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I don't know about everyone else, but I love reading unusual quotes and reading proverbs of various sorts. Thought perhaps we could all share some of our favourites. Be it serious, or light-hearted - just keep it clean and unoffensive.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
~Scottish Proverb

I tend to get a lot of my proverbs and quotes from this site:

http://www.quotegeek.com (http://www.quotegeek.com)

Some really good ones! I love going through the movie quotes.

Jack Sparrow: Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
Movies > Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

"Dead enemies don't fight back. Usually. "


- Might and Magic XII: Mandate of Heaven Gaming Guide.
 ;D

"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."

MC Escher

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

Dr. Seuss

"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good."

Marcus Aurelius

These are just a few of my favorite quotes

"Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to do what is required in the face of fear".

from:  I have no clue.

Probably modified from the original, I heard it along time ago and never forgot the meaning if not the exact words.

"Dogs are the hieroglyphs of blind emotion, inferiority, servile attachment, and gregariousness --
the attributes of commonplace, stupidly passionate, and intellectually and imaginatively underdeveloped men.

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality -- the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman."

- H.P. Lovecraft

Can you tell I love kitty cats?

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation; one can get through many a bad night with it."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I like my coffee like I like my women. In a cup." - Eddie Izzard


"And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f**k all! Yes, all they did was sit around and slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard." - Eddie Izzard (can you tell he's awesome?  ;))


"I was at a Boddhist monumont the other day-...a bodd..a Boddihst monumont. It's like I've been taken over by the spirit of Bill and Ben! "Oddor, oyoryor! oooo! Od!"*....Rewind Bill...esia ka eh* donkeys are aliens donkeys are aliens.....I was in Java..." - Bill Bailey, Part Troll


My other favourite from the UK show, Mock The Week, is in my sig


:D


*exact transcription, I'll have you know ;)



PS: TigerHearts, I think your quote is from The Chronicles of Riddick, but I can't be sure.

A classic:

"Hallo! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

The Princess Bride

 ;D Love the responses everyone! Especially the Princess Bride one.... I love that quote too!

I have great faith in fools. My friends call it self-confidence.
~ Edgar Allan Poe

And for any fellow Canadians out there....

Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.
~Unknown - probably from the Red Green Show!!

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle


"Not all who wander are lost."

- JRR Tolkien


=)

 ;D hahaha, yeah that one definitely has a Red Green show feel to it.


"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Guess the ultimate one for me is: LIVE and LET LIVE. I try to use this in everyday life. Great post. There are some interesting quotes.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war

Julius Caesar,William Shakespeare

I love to see a young girl go out and grab life by the lapels. Life's a *****. You've got to kick ass.

Maya Angelou

I rule and once I am on a set path, move out of the way. Roadkill ain't pretty.

Nicola(me)

Don't get me started... ;D

I don't have just one, no matter what they're about.

Since I have these handy, some of my favs. in regards to freedom / liberties / rights...

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
~ Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~ James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
~ Jeffrey Borenstein

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
~ Adlai Stevenson, New York City, August 28, 1952

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake... of searching and experimenting... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
~ Ignazio Silone, "The God That Failed," 1950

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
~ Author Unknown

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
~ Edmund Burke

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~ Thomas Macaulay

This is one of the all time classics.

Some of mine

Have the courage to fail

You just moved up another rung on the idiot ladder

If a New Yorker has to teach you manners it's bad

We childproofed our house but one manged to get in anyway

Is it weird in here or is it just you?

No matter where you go, there you are
Buckaroo Banzai

Truth is a river, God is the mouth of the river
Gkar, Babylon5

It is good to have friends, even if only for a little while
Londo, Babylon5

Last series of Dr. Who. One dalek says to another "If we are so superior, why are we not victorious?"

Loved it!!

I love those! Also, there's "Those who don't their history, are doomed to repeat it"-George Santiana ?

