I have seen many lovely 'quotes' here on caedes.net, and I thought that it would be interesting for everyone to share quotes or sayings that they find inspirational, funny, uplifting or really thoughtful. I'll start with one I was told the other day...

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
William Shakespeare

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

"It's really kinda cool to just be really creative and create something really cool."

You know you are addicted to the art when you look at everything in the world around you for its photogenic qualities.
~me
champions arent born, they are made
~who knows, I'm sure i'm not the first
read below, also by me

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.
Author: Proverb

I have a quote in response to that quote

"Horse Manure!"
~also by me

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

"If it ain't broke, kick it till it is, then rebuild it but better."

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide."
- John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681

He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing - Frank Herberts Dune ~ Paul Atreides.

Everyone has the right ...to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.

(Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 19. 1948)

Nice idea to start this conversation. *thumbs up*.

I have quite a few. (look at my signature too for more)

(This is a part of the song "Another Day" and it is talking about suicide).

Better to save the mystery
Than surrender to the secret
-John Petrucci

That is just so awesomely cool to me. The wording is perfect and really insprational to me

I can see much clearer now,
I'm blind
-Dream Theater ..they don't say which member wrote that part but it was prolly John Petrucci

"Seize the Day"
I heard him say
Life will not always be this way
Look around
Hear the sounds
Cherish your life
While you're still around


Oh come let us adore him
Abuse and then ignore him
No matter what
Don't let him be
Let's feed upon his misery
Then string him up for all the world to see
-Both of those were writen by Mike Portnoy

This one is rather commom

"Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder"
-Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

..Ill post some more later ..gotta do homework now...

"Free At Last! Thank God almighty I'm Free at Last!!"
-you better know how ..Martin Luther King, Jr. ..thats not one of his better quotes but I just felt like posting it ..and I believe it is on his tomb stone ..which is really cool.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

(Abraham H. Maslow, 1954)

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ours is not to reason why, ours is to do & die.

~ General saying of soldiers.

Never eat more than you can lift. Miss Piggy

The road of life is full of bumps... some bumps are just bigger than others... (my mother)

You finaly realize you've arived when every one stops asking you where you are going.

If you fall out of that tree and break your leg, don't come running to me!

(Mothers through-out the ages)

I always liked this for its redundant.

If die you becouse this; iIl never talk to you again, as long as i live. "DA"

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?

Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few weeks of captivity, they can train humans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish?

Pointed away from earth!!! Lori that one's priceless.

Abraham Lincoln reviewing a book tactfully; "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

Groucho Marx; "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening...but this wasn't it."

Frank Zappa; "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

W.C. Fields; "I keep a supply of stimulant on hand in case I see a snake...which I also keep handy."

David Lee Roth; "Stamps in my passport, they're polaroids and drinking stories. I've got some good ones now, it's getting harder to ignore me."

OK! OK! I'll stop now and give someone else a chance. But, I have a large collection.

Like your first quote Lori, and dreamer100, love the Frank Zappa quote!

A few more I like:

Mistakes are the portals of discovery - James Joyce

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity - Bill Vaughan

One that a wise old friend told me...
If someone asks what you are, reply:
I am a product of the past, a father of the future, and a slave to the present.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow,

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. (Amy Lowell)

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
Mark Twain.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.
Homer Simpson

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Chirst will reign for 1000 years and for sometime thereafter, Satan. -somewhere in the Revelations

Hey Jacqueline, I like your new icon! haha. D-:

thanks sean.. glad u like it... felt like a change... :P

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

A true friend is the one who knows the song in your heart and sings you the song when you're torn apart.

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

"stifle it Edith" -Archie Buncker

(see my sig)

Bucky:You know what they say: 'there's a fine line separating genius and insanity.'
Rob: Your line must be perforated, man.
-from 'Get Fuzzy' by Darby Conley

"I'm not closed-minded, you're just WRONG." -?

