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Title: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-27, 20:37
"There is no future in a forgotten past" -Psionic

"Misery loves company" - Metallica

"Life is something that everyone should try at least once" -Henry J. Tillman

"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance" -Havelock Ellis

"You see my pain is real, watch my world desolve" -System of a Down

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction" -Pablo Picasso

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds" -Bill Nye

"Music should never be harmless" -Robbie Robertson

"All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!" -Yoko One

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another" -Frank Zappa

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me" -Noel Coward

"On the high grounder you will find elephant riders" -Clutch

"Everytime I find a truth I am more perplexed" -Psionic

"This is our technological armageddon. Sci-fi genocide, fantasy be ridden" -Psionic


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Moshman on 2003-01-27, 21:25
These would be good sigs for people.  ;)


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-27, 21:58
Yeah I know... I actually listed my signature in the last one. You'll also see that a few of those are ones I actually created after you realize Psionic's the band I'm in :D

"Where books burn, humans beings are destined to burn too" -Heinrich Heine


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Lilazzkicker on 2003-01-27, 22:22
:rolleyes: "Remember, when life hands you lemons, they make great missiles when studded with nails and frozen solid."

but of course....it also makes a good spot in my sig..heh


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Moshman on 2003-01-27, 22:33
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
Garry Shandling


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Thomas Mink on 2003-01-28, 00:13
"Happiness is a belt-fed weapon..." - SaTan (friend of mine)

"...and sadness is running out of ammo." - ~SpAwN~

"Is it plugged in? Is it turned on?" - Prof. Dolph (when asked why computer doesn't work)


Can't think of any more I haven't said already on the old forums. ;o


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-28, 02:57
"Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death." -Cornelius


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Angst on 2003-01-28, 08:45
When in doubt, shoot anything that moves.

Why blow up one car when 17 will do?


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-28, 16:58
"You are teetering on the brink of your own private apocalypse, and you don't even KNOW it! You are living your life on autopilot! Your every move - your every action - has been preordained by a spasm in your brain! Do ANYTHING to break out! Break free! Get out! Escape the confines of your own mind - yes, THAT mind! The one that is doing your thinking for you right now! The one that is saying 'Stop listening to this now before you start to believe it!'. There is more than one mind in your mind! When you act without thinking, who was thinking for you? THAT's the mind I mean! That's the enemy! That's the mind that's making your decisions for you! It's a machine! A machine of meat! A machine in the ghost of your being! A hollow clanking, construct of levels and pulleys and old pathways to dead answers. It mechanistically clicks and clocks it's way toward your grave, taking safe, sad, predictable paths to every tiny, unimportant goal - safely harboring you from one peril to another, in the very same way your grandfather's mind did. But this is not a mind! this is a big collection of instincts! A grand pinball chute that your thoughts shuttle down on the way to the terminal slot! It is just another body part that grew too big for it's britches and now calls the shots! Rise up! Defend your body from the mind! Put yourself in charge of both! Break free of it! Do not go your safe, predictable, cozy route! Do anything to break it up! Lash out! Shake, shatter and roll your mind over!" -The Mad Prophet


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Devlar on 2003-01-30, 04:53
"The Truth Will Set you Free..... Not if you did it!"
"Honesty is the best policy, yeah that's why all the money is in politics, law and showbuisness"


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-30, 17:39
"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security do not deserve either" -Theodore
Roosevelt (think about that and compare it to what's happening right now)

"Cut me open, look inside and stare with horror at what you find" -Psionic


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: ConfusedUs on 2003-01-30, 22:23
"Never pet a burning dog."
-Blizzard

Never, never, never shoot a gas pump.

"Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors...and miss."
-Lazarus Long

Life is a Sexually Transmitted Disease from which there is 100% fatality

This sentence is a lie.

If you light a fag in England you smoke.  If you light a fag in the
US it's a hate crime.

A true test of a man's character is not what he does in the light but
what he does in the dark.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm Skitzophrenic, and so am I.

You don't win a war by dying for your country.  You win a war by
making the other son-of-a-bitch die for his.

A single death is a tragedy, A million deaths is a statistic.

Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.

History is simply a compilation of lies that are agreed upon.

A legend is a dead guy that people know.  A hero is a guy who's
gonna die that people know.

There is a fork in the road.  If left is right, but right is wrong, then
would you take the right way, or the way that is left?

I'm not under the influence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.
It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.

Only in America do we have drive-up ATMs with Braille on them.

 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

The only ones who aren't grateful n Thanksgiving are turkeys.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention.

"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink."
- Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

You ARE what you eat.

Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

"A word to the wise is unnecessary."
- La Rouchefoucauld

War doesn't determine who's right but who's left.

A watched clock never boils.

If you blow in a dog's face, he'll get mad, buy take him for a ride in the car the first
thing he does is stick his head out of the window.

If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand we'd be so simple we
couldn't understand it.

Love letters, business contracts and money always arrive three weeks late, whereas
junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

To a worm, digging the hard ground is more relaxing than going fishing.

"640 kilobytes of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates, 1981

The more you cry, the less you have to pee.

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

Half of the people you know are below average.

It takes one tree to make 10,000 matches, but one match to burn 10,000 trees.

Illegal drugs are the chlorine in the gene pool.

People don't see the world as it is, but as they are.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."
- Herbert Prochnow

The food that you get in art museums is institutional revenge for the art
that you get in restaurants.

A classic is a book that is much praised yet rarely read.

If I get male pattern baldness, I'd like zig-zags please.

If an infinite number of Rednecks in the back of an infinite number of pickup
trucks shoot an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of
highway signs, they will eventually produce a complete version of Hamlet in Braille.

Rehab is for quitters.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

The "Psychic Friends Network" went out of business... didn't they see it coming?

Constant change is here to stay.

That place is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.

Anarchy is better than no government at all.

What could be worse than climbing the ladder of success only to find
it is against the wrong wall?

It was been recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through...

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
Tell him a seat has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

""If we stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
- Edith Wharton

A gentle stream can split a mountain, given enough time.

Long periods of drought are always followed by rain.

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

The future has many names.  For the fearful, it's the unknown.  For the reckless, it's the
 adventure.  For the pessimists, it's the unattainable.  For the brave, it's the opportunity.

"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the
people who have to wait for them."
- E.V. Lucas

Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

You know, you could have been prevented for a quarter.

While he isn't dumber than an ox, he's not appreciably smarter either.

Hey! Quit hogging all of the ugly!

May your life be like toilet paper - long and useful.

I think, therefore, I am... not related to you.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, buy you're abusing the privilege.

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

Stupidity does not qualify as a handicap.  Park elsewhere!

Don't talk about yourself so much... we'll do that when you leave.

You sound reasonable... time to up my medication.

I'm not your type.  I'm not inflatable.

If I was 10 times smarter than you, I'd STILL be a moron!

"Try not to let your mind out by itself.  It is too small to be out by itself."
- L. Atkinson

Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed.

Why are you here and what can I do to change that?

I would engage you in a battle of wits but I refuse to duel with an unarmed person.

You're about as sharp as a marble.

If brains were gasoline, he wouldn't have enough to power an ant's motorcycle
halfway across a penny.

I'd be happy to help you out.  Which way did you come in?

I read your mind, and trust me, it was a short story.

She's depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.

If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.

He was so narrow minded that he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

If brains were taxed, he'd get a rebate.

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

If I was in a room with you and two werewolves and I had a gun with two silver bullets,
 I'd shoot you. Twice.

Too many freaks, not enough circuses.

The person who knows how to laugh will never cease to be amused.

What would you attempt to do, if you knew you couldn't fail?

May you have the hindsight to know where you have been, the foresight to know
where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.

May the forces of evil get lost on the way to your house.

Never frown because you never know who is falling in love with you smile.

"I know it hurts.  Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle without a seat, but it hurts."
- Lt. Frank Drebin, The Naked Gun

I just got lost in thought... it was unfamiliar territory.

I always win.  Except when I lose, but then I just don't count it.

I intend to live forever - so far so good.

I'm defending her honor, which is more than she ever did.

I'll never be satisfied until I'm too smart for my own good.

The wisest man that I ever knew taught me something I never forgot.  Although I
 never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either.  So what I am left with is the
memory of having learned something very wise that I can't remember.

I'm not tense.  Just terribly, terribly alert.

I went to a bookstore and asking the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?"
 She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I want to live forever or die in the attempt.

I believe no problem is so large or so difficult that it can't be blamed on someone else.

I've got a plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.

I always wanted to be a procrastinator, never got around to it.

A Nobel Peace Prize?  I would KILL for one of those.

I have a great diet.  You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat
 it with naked fat people.

Yes, I know it's bad for me, but nagging me about it might be bad for you.

They keep telling us to get in touch with our bodies.  Mine isn't all that
communicative but I heard from it the other day after I said, "Body, how'd you
like to go to the six o'clock class in vigorous toning?"  Clear as a bell my body said,
 "Listen witch...do it and die."

I am having an out of money experience.

Elevators...good 'til the last drop.

I don't suffer from insanity.  I enjoy every minute of it.