In the movie 'Eragon' the is a dialogue between Saphira and Eragon before they go into the battle with the Varden. Eragon asks, "Why was I chosen?" Saphira answers, "A leader is chosen for their heart!" "But I am not without fear!" Eragon replies. "Without fear there cannot be courage!" Saphira responds back. "

You sound like one after my families heart. This house has 11 cats and multiple cat items.

A few out of the many I have:

"I tried snorting Coke once, but the ice cube got stuck up my nose!"

"Why take drugs? I don't want to be normal!"

"Normal is highly overrated!"

Thanks.

I believe that original quote is "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Yep, I think it's by George Santayana.


These loosely remind of another one, though it can be applied more broadly.

"It doesn't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds."
~ Samual Adams

Some of my favorites, in regards to the paranormal, skepticism and whatnot...

I can never have one. ;)


"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
- Plutarch

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
- Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein

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

"The fundament upon which all our knowledge rests is the inexplicable."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
- Frank Herbert

"In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena, but only to track down, as far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience."
- Niels Bohr

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
- Gerry Spencer

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
- Wilson Mizner

"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."
- Thomas Henry Huxley

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance, that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
- Herbert Spencer

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe."
- Laurence J. Peter

" Your not Human!"
"Would you have shot me if I was?"
*Helsing


Tarred and feathered Mixed Blessings,
Tar for the pain
And Feathers to fly away
*sinisstar

" It's a crystal, nothign more, but if you turn it this way and look into it it will show you your dreams"
*Jerath

and many more LOL
*although my favorite recently*
"I reject YORU reality and INSERT my own"

"Forgive your enemies, it only confuses them"- My sister

"Although I may have not made it clear, you are not getting the truth about a lie for free. You don't have to visit a website, or buy a book or buy a video tape or purchase anything for that matter. But you do have to do a little work and by work I mean do a little research. You can't do trig without learning addition and subtraction. If you were to go into Africa several thousand years ago and tell one of the local tribesman that the little points of light he sees in the night sky were huge balls of fire thousands of times bigger than our own sun he would have said Togoromshah! (This is 'bull****' in Ubangi). Whenever you learn something new you will notice that you always have to learn 'something else' first."- John Lear.


"The only thing that kept me going was my will to smoke again"- Dale Gribble.

Anna: "You smell like a rubber."
Said during a photo shoot I did by the make-up artist when the model was wearing latex and used lube to make it shine.

Tank Girl: "It's been swell but the swelling has gone down now."

But my favorite quotes come from conversations:

I have a co-worker who is from Ireland. He came up to my desk and here is how the conversation went:

Him: "Do you have a rubber?"
Everyone in my department stops what their doing and just looks at him.
Me with a grin: "A what?"
Him: "Oh. I keep forgetting you call them erasers in America."
Me: "Sure. Here." I hand him an eraser.
Him: "I only need it for a minute. Do you want it back when I'm done?"
Me: "I don't want the used rubber back, no."

And another conversation at work but this time during a department meeting with the CEO of the company.

Co-Worker 1: It's ok. You can tell us what you think of him.
Co-Worker 2: Yeah. Show us on the doll where he touched you...

And a more serious quote

"We're already living after the end of the world. No need to fret anymore." - Philosophy Professor Norman O. Brown

"Reality's a nice place, but I wouldn't wanna go there"

And another:

"The universe thanks you for it's destruction in advance yesterday"

"It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep.


“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, knowing it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up, knowing it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.”

Annon.

"But it was so artistic."

Grand Admiral Thrawn.

"English. We don't borrow from other languages. We lure them into dark alleys, knock them over and go through their pockets for loose grammar."

A friends shirt.