"Chivalry isn't dead, it's just buried alive." -me and my brother Jon

"Ignorance is bliss, but is bliss worth ignorance?" -me

"Philosophy is dangerous. It can eat away at you until there's nothing left." -Star Wars Tales #19: 'Collapsing New Empires'

"Sometimes out of destruction comes something beautiful." -Star Wars Tales #19: 'Collapsing New Empires'

"Long ago, in a yet unseen time, in a faraway place . . . the same song of humanity still sang." -Trigun #1

"Why? Why do you humans always look to the sky? Why do you always try to fly when you don't have any wings?" -Wolf's Rain

"When I close my eyes, I can see for miles" ~ Incubus lyric

"7am. The garbage truck beeps as it backs up and I start my day thinking about what I've thrown away" ~ Incubus

"Its a bitter sweet symphony, thats life. Your a slave to the money, then you die." ~ Richard Ashcroft (The Verve)

Just a few sayings from songs that I know. I've heard countless phrases and sayings and read even more, but when it comes to remembering them...no can do.

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."--Stephen Crane, "War Is Kind"

--listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go. --e.e. cummings, 1x1

Buraeucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. --James H. Boren

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occured to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. --Gore Vidal, "Rocking the Boat"

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. --Elias Canetti

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. --Charles Fisher

Your children are not your children.
The are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. . . .
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your
dreams. --Kahlil Gibran

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. --Martin Luther
King, Jr.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. --Matthew 15:14

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. --Aesop

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. --Mark Twain

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe does not attract us until housed in an individual. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

And if there had been more of the world,
They would have reached it. --Luis de Camoes

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. --Henry David Thoreau

It is easy to be tolerant when you do not care. --George Bernard Shaw

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell. --Harry S Truman

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. --Heywood Brown

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. --George Bernard Shaw

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. --Jonathan Swift

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. --T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

LIfe is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. --Luigi Pirandello

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. --Zelda
Fitzgerald

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you. --Satchel Paige

I grow old ever learning many things. --Solon

The most frustrating condition a human being can find himself in is that of an artist with a block. --me.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. –Erich
Fromm, "The Sane Society"

What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself. --Franz Kafka (note: quoted for the content of the second sentence, but the first is required for full context. no discrimination intended by me.)

To live is to feel oneself lost. --Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"

And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw. --Edmund Spenser

We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly . . . to revere God and to be God. --Daniel J. Boorstin, on Americans

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. --Georges Clemenceau

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. --W.S. Gilbert (doesn't quite make sense to me but sounds hilarious. someone explain?)

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. --George Bernard Shaw

Things are entirely what they appear to be--and behind them . . . there is nothing. --Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architecht can only advise his clients to plant vines. --Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. --Georges Braque

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue. --Gustave Flaubert (1846)

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. --Paul Klee, "The Inward Vision"

Art is a revolt against fate. --Andre Malraux, "Voices of Silence"

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. --Pablo Picasso

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. --Oscar Wilde

Art happens--no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce. --James McNeill Whistler, "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"

People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dpe fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, something's wrong with him. --Art Buchwald, "Have I Ever Lied to You?"

Beauty is everlasting
And dust is for a time. --Marianne Moore, "A Distrust of Merits"

Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? --George Bernard Shaw

Beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break. --Sara Teasdale

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. --Samuel Butler

Here I stand. I can do no other. --Martin Luther (1521)

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. --William Shakespeare

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals; we storm heaven itself in our folly. --Horace

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. --Arthur Koestler

A book is a mirror: when a monkay looks in, no apostle can look out. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. --A. Whitney Griswold

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. --Heinrich Heine

POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice. --Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Character is what a man is in the dark. --Dwight L. Moody

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. --Mark Twain

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. --Graham Greene

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two road diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. --Robert Frost

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. --Desmond Morris

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. --Christopher Morley

Cities are the abyss of the human speciecs. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

what man calls civilization
always results in deserts --Don Marquis

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. --Kahlil Gibran, "Sand and Foam"

Hell is other people. --Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit"

Don't shout for help at night. You may wake your neighbors. --Stanislaw LEC

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. --Rainer Maria Rilke

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. --Allen Ginsberg, quoted in "After the Wake"

Home is the place where, when you hae to go there,
They have to take you in. --Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man"

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is a waking dream. --Aristotle

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. --Miguel de Cervantes

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between that things are, and what they ought to be. --William Hazlitt

Man would be OTHERwise. That is the essence of the specifically human. --Antonio Machado

Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars. Frederick Langbridge

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. --Woody Allen, "Side Effects"

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. --Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

