Your Favourite Quotes

[HelenSL]

Whoa. Can we NOT go there? I had plenty of problems before her, as well...

Terribly low blow.

Revenant, there's nothing you need to tell ME but if this is how you feel then it seems like you need to address it...in an appropriate way.

If you want to be well you will probably have to resolve it, Rev...you can't pray it away or rebuke it away if it's a part of you.

I didn't bring it up to offend you or to score points...only to urge you not to try to push it aside and not deal with it...no offense...

love
Helen

 

[daised]

" angel you were born to fly, but if you get to high, i'll catch you when you fall."

nickle creek ( a folk band)

 

[buksoon]

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to talk, mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles"
-Jack Kerouac

That's one of my all-time favorites, too! Also:

"Serves me right, putting all my eggs in one bastard."
--Dorothy Parker after her illegal abortion. (I love her!)

"Work is love made visible."
--Kahlil Gibran

From the cynics, we have:

"There are two times in life where you get 'pronounced' anything. One is 'husband and wife.' The other is 'dead on arrival.'"
--Dennis Miller

"Men are as loyal as their options. You show me a man who doesn't cheat and I'll show you a man who can't get laid anywhere else."
--Bill Maher (ouch!)

Now, of course we have to have one from Dave Barry:


"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."


One that I think is perfect for this board on account of the diametric ideologies we have:

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. "
- Winston Churchill

Then there's always:

"Do or do not. There is no 'try.'"
--Yoda (and Silent Bob!)

And,

"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood."
--Patton (he was talking about the battlefield, but life is a battlefield, yes?)

One more--an original from my best friend, she likes to tell me:

"Always suck the creme from the Twinkie of life!!"

 

[Test boy]

I can't believe you quoted Bill Maher on that. That is sick and very untrue. NOT ALL MEN ARE PIGS. NOT ALL MEN ARE STUPID...SOME ARE BACHELORS.

 

[musclebrains]

"Finally I came to regard a sacred the disorder of my mind." Arthur Rimbaud

"Creation is a more excellent act than illumination." Marsilio Ficino.

"In relation to the simplified reality that is a limit for mankind as a whole, eroticism is a ghastly maze where the lost ones must tremble. This is the only way to come close to the truth of eroticism: to tremble."
-- Georges Bataille

Oscar Wilde: "The supreme vice is shallowness." Also: "....as the gods are strange, and punish us for what is good and humane in us as much as for what is evil and perverse, I must accept that one is punished for the good as well as for the evil that one does."

To ask oneself before another: by what means does he calm within himself the desire to be everything? Sacrifice, conformity, trickery, poetry, morality, snobbery, heroism, religion, revolt, vanity, money? or by several means together? or all together? A wink of an eye in which glimmers a deceitfulness, a melancholy smile, a grimace of fatigue together betray the disguised suffering which the astonishment at not being everything, at even having concise limits, gives us." --Georges Bataille

"The meaning of eroticism escapes anyone who cannot see its religious meaning. Reciprocally, the meaning of religion in its totality escapes anyone who disregards the link it has with eroticism....Dionysos is the god of the feast, the god of religious transgression. Dionysos is seen most often as the god of the vine and of drunkenness. Dionysos is a drunken god, the god whose divine essence is madness. But, to begin with, madness is itself of divine essence. Divine, which is to say, it denies the law of reason..." Bataille again

Rilke: "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hiearchies? And even if one of them pressed me
suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying…"

"The psyche's reality is lived in the death of the literal."
Gaston Bachelard