Greatest Quotes of all Time

[danthepoetman]

Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4
Richard Brautigan

1. Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.

[danthepoetman]

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[danthepoetman]

Aragon was the editor of Les Lettres Françaises, the resistance’s paper during the occupation of France. He wrote this poem after a close call with the Gestapo. It would have meant death under torture for him and his wife.


From Le Roman Inachevé
Louis Aragon

When it got to be a given
And it became obvious
That they would open the case
And see what was inside

You found enough to tell me
Everything we never told one another
Everything we dare not dream writing
What in vain the heart begs for

All the words that never comes
The words we postpone until the next day
To take my hand gently into yours
A long while simply my hand

[Prospero]

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

[ImmerGeil]

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.


I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.


Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.


It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.


Richard Feynman

[Baileyluv]

"quilt by penis":)

[danthepoetman]

Graves
Hayden Carruth

Both of us had been close
to Joel, and at Joel's death
my friend had gone to the wake
and the memorial service
and more recently he had
visited Joel's grave, there
at the back of the grassy
cemetery among the trees,
"a quiet, gentle place," he said,
"befitting Joel." And I said,
"What's the point of going
to look at graves?" I went
into one of my celebrated
tirades. "People go to look
at the grave of Keats or Hart
Crane, they go traveling just to
do it, and what a waste of time.
What do they find there? Hell,
I wouldn't go look at the grave
of Shakespeare if it was just
down the street. I wouldn't
look at--" And I stopped. I
was about to say the grave of God
until I realized I'm looking at it
all the time. . . .

[LibertyHarkness]

Denver, the last dinosaur
He's my friend and a whole lot more
Denver, the last dinosaur
Shows me a world I never saw before Everywhere we go we don't really care
If people stop and stare at our pal dino.
Creating history thru the rock n' roll spotlight
We've got a friend who helps us, we can do alright
That's Denver, the last dinosaur
He's my friend and a whole lot more
Denver, the last dinosaur
Shows me a world I never saw before.

[danthepoetman]

Dinosauria, We
Charles Bukowski

Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break
As political landscapes dissolve
As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree
As the oily fish spit out their oily prey
As the sun is masked
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Born into this
Walking and living through this
Dying because of this
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Because of this
Fooled by this
Used by this
Pissed on by this
Made crazy and sick by this
Made violent
Made inhuman
By this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bomb
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
We are born into a government 60 years in debt
That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
And the banks will burn
Money will be useless
There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets
It will be guns and roving mobs
Land will be useless
Food will become a diminishing return
Nuclear power will be taken over by the many
Explosions will continually shake the earth
Radiated robot men will stalk each other
The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms
Dante’s Inferno will be made to look like a children’s playground
The sun will not be seen and it will always be night
Trees will die
All vegetation will die
Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
The sea will be poisoned
The lakes and rivers will vanish
Rain will be the new gold
The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition
The petering out of supplies
The natural effect of general decay
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
Born out of that.
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter.

[mellownella]

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

[danthepoetman]

Morality, thou deadly bane,
Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain !
(Robert Burns)

[LibertyHarkness]

'They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give themselves to me.
Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them.
They will be of iron will and steely muscle.
In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest gun shall they be armed.
They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them.
They will have tactics, strategies and machines such that no foe will best them in battle.
They are my bulwark against the terror.
They are the defenders of Humanity.
They are my Space Marines...
...and they shall know no fear.'

-The Emperor of Man



'Another day nearer the battle
So drink up, lads and look brave.
For another day nearer the battle
Is another day nearer the grave.'



'Some may question your right to exterminate ten billion people. But those who understand realise that you have no right to let them live.'




'A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.'


some short little quotes :)

A small mind is easily filled with faith.

Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none.

Hatred is the emperor's greatest gift to humanity.

To Question is to doubt.

Happiness is a delusion of the weak.

Brave are they who know everything yet fear nothing.

Success is measured in blood; yours or your enemy´s.

There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

Knowledge is power, guard it well.

Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.

[buttslinger]

..........Harpo Marx

[Prospero]

Buttslinger....... " "

Lol

[danthepoetman]

Liberty, although well written, this is tough, very radical stuff!!!

[speedking59]

"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." H.P. Lovecraft

[Lovecox]

"If it moves, kiss it." - Anon

[lickiner]

A few of my favs...
:smileysex:

[lickiner]

:roll: perhaps you've seen these b4...

[LibertyHarkness]

Liberty, although well written, this is tough, very radical stuff!!!

lol its the imperial truth :) its epic .... For the emperor ! :)

[Jericho]

I'd love to suck the spunk out of your jew cock!:::Some long gone denizen of HA to Mor Vital.
(don't know why that popped into my head today, but...) :shrug

[lickiner]

Couple more sayings that happen to be on t-shirts
...that first gal can fart on a first date anytme she wants!! :)

[buttslinger]

word's out girls...