The actual quote is by a man named James D. Nicoll

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

"Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost." - Russell Baker

oooh quotes! you could tell the tale of your life in them. here are some...well maybe a little more than some....of my favorites:

I'm doin' what I do, thats what I do. I'm doin' what I do -the way I've always done it and the way I'll always do it.
Kramar from Seinfeld

You long to be seen and approached and understood and to get into micheif, to stir everything up and see if it wont boil over and if God won't come down and grab you by the hair. Well, there is no God. You might as well be God.
David Talbot from 'The Tale of the Body Theif'

No cause is hopeless so long as there is but one fool left to fight for it.
William Turner

Nor from Hell one step more than from himself can fly.
from 'Tithe' by Holly Black

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself.
Lestat in 'the Tale of the Body Thief'

They love not poison that do poison need.
William Shakespear in 'Richard II'

Another of my all time favs

"I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member"
Groucho Marx

Thanks Bobby, you made me laugh.

Allin>

Glad I could be of some help. The Marx brothers movies are some of my all time favs. Sometime when your bored or need a good laugh watch Animal Crackers.

I love the series House so I have two favourite quotes from House M.D (Hugh Laurie)
"If you talk to god, you're religious If god talks to you, you're psychotic."
"Genius has its side effects"

Whatever floats your boat!  Sorry, unsure of original source  :-\ lol.

This is one of my favorites and it is where I take my screen name from  ;D ;D

Be the Goth you want to see in the world.

Actually, replace Goth with whatever works for you, and live it.....

And...

*believe nothing,
no matter who has said it,
not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense*    .buddha.

heyoka

One of my favorite bumperstickers says, " God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts".

Hehe, thanks for that :D


"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." - Ernest Benn

I couldn't remember this one at the time, but it's right up there with the rest.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
~ Ronald Reagan


EDIT: A few others I remember:

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~ D.H. Lawrence

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~ Adlai Stevenson

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?
~ Mignon McLaughlin

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~ H.L. Mencken

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
~ Daniel Webster

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Here's some of mine:

This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.
-Unknown, From the Halo 3 trailer-

I was talking to God today. He said he could get me out of this mess. But you, your f***ed.
-Breaveheart-

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is becouse he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
-Henry David Thoreau-

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; That those who seek their own happiness do not find it; That those who are weak must suffer: That those who demand love will be disappointed; That those who are greedy will not be fed; That those who seek peace will find strife; That truth is only for the brave; That joy is only for those who do not fear to be alone; That life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
-Joyce Cary-

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
-Maya Angelou-

Between two evils, I always pick the onr I never tried before.
-Mae West-

"Revenge is a dish best served cold...."

-Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Matthew 7:6

Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, and great minds talk about ideas. I do all three to make sure my bases are covered.

"What I lie that was! My shining dishonesty shall be the salvation of me" - Howl, Howl's Moving Castle

My all time favorite has to be E. A. Poe,  "I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity."  It seems to be a life mantra for me hehe

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true." -fortune cookie-

"If you love something, set it free... if it returns, keep it and love it forever." - fortune cookie-

"Things will not calm down, Daniel Jackson. They will in fact calm up" -Stargate SG-1

And one of my favorite ones ever

 "When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun just a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and smell just the mirage of a world before the world? Does evil actually exist, and are there people who are really evil? How can it be that I, who am I, wasn't before I was, and that sometime I, the one I am, no longer will be the one I am?"
-Der Himmel über Berlin" (1987)

I have a lot of movie quotes that I can't help but love...for instance:

The Crow: "It Can't Rain All The Time"
                "Life is but a dream on the way to death"

Jack Sparrow's quote about doing the right thing when the time comes: "I love those moments...I like to wave at them as they pass by."

V for Vendetta: "I, like God, do not play with dice, or believe in coincidence."

"Some mornings, it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints."

Edgar Allen Poe: "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"

And of course, just random quotes I've heard:

"If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he'll spend all day in a boat drinking beer."

"Life is short...eat dessert first."

"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."

"Bacon and Eggs: A days work for the chicken, a life long investment for the pig."

"Well behaved women never make history."

I'm sure there's a million more. lol
Love,
Z

"The key to flying is to jump at the ground, and miss." - HHGTTG

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." - Anatole France  ^^^^^^my motto ;D

"Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty, and so is your head."