Art is science made clear. (Jean Cocteau)

The great artists are those whose impose their peculiar illusion on the rest of mankind. (Charles Baudelaire)

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, then the average person. (Frank Barron)

. . . I am frightened . . . which is the more terrifying, to be awake or asleep, I know not.
--Cecilia Dart-Thornton, "The Lady of the Sorrows"

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
--"The Princess Bride" (movie, not book; I read the book but can't remember if this is in there . . . )

"May those who love us love us, and those who do not love us, may God turn their hearts, and if He cannot turn their hearts may He turn their ankles that we may know them by their limping" Irish Prayer

"Oh Lord, bless this, thy hand grenade, that with it thou may blowest thine enemys to tiny bits"

It's just a flesh wound!
How do you know it's a king?
You've hit on one of my favorite sources Sam.

It may be crude but it has it’s point!
Chuck Norris: If I want your opinion I'l beat it out of you. LOL!

You’ve lived so long in your mind
Whatever happened to reality?
Is it worth keeping around
When all it does is kill you slowly?
--Elizabeth Anne Croskell(me)
A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them; to ask, "Am I like That?"
--Wallace Shawn, 'Introduction to Aunt Dan and Lemon'

"so much to do; so little enthusiasm"

I thought of that one the other day.

If I throw a stick, will you go away?

I can only help one person a day. Today isn’t looking good for you and neither is tomorrow.

Two men looked out of prison bars,
one saw mud,
the other stars.
(author unknown)

"You know what? I have no idea what is going on here. I am going to go into the kitchen where the world makes sense." --a very stupid very mildly amusing Disney Channel show. If you know anything about Disney Channel, well . . . I don't have to say much. It's an over-dramatic pathetic attempt at teaching 'universal morals' if there's such a thing which I'm postive is exclusively aimed at middle schoolers (those subhuman lemmings we keep tripping over)

And on a very jarring note (you will now hate me for dragging you from the mundane/inane to the horrifying/sickening):
"Don't you know what it's like to stand in blood every day? The blood of children?" --Hawkeye Pierce, MASH

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

"A personality is like a face, you think you know what it looks like until someone else shows you what its really like."

"If you want to know where the apathy is, you're probably sitting on it."
Florynce R. Kennedy

I have to live for tomorrow--because for me, there is no now. --BJ Hunnicut, M*A*S*H

"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
Antonio Porchia

"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."

Thomas Pickering (1931 - )

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten. --Cesare Pavese

A ten-dollar shine on two-cent shoes still leaves you with some lousy footwear. --saying, possibly Japanese in origin

It is the business of the future to be dangerous. --Alfred North Whitehead

The world doesn't always look both ways before crossing the road to ruin. --Adult Swim [the middle-of-the-night version of Cartoon Network. lots of Anime (huge grin)]

How can I sound like me when I don't know who that is? --Wolf's Rain

Paradise created from false worlds is meaningless. --Wolf's Rain

This is the beginning of my past. This is the end of my journey. --Trigun

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." --Albert Einstein

From Star Trek III: The Search for Spock--[note: Maltz is a Klingon prisoner]
Kirk: Help us or die.
Maltz: I do not deserve to live.
Kirk: Fine, I'll kill you later.
later---------
Kirk: Take the prisoner below.
Maltz: Wait! You said you would kill me!
Kirk: I lied.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter . . . --from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

All good poetry . . . is forged slowly and patiently, and link by link with sweat and blood and tears. --Lord Alfred Douglas

There are only three things . . . that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader. And the surest way to reach the heart is through the ear. --Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. --Robert Frost

If you want to know where the apathy is, you're probably sitting on it. --Florynce R. Kennedy

Youth has vision! Old age, dreams. --Melvin Tolson

"You can't bury the truth!" --Mulder, 'The X-Files' (basically what he says all the time. I think it's the entire plot of the show.)

