Serious quotes.

[LycanSpectre]

Well, we have a section in humor for quotes, but not all good quotes are funny. So here is teh plan: This thread is for any quotes which you come across that make you pause and think.

Here are some I put in the Humor section, but should really go here:

In war there is no prize for the runner-up
--General Omar Bradley

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
--General Douglas MacArthur

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
--Sir Winston Churchill

So long as there are men there will be wars
--Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
--Albert Einstein

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
--Jeannette Rankin first woman Member of Congress

The opposite of war is not peace, It's creation
--Jonathan Larson Rent

WAR! - Huuuh - What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
--Edwin Starr

What's the use of sending a $2 million missile into a $10 tent to hit a camel in the butt?
--George W. Bush

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
--Napoleon Hill

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[blueeyes]

I wish I loved the human race,
I wish I loved its silly face,
I wish I liked the way it walks,
I wish I liked the way it talks,
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought, What jolly fun
-- Walter Raleigh

Life is a thousand mistakes made day by day. It's our job to make the best of it.

No matter how many times I see the sun come up, it surprises me.

[Hellcat]

" life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound of fury, signifying nothing"

- William Shakespeare, from Macbeth-

[GhostBat]

Here is some on Philosophy

Ambrose Bierce: Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Bertrand Russell: Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

Cicero: There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Freda Adler: Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

George Bernard Shaw: A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.


H. L. Mencken: Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

HH the Dalai Lama: This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Henry Ward Beecher: The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Immanuel Kant: Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

John Dewey: In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion. The Influence of Darwin on PhilosophyJohn W. Gardner: The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Mark Twain: All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten. 1908, notebookMark Twain: The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Plato: There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious.
The Conservative

Thornton Wilder:
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy. The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942Thucydides: History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

William James: Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms? Pragmatism (1907)William James: Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

William James: If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.


(Your Macbeth quote is ironic Hellcat, cause I have to memorize that speech when he finds out his wife is dead :p )

[LycanSpectre]

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic. -- Joeseph Stalin

[GoddessWolf]

"Hope is the sun which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
~*Samuel Smiles


"There is nothing which can hinder or circumvent a strog and determined soul seeking for health, usefulness, truth, and success."
~*Ella Wheeler Wilcox


"The glory is not in never failing, but in rising each time you fail."
~*Chinese Proverb

[Xzengrim]

"The death of one is a tragedy;
The death of millions is just a statistic."
~Marilyn Manson
"Fight Song"

"Won't you help me Mr. Jesus,
Won't you tell me if you can,
When you see this world we live in
Do you still believe in man?"
~Black Sabbath
"Megalomania"

(Okay, the first one was just a joke, but that last one was quality, even if it WAS in a song)

"A man who has realized his manhood
And fears only God,
Will fear no one else."
~Ghandi

That, and I gotz some philosophy for you. I reached into my pocket today, and pulled out a handful of coins. In the middle of the pile was a rifle bullet, and wrapped around the bullet was a fortune cookie fortune that said "Relax and enjoy yourself." I don't know what that means, but I laughed anyway.

I swear, that really happened.

[YoungFang]

"Punishment without judgment is bearable. It has a name, besides, that guarantees our innocence: it is called misfortune." - Albert Camus

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day." - Albert Camus

"Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn’t know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou." Chang Tao-ling

"The vast majority of mankind is trapped within perceptual prisons"

" I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few." Albert Einstein

"Embrace all worldviews and perspectives, move beyond, and become enlightened. Kiss the stars and awaken to a new vision which is blinding at first, but your eyes will adjust, and you'll see the world, as it really is, for the first time. "

"The religions of today are but the superstitions of tomorrow"

" I think therefore I am" (The basis of understanding philosophy)

[FalseFace]

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." - Emerson

[LycanSpectre]

"If ignorance was bliss, you'd be the biggest blister on the whole damn planet." - Friend of mine

[LycanSpectre]

"Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless." --Vladimir Ilich Lenin

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." --Adolf Hitler, 1935

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

"There are no athiests in foxholes" -- forgot who said that.

[ArcaneWolf]

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

"So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is truth?"

"The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, a self-derision, and self-mutilation."

"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race – before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."

"The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God."

"There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear therefore nothing any more."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist and philosopher (1844-1900).

[Silverpaw]

'You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"'

~George Bernard Shaw

[LycanSpectre]

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill (Oh yeah!)

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill

[Loups_Garou]

"How can you love God, whom you've never seen, if you kill the brother who you see before you?" -Bible-

"In war the winners aren't the ones who are right, their the ones who are left." -Don't remember-

"4,000 hungry children leave us every day from starvation, and nobody gives a *%#&! Instead they spend billions on bombs creating death showers!" -BOOM! System of a Down

"Over poplation and no room in jail, most of you don't give a @&*% that your daughters are porno stars and your sons sell death to kids. You're so lost in your little worlds, your little worlds you'll never feel." -Open your eyes: Staind-

[SugarFalls]

Here are some of my favorites.


"The only difference between me and a madman is that, I'm not mad". Salvador Dali ( 1904 - 1989 )

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is preparred for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter". Sir Winston Churchill ( 1874 - 1965 )

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work". Thomas Alva Edison ( 1847 - 1931 )


"One feels as if one is disolved and merged into nature". Albert Einstein

[Gold Fox]

Hi Im new And well I am just going to jump in to this so are we Quoteing people or what here? If so What are we Quoteing about?

[LycanSpectre]

Hi Im new And well I am just going to jump in to this so are we Quoteing people or what here? If so What are we Quoteing about?

See post #1 for the subject. Its best to read threads BEFORE you respond.

[Gold Fox]

Well it is not really a quote but it makes you think "I can see said the blind man to the deaf man.

[Werewolfchick]

I know tons of quotes from famous people! I'll post in a bit once I find my notbook where I wrote them all down. It's in my locker at school. Those quotes are priceless. I even have one from Gandhi, lol.

[MorganaFang]

I know tons of quotes from famous people! I'll post in a bit once I find my notbook where I wrote them all down. It's in my locker at school. Those quotes are priceless. I even have one from Gandhi, lol.

I believe, this is a thread about sharing some serious quotes you may have.

My favorite one and the only one that I can pull off the top of my head... "You're damn if you do and damned if you don't." Bartholomew Jojo Simpson

[Lycaon017]

"Carnivores never become corpulent." -Anthelme Brilat-Savarin, La Physiologie Du Gout

[LycanSpectre]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato

No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire

[Werewolfchick]

"God is Love. Love is blind. Ray Charles is blind so Ray Charles must be God..." quoted from Kirk Trotman my first hero

[Nightmare GenoReaper]

"All people are normal.. till you get to know them"
Anoynomus

"Ask and you shall recieve, take and you shall suffer the consiquences"
Me

*look at sig quote*
also said by me

"Speak, and thou shall be saved" Jim Carrey

[Darth Cluich]

A few from from the the greatest philosopher of all time, Oscar Wilde:

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
(The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people."
(An Ideal Husband)

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
("Aristotle at Afternoon Tea")

"There is no sin except stupidity."
("The Critic as Artist")

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
(An Ideal Husband)

"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."
(The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf."
(An Ideal Husband)

"Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
("The Critic as Artist")

"It is grossly selfish to require of one’s neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him."
("The Soul of Man Under Socialism")

"When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people’s time, not one’s own."
(An Ideal Husband)

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But...it is better to be good than to be ugly."
(The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
(An Ideal Husband)

"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."
("The Remarkable Rocket")

This is, of course, only a sampling. If you haven't read any Oscar Wilde, definitely do so!

[wrewlf99]

".....Ang taong hindi marunong magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit pa sa malnsang isda..."-Jose Rizal(Philippine national hero)
(Translation=
A person who doesn't love his own language is stinkier than a rotten fish)
*heartfelt tears roll down cheeks*

"There's no greater love than to lay down ones own life for ones friend"-Jesus Christ

[LycanSpectre]

Religion is the ultimate form of bribery. You can promise people all the riches they can imagine, and of any variety they wish, so long as they do what you want. Best of all, you never have to pay up.

-Me

[LycanSpectre]

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaus J. Lec

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Charles Brower

Because I'm Jewish, a lot of people ask why I killed Christ. What can I say? It was one of those parties that got out of hand. I killed him because he wouldn't become a doctor.
Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen, (1868-1954)

[moonspirit]

heres some of my fav. quotes (sry if i miss spelled anything, some of these peoples names arn't easy to spell plus im not the greatest speller in the world :shrug: ):


"curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning" -willam arthur ward

"for the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack" -rudyard kipling

"the only person who likes change is a wet baby" -roy blitzer

"we must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools" -M.L. king JR.

"two roads diverged in a wood and i took the one lest traveled -- and that has made all the difference" -robert frost

"natures mighty law is change" -robert burns

"death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is" -norman cousins, "The Healing Heart"

"to be or not to be, that is the question" willam shakespear, "hamlet" (i think)

"the needs of the many out weight the needs of the few...and the one" -ST II, wrath of khan (yes, im a trekkie :p)

"we are only human, its in our nature to make mistakes" -unkown

"or can we set aside our prejuduce and make this great spirit live free again. this valuable fragment of nature, would it be right to let it die?" -me, "falling spirit"

"the great spirit gave us two ears and one tongue so we can listen twice as much as we speak" -native american proverb

and last but not least my ultimate favorite:notworthy

"for all things share the same breath -- the beasts, the trees, the man, they all share the same breath...

what is man without the beasts?

if all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. for what ever happens to the beasts soon happens to man.

all things are connected...what ever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth" -chief seattle, 1854

[spawnofFenrir]

Any man who will not die for anything is not fit to live-MLK jr

An eye for an eye will only leave the world blind-Ghandi

isnt it amazing how all the news in the world just exactly fits the news paper-Me

we go through life never knowing, we go through knowing never living-Me

Only after the last tree has been cut down the last river poisoned then and only then will man relise money cannot be eaten-Old indian proverb

I hope theres intelligent life up there, cause it sure is lacking down here-?

[LycanSpectre]

"The minute you are born, you begin to die." Dont know who said that.

[Wolffy13]

"What you believe, you can achieve" -Mary Kay Ash (my new hero :D)

"God didn't have time to make a nobody, he just didn't. He only had time to make a somebody" -Mary Kay Ash

"A man is as happy as he makes his mind to be" -Unknown

"Someday has arrived, it's called today" -Unknown

These ones have given me a lot of drive lately, mostly in my business, but they also help me to do the seemingly impossible task of getting out of bed in the morning :)

[Redwolf_Claw]

Some of my favorite quotes are....

"Don't destroy the earth! That is where I keep all my stuff!" - The Tick

"Spoon!!!"-The Tick

"I am here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum..."
and the always funny quote "Lady... you look like your face fell in the cheese dip back in 1952."
-Roddy Pipper in They Live

[LOBO REY]

"Let he who hath no sword shed his garmet and by one" Jesus Christ

"Every man kills the thing he loves[let this be know] some do it with a look, others with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with a sword.-Oscar Wilder

"Do not think I have come to bring peace, I have not come to bring peace but a sword."-Jesus Christ

You know whats wrong with the world today? People don gon and put thier bibles away and started livin' by the law of the jungle not the law of the land. The good book says it so I know it's the truth, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. You better watch where your going remember where you been thats the way I see it I'm a simple man."-Charlie Daniels

"What makes angles holy is the fact they don't exspect holiness from each other only God."- William Blake

"The diffrence between Gienuis and Insanity is a padded room, and I hope they don't catch me."-ADEK

"Why should I play the roman fool and die on thy own sword, when I see lives and the gashes do better upon them."-MacBeth

[Cephas]

"If you believe, not only can you do as was done to the fig tree, but you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea', and it shall be done. Believe, and you shall recieve what you ask for in prayer."
-Matthew 21:21-22

"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone"
-John 8:7

"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"
-Anon (HG Wells?)

"You only live once"
-Anon

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones"
-Albert Einstein

"'What do you get if you multiply six by nine? - 42.'
'I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe'."
-Arthur Dent (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"There is a very easy method to flying- simply throw yourself at the ground and miss"
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


Some of my favourite quotes, though there are some other good ones posted earlier.

[Xzengrim]

Here are some of Grim's new Favorite Quotes of Extra Evil:

"Look down at me, you see a fool.
Look up at me, you see your lord.
Look straight at me, you see yourself."
~Charles Manson

"I didn't want to hurt them.
I just wanted to kill them."
~David Burkowitcz, The Son of Sam

"We serial killers are your sons.
We are your husbands.
We are everywhere.
And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow."
~Ted Bundy

"Q: What do you think when you see a pretty girl walking down the street?
A: One side of me says, 'I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, 'I wonder how her head would look on a stick.'"
~Edmund Kemper

Gives you chills, don't it?