"I poke badgers with spoons" - Unknown

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery

So THAT'S how you fly?!!! Yayyy! I should have tried that years ago! Made a lot more sense than the things I've tried -__-

It works! I tried it from the roof of my house. The neighbours got a bit of a shock.



;D

Lol. Well if that doesn't work...you could always try wiggling your nose and jumping off a roof on a broom. :P (Although if you don't have a broom...I've heard that the latest stylists are usuing Swifter sweepers.) Lol
Love,
Z

I tried my bed once, but none of the knobs twisted :(

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
"Friedrich Nietzsche"

awwww. I wish my bed had knobs, but I don't even use my bed. I sleep under it lol. a makeshift coffin! lol.

Oooo I have a new favorite quote!
"How's a needle in my butt going to get water out of my ear? " (From Stargate SG-1)

"My goal in life is to be killed on stage by Gwar"
ScottL from Ghostly Talk the night before the Gwar show at Waverly Hills

The quote I remember the best from my days on the farm, excuse the language:
"You don't crap where you eat" - Unknown -
Sonni

I love politics! ;D ;D

But, the wisest thing my Dad has ever said, "Let's not have any arguments!" 

"Being evil takes far less effort than being nice" - Not sure :)

Lubirea Ca Moartea E De Tare ~ Love is stronger than death (hope I got that right lol )

Beware the "One True Path."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." ~Shakespear

Not entirely serious:

"No, the last thing they'll be expecting is for us to turn into ice skating mongooses and dance the Bolero!"

Cookie to whoever can guess what that's from. And no looking it up!!! ;D

"Learning without thought is time wasted, thought without learning is perilous."

Forever favorite:

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost from The Road Not Taken



On a lighter note:

"My ship don't crash! She crashes, you crashed her!"

-Mal /  Serenity

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.  E.A. Poe

What would an angel say, the devil wants to know... Fiona Apple

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.  Robert Frost

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing!" - 
Edmund Burke

The other two are in my signature block.

Raphael

I have many here is just some...

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy--And I keep it in a jar on my desk."   - Stephen King

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Chaos, Panic, Disorder
... My work is done here

I'm an angel honest the horns are just there to keep my halo straight!

I can't be like most people I can't get my head that far up my ass

"All we are is part of everything. It's out of our control. I say all you need to know is everything that's happening is happening." - The Get Up Kids



"The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.'"

"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."

"Everything in this book may be wrong."

(all three above) Messiah's Handbook ~ Reminders for the Advanced Soul

I used to have a word document on the other computer with nothing but quotes....such a shame the other computer is no more.    :(  Now I have to start all over.  So, with that I will come back and give mine just as soon as I can.

"Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?"
--- R. Meredith Belbin

I used this quote while doing a paper for my Residental Leadership program and I thought it was amazing.

I love quoting movies. And that particular quote always makes me happy; and it's somewhat true in all honesty when you think about it.

Anywho, I myself am very much the quote and proverb lover, but there is no way I would ever get all my favorites down in this forum in one post, not even two. But perhaps in time I will have shared them all with the community. We'll see how that goes, but I suppose I can leave at least one quote behind before I go.

Absence is to love, as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.  -Roger De Bussy-Rabutin

That particular quote has been on my mind for a wile, and has seemed true enough for my love life. But there is someone on here whom I would like to thank for letting that wind kindle our fire. And I'm sure he knows who he is, he better  :P

Great quote!! Im using it on my myspace page. ;)

It is from one of my favorite movies, a continuation of Dune. From The Children of Dune, Leto says this:

I shall not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me.


P.S. for Black Dove
thanks a lot. I love that quote, I hope it serves you well.

I figured I'd give this one a little bump as I am sure there are lots more new quotes floating about!

A couple of them for me:

"Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; others just gurgle."

"If life is a stage, then I want to opperate the trap door."

Not sure who these quotes originated from but I love them!

Humm for all your Lord Of The Rings fans out there like me my favorite quote would have to be from Gandalf from the Fellowship of the Ring.

"Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many. "

Licander

Mt favorite quote is from the immortal Dracula, " for the dead travel fast"

But, the quote with the most truth, even today, from Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back,

"you'll find that the truths that we cling too depend greatly upon ones own point of view". Spoken to Luke by Obi Wan Kenobi.

Actions speak louder than words.


You can't have courage without fear.

"Falstaff sweats to death and lards the lean earth as he walks along."

"Billy" Shakespear Henry IV, Part One

"But if the poor are left no human rights when they encounter the mighty, then I shall turn to the Gods as avengers of overweaning pride.  I shall pray that they turn their anger upon those who are content neither with their own property, nor with what they take from others.  Their savagery is not satisfied by the death of the guilty.  They will be satisfied only if we offer them our blood to drink and our entrails to tear out."

Livy, History of Rome

"Knock on yourself as upon a door, and walk upon yourself as a straight road.  For if you walk on the road, it is impossible for you to go astray."

The Teachings of Silvanus

"If I am not better, at least I am different."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"And only one who stands in the dark can see the light."

Dialogue of the Savior

That's just a few.

How am I supposed to choose only one !!!!! :o :o :o

Seriously, I am partial to this one.

"Know thyself." 

In darkness and light,
Grey

Cut not the wings of your dreams,
for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

~ Flavia ~

They do not love that do not show their love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

William Shakespeare

Use your eyes to see, use your ears to hear, but use your mouth to shut up.

Romanian Proverb

Dear Budda please bring me a Pony and a plastic rocket
-Malcome Reynolds, Serenity-

Smoking with AIDS and a hangover is sux
-Me after new years-

Vledrin

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims that he intends to eat until he eats them."
and...
"She was dressed in her own beauty like Mother Eve before the winter. She made it seem so utterly appropriate I wondered how I had ever suffered the delusion that freedom from clothing equals obscenity."
I think I got the last one right. I saw it in a Sci-fi quotes book once and took a liking to it.

"Those who deserve love the least often need it the most." -Anonymous
"War. War never changes."-Announcer for the game Fallout 3, forgot his name. Oops. Sorry Mr. Announcer.
"I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me."-Marilyn Manson, more of a song than a quote, really.
"Humans are meant to not understand. However, by understanding that we are not meant to understand, does that mean that we understand anything more?"- A.L. Stone.

"Better a gram then a Dam" - Huxley

"Better to be pissed off then pissed on."

Shakespeare
King Henry IV Part two

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.



Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Habit of Perfection
 
ELECTED Silence, sing to me 
And beat upon my whorlèd ear, 
Pipe me to pastures still and be 
The music that I care to hear.



Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore-
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."



I have several others :)

“Sun worship is the driving force of all religions. It reflects the hot gas and fusion that degrades the individuality that is represented by the other suns in the night.”

“The lessons of man- animal interaction: Body language communicates deeply, emotion is felt by those that feel it too, fear is effective but love brings out the best, animals will love even when unwanted,  Man is a student in emotion compared to an animal.”

“In reference, inference and difference does man choose all of his knowledges. Reading the words that speak to his being and forgetting that language is the art of soul communication. If men follow words over the message then they miss the point of all the same messages that use different wording.”

"Musing on the concepts of duality is the greatest past time of humanity. Acting in duality is the order of the day. Projecting duality onto the future is the surest way that duality remains that past time and the order of the day."

When the only tool you have is a hammer then all your problems look like nails.

Said to one unfortunate friend from the more fortunate one: "Sucks to be you."

I have a lot of fave sayings and phrases.

“Sheesh” is one I use a lot when I'm frustrated.

“Oh my GOD!!” Is another I use when something doesn't turn out right.

Among others there is one quote one of my subs wrote on the board one day and it expresses what I feel about Racism.

