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Post by ZERO on Jul 10, 2004 20:15:17 GMT -5
"One hundred... billion... dollars!"
"Look what you did to Mr. Bigglesworth! You have made Mr. Bigglesworth upset AND when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset... people DIE!"
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Defblow™
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"YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME"?
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Post by Defblow™ on Jul 12, 2004 4:30:16 GMT -5
"Yeah baby, yeah"
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ConqueringWolf
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Merry Meet And Merry Part, Until We Merry Meet Again!
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Jul 12, 2004 8:49:15 GMT -5
Do I make you horny baby? yea!
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Defblow™
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"YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME"?
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Post by Defblow™ on Jul 12, 2004 10:45:07 GMT -5
"I'm dead sexy"
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Jewells
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Lady of Twilight
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Post by Jewells on Aug 11, 2004 17:54:27 GMT -5
I used hear this one all the time when I was a kid
My mother or Father would say:
"This is gonna hurt ME more than it hurts YOU."
I would think:
"Oh yeah...well how come I was the one that ended up with a sore butt!!! Huh ?"
..lol...
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Post by Inferno on Sept 3, 2004 21:42:20 GMT -5
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oblivion
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Keeper of the Chapa'i
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Post by oblivion on Nov 25, 2004 3:25:56 GMT -5
"Nice hat" -- Worf to Kira.
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Nightcrawler
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Sadistic Maverick
Me, blue? Impossible...
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Post by Nightcrawler on Nov 25, 2004 19:58:59 GMT -5
"That's my story, and I'm sticking to it." -
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xkamelx
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Check Those Corners
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Post by xkamelx on Nov 27, 2004 3:20:02 GMT -5
"For God's Sake man"
-Dr "Bones" McCoy (Star Trek)
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Nightcrawler
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Sadistic Maverick
Me, blue? Impossible...
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Post by Nightcrawler on Dec 2, 2004 20:51:27 GMT -5
"I'm a Doctor, not a bricklayer!" - McCoy when required to heal the Horta.
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oblivion
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Keeper of the Chapa'i
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Post by oblivion on Dec 3, 2004 2:10:26 GMT -5
McCoy: "Does everything have to have a practical use for you? They're nice, soft, and they're furry and they make a pleasant sound." Spock: "So would an ermine violin, Doctor, but I see no advantage in having one." (While hypnotically stroking a tribble)
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Post by [♥] baybgurl [♥] on Dec 4, 2004 10:53:42 GMT -5
This is about MEN, so NO OFFENSE to any males out there!
"Men are like sidewalks, once you lay 'em you can walk all over them."
AGAIN NO OFFENSE LOL!
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Orpheus
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"Perhaps to love that which you cannot have is a wound that only death may heal." -Orpheus
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Post by Orpheus on Dec 14, 2004 16:46:04 GMT -5
I have a whole lot of favorite quotes all saved into a doc on my comp. Most of them are from philosophers. Posted them all on a different forum awhile ago in a few posts, and I killed the thread, so I wasnt going to post them all but then I noticed that the thread was dead anyway. So here ya go.
"It is time to be going-I to death, you to your lives; and which of us goes to the better part, no one but God can tell." -Socrates last words
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin
"Friends applaud, the comedy is finished." -Beethoven's last words
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny." –Socrates
"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." –Socrates
"Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death." –Socrates
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - da Vinci
"Count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. " -Aristotle
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." –Plato
“Be good and you will be lonely.” -Mark Twain
“The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
“Wit is educated insolence.” –Aristotle
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” –Socrates
“Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.” –Edgar Allan Poe
“In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.” –Ben Franklin
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one” –Albert Einstein
“No one wants advice, only collaboration.” –John Steinbeck
“Perhaps, to love something that you cannot have, is a wound that only death may heal.”-Orpheus
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” –Confucius
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.” –Edgar Allan Poe
“The Educated look down on the illiterate because they do not know the wonders of knowledge. The Uneducated look down on the literate because they have to deal with problems.” –Edgar Allan Poe
“I have not failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that wont work.” –Thomas Alva Edison
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” -Socrates
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime Incoming SubSpace Transmissions without knowing in the least what they mean.” –Socrates
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." -Socrates
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." –Socrates
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” –Socrates
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” –Socrates
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.” –Socrates
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” –Aristotle
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” –Aristotle
“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.” –Aristotle
“Bad men are full of repentance.” –Aristotle
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.” –Aristotle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” –Aristotle
“Homer has taught all other poets they are of telling lies skillfully” –Aristotle
“Hope is the dream of a waking man.” –Aristotle
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.” –Aristotle
“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.” –Aristotle
“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.” –Aristotle
“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.” –Aristotle
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” –Aristotle
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” –Aristotle
“The law is reason, free from passion.” –Aristotle
“The secret to humor is surprise.” –Aristotle
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.” –Aristotle
“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.” –Aristotle
“He most lives thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.” –Aristotle
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” –Aristotle
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” –Aristotle
“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” –Aristotle
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.” –Plato
“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” –Plato
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” –Plato
“Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.” –Plato
“Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.” –Plato
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” –Plato
“He was a wise man who invented beer.” –Plato
“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.” –Plato
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.” –Plato
“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?” –Plato
“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.” –Plato
“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.” –Plato
“It is right to give every man his due.” –Plato
“Knowledge is true opinion.” –Plato
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.” –Plato
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” –Plato
“Love is a serious mental disease.” –Plato
“Man - a being in search of meaning.” –Plato