You don't know your own mind. --Jonathan Swift, "Polite Conversation"

. . . must people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. --Bertrand Russell

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy? --Leo Tolstoy

Once expanded to the dimensions of a larger area, [the mind] never returns to its original size. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think. --Adolf Hitler

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. --Madeleine L'Engle, "A Wind in the Door"

We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out. --Decca Records, in turning down a recording track with the Beatles in 1962

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. --"Popular Mechanics", 1949

The telephone may be appropriate for our American cousins, but not here, because we have an adequate supply of messenger boys. --British expert group evaluating the invention of the telephone

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--" --General John Sedgwicks last words, uttered in a US Civil War battle

Rats are very similar to humans except that they are not stupid enough to purchase lottery tickets. --Dave Barry, Jul. 2, 2002

I sing the body electric. --Walt Whitman, "Children of Adam," 1855

Error flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages. --Voltaire

We share half our genes with the banana. --evolutionary biologist Robert May, pres. of Britain's Royal Society, 2001

When someone has discovered why men in Bond Street wear black hats he will at the same moment have discovered why men in Timbuctoo wear red feathers. --GK Chesterton, "Heretics"

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. --Ralph W Sockman

I'm the only one posting anymore but I WILL NOT SURRENDER!!!

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. -Terry Pratchett

The thing about fairy tales is, there's always some truth in them. --Wolf's Rain

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. --Picasso

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling. --Lawrence Ferlingetti

I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul. --Invictus-Henly

On a planet far far away, something's happening . . . --Frux

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

Rome wasn't burned in a day. --Claudius Agustus Nero, June 9, 68ad.

*sigh* . . . oh, me . . . 'tis ever thus. I am ringed by fools . . . --"Inuyasha" by Rumiko Takahashi

BY DOUGLAS ADAMS:
Life, the Universe, and Everything.

BY JOHN ADAMS:
I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

BY ROBERT ALDEN:
There is not enough darkeness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

BY SIR NORMAN ANGELL:
The Great Illusion

BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR:
I know why the caged bird sings . . .

BY VARIOUS ANONYMOUS:
his own worst enemy

A beast but just a beast.

The bloody deed was done.

Bring out your dead.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

‘Has anyone here been raped and speaks English?’ The callous cry summed up for me the tragic, yet wildly surrealish nature of the country itself.

He who has the sea has the shore
And the castle is his who has the plain;
But freedom dwells upon the mountain peaks.

Is there a life before death?

It is now proved beyond doubt that cigarettes are the biggest single cause of statistics.

I told you I was sick. --epitaph of a hypochondriac

The killing fields

The king is dead--long live the king!

Life’s a bitch, and then you die.

Lonely Are the Brave

May you live in interesting times.

We who are about to die salute you.

No one likes us--we don’t care.

Not as a stranger . . .

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

So deep is the night . . ./
So dark is the night . . .

Hear my song.

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

The things that will destroy us are . . .
politics without principle,
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without character;
business without morality;
science without humanity; and
worship without sacrifice.

This is not a dress rehearsal, this is real life.

This must be the first time a rat has come to the aid of a sinking ship.

The tie that binds . . .

The time is now.

To save the town, it became necessary to destroy it.

To the world he was a soldier,
To me he was the world.

When Pictures Look Alive With Movement Free
When Ships Like Fishes Swim Beneath the Sea
When Men Outstripping Birds Can Scan the Sky
Then Half the World Deep Trenched in Blood Will Lie. --carved on a tombstone five hundred years ago

With twenty-six soldiers of lead, I can conquer the world.

BY ARCHIMEDES:
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I with move the earth.

BY HANNAH ARENDT:
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us--the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

BY ARISTOTLE:
Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude . . . by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

BY MATTHEW ARNOLD:
Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! . . . Whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

The sea is calm to-night,
The tide is full, the moon lies far
Upon the straits . . .
For the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams.

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night. --from Armies of the Night

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

BY MARGOT ASQUITH, LATER COUNTESS OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH:
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

BY JOHN AUBREY:
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

Grubbing in churchyards. --his method of historical research

BY W.H. AUDEN:
The Dog Beneath the Skin

. . . The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. . . .
The day of his death was a dark cold day . . .
Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,
For poetry makes nothing happen . . .
Earth, receive an honored guest: . . .
Let the Irish vessel lie
Emptied of its poetry.

A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.

BY EMILE AUGIER:
Longing to be back in the mud.

BY JANE AUSTEN:
You have delighted us long enough.

BY FRANCIS BACON:
Three Screaming Popes

BY WALTER BAGEHOT:
. . . if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it . . . Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.

