Author Topic: Famous quotes from history (Read 7081 times)

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #35 on:** January 23, 2015, 02:35:44 PM »

"The first casualty of any war is truth"

US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson

I heard this for the first time today and it made a lot of sense once I thought it over.

snapple · « **Reply #36 on:** January 23, 2015, 10:10:24 PM »

There is always more room for Jell-O

Lucien · « **Reply #37 on:** January 23, 2015, 11:43:20 PM »

Composer quotes!

"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one." - Dmitri Shostakovich
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy." - Peter Tchaikovsky
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein
"People are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love instead." - Igor Stravinsky
"To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable." Ludwig van Beethoven
"What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in ‘‘serious’’ music." - Dmitri Shostakovich

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 24, 2015, 02:46:48 AM »

This is the type of impertinence up with which I shall not put. - Winston Churchill

Stadler · « **Reply #39 on:** January 26, 2015, 10:17:27 AM »

"Man plans, and God laughs."

sneakyblueberry · « **Reply #40 on:** January 26, 2015, 02:54:57 PM »

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.” - Frank Zappa

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” - C.S Lewis

rumborak · « **Reply #41 on:** January 26, 2015, 06:53:46 PM »

"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Albums Dumbledore

Stadler · « **Reply #42 on:** January 27, 2015, 11:02:58 AM »

Quote from: rumborak on January 26, 2015, 06:53:46 PM

"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Albums Dumbledore

Who stole the line from the legendary Yoda.

Podaar · « **Reply #43 on:** January 27, 2015, 11:24:00 AM »

"Wisdom is the domain of the wis (which is extinct). Beauty is a French, phonetic, corruption, of a short, cloth, neck ornament currently in resurgence." -- Frank Zappa

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." -- Carl Sagan

Scorpion · « **Reply #44 on:** January 29, 2015, 06:04:43 AM »

"Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!"

"Yes I am, and you are ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

vtgrad · « **Reply #45 on:** February 02, 2015, 12:39:31 PM »

"Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full, and deny thee and say Who is the LORD; or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Proverbs 30:8-9

"The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me; thy mercies O LORD, endureth forever; forsake not the works of thine own hands." Psalm 138:8

My testimony and life's verses...

"I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God; who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain" Galatians 2:20-21

And my favorite lines from my favorite poet:

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference" Robert Frost

Cool Chris · « **Reply #46 on:** February 02, 2015, 01:55:14 PM »

"Hey Pete, let's run a pass play here."

-Darrell Bevell

Lucien · « **Reply #47 on:** February 02, 2015, 03:23:08 PM »

"Let's go exploring!"

Bill Watterson's Calvin

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #48 on:** February 02, 2015, 03:35:26 PM »

"remember not to skate where the puck is, but skate toward where its going to be"

Wayne Gretsky

Lucien · « **Reply #49 on:** February 11, 2015, 07:45:29 PM »

“I haven’t told why I wrote the book, but I haven’t told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.” - E.B. White

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #50 on:** March 05, 2015, 10:24:13 AM »

"and he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer"

In reference to alexander the great

I get a lot from this quote personally, since I feel the same sense whenever I complete a major task. It becomes ever more apparent that the journey means more to me than the destination.

AngelBack · « **Reply #51 on:** March 06, 2015, 07:03:54 PM »

Another Churchill:

From a surly female political opponent, "Mr Churchill, if you were my husband, I would put poison in your tea"

Churchill, "Madame, if you were my wife I would drink it".

Sacul · « **Reply #52 on:** March 06, 2015, 07:24:37 PM »

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." - Mahatma Gandhi.

And so he did

alcofribas · « **Reply #53 on:** March 09, 2015, 10:40:05 PM »

"You are the apple of my eyeball salad." - Felix Kubin

And so he did

Tick · « **Reply #54 on:** March 13, 2015, 10:46:34 AM »

"Never trust a sock puppet that comes off of a dirty foot" - Dr. Sholls

masterthes · « **Reply #55 on:** March 13, 2015, 11:16:26 AM »

So Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

alcofribas · « **Reply #56 on:** March 14, 2015, 11:00:49 AM »

"I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds." - Michael Faraday

"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..." - Iannis Xenakis

"I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor." - The one-line will of Francois Rabelais.

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #57 on:** July 19, 2015, 05:21:20 PM »

"A life lived with compromise is a life not worth living"

Genowyn · « **Reply #58 on:** July 22, 2015, 09:32:54 AM »

"Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?" - Simon Bolivar

And some fictional ones, both by Kvothe from The Kingkiller Chronicles:

"Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect."

“I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.”

nightmare_cinema · « **Reply #59 on:** July 23, 2015, 03:21:38 AM »

Tom Regan - 'it is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully; it is an act of justice'

Also the whole quote in Breaking All Illusions. It means a lot to me.

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #60 on:** July 30, 2015, 10:38:49 AM »

"To dwell in the past, is to die in the present"

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #61 on:** August 19, 2015, 08:10:57 AM »

"If you want something done right, then you must do it yourself"

I don't know who originally said it, but they were one of the most insightful human beings to ever have lived, because this is proven to may at least once each day

mrrct · « **Reply #62 on:** August 19, 2015, 09:18:28 AM »

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

Samuel Johnson, British politician, 1774.

Tomislav95 · « **Reply #63 on:** August 20, 2015, 09:53:28 AM »

I like to think I live by this quote but the world is sometimes just too much and bitterness takes over

:
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." - Kurt Vonnegut

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Herman Hesse

This is also totally me:
"The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular." - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

I'll stop here

gmillerdrake · « **Reply #64 on:** August 20, 2015, 02:04:18 PM »

"I'll give you something to cry about"

- Every Dad ever to their son(s) who are crying over something small

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #65 on:** November 24, 2015, 03:33:25 AM »

"Life is about learning how to play the cards you are dealt, not asking for a new hand"

I heard this the other day, not sure who really said it. Not sure whether I agree or not, but I thought about it for quite awhile

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #66 on:** November 24, 2015, 04:33:14 AM »

I like the intended meaning, but I'm not sure the analogy quite holds up.

mrrct · « **Reply #67 on:** November 25, 2015, 09:24:06 PM »

I don't know how this one didn't make the thread already.

"Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence." -Vince Lombardi

RoeDent · « **Reply #68 on:** November 26, 2015, 12:07:36 PM »

"Never pay attention to what critics say. A statue has never been erected in honour of a critic." - Jean Sibelius

ZKX-2099 · « **Reply #69 on:** November 26, 2015, 05:07:32 PM »

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Author Topic: Famous quotes from history (Read 7081 times)