couple good quotes

[Golden_Rhino]

Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist
- George Carlin

Call on God, but row away from the rocks
- Hunter S. Thompson

[BadMoonRising]

"There are four sorts of men:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him."
-Lady Burton, In

Life of Sir Richard Burton



"Dont't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." Emerson
Social Aims

[bisonbison]

that's pretty funny coming from you

I'm a funny guy.

['Chair]

"Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. "

The Island - McCord (Steve Buscemi)



"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."

Jesse Ventura

[Caldarooni]

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "that was f***ing awesome"

[Zoelef]

To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wooo! I'm invisible!

- Elan, Order of the Stick (link)

[SoCalRugger]

In life, you have to do a lot of things you don't f-ckin' want to do. Many times, that's what the f-ck life is. One vile f-cking task after another.
- Al Swearengen

[Joe Camel]

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some of these are good but some of you seriously bring this thread down with crap quotes. my favorite (that wasn't mine) are "the secret is in wanting what you have not having what you want" and teddy roosevelts long one, would be cool to memorize that

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Yeah those are good, but I like this one better:

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde -

[FoxwoodsFiend]

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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~Buddha

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Buddha said ennui? How cosmopolitan.

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I'm just going to out out on a limb here and say that "ennui" instead of "boredom" or some equivalent of boredom was the translator's contribution.

[fish2plus2]

the secret is in wanting what you have not having what you want"

i dont get it.