"I have six locks on my door.  When I go out, I lock every other one.  I figure no
 matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking
three."
- Andy Rooney

"My grandpa told me to remember two things in life; look out for Number One and
 remember your number."
- Orville Cogswell

If I want your opinion...I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms.

A warrior once asked a wise man "How would you beat him?" to which the wise
man replied "With a stick, while he slept. But that man, that man is unbeatable."

Hey ladies, can I offer you sex in exchange for...sex?

"Its all coming back to me now" said the blind man peeing into the wind.

One night as I lay in bed looking at the stars, I wondered "What the hell happened to
my roof?"

"If business was as good as my aim, I'd be on easy street. Instead, I have a corner
office on 39th and a bad relationship with a string of collection agents."
 --Tracer Bullet

Anything worth doing, is worth over-doing.

If you value the opinions of the mass's you are only decreasing your own worth, for
it is not the opinions of the majority that matter, but those of your loved ones and
true friends

Life is adventure, or nothing.

Violence solves only the simplest of problems. You must think your way through the tough ones.

Truly, if there is evil in this world, it lies within the heart of mankind.
- Edward D. Morrison


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-30, 22:44
Quote from: ConfusedUs
A single death is a tragedy, A million deaths is a statistic.

One night as I lay in bed looking at the stars, I wondered "What the hell happened to
my roof?"

 
Stealing my quotes eh? That's just mean...


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: ConfusedUs on 2003-01-30, 22:48
Nah...just found a page full of these. I deleted the dumbest ones.


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dna on 2003-01-30, 23:06
No you didn't.


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-30, 23:23
"The more you dream the less you sleep" -Powerman 5000

"Let the good times roll" -The Cars

"I'm a hooker, I'm your priest, I'm your brand new disease" -Murderdolls

"Living just isn't hard enough" -Disturbed

"In the end there can be only one" -Connor McCloud

"Heaven waits with the gates rusting in the mist" -Rob Zombie


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Thomas Mink on 2003-01-31, 00:05
"Thou canst not kill that which doth not live... but you can blast it into chunky kibbles!" - Quake 1's instruction manual describing the zombie

"Death shall cleanse the world." - Warcraft 3 -- Undead Acolyte

"Oh uhhh... I'm going to blow it up." - Marvin the Martian :)


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-31, 02:12
"All I see is darkness... Oh, my hood was down" -Acolyte

"I am not dev/null, I am just a leck... a smart aleck, HAHA" -dev/null

"Real life, the real of real? I loath real life, I sacrafice real life, only alter of my altered self. Or did I sacrafice the life of Rea, or was it her sister, or her cousin? I forget" -dev/null

"Hello, my name is Nigel and I don't have any pants on" -Groovehandle

"Those neon eyes make mom and dad think that we've lost our mind. They're just terrified of all new things" -Orgy

"I am undamaged" -7 of 9

"Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil? Or for the vultures who thrist for blood and oil?" -Rage Against the Machine

"Never have I seen your god so why should I believe in faith?" -Godsmack

"Have you ever been out some place recognizing everyone's face until you realized that there was no one that you knew?" -The Offspring

"What's puzzling you is the nature of my game" -The Rolling Stones

"You say you want evolution, the ape was a great big hit. You say you want a revolution man and I say that you're full of shit!" -Marilyn Manson

"God save the Queen, she ain't no human being. And there's no future in England" -Motorhead

"I never try anything, I just do it. You wanna try me?" -White Zombie

"Life can be fine if we all 69" -Monty Python

"Pushing little children with fully automatics, they like to push the weak around" -System of a Down

"I'm not evil I'm just good looking" -Alice Cooper

"Merry f*cking Christmas" -Mr. Garrison

"Burn the lies" -Hatebreed

"Has anybody here seen my corpse?" -Electric Funstuff

EDIT: That sucks, it censored my "Merry sporking Christmas". I didn't know the new boards did that... DaMan must be at a loss of words now :(


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Thomas Mink on 2003-01-31, 03:18
"Geez, it must be hard to live the life of dev/null trying to follow all those friggin quotes." - ~SpAwN~


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-01-31, 05:20
"And thou shall smite the one named Spawn for he is the mortal enemy of reason, the devil of doubt, and the lord of lies" -The Book of Null, 14:02

"The Geeks shall inherit the earth!" -Electric Funstuff


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Atom235 on 2003-01-31, 21:20
"...In Satan's beauty, life was found..." -Dimmu Borgir

"Not that Jahweh offered the other cheek
As he so firmly told his followers to do
Too many sacrifices in His name
Far too many lies not to look through" -Ancient Rites

"Condemned to capital punishment
By the nuclear sword of Damocles" -Sodom

"We do not need your savior,
we do not need your lies.
Whoever is unfettered, no man can set him free." -Moonsorrow(translated)

"If I get a girl, the universe will collapse about a nanosecond later." -Atom235















Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Tekhead on 2003-01-31, 22:42
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: games keeper on 2003-01-31, 23:30
een ezel stoot zich geen 2 keer aan dezelfde steen. =
an oaf doesn't hit himself 2 times with the same rock .

so if a human makes the same fault 2 times hes an idiot .


