I've got a million and one that i love and can't remember right now, but here's a few i can hunt down fairly quickly.. Including the ones from my signature , of course

The apple that don't want to get eaten, will still fall off the tree - Billy Bragg (from the song The Myth of Trust)

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. - Silent Bob (in Clerks)

When I was 16, 17, I started drifting away from everything else and picking up a guitar, and it was like, "What are you doing? You can't sing and you can't play a guitar", right up to the day we got signed by Rough Trade. And then it was like, "Go on play us a song", whereas before it was, "Shut up, fucking racket." - Pete Doherty

As well as being anti something, you've got to be pro something. So you're anti racism, so what are you pro? You're pro community. I would put my hand on my heart and I'd attach myself to socialist ideas. Because I believe in society. And it's bollocks that black people have any less worth in society than white people, which is basically what people like the BNP say. - Pete Doherty

Mobile phone cancer is more common in the city than the country... But then, so is everything else — including sex, coffee, and conversation. - Dylan Moran

People do… need… things… that are bad for them. They do. Stimulants and so on. They always have. Every so often, some politician or footballer or actor or whoever it is is caught in a hotel room, surrounded by hookers and cocaine. And everybody else goes: "Oh, the shame of it! How could he? How absolutely dreadful! Oh, the disgust that courses through me right now — you could bottle it!" But what else are you supposed to give hookers in a hotel room? "Yogurt, anybody! I made some yogurt this morning, would you like some? It's got Granola and everything. You sure? Go on, have a bit." - Dylan Moran

I love collecting quotes. But since they're all in German, I can't really post them here, would have to find the translation...
So here are my top favorites.

La felicidad no existe en la vida, sólo existen momentos felices.
Happiness doesn't exist in life, there are only happy moments.
- Spanish saying -

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

If you are not struggling, you are not learning.
-A French Teacher of Mine

To not write is agony. To write is pain. To have written is bliss.
-Random person on the forums

Nothing is black and white, and no two of us are exactly the same, though we may indeed share many habits, customs, tastes, beliefs and dispositions.

by HC user sunstealer

I am the wisest man on Earth, for I know only one thing, and that is that I know nothing - Socrates.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think - George Carlin.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept - George Carlin.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society - Jiddu Krishnamurti.

They must find it difficult...those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority - Gerald Massey.

We got already such a topic so I merged your topic with the old one, shmoo.


Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anyone.
- Mark Twain -

oops! thanks

Colette: Our weapons are LOVE!
Genis: JUSTICE!
Kratos: and *sigh* hope.

-Tales of Symphonia-

Take the New York Times. It’s a corporation and sells a product. The product is audiences.
-Noam Chomsky

Democracy is not an institution, it's a state of affairs. It can't be implemented by law. It is intrinsically the enemy of privilege and wealth – and by the same token, privilege and wealth are intrinsically its enemies. The existence of democracy, in a world where privilege and wealth exist at all, depends upon conflict. In such a world, wherever there is peace – social peace, at any rate -- there will be no justice, and certainly no democracy. The orderly operation of legal institutions, in such a world, works noctes atque dies to one end: to make the privileged and wealthy more so, and, by ineluctable implication, to suppress democracy.
-some blogger guy

We never had any use for Taylor nor any of the efficiency or scientific management crowd. They never realized that human toil was the last thing in the world you had to be efficient about; the only way to be really efficient is to eliminate it entirely, and this would have been heresy to any of the Taylor, Gant, Barth, Cook efficiency crowd. It is sad to contemplate that men of the technical ability of the names mentioned in this paragraph were so lame in their thinking and social outlook that they missed the boat so completely. Who in hell wants to be efficient with a shovel, and what sense would there be even if you succeeded? They should have had their heads opened with a shovel, it might have been more effective.
-Howard Scott

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease...
-John Maynard Keynes

Guess my choice makes me one of those legendary socialist anarchist cutthroat technocrats. BOOGA-BOOGA!

We envisage that communes would have the wealth to provide certain sporting and leisure facilities that are currently available only to the upper classes. A commune of, say, 100 people should be able to afford a swimming pool, a small gym and one or two ponies for the children.
-Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell

OMG HORSEY

Long live Lego SimCity Startrek Socialism!! With Ponies!!1

Also, I win this thread.

"The person is smart, people are dumb." I can't remember who said it, but I love that quote. It's so true.

Not my FAVORITES, but all I can think of right now:

(Almost all of the quotes are from The Birth of Tragedy)

"The poet's task is this my friend,
To read his dreams and comprehend.
The truest human fancy seems
To be revealed to us in dreams.
All poems and versification
Are but true dream's interpretation."
- By.. Uh.. I forgot, but I saw it in The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche.

