Favorite Quotes

[Iceprincess12]

Everbody lies-greg house

Most quotes from house I love

 

[RaceyRicey]

Love this thread!

Here are but a few of my favourites:


"There is no such thing as an ugly woman" - Vincent Van Gogh

"We are part of this Universe. We are in this Universe. The Universe itself exists within us; we are star dust." - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” - C.S. Lewis

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” - Winston Churchill

 

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[RaceyRicey]

Thanks for the warm welcome! Think that's the second genuinely pleasant thing someone's said to me outside of a PM thus far!

Here's a couple more:

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Ernest Hemingway

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” - Ernest Hemingway (this one certainly applies to Lit, methinks!)

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.” - Oscar Wilde

“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.” - Ann Druyan (on Carl Sagan)

 

[Athalia]

From Mark Twain:

"If you take a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

 

[RaceyRicey]

"I wonder not about those who do not wonder about others but those who can do not but wonder, regardless of others." - ME!

 

[Belle_Nuit]

Happiness is only real when shared

 

[RaceyRicey]

"fruity flavoured ice penises" - one of my PMs today. XD

 

[Fill_de_Puta]

A couple from Samuel Goldwyn.

Too caustic? To hell with the cost, we'll make the film anyway.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

A man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I never liked you, and I always will.

 

[fire_breeze]

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
~ Audrey Hepburn

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu

~ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

 

[Porkwarrior]

I locked my keys in my car in front of planned parenthood. I'm terrified of going inside to ask to borrow a clothes hanger.

There is no ladylike way to say "fuck me on my lunch break"

He looked at my vag like it was a Rubik's Cube.


Pearls of wisdom from textsfromlastnight.com

 

[Goldenfire]

"One may see the small value that God has for riches by the people he gives them to"

Alexander Pope

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves"

Thomas Edison

 

[Goldenfire]

This

Then there's always this

 

[Cumference]

Jytte Hilden, Danish minister for culture, said:

Med sport har jeg det som med porno. Det er sjovt at være med til, men det er kedeligt at se på

And in English:

I feel the same about sport and porn. It is fun to participate, but boring to look at

 

[DopeePeace]

Happiness is only real when shared

I believe happiness is a lot like Maslow's Self-Efficacy Pyramid in Psychology.

"Happiness" is constructed out of various base-level-and-up needs, desires, goals, etc. These alone do not bring happiness, its only when all the pieces of the puzzle are finally brought together and with no gaping empty spots anywhere, that people can truly say they are content and want for nothing. And those that don't completely achieve that and have a large chunk missing somewhere in the puzzle, are likely to feel unfulfilled and not "happy."

 

[Flipinao]

"The best remedy for fear is direct action."

 

[darkstar24]

If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill