Profound Sayings

[gertie]

Bit of an ulterior motive to this thread... as per usual I have left an assignment to the last minute... I have to come up with 24 profound sayings over the next month... I thought this would be the perfect place to pick up a few. So please people post your favourite profound sayings... mmm... now...

[dwarfthrower]

I like cheese

[Guest.]

"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things."

I've heard this quite a few times and have thought it quite profound.

Here is a link that will probably explain it to some extent.....

Link (http://www.puritansermons.com/sermons/griffin1.htm)

[gertie]

I like cheese
that was good. I think I'll use it... or... not.

[gertie]

I like to take up more than two posts to say something.
Sayings related to seasons or senses would be choice... or ace... Bro. or... cuz.

[Dundasbro]

Here (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Ghandi)
Here (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein)
And Here (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde)

[The Cunt]

A day not wasted is a day wasted.

[The Cunt]

I suggest anything by Jack Handy or Steven Wright.

[Seeker]

Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.

Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?

Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

[Jenglish]

Imagination is more important then knowledge ~Albert Einstein

[Hooty Mcboob]

"we need 4 hugs a day for survival, we need 8 hugs a day for maintenance and we need 12 hugs for growth"
-Virginia Satir

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple"- Oscar Wilde

[dwarfthrower]

"Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, Another runner in the night" - Bruce Springsteen.

[munganah]

"you cant use up creativity.the more you use ,the more you have."

[johny_roberts]

I said "swollow bitch"

.....you can thank me later for that little gem......

[dwarfthrower]

I said "swollow bitch"

.....you can thank me later for that little gem......
A European or an African swallow?

[Seeker]

Coconuts involved?

[Sagacious]

"Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, Another runner in the night" - Bruce Springsteen.
I thought it was Gerry Rafferty

[Sagacious]

Here's a few more that we use at work...

Where there's a will there's relatives.
Innocent until proven insolvent.
Department of Public Persecution.
Chief Defective Inspector.
Not Guilty <> Innocent.
Matters of principle are a wonderful thing that is why they cost so much.
All's well that ends in consent orders.

[Vardsy]

See signature

[dwarfthrower]

I thought it was Gerry Rafferty
Written and originally released by The Boss circa 1973 (track #1 from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)... commercially successful release by Manfred Mann circa 1976. Not on any Stealers Wheels albums I can track down... and I'm pretty sure it wasn't on Baker Street either.

[Sagacious]

Written and originally released by The Boss circa 1973 (track #1 from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)... commercially successful release by Manfred Mann circa 1976. Not on any Stealers Wheels albums I can track down... and I'm pretty sure it wasn't on Baker Street either.
I defer to dwarfie's vastly superior rock guruness on this one.

[Vardsy]

"Time flies like an arrow..........Fruit flies like a banana"

"There are 10 types of people in the world...Those that understand binary, and those that don't"

"It seems they have misunderestimated me" - George W Bush

[gertie]

All solid GOLD keep 'em rolling

[samuraipizzacat]

refer to sig below

[sperm]

Bad pizzacat, off to snopes with you !

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

[Sagacious]

There are two types of people in the world...those that think the same way I do and idiots.

We apologise for the problem with reality please do not adjust your head.

[samuraipizzacat]

Yeah my sig isn't true. However the point it makes still stands. The simplest solution is often the best.

[Ralmandor]

Three of my favourite, all Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former

And one i try to live by - Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

[Booberella]

try www.quoteland.com
most are crap though

"Man should never try to put words into Gods mouth" GW BUSH
well screwed up there...

[DCenT3]

"Man should never try to put words into Gods mouth" GW BUSH
well screwed up there...

On That Note:

" Sudamn Hussein DOES have weapon of mass destruction" - G.W.Bush

and my sig too, from kill bill

[Jenglish]

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

[GutterClown]

DEEP THOUGHTS

ON DEEP THOUGHTS
A day without sunshine is like night.

ON HIGHER EDUCATION
College is a fountain of knowledge...and most of the students are there to drink.

ON MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMS
A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.

ON COMMON SENSE
Never pet a burning dog.

ON PROBLEM SOLVING
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow

ON MATERIALISM
He who dies with the most toys, is, nonetheless, still dead.

ON ECONOMICS
The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

ON PUBLISHING OR PERISHING
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University

ON DATING
When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.

ON LAMENTATION
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

ON POETIC LOVE
When you're swimmin' in the creek,
And an eel bites your cheek,
That's a Moray!
-- Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

ON EXTINCTION
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

ON HUMILITY
To err is human, to moo bovine.