“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?” –Plato
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” –Plato
“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.” –Plato
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” –Plato
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” –Plato
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” –Plato
“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.” –Plato
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” –Plato
“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.” –Plato
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”—Plato
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” –Plato
” Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” –Plato
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” –Plato
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” –Xenocrates
“Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.” –Diogenes
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” –Mark Twain
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” –Mark Twain
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” –Mark Twain
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. " –Mark Twain
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot” –Sophocles
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Orpheus
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"Perhaps to love that which you cannot have is a wound that only death may heal." -Orpheus
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Post by Orpheus on Dec 14, 2004 16:46:58 GMT -5
“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” –Sophocles
“It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.” –Sophocles
“ If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.” –Sophocles
“Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.” –Sophocles
“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.” –Sophocles
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” –Mark Twain
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often” –Mark Twain
“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” –Mark Twain
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” –Mark Twain
“All generalizations are false, including this one.” –Mark Twain
“All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.” –Mark Twain
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” –Mark Twain
“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.” –Mark Twain
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain
“Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.” –Mark Twain
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” –Mark Twain
“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.” –Mark Twain
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” –Mark Twain
“Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”—Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” –Mark Twain
“You can't pray a lie - I found that out.” –Mark Twain
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” –Mark Twain
“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.” –Mark Twain
“Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.” –Mark Twain
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.” –Mark Twain
“From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one - to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.” –Mark Twain
“George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.” –Mark Twain
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” –Mark Twain
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.” –Mark Twain
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” –Mark Twain
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”—Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” –Mark Twain
“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.” –Mark Twain
“I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.” –Mark Twain
“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”—Mark Twain
“I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.” –Mark Twain
“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.” –Mark Twain
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.” –Mark Twain
“In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.” –Mark Twain
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.” –Mark Twain
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” –Mark Twain
“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.” –Mark Twain
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” –Mark Twain
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”—Mark Twain
“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.” –Mark Twain
“Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.” –Mark Twain
“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.” –Mark Twain
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.” –Mark Twain
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.” –Mark Twain
“Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.” –Mark Twain
“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.” –Mark Twain
“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” –Mark Twain
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” –Mark Twain
“The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.” –Mark Twain
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.” –Mark Twain
“The Public is merely a multiplied "me."” –Mark Twain
“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.” –Mark Twain
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Orpheus
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"Perhaps to love that which you cannot have is a wound that only death may heal." -Orpheus
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Post by Orpheus on Dec 14, 2004 16:50:09 GMT -5
“There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” –Mark Twain
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.” –Mark Twain
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.” –Mark Twain
“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.” –Mark Twain
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”—Mark Twain
“We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.” –Mark Twain
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.” –Mark Twain
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.” –Mark Twain
“Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.” –Mark Twain
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."—Abraham Lincoln
“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” –Confucius
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” –Confucius
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” –Confucius
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” –Confucius
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” –Confucius
“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.” –Confucius
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” –Confucius
“If we don't know life, how can we know death?” –Confucius
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” –Confucius
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” –Confucius
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” –Confucius
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” –Confucius
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” –Confucius
“Study the past, if you would divine the future. –Confucius
“The cautious seldom err.” –Confucius
“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”—Confucius
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it” –Confucius
“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.”—Confucius
“When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.”—Confucius
“All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.” --Epictetus
“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” – Epictetus
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.” –Epictetus
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” –Epictetus
“For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.” –Epictetus
“God has entrusted me with myself.” –Epictetus
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” –Epictetus
“If you wish to be a writer, write.” –Epictetus
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.” –Epictetus
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.” –Epictetus
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” –Epictetus
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” –Epictetus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” –Epictetus
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” –Epictetus
“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.” – Epictetus
“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.” –Epictetus
“Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.” –Epictetus
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." –Rene Descartes
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