Your favorite quotes

[Kirobaito]

My favorite poem of all time! Everything from Henry Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" is fricken gold!

(SPOILER)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream ! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real ! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife !

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act,— act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead !

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.


I have it in spoiler tags so no one complains...

My favorite is this verse...

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Oh, that baby is just begging to be set to music and sung. Mwahahaha.

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner

[Vermachtnis]

Needs more Tick quotes.

"You know, though today was the worst day of my life, I learned many things. First, the world looks a lot different when you're six inches tall and covered with feathers. Second, two heads are definitely not better than one. And finally, you can lay eggs and still feel like a man."

"Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!"

"Ah ha-ha, chess. The ancient contest of wits. Two opponents: mano a mano. Braino a braino. And look: magnets for ease of travel. You could play chess on the moon."

"Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once. Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope. And you've got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception."

"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!"

Oh and one from Paradox.

"At first, I went mad, of course. But after a few millennia, I got bored with that, too, and went sane. Very sane."

[Timekeeper]

"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!"

Oh and one from Paradox.

"At first, I went mad, of course. But after a few millennia, I got bored with that, too, and went sane. Very sane."

I really like these two!

[I Took the Red Pill]

I'mma bump this mothersmurfer by posting some more quotes because I love getting glimpses of mankind's rarely-found-but-when-it-is-found-it-is-awesome genius.

"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me"
-Immanuel Kant

"He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity."
-Mikhail Bakunin

"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."
-Mikhail Bakunin

[drotato]

omg, I dunno if I can even choose just a few. Let's see:


True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. -Winston Churchhill.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. -Ingrid Bergman.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. -Leo Buscaglia.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. -H.L. Mencken.


Those are just a few. Hah, I really like quotes about love, I guess. Those are just very clever to me. > <

[trancekuja]

"I don't hate your mother,I just wont be sad when she dies." - Homer

[Breine]

Here are some. The first one is from a book/play and the others I've heard in real life (yes, I wrote some down):


- "If music be the food of love, play on" - Shakespeare

- "You just have to think like Jim Morrisson and try to not f**king kill yourself" - Louise Margaret
- "Same same, but different"
- "You're so cute you should be made into a handbag!" - Chinese guy sitting in a bar said that to me.

[Quindiana Jones]

"Man, that Psychotic: what a douche." - Plato