ON EXPLANATION OF THE END
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
-- Robert Firth

ON PROPHECY
The meek shall inherit the earth--- for they are too weak to refuse.

ON WORLD POLITICS
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

AND FINALLY, ON DRUGS AND DEVELOPMENT
There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

[rbranson]

Hope is not a plan.

[Grumblefish]

"A brutal war creates a good peace." - some old Roman guy, I'm not looking it up right now.

[Jenglish]

"Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk" -Stephen King

[gertie]

I found some goodies :)
"never run from anyone immortal, it attracts their attention"
"My dignity is like my wallet, sometimes I leave it one the bus"

[Jenglish]

"I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes." - Richard (Dicky) Nixon

[dozer]

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes

[Seeker]

Brick Top: Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me.

[johny_roberts]

I like this quote hell I live by it. No idea who made it though and doubt its famous....

If you first don't succeed give up.

[bronco]

Refer to signature as well

[FatherShark]

how about:

"The anus, like the sea, is an unforgiving mistress"

[Peach]

"Only in his dreams man truly is free, twas always thus and thus always will be".

[Peach]

"Let be, be the finale of seem. The only emporer is the emporer of ice cream."

[-=[BB]=-]

I like this quote hell I live by it. No idea who made it though and doubt its famous....

If you first don't succeed give up.
I always though it was

If at first you don't succeed destroy all evidence that you tried
or
If at first you don't succeed redefine success.

[Peach]

"Man with hole in trouser pocket, feel cocky all day". Confuscius

[Something Fast]

"Every man and every woman is a star" - Aleister Crowley

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." - Nietzsche

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star." - Nietzsche

"Bullshit makes the flowers grow, and that's beautiful."


Edit: 1.5kth post. Hurrah!

[Mr Bigglesworth]

"Never chase a man over a cliff" - Sgt Bob Fraser
"Never be afraid to ask a stupid question, son" - Sgt Bob Fraser
"No Kitty thats my pot pie" - Eric Cartman
"Mum, Kitty's being a dildo" - Eric Cartman
"Dear SHAEF, I have just pissed into the Rhine River. For God's sake, send some gasoline." - Patton

[Seeker]

Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald. striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

[Jenglish]

"We are not ready for an unforseen event that may or may not occur." -Dan Quayle

[gertie]

these saying are like sweet, sweet candy to my eyes... some are not very profound... but still handy as a gorilla. :D

[Ralmandor]

"Man with hole in trouser pocket, feel cocky all day". Confuscius


"Man who stand on toilet is high on pot". - Confuscius
"Man that drops watch in toilet will have shitty time". - Confuscius
"'Man who run behind car get exhausted". - Confuscius

[Seeker]

Boy who finger girl while on period get caught red handed - Confuscius

[d3kst3r]

"I love midget porn" - some random

[oggy]

when in doubt, blame someone else!

[Jenglish]

"I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." - Alicia Silverstone, Actress

[coda82]

"right, thats it. Stack it, pack it, rack it, its beer o'clock" My old Chef.

[Jenglish]

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" -Lee Iacocca

[Grumblefish]

"ur mum" - Anonymous.

[criminy]

Winston Churchill, on it being indicated to him that ending a sentence with a preposition is grammatically incorrect, is reputed to have said:

"That is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I will not put"

[criminy]

Charles Babbage, on his Analytical Engine:

"I have been asked several times [by Members of Parliament]: 'Pray Mr Babbage, if you put incorrect figures into your machine, will the correct ones come out?'. I am not rightly able to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that would provoke such a question"

[Jenglish]

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears, Pop Singer

[rascuache]

Man who get on plane sideways surely going to bangkok - confuscious

you can get practically anything done if you dont mind who gets the credit

i find happiness is largely a matter of digestion

just say no

[rascuache]

"Life is too important to be taken seriously" Oscar wilde

"i find that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, shows all that signs of drunkness"

again, oscar wilde...the man, although camp as a row of pink tents, was a genius

[Jenglish]

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music". -George Carlin

[Thyrd]

Time is the thief of memory.

[Jenglish]

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? - Robin Williams

[d3kst3r]

Never eat with your mouth full or talk with your mouth open.

[Jenglish]

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Issac Asimov

[d3kst3r]

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" - Michael Corleone
A lesson in hypocrisy and social politics

[Jenglish]

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin

[beowulf437]

Well I have a few.

There is no problem so great as to not be solved by the proper application of high explosives.

And my sig

[Jenglish]

"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not to me." - Larry Flynt

[TheJackal001]

The object of ware is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his - George Patton

[repeat]

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

[Jenglish]

"Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress." - Joan Rivers

[StudMuffin]

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts" - Einstein

[FatherShark]

"The Anus, like the sea, is an unforgiving mistress"

[Jenglish]

"Life in a vacuum sucks."

[d3kst3r]

"Drugs are bad for you. Shotguns are worse," Steve Homme on Kurt Cobain.

[Jenglish]

"I say no to drugs, but they don't listen." - Marilyn Manson

[druckfugged]

A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
Never date a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her face.
Never play cards for money with a man whose first name is an American city.

[Faidel]

My Dad had many a wise things to say to me, unfortunately all I can remember is this:

"Life is like a ladder, we spend all our lives climbing it, and we hope that our children will start climbing from our shoulders."

That stuck with me.

[Jenglish]

A wise man always washes is hands after peeing.
A wiser man never pees on his hands.

[rbranson]

you can get practically anything done if you dont mind who gets the credit



I find this to be particularly true -- ego gets in the way of most endeavors.

http://forum.zgeek.com/gallery/files/7/7/5/7/bush_warad.jpg

[Jenglish]

"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
- Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[Aardvark]

Think of your fellow man like the Rungs on the Ladder to Success. Don't be afraid to tread on them.

Life is like a bear trap. Sharp, Metal and downright evil

The day we start trusting the people we voted for is the day Democracy fails

[pieman]

I thought a thought, but the thought i thought, wasn't the thought i thought i thought.

[kleph]

never pet a burning dog.

drink through it.

never wake up in tijuana.

too much is not quite enough.

you always pay for sex, one way or another.

[Jenglish]

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"
- excerpts from Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony

[Sutter]

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit. - Banksy

[Fitty]

It's all in the signiature. Don't forget to reference me.

[Zomgie]

"Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!" - Homer Simpson

[Jenglish]

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." ~Ernest Hemmingway

[Peach]

"Only in his dreams, man truly be free. Twas always thus and thus always will be."

[Jenglish]

"I'm not against half-naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be..." ~Benny Hill

[excalibur]

In an age of nothing, at a time when we stand at the brink of our own destruction -- Strengthen your belief, in yourself, in the future of humanity, in the things in this world which cannot easily be perceived. Awaken that which lies dormant now within your soul. Re-ignite the flame of your consciousness and measure the strength of your conviction. Reveal the Lie. Renounce the hatred, Seek, find, and embrace the truths you are fortunate enough to discover. Cherish them, use them to anchor you in the sea of chaos that is the world we live in. When twighlight draws near, when you are pushed to the very limits of your soul, when it seems that all you have left is the remnants of the fabric of your life ---- Believe.

I have NFI who wrote or said it though. I found it on the inside sleeve of an album cover.

[Aardvark]

"You have nothing to fear but fear itself... I'll fix thar" - Stephen Colbert

[Jenglish]

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

[kleph]

In a world of pain I have no peers. - The Smithereens

[SteveCobalt.37]

Parker (Troy McLures Agent): Ever hear of Planet of the Apes?
Troy McClure: Uh ... the movie or the planet?

when you think about it, its deeper than you could ever imagine.

[Jenglish]

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. - Rosanne Cash

[kenwhiting]

"Never kiss by the garden gate, love is blind but the neighbors ain't!"

[Jenglish]

"...and God bless us one and all." -Tiny Tim

[gertie]

silence is the virtue of fools - Francis Bacon

[Jenglish]

"I can smell your cunt" - Miggs, Silence of the Lambs 1991

[FrenchSpyMonkey]

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength" - Eric Hoffer

[Aardvark]

PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in
contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

-Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary

[FrenchSpyMonkey]

"Goose, even you could get laid in a place like this." - Maveric, Top Gun 1986

[Sashasword]

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road, doesn't mean they've gotten lost. - H. Jackson Browne

[Jenglish]

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant. ~Richard M. Nixon

[gertie]

knowledge does not keep any better than fish - Alfred North Whitehead

[gertie]

there are two 'o's in poo - anon

[Jenglish]

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.” ~Winnie the Pooh

[gertie]

You can find work and sort your life out anytime. The pub closes in five hours. - Bernard Black (Dylan Moran)

[Jenglish]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway

[Thor5]

Dad, I just busted my knee .
Could you call the police and
have them bring a doughnut
here

(Chistopher Alden Thorpe)

[ewe2]

This fortune cookie program out of order. For those in desperate need,
please use the program "randchar". This program generates random
characters, and, given enough time, will undoubtedly come up with
something profound. It will, however, take it no time at all to be
more profound than THIS program has ever been.

[Jenglish]

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

[gertie]

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

[ms edeity]

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
(Lily Tomlin)

[The Avatar]

Don't you fucking touch your sister. She's mine.
(My pa)


Seriously though:
Dont scratch at it. Scratching will only spread it to other areas!
(The Avatars wise Doctor)

But I still scratched it good!!!

[Aardvark]

The absolute gauge of truely good music. Would you piss on a CD of it to put out a fire?

[Jenglish]

I hate music, especially when it's played. ~Jimmy Durante

[The Avatar]

"He who hesitates, maturbates."
- Old roomate. Words that are the truest I have ever heard.

[Jenglish]

Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love. ~Woody Allen

[Thyrd]

Shamelessly stolen from here (http://www.geocities.com/fallenempire2000/quotes.html). Some sound stupidly emo, but others sound very smart.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, man would see the universe as it is, Infinite.
-William Blake, philosopher, writer


Self-Glorification is artistic suicide.
-Moses Soyer, artist


Every day above ground is a good day.
-Mel the crooked cop, Scarface


Life is chaos, you gotta deal with it.
-Max Cavelera, Sepultura


If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
-Sun Tzu, The Art Of War


To live alone, one must be an animal or a god.
-Aristotle, philosopher


Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
-Ozzy Osbourne, singer


I'd rather be dead than cool.
-Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, dead guy


No Hope=No Fear. Base not your joy upon the deeds of others, for what is given can also be taken away.
-Pete Steele, Type O Negative


There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
-Nietzsche, philosopher


If you are not prepared to deal with reality, you can be sure that reality will deal with you.
-Dave Roberts, cool guy


There's no I in fuck you.
-Candace, Walls of Jericho


Are you a name or a number.
-Fear Factory, industrial death metal


I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucenation.
-Dilbert, pop culture icon, wage slave


We as attackers have the initiative. Visciously, ruthlessly, attack, attack, attack, and when in doubt, attack again.
-Ronald Reagan, US President 1981-1989


May the Lord never permit me to die until I have taken due vengeance upon you.
-Henry II, English King 1154-1189


Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage.
-Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here


Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old.
-Kurt Cobain, Serve The Servants


What good fortune for those of us in power that people do not think.
-Adolf Hitler, mass murderer, politician


You're all a bunch of ignorant fucks.
-Oderus Urungus, GWAR


Teen angst has never had so pivotal a spike as the punk movement. You see the troubled youth on the street, skateboards in hand, self righteous dogma holding them high. Why? Because they have more than just the new NOFX album... they have a reason to live. A code. Anarchy.
Sign up with me. I have the order form right here. The death of corporate America and all of the kids more popular than you are, emblazoned with No Fear logos, signed to major record labels, and televised almost live on MTV. Come on, admit it, that's the reason you charged $150 Doc Martins to your father's Master Card... For Anarchy, right? For all of the glory of being more extreme than anyone on your block. That's why you paid $26 at Sam Goody Music for a T-shirt that says "Punk's Not Dead." That'll show the corporate bastards. What next? How about that movement?
What have you been doing for the glorious cause of anarchy? Anything? Or have you been smoking up on weekends and scoring beer on Wednesday and waiting. Because when it all comes down, you know you were there on the righteous side of Anarchy.
Well, at least that's what it says on your jacket.
- Ihate.com


Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana, philosopher


Where his chest ought to have been, they pinned the Congressional Medal of Honor.
-John Dos Passos,The Death Of John Doe


You've got to be willing to die for something or you've lived for nothing.
- Biohazard, New York Hardcore, Pride


In this world of morality and righteousness there are more than enough stones to be cast
Pure birthed from polluted parasites of systematic acidity.
What has been reaped I shall not sow.
I will uproot with impunity.
- One King Down, Troy NY straightedge hardcore, Mass Suicide


I aimed for the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
-Upton Sinclair, socialist, writer


The skyscrapers look like gravestones from out here
-Dax Riggs, Acid Bath,Diab Soule


$UCK$
-The bathroom wall at Saratoga Winners


Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism. We are the vandals.
-Type O Negative


The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
-Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, The Sounds Of Silence


The error so many people are tempted to make is to believe that the eternal values which were in danger of extinction and for which so much blood was spilt and so much suffering endured, could be rescued and preserved once and for all. They are and always will be threatened, if not from the outside, then by our own weaknesses and failures. We are always being told that we live in a hard age, but was there ever a time of absolute ease and serenity?
-Pierre Mendes-France, French Prime Minister, 1955


You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
-Slipknot, Eyeless

Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually.
-Jimi Hendrix, artist


The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-Franklin Roosevelt, US President 1932-1945


The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again.
-William Faulkner, The Paris Review


A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey


Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-Semisonic, Closing Time


How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
-Charles Manson,serial killer, cult leader


Wars throughout history have been fought for conquest and plunder...The master class has always declared the wars, the subject class has always fought the battles.
-Eugene Victor Debs, socialist


The government keeps us safe. Go back to sleep.
-Ihate.com


Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
-Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver


Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast.
-Robb Flynn, Machine Head


Don't mistake lack of talent for genius.
-Type O Negative


Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
-Dave Mustaine, Megadeth, Holy Wars


Megadeath- US government standard of measuring casualties resulting from a nuclear holocaust. 1 Megadeath=1,000,000 dead persons.
-Webster's New World Dictionary


If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Howard Zinn, radical historian


Read my lips, No new taxes.
-George Bush, US President 1989-1993


There is nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
-Dilbert, pop culture icon, wage slave


Yup, you're a dumbass.
-Butthead, philosopher, pop culture icon


Misery is manifold, the wretchedness of the earth is multiform. Evil is a consequence of good. Either the memories of past bliss are the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origins in the ecstacies which might have been.
-Edgar Allan Poe, writer, Beatrice


In a world full of shit, you're still an asshole to me.
-Al Jourgenson, Ministry


When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint.
When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
-Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist


I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me.
-Beck Hansen, artist


Had I not known, that I was already dead, I would have mourned my loss of life.
-Ota Dokan, 1486


Freedom for all the people, Brave and true and strong, Freedom for all the people, Unless I think you're wrong.
-Oderus Urungus, GWAR, on censorship


We don't care what you think.
-Peter Steele, Type O Negative


Live long and prosper.
-Spock, Vulcan


Does not the running paper tiger chase his own tail?
-Oderus Urungus, GWAR


Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
-Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins


If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President 1803-1809, writer of The Declaration Of Independence, Anti-Federalist


How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Morals Of The Prince


When I rise it will be with the ranks, not from the ranks.
- Eugene Victor Debs, socialist


The stupider people think you are, the more suprised they are when you kill them.
- Unknown


So many ships on the high seas, and I rejoice at the thought that since birth, my ship has navigated the lesser travelled waters. This direction, and my resolve to climb the mast often and survey my surroundings, brings me both pleasure and disgust at once. Pleasure in my own iniquity and disgust in the state of disgrace of humanity.
-David Vincent, Morbid Angel


I hate intolerant people, and I hate people with too much tolerance. One is full of ignorance, the other is full of shit.
- Johnny Knoxville, Jackass


Maybe getting angry at Breaking Benjamin or Cold for not being good bands is like getting mad at kids in the Special Olympics for not being professional athletes.
-Iann Robinson, Metal Sludge columnist


Life is pain. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
- Cary Elwes, The Princess Bride


Hi, We're the Meatmen and you suck.
-The Meatmen, 1983


Some say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
-John Lennon, artist


They said, "To die is glorious". They lied.
-Phil George, writer, Battle Won Is Lost


People used to play with toys, now the toys play with them
-Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys


Your uniform does not impress me.
-Atari Teenage Riot, anarchists


Some say the end is near
Some say we'll see armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit
One great big festering neon distraction
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied


Learn to swim

Mom's gonna fix it all soon
Mom's coming round to put it back the way it ought to be

Learn to swim

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes

Learn to swim

Fuck retro anything
Fuck your tattoos
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory

Learn to swim

Fuck smiling glad hands
With hidden agendas
Fuck these dysfunctional
Insecure actresses

Learn to swim

I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down
- Tool, Aenema


If you gaze for long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche


There are two ways of fighting, one with laws and the the other with arms. The first is the way of men. The second is the style of beasts. But since very often the the first does not suffice, it is necessary to turn to the second. Therefore a prince must know how to play the beast as well as the man.
-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Morals Of The Prince


Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
-Frederick Douglass, writer, former slave


Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. But let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings


History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
-Martin Luthur king Jr, activist


Anger is a gift.
-Zach DeLaRocha, rage against the machine


When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed
- Marilyn Manson, antichrist superstar


Grey are gonna clear up
And then you're gonna die.
-Jim Goad, redneck


Life is hard dude.
-Butt-head, philosopher, pop culture icon


Anytime someone mentions god and war in the same sentence, that person needs help.
-Pat LaMarche


What will it be like when I'm gone, and you're gone, and our great grandchildren are gone. And even our great glittering industrial society has crumbled to dust, and we're all forgotten. What will be going on then? Nothing lasts forever. Nobody lives forever. Everything comes and goes. We all begin and rise and fade away...What then?
-Edward Abbey, writer


Everything is good that comes from the author of nature, everything degenerates in the hands of man.
-Jean Jacques Roussseau, philosopher


The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it.
-Karl Marx, philosopher, Theses On Fuerbach


I was Henry the King
To me Divers realms were subject, I was duke and count of many provinces.
Eight feet of ground is now enough for me, whom many kingdoms failed to satisfy.
Who reads these lines, let him reflect, upon the narrowness of death.
And in my case behold, the image of our mortal lot.
This scanty tomb doth now suffice,
For whom the Earth was not enough.
-Ralph of Diceto, Eulogy For Henry II


We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
-Bill Clinton after Colorado school shootings, during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia


There are many times in battle when commanders think they are lost. They see only their losses and don't know the enemy's.
-Col. David Hackworth, U.S. Army.


Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
-Napoleon


We don't mind you coming up on stage, but would the person who learned to stagedive from watching the Pearl Jam video please stop doing so.
Robb Flynn, Machine Head, Saratoga Winners, 10/23/95


Nothing makes me feel better about myself than tearing someone else down.
-Andy Richter, talk show sidekick


I cringe at love,
To love is to lose,
To sleep is to dream,
That dream is a lie, deciever.
Kasey Dorr, Section 8, Nightfall


god money, i'll do anything for you,
god money just tell me what you want me to...
head like a hole,
black as your soul,
i'd rather die,
than give you control...
bow down before the one you serve,
you're going to get what you deserve.
-Trent Reznor, nine inch nails, Head Like A Hole


Does anybody remember laughter?
Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin, Song Remains The Same


There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.
-Noam Chomsky, linguist, foreign policy critic


Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- Martin luthur King Jr., activist


If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
-Zach DeLaRocha, rage against the machine


Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you.
- Kurt Cobain, Nirvana


Inner fear is your worst enemy.
-Max Cavelera, Sepultura


Fuck the world
Don't ask me for shit
Everything you get
You got to work hard for it
-Biggie Smalls, The What


There's a reason the third world came in third.
-Jim Goad, redneck


The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
-Blaise Pascal, writer


I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.
- Iggy Pop, punk rock icon


You tell me that nothing matters
You're just fucking scared
You tell me that I make no difference
At least I'm fucking trying
What the fuck have you done?
- Minor Threat, In My Eyes


The problem is, the dancing fools don't even understand that the song is about them.
-Matthew Caws, Nada surf, on the song Popular


Anticipation of death is worse than death itself.
-Brian Bloom, metalhead, stoner


Make yourself all honey, and the flies will devour you.
-Aaron, My Dying Bride, Symphonaire Infernus


We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population...In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment...We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democritization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better
-George Keenan, Head of the U.S. State Department, Policy Planning Study 23, 1948


If you're going to kill yourself, at least take somebody that you hate with you.
-Pete Steele, Type O Negative, drunk at Saratoga Winners 11/9/96


What I have in my heart I'll take to my grave.
-Hatebreed


Fucking with the rich is not only necessary, it's also a hell of a lot of fun.
-Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys


Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangsta ass nigga plays his cards right
A real gangsta ass nigga never runs his fucking mouth
Cause real gangsta ass niggas don't start fights
And niggas always gotta high cap
Showing all his boys how he shot em
But real gangsta ass niggas don't flex nuts
Cause real gangsta ass niggas know they got em
Real gangster ass niggas don't talk much
All ya hear is the black from the gun blast
And real gangster ass niggas don't run for shit
Cause real gangster ass niggas can't run fast
-The Geto Boys, Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta


There is no birth of conciousness without pain.
-Carl Jung, psychologist, philosopher


Pray your life was just a dream.
-Marilyn Manson, Man That You Fear


Freedom Rock!
-Bobo, crackhead

Some emotions are so deeply rooted that only the hideous abuse of an electric guitar and an untutored scream will do to express them.
-Grant Alden, Rolling Stone, Incesticide album review

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
-Albert Einstein, scientist, philosopher

When the enemy advances, We retreat.
When he escapes, We harass.
When he retreats, We pursue.
When he is tired, We attack.
When he burns, We put out the fire.
When he loots, We attack.
When he pursues, We hide.
When he retreats, We return.
-Mao Tse Tung, guerilla warrior

Respecting your opponents is key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt, and you may miss the strategy behind his moves.
-Col. David Hackworth, About Face, The Odyssey Of An American Warrior

It is well this is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it.
-Robert E. Lee, Confederate rebel commander, several hours before the battle of Fredericksburg, 1862.

An inquiry isn't blasphemy
-Slayer, Read Between The Lies

Ain't no time for social politics
We are from different cliques
I used to be like one of them
Now I am just me
-Wartime Manner, Troy NY Hardcore

The concious man is dead, and I buried him beneath this scarred tissue, armored skeleton. The machine is now alive, desensitized with open eyes, powered by an angry mind, and is refueled by those I despise.
-Burton C. Bell, Fear Factory, Hunter-Killer

Most people enjoy the humiliation of their closest peers.
-Lord Chesterfield

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day,
Fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way,
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown,
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine, Staying home to watch the rain,
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind you,
No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun.
-Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Time

Who is more foolish, the fool, or the one who follows them?
-Obi Wan Kinobe, jedi knight, crazy old guy

Those who trumpet their own sorrows are usually most deserving of their agony.
-Oderus Urungus, GWAR

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me.
-Zach DeLaRocha, rage against the machine

[Thyrd]

And more:

Our normal waking conciousness...is but one special type of conciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of conciousness entirely different...No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these disregarded. How to regard them is the question- for they are so discontinuous with ordinary conciousness.
-William James, writer

It is with words as with sunbeams- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-Robert Southey, writer


The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate
-Noam Chomsky, Linguist, foreign policy critic


To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite


Warning: This CD package contains graphic lyrics and artwork which may be offensive to people who are afraid to think for themselves.
-Glenn Benton, Deicide


When a man lies, he murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths, which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home
-Cliff Burton, Metallica, To Live Is To Die


The prison of time is spherical and without exits.
-Vladimir Nabokov


If this planet were under observation by biologists from another world, I think they would look at us and say, "Here is a species in the mid-stages of self destruction".
-E.O. Wilson, biologist


These are the darkest of ages, in which the greed and ambition of men is finally equalled with their means of destruction and conquest.
- Anonymous


Dropping the oppressor is the only solution.
-Tim Williams, Vision Of Disorder, DTO

You know what, Fuck you I'm fed up with you, I'm not as good as you? Fuck no, I'm better than you.
-Jonathan Davis, Korn, Divine

Every species can smell its own extinction. the last ones left won't have a pretty time of it. And in ten years, maybe less, the human race will be a bedtime story for their children,a myth, Nothing more.
-In the Mouth Of Madness

Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud
We'll miss him
He a lot to say,
He had a lot of nothing to say
We'll miss him
-Tool, Eulogy


It's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw down.
-Roger waters, Pink Floyd, Dogs


What the fuck can I do, to make myself a man?
What the fuck should I do? Well I'm doing the best that I can.
But I'll never give up my pride, And I'll never surrender my hate.
You on the opposite side. You're the one who made me this way
Ask yourself a question, do you need to conform?
With the brain-washing games that are engaged to restrain now
The power to cure. The power to kill. The power is ours. We use it at will.
-Tim Williams, Vision Of Disorder, DTO


Honesty is my only excuse.
-Metallica, Damage Inc. 1986


Turn the other cheek and I'll break your fucking chin.
-RZA, WuTang Clan


Genuis begins where rules end.
-William Blake, Discourse VI: Annotations To Reynolds


There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind bars, and the man is outside.
-Upton Sinclair, The Jungle 1906


Raise your fists and march around
Just don't take what you need
I'll jail and bury those comitted
And smother the rest in greed
-Rage Against The Machine, Sleep Now In The Fire


Life's 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 and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-William Shakespeare


In a promethian sense, man is God. But on an even more profound level, man is a beast. This primary contradiction has plagued mankind for millenia. Man is a god, man is a beast. These two aspects of his personality have been waging war with another for centuries; A war whose casualties are seen everywhere and recognized nowhere. But there exists, however a long forgotten place in the soul where God and beast intersect. To go to that place is to witness the death of one world and the birth of another.
-Boyd Rice, NON, philosopher, industrial musician


Numbers have dehumanized us.
Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam.
Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast.
Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.
-Dalton Trumbo, author, Johnny Got His Gun, Introduction to revised 1970 ed.


Every media trick is employed, to keep the public from filling that void. We set ourselves up for disaster when we believe liars on face value. We give ourselves to those bastards when we settle for thier truths, and we follow Hinkly, Chapman, Oswald, Sirhan, and Ray, patsies and fall guys set up, while invisible men rule the day. The powers that be rely on apathy, and ignorance. To sustain
- Peccavi, Straightedge Hardcore, Jenner


As the polls close like a casket, On truth devoured
A silent play on the shadow of power
A spectacle monopolized
The camera's eye on choice disguised
Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil
Or for the vultures who lust for blood and oil
A spectacle monopolized, they hold the reins and stole your eyes
The fistagonsbullets and bombs
Who stuff the banks, Who staff the party ranks
More for Gore or the son of a drug lord
None of the above, fuck it cut the cord.
- Rage Aginst The Machine, Guerilla Radio