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-01, 00:33
"White collar conservative flashing down the street, pointing his plastic finger at me. They're hoping that soon my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high!" -Jimi Hendrix

"Nobody wins, nobody hears us fall. Nobody wins, when it's done. Conspiracy of one!" -The Offspring

"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control" -Pink Floyd

"Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all" -Marilyn Manson

"Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box, religion is a smile on a dog" -Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

"I have no rival, no man can be my equal" -Queen

"Blow up the outside world!" -Soundgarden

"The end is over" -Powerman 5000


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Phoenix on 2003-02-02, 12:02
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before." - Tremendous Trifles

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - Everlasting Man, 1925

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - ILN, 4/19/30

"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." - The Speaker, 12/15/00

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - Sidelights on New London and Newer New York

"Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." - A Miscellany of Men

"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity." - The Man Who was Thursday, 1908

"Complaint always comes back in an echo from the ends of the world; but silence strengthens us." - The Father Brown Omnibus

"Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish." - ILN 1-11-08

"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." - ILN 6-3-22

"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel." - "Sir Walter Scott," Twelve Types

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - A Short History of England, Ch.10

"All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing." - "On Gargoyles." Alarms and Discursions

"We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera." - The Quotable Chesterton

"When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any." - ILN 11-7-08

"The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right." - ILN 10-28-22

"Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it." - "Charles II" Twelve Types

"A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish." - Maycock, The Man Who Was Orthodox

"Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." - Orthodoxy, 1908

"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back." - What's Wrong With The World, 1910

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around." - Orthodoxy, 1908

"Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it." - Commonwealth, 1933

"A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possible be alive." - A Miscellany of Men

"The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings." - "The New House" Alarms and Discursions

"War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you." - ILN, 7/24/15

"There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting." - Everlasting Man, 1925

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - ILN, 1/14/11

"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." - Christendom in Dublin, 1933

"When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws." - Daily News, 7/29/05

"When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it." - ILN, 4/6/18

"It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged." - The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21

"It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on." - "Patriotism and Sport," All Things Considered

"It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile." - The Judgement of Dr. Johnson, Act III

"I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is." - Uses of Diversity

"There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet." - ILN Dec 18, 1926

"The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies." - "The Way to the Stars" Lunacy and Letters

"Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all." - Heretics, 1905

"One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created." - The Boston Sunday Post, 1/16/21

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." - ILN, 7/16/10

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists." - Where All Roads Lead, 1922

"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions." - ILN, 1/13/06

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." - Chapter 5, What's Wrong With The World, 1910

"The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907

"It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary." - Charles Dickens

"Theology is only thought applied to religion." - The New Jerusalem

"The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden." - ILN 1-3-20

"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." - ILN 8-11-28

"Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake." - Blake

"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." - ILN, 10/23/09

"It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them." - ILN, 3/14/08

"There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth." - ILN, 7/18/08

"The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice." - ILN, 6/11/10

"Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it." - ILN, 2/24/06

"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." - The Catholic Church and Conversion

"There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners." - The Father Brown Omnibus

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it." - ILN 8/4/06

"To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea." - Heretics, CW I, p128

"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified." - ILN 9-30-33

"The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea." - T.P.'s Weekly, Christmas Number, 1910

"All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive." - The Thing. CW. III 191

"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities." - What's Wrong With the World

"What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another." - Daily News12-21-05

"There are some desires that are not desirable." - Orthodoxy

"In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn." - The Speaker 2-2-01

"A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter." - ILN, 5/25/31

"Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues." - The Thing

"All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it." - Utopia of Usurers, 1917

"Capitalism is that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants." - "How to Write a Detective Story." The Spice of Life

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." - ILN, 5/5/28

"What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible." - The Everlasting Man, CW II, p.186

"Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home." - Chesterton Review, August, 1993

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." - ILN, 9/7/29

"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it." - Autobiography, 1937

"Some people leave money for the improvement of public buildings. I can leave dynamite for the improvement of public buildings." ? ILN 3-17-06  


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Daedalus on 2003-02-02, 12:51
OH MY GOD THATS A LONG POST!

