Post by malavern on Dec 24, 2007 4:22:39 GMT 8
Here's a list of Inspirational/Humour quotes and maxims for those who wish to use em.
Feel free to add more
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"A strong man doesn't need to read the future. He makes his own."
- Solid Snake
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"In war, all of mankind's worst emotions...worst traits come out.
It's easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield"
- Solid Snake
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After pain, there is inspiration.
Beyond inspiration, there is transcendence.
Within transcendence, there is Power.
- Anon
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The true mark of a pessemist:
When the silver lineing of your cloud is that you're not going to be the only person miserable.
- Kim Carmichael
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"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
-Douglas Adams
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
- Douglas Adams
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And Jesus said "Come forth and I will grant you eternal life!" I came fifth and won a blender.
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“Right or wrong are not what separate us and our enemies.
It’s our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us.
Both sides blame one another. There’s no good or bad side.
Just two sides holding different views.”
- Squall Leonhart (FFVIII)
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“There are many worlds, but they share the same sky. One sky, one destiny.”
- Kingdom Hearts
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"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
- Rita Rudner
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others."
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds."
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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"Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins."
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
- Madonna (1958 - )
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"Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more."
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
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"The first duty of love is to listen."
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue.
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
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Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
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If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
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If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
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It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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Never buy a car you can't push.
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Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you don't have a leg to stand on.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well, just get up and dance.
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The early worm gets eaten by the bird, so sleep late.
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When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
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Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
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You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
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Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colours but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
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A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
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Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will,
the ruling passion conquers reason still.
- Alexander Pope
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Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
- Shakespeare
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Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest
man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
- La Rouchefoucauld
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She weaves the winding-sheets of souls, and lays
them in the urn of everlasting death.
- Pollok
=================================================================
"Peace is the ideal of a dying nation."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"Entity precedes morality."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"The cosmos is a mindless vortex; a seething ocean of blind forces, in which the greatest joy is unconsciousness and the greatest pain is realisation."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness."
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
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"How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!"
- H. P. Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep
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"Reality is a dream within a dream"
-Edgar Allen Poe
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"Reality is a momentary dream, but a dream is reality for an eternity"
-Anon
=================================================================
"The reward of pain is experience"
-Aeschylus
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"There are two ways of spreading light, be the candle or the mirror reflecting it."
-Edith Wharton
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Love and hatred is the same thing.
The former is just aggressive and the latter passive"
-Hans Adolf Gustav Gross, 'Criminal Psychology'
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"The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius
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"To be human is to have the freedom to control one's fate."
-Karl Marx, 'Economic and philosophic'
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"Fear of death is to realize life's unresolved contradiction"
-Leo Tolstroy
=================================================================
"Freedom does not exist as an external truth. It exists inside men and those who wish to be free are free."
-Paul Ernst
=================================================================
"Honour the past as your teacher, honour the present as your creation, honour the future as your inspiration."
-Anon
=================================================================
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Men never Is, but always To be blest.
-Alexander Pope, 'An Essay on Man'
=================================================================
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil.
For I hold the deed to the valley.''
=================================================================
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.
So when you criticize someone, your a mile away and wearing their
shoes."
=================================================================
"It's just like sex, except I'm having it!"
=================================================================
"There are only three types of people in this world:
Does who can count, and those who can't."
=================================================================
"Do not go gently into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas
=================================================================
Leela: "Hermes, don't jump! You still have a long and fulfilling life ahead of you!"
Bender: "Ah yes, reverse psychology."
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*Runs off and repeatly smashes head against wall*
=================================================================
"Freedom does not exist as an external truth.
It exists inside men and those who wish to be free are free."
- Paul Ernst
=================================================================
~*Traditor nunquam venia*~
-Traitors can never be forgiven
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~*Morem cremare purgo*~
-We cleanse with fire
=================================================================
~*Quas Dederis Solas Semper Habebis Opes*~
- you only get out what you put in
=================================================================
~*Decus Et Tutamen*~
- strength and honour
=================================================================
~*Nemo Me Impune Lacessit*~
- No-one has a go at me and gets away without a good kicking
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~*Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?*~
-How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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~*Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.*~
-I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
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~*Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.*~
-I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
=================================================================
~*Adeptus Astartes*~
-Having obtained immortality
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Feel free to add more
=================================================================
"A strong man doesn't need to read the future. He makes his own."
- Solid Snake
=================================================================
"In war, all of mankind's worst emotions...worst traits come out.
It's easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield"
- Solid Snake
=================================================================
After pain, there is inspiration.
Beyond inspiration, there is transcendence.
Within transcendence, there is Power.