BY STANLEY BALDWIN, LATER 1ST EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLY:
The bomber will always get through.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

BY ARTHUR BALFOUR, LATER 1ST EARL OF BALFOUR:
Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all.

BY TALLULAH BANKHEAD:
There’s less in this than meets the eye.

BY MAURICE BARING:
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gave it.

Puppet Show of Memory

BY SIR JAMES BARRIE:
Greatest horror--dream I am married--wake up shrieking.

Second [star] to the right, and straight on till morning. --from Peter Pan

To die will be an awfully big adventure. --from Peter Pan

BY BERNARD BARUCH:
Let us not be deceived--we are today in the midst of a cold war.

BY C. HENRY BATEMAN:
There is a Happy Land

BY CHARLES BAUDELAIRE:
Hypocrite reader, my likeness, my brother! --’The Burial of the Dead’

BY 1ST BARON BEAVERBROOK (MAXWELL AITKEN):
Because he shakes hands with people’s hearts.
Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

He did not care which direction the car was going, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.

BY TONY BENN:
If voting changed anything they would make it illegal.

BY ALAN BENNETT:
Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We’re all of us looking for the key.

So boring you fell asleep halfway through her name.

BY STELLA BENSON:
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

BY GEORGE BERKELY:
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, it makes no sound.

The peasant starves in the midst of plenty.
BY IRVING BERLIN:
As Thousands Cheer

BY SIR JOHN BETJEMAN:
Ghastly Good Sense

Come friendly bombs, and fall on Slough.
It isn’t fit for humans now.

BY ANEURIN BEVAN:
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep and burning hatred for [them] that inflicted those experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

In Place of Fear

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

. . . He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

And you call that statesmanship? I call it an emotional spasm.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

BY ERNEST BEVIN:
Not while I’m alive, he ain’t.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

BY ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE:
I care for nobody, no, not I,
And nobody cares for me.

BY RODNEY BICKERSTAFFE:
--I wouldn’t spit in their mouths if their teeth were on fire.

BY AMBROSE BIERCE:
He had nothing to say and he said it.

BY NATHANIEL BIGG:
To each generation, that which preceded it must seem in some measure, according to its expectation of a hopeful futurity, the last age of innocence.

BY LAURENCE BINYON:
‘For the Fallen’
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

BY AUGUSTINE BIRRELL:
That great dust-heap called ‘history’.

One whom it was easy to hate but still easier to quote.

BY JOHN BIRT:
There is a bias in television journalism. It is not against any particular party or point of view--it is a bias against understanding.

BY OTTO VON BISMARCK:
Blood and iron.

BY WILLIAM BLAKE:
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.

This life’s five windows of the soul
Distort the Heavens from pole to pole,
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not thro’, the eye.

BY PIERRE BOSQUET:
It is magnificent, but it is not war.

BY RUTLAND BOUGHTON:
They land and are glad . . . are terrible!

BY LORD BOWEN:
We must ask ourselves what the man on the Clapham omnibus would think.

BY NICHOLAS BRETON:
A Mad World, My Masters

BY JOHN BRIGHT:
The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

BY RONALD BRITTAIN:
You ‘orrible little man.

BY COLONEL BRITTON:
The night is your friend.

BY EMILY BRONTE:
. . . may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad--only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! O God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

BY RUPERT BROOKE:
These I have loved.

BY ANITA BROOKNER:
In real life, of course, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market . . . Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

BY LORD BROUGHAM:
It adds a new terror to death.

BY JOHN MASON BROWN:
Some television programmes are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

BY SIR THOMAS BROWNE:
That children dream not in the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, are to me sick men’s dreams, dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

BY ROBERT BROWNING:
Over my head his arm he flung
Against the world; and scarce I felt
His sword (that dripped by me and swung)
A little shifted in his belt.

BY ANTHONY BURGESS:
The End of the World News

BY 1ST LORD BURGHLEY (WILLIAM CECIL):
What! all this for a song?


I really am in rare form today . . . I better go take out the trash and eat and go to bed before I hurt myself. I'm well on the way there. And anyway I have to get up and do homework . . .

Nice post there, Elizabeth :p
Here's some more quotes:
-You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut. -Sally Berger

-Hit the books or the book will be thrown at you -Proverb

-Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. -Edna St. Vincent

And my fave....

