Herein post your kind or prophetic quotes.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:29 pm

So I'm reading a quote book, and I think to myself that there are an awful lot of good quotes humanity has come up with over time, and why not make a thread sharing them?

Post your kind or prophetic quotes here.

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." - Joan Borysenko

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Herman Melville

"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." - Andre Gide

"A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other." -M.C. Richards

"If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt... it is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics." - Gurdjieff

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:44 pm

"Who wills, can. Who tries, does. Who loves, lives." - Anne McCaffrey

"Real life doesn't have to make sense. Only well crafted fiction has to obey such rigid rules." - Terry Pratchett

"Wisdom doesn't come from within or even from without. It comes from putting quotation marks around otherwise perfectly innocent sentences." - Joel Fagin

- Joel Fagin

IVstudios · Post by **IVstudios** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:34 pm

“Every time you use the phrase ‘all my life’ it has a different meaning.” — George Carlin

“If cats could talk, they wouldn't" — Nan Porter

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:39 pm

"Chinese-German food is great. The only problem is, an hour later you're hungry for power." --Steven Wright

Skylark King · Post by **Skylark King** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:40 pm

"Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor"- Peter Tork

"There's no youth culture, only masks they let you rent." -Andy Partridge

"Fire the Bird Missile." Joe the Condor

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:37 pm

"Remember, it's not racist if it's true." - me

Skylark King · Post by **Skylark King** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:38 pm

"It's perfectly alright to make fun of someone for being gay, so long as they're NOT actually gay."

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:45 pm

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

"It is better to be pissed off than pissed on."

"Much can be accomplished with a smile. More can be accomplished with a smile and a gun." – Al Capone

"When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger." – Confucius

"When the law is on your side, argue the law. When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When neither the law or the facts are on your side, holler." – Albert Gore

"If in doubt, make it sound convincing."

"Don't eat yellow snow." – Frank Zappa

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:53 pm

Woa. I'd actually heard the Confucious one before. From a Buddhist monk, oddly.

I kid you not. He taught my religions class in college.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:53 pm

"Never let a panty line show around your ankle" -- Joan Rivers

"Instant gratification takes too long" -- Carrie Fisher

"They say guns don't kill people; people kill people. But I think guns help. Just standing there saying bang doesn't really hurt anybody." -- Eddie Izzard

"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in." -- Richard Jeni

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it." -- Lily Tomlin

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Tue May 02, 2006 8:12 pm

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But they are not entitled to their own facts." -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"Why is it when I bring facts into an argument, I feel like I brought a knife to a gunfight?" -- myself

Game Misconduct · Post by **Game Misconduct** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:08 pm

Maybe I forgotten the name and the address of everyone I ever known its nothing I regret. - New Order

I tell the truth even when I lie! - Tony Montana

Ekolter · Post by **Ekolter** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:28 pm

This quote best sums up Ryan and I's relationship.

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell" - Joan Crawford

Ooooh and I just saw this one.

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" -Richard Bach

Unclemilo · Post by **Unclemilo** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:43 pm

"Here comes the damned, they'll be expecting me." - The Devil.

"Hold on to your privates, generals!" - Omar

"Evil is just Live spelled backwards, and we all want to live, right?" - Mok

"I just get a really big kick out of being on the ground." - Ford Prefect

"I better kill someone soon or I'm gonna forget how." - From the movie 'Big Trouble'

"It's all in the reflexes." -Jack Burton

"200 Years to find the right girl, come on Dave, you must be doing something seriously wrong!" - Jack Burton

"When they ask if you paid your dues, I always tell them, 'Yep, the check is in the mail.'" - Jack Burton

"The time has come for us to act." - From 'The Imposters'

"You die, she dies, everybody dies." - Ard (from 'Heavy Metal')

"Why isn't anyone ever glad to see us?" - Arthur Dent

"There's no point in being an adult if you can't be childish." - Dr. Who

That's all for now... and I know some of these aren't spot on word for word accurate...
so sue me!

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:46 pm

Dude, milo's out of the games forum! Woo!

Wishmaster · Post by **Wishmaster** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:49 pm

random grab bag of stuff...

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - -Galileo Galilei

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. - -Hermann Hesse

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers - -Plato

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. - -Jewish Proverb

When the true King's murderers are allowed to roam free a thousand magicians arise in the land - -Jim Morrison

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:56 pm

"mcDuff is great"

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:18 pm

"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely allows one to be wrong with authority." - The Doctor, Doctor Who.

- Joel Fagin

Beyonder_alpha · Post by **Beyonder_alpha** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:56 pm

- Life, it's like a standing ovation in a cripple ward.
- Worrying is for people with too much time.
- If you're lucky, you'll never have to rely on luck.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue May 02, 2006 11:19 pm

'There are three stages of life; youth, middle age, and gee you look great' - Burt Reynolds.