[danthepoetman]

A few quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld, one of my favourite authors:

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

[loren]

I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can. - William Wallace

[lickiner]

In each moment lies a choice
...That can change
...The story of your life
- Author unknown

[betts]

"Deeeeeezzz Nutsss!"

-Snoop Dogg

[lickiner]

Here's a few"quotes"

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
- Henry Ford

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden

[buttslinger]

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal. — Groucho Marx

[loren]

"Man is not free, unless government is limited."--Ronald Reagan

[Lovecox]

"There are those for whom hate and rage pay a higher dividend of immediate satisfaction than love."

Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudon

[sukumvit boy]

Way back during the First World War ,when Winston Churchill was secretary of the navy, he was criticized about his orders in the Dardinells. They accused him of violating "the great traditions of the Royal Navy".
His reply,"the great traditions of The Royal Navy are Rum,Buggary and The Lash."

Subsequent scholars were unable to find this quote in the offical records and questioned
his long time personal secretary who told them that Churchill admitted he never said it but said,"I wish I had".

[loren]

The people will believe what the media tells them to believe. - George Orwell

[Prospero]

"With a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness."

John Milton

[Prospero]

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

John Dahlberg-Acton, Lord Action the 1860s

[Prospero]

and finally from the same Lord Action

"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought."

[loren]

If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property. It is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity the loss of free and responsible government. It is the triumph of commerce. The banks, factories.

We should meet the invader on the verge of just defense and raise the black flag. No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides. - Stonewall Jackson from Gods and Generals

[trish]

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg -Jefferson: Notes on Virginia.

[TempestTS]

“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.”
- The Dalai Lama

[buttslinger]

Here's one I need to remember....

[PeePeeLover]

"That's what I like about these high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age."

David Wooderson (aka Matthew McConaughey) - Dazed and Confused

[luvs2lick1385]

Please see Below

[brickcitybrother]

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

-Arthur C. Clarke

[cjxxx]

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."
Timothy McVeigh ***I do not agree with the bombing!!!

[TempestTS]

We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them. - Bob Dylan

[Idt20082008"]

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."
Timothy McVeigh ***I do not agree with the bombing!!!

Actually cjxxx, that quote was actually the last two lines of the iconic poem "Invictus" by English poet William Ernest Henley, not that pile of shit McVeigh

[zippi]

"So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
— Dark Helmet, Spaceballs

[Idt20082008"]

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship"
- Louisa May Alcott

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why...I dream of things that never were and say why not?"
- Robert Kennedy

[BreeTexas]

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."
Seneca

[TempestTS]

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

[Jericho]

Do you know what they'd do to my eye socket in prison!
:: Jack Smith

[Dino Velvet]

"Otis, plug it in."

Spectacular, Hilarious, Morbid Kill Scene in "Henry: Portrait of a serial Killer" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPi-90Edozw)

[buttslinger]

Quote this, fucker..........

[TempestTS]

Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

-- Stephen Hawking --

[betts]

"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."

-Nikola Tesla

[TempestTS]

Fuck your Laws and your Ways - Scott "Wino" Winerich

[fivekatz]

i ve always loved hearing Quotes from the past, b/c some still work in 2days time. i fig i would share some.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy--Benjamin Franklin

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. --Alexander the Great

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. -Julius Caesar (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/juliuscaes378265.html)The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

[joanne_sven]

When you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[TempestTS]

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. - Michio Kaku

[fivekatz]

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[TempestTS]

“My earliest memory is shouting: at what & for what reason, I don't know. I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.” Lemmy

[TempestTS]

We do not want Churches
They will teach us to quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.

- Chief Joseph

[southern81]

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Frank Herbert

[southern81]

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[southern81]

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain"

[nysprod]

I didn't see your text or missed call...

lol, just kidding, I was fucking ignoring you!

[martin48]

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso

[buttslinger]

.....

[martin48]

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.



Skinner

[martin48]

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination.
[Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.] Marcel Proust

[TempestTS]

"I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people, those who are for you and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them for they are often and easily mistaken for one another." - Lemmy

[serial138]

A misogynist is a man that hates women as much as women hate women.

H.L. Mencken if I remember right.

[VictoriaVeil]

Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed? --- Erma Bombeck

[mrnice84]

"ITS BETTER TO BURN OUT THAN TO FADE AWAY."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bOKsOveYD0

[Chase_Mcthirsty]

"I like big butts and I can not lie..."