To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.
-Jack White, IWW activist, on trial in 1912


There is of course no reason why the new totalitarian states should resemble the old. Government by clubs and firing squads is not merely inhumane, it is demonstrably inefficient and in an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is a sin againt the Holy Ghost. A really efficent totalitarian state would be one in which the all powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to coerced, because they love their servitude...The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater is silence about the truth.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Foreward to 1946 edition


Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others, only to lose it over themselves.
-Barbara Tuchman, author, historian, The March Of Folly


It's never to late to say never.
-Download Of Aggression, Troy NY, You Spoke

[Aardvark]

Everything has to be taken at face value. If someone tries to hide their true meaning under layers of lies or inuendo or complication, then avoid that person and find someone who voices their thoughts without obstruction

[kré]

wow thyrd, thanks for quoting the entire internet :p

[FatherShark]

Never attempt to eat anything bigger than your head.

[Aardvark]

Nah, its eat a powerfield bigger than your head. Or consume. Either way, be careful with those energy fields, because they have killed many an evil genius. What you should do instead is decree that your trusted lieutenant become as a god, because then his doom will be sealed, whereby you will be free to enjoy the benefits of having a god onside, until he dies. Then you make a god out of another one.

[gertie]

what if god smoked Cannabis?
- some weird Al song
(in honour of the Nimbin Mardi Grass festival... woohoo!)

[JessicaDV8]

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
--George W. Ball

Anger cannot be dishonest.
--George R. Bach

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
--Ed Howe

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
--Richard J. Needham

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.
--Sophia Lee

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
--Alphonse de Lamartine


Those are the ones I recorded in my disgustingly emo journal years ago, anyway. :p

[Seeker]

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

[mooshka]

Nutty as Squirrel Shit

[dozer]

a lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to

[JessicaDV8]

a lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to

Steve Martin: Repeat after me. I promise to be different.
Audience: I promise to be different
Steve Martin: I promise to be unique.
Audience: I promise to be unique
Steve Martin: I promise not to repeat things other people tell me to repeat.
:rimshot:

[FatherShark]

Quitters Never Win. Winners Never Quit. But those who never win, and never quit, are LOSERS.

[Jenglish]

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty." ~John Lennon

[Hooty Mcboob]

"when our women fail in courage, shall our men be fearless still?" - taken from L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside - set at the time of WWI

[Jenglish]

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961

[Colonel Kurtz]

Any sufficiently adavcned technology is indistinguishable form magic - Arthur C Clarke

[FatherShark]

"never promise crazy a baby" - George Bluth, Arrested Development

[Jenglish]

Here's to the crazy ones,
the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers,
The round pegs in the square holes,
the ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, I see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Apple Computer

[Furball]

Funakoshi Gichin - "Karate is the art of virtuous men."

also. Funakoshi developed these principles of karate-do, but they can be applied to many things outside of karate-do... it might inspire something for you. ;)

1. Karate-do begins and ends with courtesy. 2. There is no first attack in karate. 3. Karate is a great assistance to [auxiliary of] justice. 4. Know yourself first, and then others. 5. Spirit first, techniques second. 6. Always be ready to release your mind. 7. Misfortune always comes out of idleness. 8. Do not think that karate training is only in the dojo. 9. It will take your entire life to learn karate; there is no limit. 10. Put your everyday living into karate and you will find the ideal state of existence. 11. Karate is like hot water. If you do not give it heat constantly, it will again become cold water. 12. Do not think that you have to win. Rather, think that you do not have to lose. 13. Victory depends on your ability to distinguish vulnerable points from invulnerable ones. 14. The battle is according to how you manoeuvre guarded or unguarded. Move according to your opponent. 15. Think of hands and feet as swords. 16. When you leave home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you. It is your behaviour that invites trouble from them. 17. Beginners must master low stance and posture; natural body position for advanced. 18. Practising a kata is one thing and engaging in a real fight is another. 19. Do not forget 1-strength and weakness of power, 2-stretching and contraction of the body, and 3-slowness and speed of technique. Apply these correctly. 20. Always think and devise ways to live the precepts every day.

[Several-Ninjas]

It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. That way, if you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself...it was just a dream.

- The way of the Samurai

[gertie]

Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People.

[gertie]

yes, I think you should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a frisbee and fling it over a rainbow
- Bernard Black (Dylan Moran)

[FatherShark]

Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believe it was the blacks.

-Sarah Silverman

[gertie]

There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.
-Troy Dyer (Ethan Hawke)