Quote shout-outs!

[Killishandra]

I'm a big fan of quotes and trivial information. Does anyone here run across a saying that reminds them of someone here on Lit (or a saying you think someone would particularly like) and wish they had an opportunity to use it?

Maybe I'm the only one who'll get a kick out of this thread, but please post if you get the urge. I'll kick it off; This one goes out to my (still) favorite person in the world.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato

 

[Killishandra]

For Rosco

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
-Friedrich Nietzsche

(Zarathustra)

 

[Betticus]

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Betticus]

God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.

The Talmud

 

[canadiancutie]

"I had the naughtiest dream about an improper fraction" - Some random kids show I watched yesterday. And it reminds me of Killi

 

[canadiancutie]

"And Charlie, hey
I'll be eligible for parole
Come Valentines day"

Not really a quote....more of a lyric haha, but makes me think of Rosco

 

[Guest]

Passion quotes

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil


Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac


I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love. ~Terri Guillemets

 

[popcorn2721]

"Those who would sacrifice freedom for safety, deserve neither freedom or safety."
Ben Franklin

 

[Marquis]

I'm a big fan of quotes and trivial information. Does anyone here run across a saying that reminds them of someone here on Lit (or a saying you think someone would particularly like) and wish they had an opportunity to use it?

Maybe I'm the only one who'll get a kick out of this thread, but please post if you get the urge. I'll kick it off; This one goes out to my (still) favorite person in the world.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato

 

[h_i_s]

"If i had never met You, i'd miss You, still."

 

[Marquis]

for two people

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward de Bono

 

[TaintedB]

"When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro." --Mr. Gonzo

"If you didn't as me so many questions, I wouldn't tell you so many lies." --line from a swing song written by a woman I know.

"We're all Bozos on this bus." --Firesign Theater

 

[Quint]

"The secret of success in show business is honesty and sincerity. Once you learn how to fake that, you've got it made."

"A man is as old as the women he feels."

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

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."


-Groucho Marx

 

[Xelebes]

"Your opinions as of late have been ridiculous."

David Lloyd

 

[h_i_s]

"If your IQ were any lower, you'd trip on it.".

"It must suck to have an IQ of 2 and require a 3 just to grunt.".

"Some men would appreciate women more if their minds jiggled as they walked.".

 

[DVS]

"We're all Bozos on this bus." --Firesign Theater

Ah, that brings back wonderful memories. Thanks.

"...Barney!" --Firesign Theater

"Don't crush that Dwarf, hand me the pliers." --Firesign Theater


It's one of those times when you just had to be there...

 

[Killishandra]

Ah, that brings back wonderful memories. Thanks.

"...Barney!" --Firesign Theater

"Don't crush that Dwarf, hand me the pliers." --Firesign Theater


It's one of those times when you just had to be there...

What's Firesign Theater?

 

[DVS]

"Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" -- Dorothy

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." -- Dorothy

"I'll get you, my pretty...and your little dog, too." -- The Wicked Witch of the West.

"Follow the yellow brick road." -- The Mayor of Munchkinland

"Don't pay any attention to that man behind the curtain." -- The Wizard

"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by hou much you are loved by others." -- The Wizard

"Now, click your heels together three times and repeat after me. There's no place like home. There's no place like home." -- Glenda, the Good Witch of the North.

 

[Kierae]

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease." - R.D. Laing

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." Saint Jerome

"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." Henri-Frederic Amiel

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine." Susan Sontag

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." Nietzsche

 

[TaintedB]

Ah, that brings back wonderful memories. Thanks.

It's one of those times when you just had to be there...

And on strong drugs!

"I was a cock teaser at the Rooster-Rama!"

And my favorite, which I believe according to physics is actually true: "How can you be in two places at once when you're really nowhere at all?"

 

[TaintedB]

What's Firesign Theater?

Late 60s-mid-70s: they had a radio show and made comedy albums. Very funny and often profound stuff to trip to.

For DVS: "Oh man! He broke the president!"

 

[TaintedB]

-Groucho Marx

Yeah! Bring on Groucho! "I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me as a member."

Someone whose utterances seem similiar to Groucho's although they weren't as planned or sardonic was Yogi Berra: "When you come to a fork in the road...take it."

 

[Krinaia]

Late 60s-mid-70s: they had a radio show and made comedy albums. Very funny and often profound stuff to trip to.

For DVS: "Oh man! He broke the president!"

I'm not tripping but that's funny.


I wish I had the knack for remmbering quotes. But here is one of the few I can remmber and I think it may have been bette davis, but I'm not sure.


"Everyone should believe in something, i believe I'll have another drink."

 

[DVS]

Late 60s-mid-70s: they had a radio show and made comedy albums. Very funny and often profound stuff to trip to.

For DVS: "Oh man! He broke the president!"

That was hilarious. I have all of their albums. Sure, they were usually listened to while on drugs, but seriously, their comedy was so involved you had to listen closely, or you would miss some of the more profound stuff.
"I Think We're all Bozos on This Bus" is a prime example of that. It was kind of a look into a strange digital robotic circus world, but many years before digital even existed. And it was far more than just jokes and voices. I wonder if it would even be considered funny, in this fast paced world of quick one-liners.

Sorry for the hijack.

 

[canadiancutie]

It's not a quote, but it reminds me of Marquis.