Favorite quotes

[Ethanael]

My favorite quote is from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven".

Quoth the Raven,"Nevermore."

Post your favorite quotes. Funny, enlightening, whatever.

 

[Verago]

My fave is from school.
"**** off ****head."
I'm not going to mention who said it. lol

 

[Ethanael]

"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke

Yeah, that dude knows what he's talking about.
Testify Edmund!
Peace out my brothers!

 

[shimshimheyxD]

"Monkey see, Monkey DO!"

 

[Emperor Pan I]

"For those who wish for peace, prepare for war"

 

[Ethanael]

Good quotes. Especially the one on peace. Too true.
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
(Sounds a bit like the voting system, maybe...?)

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
(Please wait while i stab myself so i can become stronger. *blood squirts everywhere.*)

=)

 

[Emperor Pan I]

A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic

 

[Verago]

"Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I exist!) -Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
i'm guessing that's close to "i think therefore i am" from...what's his name...
and what is that? Latin? Greek?

 

[Ethanael]

A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic

WOW, that's true.
=(


"When all else fails, follow the directions." -American Proverb
(Souns like something i'd do at school...)

 

[Emperor Pan I]

the opposite of war is not peace, its creation

 

[Ethanael]

Dude! check Pan out! i'm in the presence of a philosopher! Where are you getting this??

"For man, the unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates

"Know thyself." -Socrates

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing." -Socrates

"I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

And Verago, i think it was Socrates that said "I think therefore i am." But i'm probably wrong, so don't take my word for it...

 

[Verago]

has anyone seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? They misprononce Socrates' name as so- crates. It's hilarous. i guess u just have to be there, i was laughing my head off...and a quote: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

-Unknown

 

[Emperor Pan I]

"Only the dead have seen the end of War"
-Plato?

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
--Dwight Eisenhower

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. "

 

[Ethanael]

In the 30 or so minutes this post has been open, it's gotten lots of responses...cool!

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." -Confucius

 

[Emperor Pan I]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation"

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "

"going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind"

 

[Brandon]

"If theres grass on the field play ball.

If there isn't...time to get your knees dirty"

 

[shimshimheyxD]

My favorite quote is from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven".

Quoth the Raven,"Nevermore."

Post your favorite quotes. Funny, enlightening, whatever.

that has to be the best qoute by aladair

 

[Brandon]

Just about all poem's have great quotes in them

 

[Emperor Pan I]

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

 

[Ethanael]

Another Edgar Allen Poe from The Raven. (God, i love that poem. =) )

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is, I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you." Here I opened wide the door;---
Darkness there, and nothing more.

that has to be the best qoute by aladair

=) i think the best quote should go to PIsYcoWaLNut for saying that. lol