- Anon
=================================================================
The true mark of a pessemist:
When the silver lineing of your cloud is that you're not going to be the only person miserable.
- Kim Carmichael
=================================================================
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
-Douglas Adams
=================================================================
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
- Douglas Adams
=================================================================
And Jesus said "Come forth and I will grant you eternal life!" I came fifth and won a blender.
=================================================================
“Right or wrong are not what separate us and our enemies.
It’s our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us.
Both sides blame one another. There’s no good or bad side.
Just two sides holding different views.”
- Squall Leonhart (FFVIII)
=================================================================
“There are many worlds, but they share the same sky. One sky, one destiny.”
- Kingdom Hearts
=================================================================
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
=================================================================
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
- Rita Rudner
=================================================================
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
=================================================================
"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others."
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
=================================================================
"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
=================================================================
"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
=================================================================
"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds."
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
=================================================================
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
=================================================================
"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
=================================================================
"Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins."
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
=================================================================
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
- Madonna (1958 - )
=================================================================
"Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more."
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
=================================================================
"The first duty of love is to listen."
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
=================================================================
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue.
=================================================================
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
=================================================================
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
=================================================================
Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
=================================================================
Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
=================================================================
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
=================================================================
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
=================================================================
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
=================================================================
Never buy a car you can't push.
=================================================================
Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you don't have a leg to stand on.
=================================================================
Nobody cares if you can't dance well, just get up and dance.
=================================================================
The early worm gets eaten by the bird, so sleep late.
=================================================================
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
=================================================================
Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
=================================================================
You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
=================================================================
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
=================================================================
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
=================================================================
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colours but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
=================================================================
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
=================================================================
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
=================================================================
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
the ruling passion conquers reason still.
- Alexander Pope
=================================================================
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
- Shakespeare
=================================================================
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest
man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
- La Rouchefoucauld
=================================================================
She weaves the winding-sheets of souls, and lays
them in the urn of everlasting death.
- Pollok
=================================================================
"Peace is the ideal of a dying nation."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"Entity precedes morality."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"The cosmos is a mindless vortex; a seething ocean of blind forces, in which the greatest joy is unconsciousness and the greatest pain is realisation."
- H. P. Lovecraft
=================================================================
"Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness."
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
=================================================================
"How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!"
- H. P. Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep
=================================================================
"Reality is a dream within a dream"
-Edgar Allen Poe
=================================================================
"Reality is a momentary dream, but a dream is reality for an eternity"
-Anon
=================================================================
"The reward of pain is experience"
-Aeschylus
=================================================================
"There are two ways of spreading light, be the candle or the mirror reflecting it."
-Edith Wharton
=================================================================
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
=================================================================
"Love and hatred is the same thing.
The former is just aggressive and the latter passive"
-Hans Adolf Gustav Gross, 'Criminal Psychology'
=================================================================
"The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius
=================================================================
"To be human is to have the freedom to control one's fate."
-Karl Marx, 'Economic and philosophic'
=================================================================
"Fear of death is to realize life's unresolved contradiction"
-Leo Tolstroy
=================================================================
"Freedom does not exist as an external truth. It exists inside men and those who wish to be free are free."
-Paul Ernst
=================================================================
"Honour the past as your teacher, honour the present as your creation, honour the future as your inspiration."
-Anon
=================================================================
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Men never Is, but always To be blest.
-Alexander Pope, 'An Essay on Man'
=================================================================
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil.
For I hold the deed to the valley.''
=================================================================
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.
So when you criticize someone, your a mile away and wearing their
shoes."
=================================================================
"It's just like sex, except I'm having it!"
=================================================================
"There are only three types of people in this world:
Does who can count, and those who can't."
=================================================================
"Do not go gently into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas
=================================================================
Leela: "Hermes, don't jump! You still have a long and fulfilling life ahead of you!"
Bender: "Ah yes, reverse psychology."
=================================================================
*Runs off and repeatly smashes head against wall*
=================================================================
"Freedom does not exist as an external truth.
It exists inside men and those who wish to be free are free."
- Paul Ernst
=================================================================
~*Traditor nunquam venia*~
-Traitors can never be forgiven
=================================================================
~*Morem cremare purgo*~
-We cleanse with fire
=================================================================
~*Quas Dederis Solas Semper Habebis Opes*~
- you only get out what you put in
=================================================================
~*Decus Et Tutamen*~
- strength and honour
=================================================================
~*Nemo Me Impune Lacessit*~
- No-one has a go at me and gets away without a good kicking
=================================================================
~*Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?*~
-How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
=================================================================
~*Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.*~
-I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
=================================================================
~*Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.*~
-I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
=================================================================
~*Adeptus Astartes*~
-Having obtained immortality
=================================================================