?

F Scott Fitzgerald from his book The Great Gatsby.

ArnoldJRimmer · 11-11-2017 2:58am

When the little head gets hard, the big head goes soft

Roger_007 · 11-11-2017 3:04am

"Money is not that important, but a few pounds in your pocket is great for your nerves".....(Brendan Behan).
"There are none of my vices that I would willingly give up for the sake of eking out another couple of years in a nursing home in Weston-Super-Mare".......(G K Chesterton and others).
"You make your bed, you lie in it"......(my mother, instilling in me the concept of personal responsibility........sadly lacking these days.)

Canis Lupus · 11-11-2017 3:18am

rizzodun wrote: »

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

More or less 'Who will guard the guardians?'

Can be attributed to many meanings but resonates with me when we talk about the power world leaders can have, and who guards against them using it incorrectly, so particularly relevant in politics today.

Like it so much I have it tattooed on my forearm.

ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!!

11-11-2017 3:51am

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing'

-The quote is ascribed to Edmund Burke, an 18th century Irish philosopher, but it's unconfirmed.

'Go then, there are other worlds than these' - Jake Chambers (Stephen King).

'May you live every day of your life' - Johnathan Swift.

'If you hate something, don't you do it too' - Eddie Vedder.

'Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something' - Plato

'You know my feelings - Every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be a pair of socks?' - Tony Soprano

knowledge88888 · 11-11-2017 5:39am

Anything from oscar wilde

Ghost Train · 11-11-2017 7:29am

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone - Alan Watts

If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree - Jim Rohn

The most beautiful thing in the world, is of course, the world itself - Wallace Stephens & the movie Cast Away

Never ignore a person who cares for you. Because someday you'll realize you've lost a diamond, while you were busy collecting stones.

the thing with broken clocks is
you can always tell
exactly
when they stopped ticking

with people it isn't so easy
and sometimes
you can't even tell

they're broken.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-11-2017 7:36am

Churchill's take on Communism.

"A philosphy of failure, the creed of ignorence and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

enfant terrible · 11-11-2017 8:14am

Shakespeare "He basically said something about how there are more things there than there are actual things that you can see with your eyes"

That's not the exact quote

housetypeb · 11-11-2017 8:19am

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet

Baybay · 11-11-2017 8:19am

No idea who said it but I've seen it attributed to John Lennon, amongst others & it was used in Slumdog Millionaire.

It'll be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

Found this surprisingly comforting at various times.

corner of hells · 11-11-2017 8:20am

"No to foreign games"

Anto , 25th February 2007.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-11-2017 8:23am

The last words of Eugene O'Neill.

"Born in a hotel room, and God Dammit died in a hotel room'

davo10 · 11-11-2017 8:49am

"I drink to make other people more interesting"

Ernest Hemingway

Malayalam · 11-11-2017 8:53am

Surreptitious wrote: »

I quite like this one by Patrick Kavanagh.

'We have tested and tasted too much, lover –
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.'

One of my favourite lines in poetry, regularly reverberates through my head, a poem from school. Another line that does the same, and is extraordinarily hopeful somehow...the hidden glory within surprising places

''and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.'' (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

But anyways my favourite quote is a 'spiritual' one, from a 10th century Indian tantric called Tilopa. It is the most useful advice I have ever encountered and I try to practice it as often as possible. (Emphasis on try!)

''No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; Let it settle itself.''

This has been translated less succinctly as..
''Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Don’t try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest.'' ~ Tilopa

Sam Hain · 11-11-2017 9:18am

commuterbelt wrote: »

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ― Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is such a bellend.

arayess · 11-11-2017 9:19am

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" - Socrates

I'd never heard the socrates one but like this one of similar vein:

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" - betrand russell

shoegal1 · 11-11-2017 9:22am

Sure if they're not talking about you, they'll be talking about someone else....Me ma said this

rodders999 · 11-11-2017 9:23am

JFK quoting Shaw in the Dail is always one that stuck with me -

"George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life: Other people, he said, "see things and... say: 'Why?' ... But I dream things that never were -and I say: 'Why not?'"

JimmyMcGill · 11-11-2017 9:36am

I remember the cook in my boarding school stirring a huge pot of cabbage with her left foot on the kitchen floor when I was about 13.
She looked and saw me and said " that'll be grand for the lads".

Always stuck with me, "that'll be grand for the lads". She was right, they still ate it even when I told them there had been an old nuns hairy smelly foot stirring their cabbage. She wouldve made a great politician.

rodders999 · 11-11-2017 9:56am

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon allegedly.....

rodders999 · 11-11-2017 9:59am

The legend that is Mr. David Brent -

"Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don't whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it, you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow you've got to put up with the rain". Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits."

jaffusmax · 11-11-2017 10:38am

Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

jaffusmax · 11-11-2017 10:40am

“Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.” (The Outlaw Josey Wales)

rizzodun · 11-11-2017 10:51am

Canis Lupus wrote: »

ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!!

Now, you know that's not right.

Write it out 100 times, correctly.

el_gaucho · 11-11-2017 11:17am

rizzodun wrote: »

Now, you know that's not right.

Write it out 100 times, correctly.

“People called Romanes they go the house'?!"

“Know what you know and don’t know what you don’t know.”
Not sure of the origin, but I heard it from the Wiseman on MTV.

“If three people walk by, there must be one who can be my teacher.”
Confucius

the_pen_turner · 11-11-2017 11:29am

Even the stupidest of thoughts from the dumbest if people can spark the most genius if ideas in the intelligent

Tiercel Dave · 11-11-2017 11:31am

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

robbiezero · 11-11-2017 11:36am

It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt

Solomon Pleasant · 11-11-2017 11:37am

“If you really want to grow trees, pray for rain but do not neglect to water your seeds”

It’s an extremely powerful message that I try to never forget.

Kyle More · 11-11-2017 11:44am

'People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust people'.

Jimbob1977 · 11-11-2017 11:48am

My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard,
And they're like,
Its better than yours,
Damn right its better than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge

Ulysses Gaze · 11-11-2017 12:13pm

"I beleve the common demoninator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder" - Werner Herzog

11-11-2017 12:37pm

From the mind of that great modern philosopher, Adrian Mole:

"There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems."

"I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever."

"Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon."

Have re-read a couple of the books lately, I'd forgotten how funny they were.

7 Seconds... · 11-11-2017 12:55pm

“Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.” - Atul Purohit

What's your favourite quote?

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