Anyway :D

"Smelly socks are always best served luke warm" - Me


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: games keeper on 2003-02-02, 20:23
cake is good.
but you can not have sex with cake .
some guy at "that 70's show"


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-02, 21:06
I disagree, I believe you could have sex and cake very easily.


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Daedalus on 2003-02-02, 21:46
he said sex WITH cake
not sex AND cake

i still think you can have sex with cake


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-02, 22:01
Either way, I disagree...


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: games keeper on 2003-02-03, 21:37
proof it to me dev .

have sex with this chocolate cake . now inmediatly.


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Phoenix on 2003-02-04, 05:56
 dev/null, THAT kind of post is against the forum rules.  That was a bit too explicit, has been deleted.   Don't do it again.


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Demonwench on 2003-02-04, 06:38
I'd like to say that this has gotten more than a little tasteless...this is supposed to be a thread of sayings and witticisms.  On topic please


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-04, 06:59
I blame games keeper, his persistant challenges led me astray!


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: OoBeY on 2003-02-04, 08:41
If you think it's easy, you haven't fully understood the problem.


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-05, 20:40
"Non omnis moriar" -Latin proverb
(Translation: I shall not wholly die)

"Human knowledge belongs to the world" -Milo


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: games keeper on 2003-02-05, 23:01
D"oh
Homer J Simpson


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Angst on 2003-02-07, 09:43
"Sie ahnten nichts von mir"
Wumpscut - Totmacher

"Cannon fodder! you be dead!"
Dark Schneider - Bastard!!

"We have MANY bombs.. We don't know where they all are..!"
Robin Williams - Live on Broadway

"God gave man a brain, and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time"
Robin Williams - ?

"Rock the casbah!"
Scud the disposable assasin

 :ph34r:


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: ConfusedUs on 2003-02-09, 03:35
Never bring a knife to a gunfight.

:laser:


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-11, 01:35
"Every revolution contains the seeds of its own destruction" -Frank Herbert

"I will not fear, fear is the mind killer, I will let fear pass through me!" -Frank Herbet


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Thomas Mink on 2003-02-11, 06:27
"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient." - H. L. Mencken

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit." - Johann Von Schiller

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life." - Lucan

"The goal of life is death." - Sigmund Freud

"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations." - Michel De Montaigne

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death." - Miguel de Unamuno


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-11, 15:13
Quote from: ~SpAwN~
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
Third person to say that... I said it first, get over it :P


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Thomas Mink on 2003-02-12, 00:14
Yea, whatever... I was just posting all the ones I knew with the word 'death' (that sounded cool to me).

"Death is its own reward." - Warcraft III -- Undead Shade

"Death shall cleanse the world." - Warcraft III -- Undead Acolyte

:rockon:


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-14, 22:07
"Life is but a dream" -System of a Down

"Does games keeper ever look at his computer when he types? I'm under the impression he composes his messages by throwing furnature from another room at his keyboard." -OoBeY


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Byskwik on 2003-02-16, 20:36
"Life is but a Dream" - Shakespeare :thumb:


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-16, 21:18
I know, I put mine up for DaMan's benefit though... Kind of a friendly insult ;)


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Tekhead on 2003-02-17, 00:52
Whichever side wins a war is the side who'll write the history.
 - ?

I think I jarbled it - can anyone find the right line?


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-17, 04:49
The only thing I can think of is a quote I posted in the original Words to Live By... "History is written by those in power to justify the present. Memory is the same thing on a smaller scale."


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: OoBeY on 2003-02-17, 08:30
History is written by the winners


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-02-24, 17:58
"Virtual experiences, dreams ... All data that exists is both reality and fantasy. Whichever it is, the data a person collects in a lifetime is a tiny bit compared to the whole." -Batou


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: dev/null on 2003-05-24, 03:47
"Remember kids, a tornado drill is just like a fire drill, so go outside and wait for it." -Unkown


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: games keeper on 2003-05-24, 10:21
bye the way where is the delete button


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: Phoenix on 2003-05-27, 03:38
Games, I STRONGLY suggest you read the terms and conditions of what's acceptible on the boards.  DO NOT post links to nudity or pornographic material on this board again or you WILL be banned without question.  If you don't know what something links to then don't post it, period.

This goes for everyone.  There's no excuse for this kind of filth showing up on the boards!


Title: Re: Words to Live By, continued...
Post by: games keeper on 2003-05-27, 16:01
sorry , thanks you deleted it .
wasnt shure if
A) it posted to the right link .
B)if went to far .

anyway thx you deleted it and i will not do it again .