The famous quote thread

[mrmod]

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali

[srijantje]

Here lies one whose name was writ in water

John Keats

[billy]

Here lies one whose name was writ in water

John Keats

this is one of my faves SJ

[srijantje]

every time i read it i get goosebumps,seriously

i first read it in a scifi book written by Dan Simmons called Hyperion,sequense is the fall of Hyperion,refers a lot to Keats,try to get hold of it,it's great

[mrmod]

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating... you finish off as an orgasm.

George Carlin

[srijantje]

good one Dan

[srijantje]

The only zen you find on top of mountains
is the zen you bring up there.

[kath3]

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

[billy]

nice one kath

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs

[Canada Joe]

No Good Turn Goes Unpunished. ~ ME

[billy]

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”

Harlan Ellison

[Canada Joe]

The two rarest elements in the universe are common sense and common knowledge. ~ Me (or mebbe Sam Clemens)

[billy]

it's amazing how the greats like twain will use anothers quote and alter it a little, and vice versa don't know if he did with this one but one of em did

don't lie, never tell a truth
Euripides

[kath3]

Happiness keeps You Sweet,
Trials keep You Strong,
Sorrows keep You Human,
Failures keep You Humble,
Success keeps you Glowing.

not sure about the author. I googled but came up empty.

[billy]

i think it was arther ash kath.
and i think there's a last line about god keeping you going

All generalizations are bad. ~R.H. Grenier

[kath3]

Be Positive
Keep your thoughts positive ...
Because your thoughts become your Words.
Keep your words positive ...
Because your words become your Actions.
Keep your action positive ...
Because your action will become your Habits.
Keep your habits positive ...
Because your habits become your Values.
Keep your values positive ...
Because your values become your Destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

[billy]

i just discovered i'm not the pope hy:

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.

[srijantje]

i knew the saying came from the eluminatus trilogie,but i forgot it was hagbart celine uttering it,i should have known ofcourse.o.k.here is another one,

if it floats,flies or f*cks,you rent it.

unknown

[billy]

a quote on cancer

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
Georg Groddeck
The Book of the It, 1923

[smithdsouza]

A quote for greedy man :

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.