Quotes: do you have a favorite one?

[dartalian]

" mercy to the guilty...is cruelty to the innocent..." Adam Smith

"I am not young enough to know everything" I don't know, Oscar Wilde I think but it may have been before him.

"better to remain silent and to be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln  

[MeccaFresh]

"Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation." - Bruce Lee

"Be the change you wish to see in this world." - Ghandi

"I wear my scars like the rings on a pimp." - Slug, Atmosphere

"Appears more clear in its simplest form,
nobody sees tears when you're standing in the storm.
Abandoning the norm and handling the harvest,
measuring the worth by the depth of the hardship." - Slug, Atmosphere

"When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy mispelled words, when a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive." - Sage Francis - Non-Prophets.

o.o  

[Bestmom]

Never assume it maks an a** out of you and me.That is what one of my asst. managers used to say all the time.  

[Shadow-Savant]

"If I gave you my name--you'd get it dirty." Gourry - The Slayers

"You have two choices. The first is that you tell me what I want to know. The second is that I break your fingers one by one until you tell me what I want to know. If you manage to resist until all your fingers are broken I will start on your toes. If somehow you are still conscious and obstinate after even that much pain I'll have to resort to crushing your fingers one knuckle at a time. Believe me when I say that hurts much more than simple breaking. If you faint from the pain we will wait for you to awaken and continue where we left off. Only your hands and feet will be horribly swollen and sensitive. Still don't want to talk? Oh you will? Good guy. . ." One of my RP characters during an interrogation. (he wouldn't have really done it.)  

[Sekhmet]

gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs - stalin

its only after we have lost everything that we are truly free to do anything - Fight Club

in heaven, all the interesting people are missing - Nietzsche  

[Damisa]

"A journy of a thousand miles begins with a single step" Confucius  

[Sekhmet]

Damisa

"A journy of a thousand miles begins with a single step" Confucius

a journey of a thousand miles often ends very, very badly
despair.com  

[LangWapper]

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity - Biloxi Blues

and....

Man: "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
Woman : "Well, I guess I might."
Man: "Would you sleep with me for five dollars?"
Woman:"Sir, what kind of a woman do you take me for?"
Man:"Madam, we have already established that; now we're merely haggling over the price."  

[MONCHiKi]

"'It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.'"
-Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness

"My Musuko's sleeping! Do not disturb him!"
-Kunikuni
('musuko' means son in Japanese, but is used colloquially in much the same way the word 'member' is used in English...hehehe)  

[Song_of_fire]

I fought to gain a place in the world. But then I realised, I had a place, I was just the only one in it. -InuYasha from InuYasha: a fuedal fairytale.

I just look it and it was they only remotely original one that I can think of.

The birds are singing, the sun is shining, so why am I here??
All that glitters is not gold, just a cheap imitation.  

[Novatierrie]

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
- Doctor Who

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
- Lynn Johnston

Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

To the above -- I like Douglas Adams OKAY? *could have quoted much more, and hasn't even TOUCHED Good Omens yet. :B*  

[Song_of_fire]

Novatierrie

To the above -- I like Douglas Adams OKAY? *could have quoted much more, and hasn't even TOUCHED Good Omens yet. :B*

But it was Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman who wrote Good Omens. Not Douglas Adams.
I do recommend the book assembled from what was found on his computer when he died entitled "The salmon of doubt". Is good.

Everything is getting nicely out of hand.- Dirk Gently, The salmon of doubt  

[Yvaine]

From Hopeless Savages (written by Jen Van Meter):

"Of all the hubsmashing, crotchwashing SQUALL!!!" -Zero

"Oh, nous mannequins sont tellement excentriques! We are, how you say, absconding. Please go away." -Zero

"Right. Off to do violence'n save mum'n'da. You lot coming wif?" -Rat

From Terry Pratchett (various books):

"I can't be having with this." -Granny Weatherwax (Carpe Jugulum)

"Reegt! Summun hol me coat...righ'!...now summun hol his arms!" -The Nac Mac Feegle (Carpe Jugulum)

People believe in all sorts of things, though. For example, there are some people who have a legend that the whole universe is carried in a leather bag by an old man.

They're right, too.

Other people say: hold on, if he's carrying the entire universe in a sack, right, that means he's carrying himself and the sack inside the sack, because the universe contains everything. Including him. And the sack, of course. Which contains him and the sack already. As it were.

To which the reply is: well?

All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true".

-From the first chapter of The Last Continent


And of course:

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all who wander are lost
The tree that is old does not wither:
Deep roots are not touched by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall awaken
From darkness a new light shall spring
Remade shall be sword that was broken -
The crownless again shall be king.

-JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings  

[caff]

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

- Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian Bishop  

[HeyKidsWatchPorn]

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