"Here I sit, forming men
In my own image,
A race to be like me,
To suffer, to weep,
To delight and to rejoice,
And to defy you,
As I do."
- Goethe (But I got it from Nietzsche)

"If that is so, we do not mind it;
With a thousand steps the women find it;
But though they rush, we do not care:
With one big jump the men get there."
- Goethe (from Nietzsche)

"That is your world! A world indeed!--"
- Goethe (Nietzsche)

"Alas!
You have shattered
The beautiful world
With brazen fist;
It falls, it is scattered."
- Goethe (Nietzsche)

"Should not my longing overleap the distance
And draw the fairest form into existence?"
- Goethe (Nietzsche)

"That the theater should not lord it over the arts.
That the actor should not seduce those who are authentic.
That music should not become an art of lying."
- Nietzsche

"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day."
- I don't know.

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. "
- Nietzsche

"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? "
- Nietzsche

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. "
- Nietzsche

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. "
- Nietzsche

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? "
- Nietzsche

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. "
- Nietzsche

I've got too many quotes.

The ones in my signature are some of my favorites, but I have a lot more I might add some other time lol

So many Goethe quotes, yet nothing out of "Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand" (translation)

"Man who go to bed with itchy butt, wake up with stinky finger"

"Man who crosses ocean twice without washing is dirty double crosser"

-Confucious

I'm a Nietzsche fan too

Here's one more:

"There are no moral phenomena at all, only moral interpretations of phenomena." - Nietzsche

so many men i love to quote are already here! i'll throw in a few.

"Ahh... women. They make the highs more high and the lows more frequent." - Nietzsche

"Man who drops keys in toilet bound for a shitty time." Confucius

"Even hell has it's peculiar laws." Goethe

"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. " - Frederick Douglass

"We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget." - Sarah Bernhardt

“Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe.”-Einstein

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." - Malcolm X

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy." - Milan Kundera

“No man is more enslaved than he who falsely thinks he is free.”-Goethe

"Cursed be the soothing juice of the grape!
Cursed be love's ecstatic call!
Cursed be hope! Cursed be faith!
Yet cursed be patience most of all!" - Goethe

“What matters our creative endless toil,
When at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
‘It is by-gone’ - How shall the riddle run?
As good as if things never had begun,
Yet circle back, existence to possess:
I’d rather have eternal Emptiness.” - Goethe

“In the begining the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move”-Douglas Adams

"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

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."-Nietzsche

"When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to reform." - 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 goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."-Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."-Mark Twain

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”-The Bhagavad Gita

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“I hate quotations” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"isn't a smoking secti0n in a restaurant just like a peeing section in a swimming pool?" - COLLINOFCOURSE

I love the first 2 so much I had to add them to my collection of quotes!


Zombie saying: the fastest way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison

Cognite tute--think for yourself

Lost time is never found again

"Striking up conversations with strangers is an autistic person's version of extreme sports." Kamran Nazeer

'I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man' -Oscar Wilde

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. Henry Ford

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! Henry Ford

You cannot administer a wicked law impartially-it destroys everyone it touches, its violators as well as its upholders.

The glass is not half-full or half-empty. It's twice as big as it needs to be.

Every time you think you've made it idiot proof, someone comes along and invents a better idiot.

80% of people believe they are better than average. 30% believe they are in the top ten.

To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best to make you everyone else is to fight the hardest battle that anyone can fight" ee cummings

"It seems that for success in science or art a dash of autism is essential." Hans Asperger

“The trouble is, people will say ‘people who suffers from Aspergers’. No, you don’t suffer from Aspergers, you suffer from other people!” Tony Attwood
"I don’t think of Asperger as a disability. It’s a difference." -Tony Attwood
This man sums up my thoughts very well.

I've got one:

"If someone tells you nothing is impossible, tell them to dribble a football." - unknown

"Hope is irrational." - Huey Freeman

"If your hair is wrong, then your entire life is wrong." - Morrissey

"It's important to push when you can't pull." - Chrono Cross

"When the rich make wars it's the poor who die." - Sartre

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa

"Don't be humble, you're not that great" - Golda Meir

I'm not lost in my own world- I know the place like the back of my hand

I don't obsess. I think. Intensely.

My mind doesn't wander, it hops on a direct flight outta here

NORMALITY: One day we will find the cure

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."- Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."- Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop

these are all Shakespeare.

"Striving to better, oft we mar what is well." - King Lear

"Tis the eyes of childhood that fear a painted devil." - Macbeth

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts."
- Il Duce