”Racism is Ignorance. Ignorance is lack of knowledge. Learn now or Live stupid.“

-Jarrone23

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.  ~Paula Poundstone

Everything I know I learned from my cat:  When you're hungry, eat.  When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam.  When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner.  ~Gary Smith

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.  It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.  ~Barbara Holland

The soul is the coin of the realm in which we dwell, and no, I don't miss mine.

One of my characters favorite sayings. For some reason, it just appeals to me.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab life by the lapels. Life's a *****.You've got to go out and kick ass.

Maya Angelou

Freeing yourself was one thing. Claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

This quote means so much to me. At the start of 09,I made the decision to be my true self, totally Goth,with no chaser. It was hard but day by day, I love it. People look, they point,I so don't care anymore.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.  -George Carlin

Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.   -Albert Einstein

"we couldn't all be cowboys....some of us are clowns"
          Counting Crows

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

My halo is broken down into, now these horns are all that's true.

Evan

"Life doesn't happen to you, you happen to life."

Something I said to a friend a few years ago, which is something that I make myself think every time life seems to be throwing too much my way.

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior and Orator

"You made three mistakes: First, you took the job. Second, you came light: a four-man crew for me? Fuckin' insulting. But the worst mistake you made, merc... That's right. Empty gun rack." --- Riddick (Vin Diesel)

Not my favorite, but it is a worthy reply to Lukas's.

"Then you got to get sent to a slam, where they tell you you'll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor, and you pay him 20 menthol Kools to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs." -Richard B. Riddick

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."

"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

Sigmund Freud.

A man that was as brilliant as he was disturbingly weird. lol 

Here are a few of mine.

“I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me ... but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.” - Manson

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allen Poe

"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.” - Mark Twain

"Gingers are the chosen people. The chosen race. And we must view the rest of the world as the low life darkskins that they are!" - South Park

"If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director." - Eli Roth

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” Buddha

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”  Frederic Lawrence Knowles

“May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.” Irish Blessing quote

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator” Mahatma Gandhi

"Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare
yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue
and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your
subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of
voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to
hide."

"In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine"

-Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."  Albus Dumbledore

"Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays."

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

As some might have already found out, I'm a bit of a military history buff. lol

"Bid me discourse, and I will enchant thine ear."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."

-Shakespeare

He's one of my favorites..

"In Hell, there is no beer, therefore we drink it here"

-Old Dutch proverb

Wilhem that was a great quote. You truly made me smile on that one.

“Do you know what pan dowdy is? Maybe not if you happen to have been born in New England or Alabama, but certainly you must know if your mother was Pennsylvania Dutch.” Sheila Hibben (1888-1964)

"Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others."  Proverb, Pennsylvania Dutch

(Some where I have one of my mother's books on Pennsylvania Dutch sayings and proverbs. If I find it while I am sorting through all of my books I will post a few more later.)

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

-Ben Franklin, Subject to debate over the veracity of the quote

My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends...It gives a lovely light.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh

Love is something eternal - the aspect may change but not the essence - Vincent Van Gogh

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891] - Oscar Wilde

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. - Jane Austen

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
-Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
-Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
-Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost

 Just to name a few LOL  :D

I like that one. It seems Benjamin Franklin was in good company in his thoughts regarding beer:

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”

-Plato

“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world”

Kaiser Wilhelm (The guy I was named after. lol)

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
- H.P. Lovecraft

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing.

"We're all ignorant, just on different subjects."

Will Rodgers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise gives me 1 memorable quote: "There's roadkill all over Texas" -TCM3

My favorite: Life's too short to take it serious !!!
And another one I like:
I Believe That Imagination Is Stronger than Knowledge - Myth Is More Potent than History - Dreams Are More Powerful than Facts - Hope Always Triumphs over Experience - Laughter Is the Cure for Grief.