-A woman's place is in the House of Commons. -(seen on a friend's McMaster shirt :p)

"You lose when you quit."

"Life is a pile of crap, just have to shovel through it."

"What is today's task tommorow procrastinated by tommorow's today?" «--head hurter

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

I like your second one Raluca. Deep.

Thanks. Btw, it's by Martin Luther King Jr.

"Wars not make one great" YODA {\__/}

"It is better to have loved and lost that to have never loved at all"

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

"There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air." (yes, I know it's pathetic lol.. I found it online and thought it was hilarious... I'm easily amused)

"If you love something, set it free. If it returns to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it wasn't yours to begin with."

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

"Never tell your computer that you're in a hurry."

hahaha! those rock Raluca!!! i can't laugh at the serious ones to express my appreciation but i like them, too.

"the only way to see is to blind ourselves to the idea of impossibility"

"we will never see the truth until we stop to make sure that our opinions aren't composed of what the next-door neighbor said the other day"

"if the material universe is all that exists and we are supposed to live only to pursue the pathetic American excuse for a dream then i quit. this place sucks."

"finding what we want in life has little to do with the real world and much to do with the ideal world that we run to in our hearts when the Things that Are overwhelm us so as to threaten our sanity and our souls"

---> all by me. see my sig too.

(all five [including sig] were things i made up in like thirty seconds earlier this morning. see what happens when i don't take my pills? only problem is i'm really depressed without them)

Apologies if already posted...

"Act in haste - repent in leisure" (don't know who said it first, bet they were really bright!)

Charm is the ability to make someone thnk that both of you are pretty special!

I just have to bring this post back to the top, I love the idea.

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." - Mary Wilson Little

"This isnt right. This isnt even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli

"It is a good rule in life to never apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them." - P.G. Wodehouse

"Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone should take it away from him before he cuts himself." - Peter da Silva

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
- Oprah Winfrey

"Dancers are the athletes of God." - Albert Einstein

"Why do I dance?.....Why do I breathe?" - Anonymous

Sorry if any of these have already been posted!

"The course of true love never did run smooth" - William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and the eyes, without speaking, confess the secrets of the heart"

"I only know how to do things 3 ways: the WRONG way, the RIGHT way and MY way, which is actually the WRONG way, only faster."

"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep"

"If you pick up a starving dog and make it prosperous, it will not bite you. This is the principle difference between man and dog."

My name is Jim. My friends call me........... Jim.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. LOL

Weather forecast for tonight: dark!

Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion; although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor, but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world: the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent, but ugly, perhaps malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness, the ache of the uprooted plant.

-Stephen King

" If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? " - unknown

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

- Thomas Jefferson
3rd president of the United States
(1743 - 1826)


"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."

- Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist
(1623 - 1662)

A MASK IS A HEVEY BURDEN WHEN YOU TRY TO PLEASE

Fear is temporary, regret is forever. ~unknown

Some mistakes are just to much fun to make just once. ~unknown

A friend will come bail you out of jail. Your best friend will be sitting next to you saying, "D*mn, that was fun!"

no....HB

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose!

That's disgusting. ;)

YOUR MIND WORKS BETTER WHEN ITS NOT IN YOUR HEAD

Rome wasn't built in a day... but i bet, some of it was



a picture tells a thousand words, but what if its a really Really small picture

then use really small print ;-)

"Creedo Quia Absurdum Est"

I Believe it because it is absurd :D

"Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem"

"Out of the shadows and into the truth"

"Carpe diem"

-Seize the day

"Cogito ergo sum"

- i think therefore i am


*i threw Cogito ergo sum in there for balance...*

René Descartes (the guys who said 'i thinka therefore i am' for those that do not know) walks into a bar and asks for a drink.

The barmen gives him his drink and comes back when René Descartes finishes.

the barman then asks "Would you like another one"

So René Descartes answers "i think not"


And *POOF* he dissapears


i wonder if anyone gets this joke...?
My Dad told me this and i got it after just about 5 minutes (he said it wrong)

a mask is a heavy burden when your trying to please

Sic friat crustulum." ... That's the way the cookie crumbles.

the past is like warm bed the future you have not slept with yet

@ Akash -- Cogito ergo sum?