Really Cool Quotes

[funkervogt]

By request...

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal"
Unknown, credited to TS Eliot and Pablo Picasso, though probably apocryphal

"The slow blade penetrates the shield."
Gurney Halleck in Dune (specific to the story, but also a metaphor for change and success)

"Buy for a dollar, sell for two"
Proposition Joe's business philosophy

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."
Bruce Lee, advice on fighting and life

 

[B. Friendly]

"know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe and the gods." -unto thee I grant

"Fuck the world, don't ask me for shit. Everything you get you gotta work hard for it." -Method Man

"Cogito, ergo Sum" Rene Descartes

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

The best of times, the worst of times,
the times you can't ignore.
Sometimes you bite the bullet
and flip flop on the floor.

They tell you where to go,
and they tell you what to do.
They set your face on fire
then stomp it out with their shoes.

I ain't no fool.
Mama didn't raise no fool.

The times I can't complain
are the times I do the most.
On a diet of black coffee
and prozac buttered toast.

These eunuchs in their prada
and Gucci flavored clothes.
Wouldn't know a fresh perspective
if it bit 'em up on the nose.

I ain't no fool.
Mama didn't raise no fool.

Don't do as they say,
just say as they do.
No flavor's quite so bitter
as the taste of one's own shoe.

I ain't no fool.
Mama didn't raise no fool.

Primus AKA Les Claypool

 

[Guest50138]

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

-- Gough Whitlam

 

[TrichyTrichy]

You Can fool some of the people some of the time. However,you can't fool all the people all of the time.
Namaste

 

[festivus]

"The sweeter the tongue, the sharper the tooth." Unknown
"There's a fine line between mothering and smothering" Me

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

so
the kids they dance and shake their bones
and the politicians, throwin stones
singing ashes ashes all fall down
ashes ashes all fall down

grateful dead, throwing stones

 

[Jones]

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[jarff]

read my sig....
jarff

 

[madback]

My dad always told me "son, you are on the need to know, and right now, you don't need to know shit" or he would say "I don't need to explain anything to you"

One of my favorites is "life isn't like a box of chocolates, it's more like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow"

 

[SpasticGramps]

Not really cool, but relevant to our times.

Adolph Hitler---"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."

"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
Adolf Hitler

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."
Joseph Goebbels

Mass Murders they indeed turned out to be, but they were heralded as great men back in the day.

Time Man of the Year 1939. He was also a NOBEL PRIZE Nominee in 1938

 

[coldoneror]

Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people,
by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall
Street and for Wall Street. . . . Our laws are the output of a system which
clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. . . . the politicians said we suffered
from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children . . . starve
to death every year in the U.S. and over 100,000 shop girls in New York
are forced to sell their virtue for bread. . . .
There are thirty men in the United States whose aggregate wealth is
over one and one-half billion dollars. There are half a million looking for
work. . . . We want money, land and transportation. We want the abolition
of the National Banks, and we want the power to make loans direct from
the government. We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out. . . .
We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary,
and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the Government
pays its debts to us.
The people are at bay, let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged
us thus far beware.

-1890

 

[SpasticGramps]

Something a little lighter.

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

Babe Ruth

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

Shelter dogs aren’t broken.
They’ve simply experienced more life.
If they were human, we would call them wise.
They would be the ones with tales to tell, stories to write.
Do not pity a shelter dog.
Adopt one.

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2xe73iyg3U&feature=player_embedded ]

 

[StoneByName]

"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law" - Aristotle

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." - Albert Einstein

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the
others that have been tried" - Winston Churchill

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success" - Bruce Feirstein

"Say something smart and you will be remembered forever" - Anonymous

 

[ROJO145]

"In the morning,dont say you love me cuz I'll only kick you outta my door,I"ll pay your cab fare home,ya may even use my best cologne,just dont be here in the morning when I wake up"RS

 

[ka0tik_kreati0n]

Say what you mean, and mean what you say

 

[headband 707]

It's take a Village...

Don't hate the player hate the game..

 

[ka0tik_kreati0n]

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

 

[Cookie monster]

"Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.”
Spike Milligan.