Lol Carinoh,

Like my dad always says, "Over yonder is an armadillo in its natural habitat"

-John

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
-Jane Austen

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
-Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
-Mary Wollstonecraft

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
-Mary Wollstonecraft

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
-Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
-Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have seen.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
-Alexander Pope

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.  ~Destin Figuier

And in today already walks tomorrow.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.  ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~Irish Blessing

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter
Lullabies, dreams, and love ever after.
Poems and songs with pipes and drums
A thousand welcomes when anyone comes.
~Author Unknown

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.  ~Adrienne Cook

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
~Irish Blessing

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing

These 2 are personal one's from my poetry:

"Only when you've walking among the fallen,
can you find your true calling."

"Express it or die"

Be careful, what you wish for!-unknown author

Edit:I saw all 3 Neverending Story movies.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.  ~Sakyong Mipham

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.  ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.  ~Jean Paul Richter

From my signature line:

“I went in and they asked me if I had any reservations. I said "Yes, with the décor, the service and probably the food as well. But I still want to dine here!"

~ King Leonidas of Sparta, when asked about Hell

He was truly a God amongst hamsters, was he not?

Kind regards,
Wilhelm

A quote I found on Stumbleupon:

You can't see the forest for all the trees

I think it's supposed to imply narrowmindedness.

And another off of QI. Aah, the wisdom of Stephen Fry :P

What's considered gay in civilian life is companianship in the army. What's considered gay in the army is companianship in the navy. And what's considered gay in the navy is illegal.

;D

Madess is like gravity, it just takes a little push.

                                  Joker

Answers make you wise, questions make you human.

(Yves Montand as Dr. Marc Chabot)

Dream as if you live forever. Live if you die today-James Dean

Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. So why not get wasted and have the time of your life.-Anonymous

"Life is short and love is always over in the morning." -- Ville Valo, HIM

“Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”

"Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." -- Song of Solomon 8:6
 

And then there's "life is short, stay awake for it"-Caribou Coffee

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

"A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan." Zitkala-Sa (Native American)

Alright it is late and I find my self in a silly mood.  :)

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." Dr. Seuss

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." Dr. Seuss

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.  ~Tay Hohoff

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.  ~Ellen Perry Berkeley

Cats come and go without ever leaving.  ~Martha Curtis

Trust your hunches.  They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.  ~Joyce Brothers

Who so recognizes the effect recognizes the cause. -Dr. Jose Rizal

A flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all. (The Emperor of China~Mulan)

And here are some I learned from my family over the years. It still echos in my mind to this very day. My grandparents always used to remind each and everyone of us about consequences and how we should always try to consider everything around us before jumping on to something:

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.


And here is one my gran used to remind me about Familiars.
She used to say that if you take in a familiar as your companion, it won't ever forsake you as its master because of your poverty, but a daughter or son can desert his or her own mother for her homely appearance.

 :) luv

I came up with these quotes a VERY long time ago while I was standing in the middle of a storm with lightning all around me...VERY energizing.

The Human mind: Easy to taunt, easy to trick, easy to condemn in an immortal ecstasy.- Ventram Koldeheart

We as mortal beings, although the only creatures able to study our own minds, know nothing, for everything is but a theory based on experience and desire for true knowledge.- Ventram Koldeheart

  "Never Assume because it makes an Ass of you and me"

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.  ~Charles W. Eliot

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.  ~William Hazlitt

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.  ~Howard Pyle

Medicine for the soul.  ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

So many to choose from! umm id have to say
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"  Edgar Allen Poe. The man was amazing. xD

ah...here's one I made for my latin class.

Without darkness I am silent.

another one that I like:

Who waits, wins.

Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.


 luv A

"I may miss the harvest but I won't miss the feast"
    dan fogelberg

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend. - Bruce Lee

"Not all who wander are lost"

"Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you. Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you."

"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." (Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)

Ralph de Bricassart: [telling the legend of the thorn bird to Meggie] There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
Young Meggie Cleary: What does it mean, Father?
Ralph de Bricassart: That the best... is bought only at the cost of great pain.

                         ---The Thorn Birds, 1983

"Life is a pilgrimage that each person has to take at her or his own pace."

                  ~Patricia Teltsco 'Shaman in a 9 to 5 World'

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. ;D