Favourite Quotes

smellyoldboot wrote: »

Famous or otherwise. Thought provoking or tear jerking. Post some of your favourite inspirational gobbledegook here.

I'll start:

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." -Henry Ford

"Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think" - Socrates (?)

"The meaning of life is that it ends" - Kafka

"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read" - Groucho Marx

"beauty fades, dumb is forever"
Judge Judy.

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- 07 VW Golf

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »

"If you gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough... if you get knocked down, you better get back up!"

Lyrics of some song I can't remember!

Tis some fine wisdom though.

I believe it was played at the end of one of the Jack Ass movies . . .
Anyway, back on topic . . .

"It's so simple to be wise… just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it" - Homer J Simpson

"I'm an atheist, thank God"

I put this in another quotes thread before but saw it when I was in my early teens and it kinda steered my direction into trying different things.

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it.” Danny Kaye

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
- Edward Bernays - Propaganda

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
- Adam Smith on Joan Burton

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
- Simone de Beauvoir

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
- Noam Chomsky

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
- Marquis de Sade

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
- Machievelli

That would be an Ecumenical Matter - Fr Jack Hackett

A dialogue attributed to Confucius:

"What is love?" one of his followers asked him.

"To love mankind, that is love," he replied.

"But what is it?"

"To hold dear the effort more than the prize may be called love. The joy of doing something not for the prize one would get in the end, but for the joy itself, that may be called love. To do good not because you are going to be rewarded for it in this life or in a life to come, but to do good because you enjoy doing good, that is to love good. Love is its own reward. Love makes all things possible. Love offers peace. When love is at stake, my children, yield not to an army."

He thought for a while, then added:
"A heart set on love can do no wrong!"

“Don't eat the yellow snow.”