Favorite Quotes

[ElDinero]

Jolly by name, jolly by....oh wait.

[JollyForr]

Jolly by name, jolly by....oh wait.

Ha, well I was gonna add some Nick Cage and Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes in there to liven it up, but I thought they didn't fit.
I guess the ones I posted were the serious quotes I know.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun. - Schwarzenegger

Perhaps the most profound and insightful quote ever uttered.

[KichigaiNeko]

CS Lewis

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

[Cinjin]

My favorite person to quote of all time: 16th Century essayist, Michel De Montaigne. Brilliant.

“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!”

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

“[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”

“Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.”

“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?”




If you're only going to read one: Read my favorite of his ...

“The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.”

[thesummerqueen]

My favorite Tolkien quotes:

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

"The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually — their paths were laid that way, as you put it."

"It is sad that we should meet only thus at the ending. For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think we shall meet again."

"There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. "

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

"Who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?"

"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

[KichigaiNeko]

Tolkien?

"Fool of a Took!! Throw yourself in next time!"

[Jackalope]

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."

"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."

-- H.L. Mencken

Dude was pretty sharp.

[Erinome]

"A priest once told me that homosexuality was not natural. I asked him how many creatures in nature take an oath of celibacy." - Smiles Goodsense (My longtime internet friend)

[Perhaps]

I'm not sure if there's already a place where this thread exists, if there is I apologize, but I figured it would be nice to be able to share some inspirational, depressing, humorous, or thought provoking quotes. Any and all are welcome.

Some of mine are:

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” - Gandhi

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift... and the rational mind is a faithful servant... However in today's society we tend to praise the servant and forget the gift." - Albert Einstein.

"Maybe a good leader is one who ensures the safety of everyone and promotes peace, but maybe a better leader is one who understands that the lives of some have to be sacrificed for the greater good of the many." - Ralph Rutter

"You can't run a society based on the lowest common denominator. It must be run based on the greatest common factor." - Philip K. Howard

"Trust others, Love everyone, Live happily"

"Humility is the only true wisdom." - George Arliss

"Compromise with peace to ensure that all are equal"

"War is a continuation of politics by other means. Politics is a continuation of economics by other means." - van Clausewitz

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato

"Religion is the poor man's politics. Greed is the rich man's."

"It is the task of the enlightened, not only to ascend to learning and to see the good, but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors whether they are worth having or not." - Plato

“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.” - Christopher Hitchens

[thesummerqueen]

Yes, actually, I had started a thread for this a couple months ago. Merging...