[dderek123]

"You other brothers can't deny ..."

[EvaCassini]

im watching this movie as I post this lol

[danthepoetman]

My mother isn't there anymore to leave scars on my arms from her varnished nails, my father isn't here anymore to throw me on the ground from the end of his arms. What's nest then? To live and love, to be what I can still be. There's no past, there's no future. I am what I am, and no one can stop me..."
Johnny Balushi, The Great Landmower.

[loren]

Any government that would attempt to disarm its people is despotic; and any people that would submit to it deserves to be slaves! - Henderson Yoakcum

[danthepoetman]

A kiss is a request directed to the second floor to see if the first floor is free.

Alphonse Karr

[danthepoetman]

'No poem was ever written by a drinker of water'
Homer (not Simpson; the 8th century BCE Greek epic poet)

[danthepoetman]

“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.”
Jack Kerouac

[danthepoetman]

Dazzle of Day
Pablo Neruda

Enough now of the wet eyes of winter.
Not one single tear.
Hour by hour, green is beginning,
the essential season, leaf by leaf,
until, by spring’s name, we are summoned
to take part in its joy.

How wonderful, its eternal openness,
clean air, the promise of flower,
the full moon leaving
its calling card in the foliage,
men and women trailing from the beach
with a wet basket of shifting silver.

Like love, like a medal,
I welcome it,
I take it all in,
from south, from north, from violins,
from dogs,
lemons, clay,
from newly liberated air,
machines smelling of mystery,
storm-colored shopping,
everything I need:
orange blossoms, string,
grapes like topazes,
the whiff of waves.
I gather it up
endlessly,
effortlessly,
I breathe.

I dry my shirt in the wind,
and my opened heart.
The sky falls
and falls.
From my glass,
I drink
pure joy.

[danthepoetman]

Bukowski

[Prospero]

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest....." King Henry 11 of England

A phrase that often comes into my mind when browsing this forum and coming across the incessant postings of some of the more self obsessed members and some of the crassly rude and dumb ones.

[martin48]

immortal

[Prospero]

Nice martin

[sabre666]

"Testicles.... That is all." : Peter Griffin : Family Guy

[danthepoetman]

I also have been struck by a few of these memes with Marilyn. She obviously was much brighter than her characters would have allow us to suspect, much brighter than we have been lead to believe. Nice post, Martin. I've found out a few myself. The one on the right should be particularly zesty... :)

[Prospero]

But are those really quotes from the lady?

My favourite, which points in the other direction, was when she was having lunch with the family of her husband the playwright, Arthur Miller.

They served traditional Jewish Matzos Ball soup.


Marilyn enjoyed her helping and then asked politely: "And what do they do with the rest of the Matzos?"

[danthepoetman]

Love it! This one is precious, Prospero!

[luvs2lick1385]

"When I'm good I'm very but when I'm bad I'm even better"

Mae West

[danthepoetman]

That's a good one, Luvs2lick. If you allow me:

[youngblood61]

Classic!:)

[martin48]

I also have been struck by a few of these memes with Marilyn. She obviously was much brighter than her characters would have allow us to suspect, much brighter than we have been lead to believe. Nice post, Martin. I've found out a few myself. The one on the right should be particularly zesty... :)

She had a brilliant mind and body - timeless

[danthepoetman]

Very deserving of her iconic stature. We don't always realize how much intelligence you need to create such an original, creative, engaging image of yourself. It takes enormous personality and sense of measure, it takes amazing judgement on people.

[danthepoetman]

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[danthepoetman]

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[danthepoetman]

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[GroobyKrissy]

Very deserving of her iconic stature. We don't always realize how much intelligence you need to create such an original, creative, engaging image of yourself. It takes enormous personality and sense of measure, it takes amazing judgement on people.

Marilyn Monroe quotes... some of my absolute favorites and one of my absolute favorite historical persons.

[danthepoetman]

Marilyn Monroe quotes... some of my absolute favorites and one of my absolute favorite historical persons.
Much brighter than she's being credit for and much more than her roles left it for us to believe. She was a deep, courageous, sensible woman. Yes. I love her too, beyond the iconic figure.

[GroobyKrissy]

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Much brighter than she's being credit for and much more than her roles left it for us to believe. She was a deep, courageous, sensible woman. Yes. I love her too, beyond the iconic figure.

Absolutely. I collect stuff about her as monetary resources and space allows. I think I've read most, if not all of her biographies. Just an amazing person with a tragic life.

[youngblood61]

.....Rules to live by!:)

[danthepoetman]

"Humanity, you never had it, from the beginning".
Charles Bukowski
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/934636_602698606407713_1732076198_n.jpg

[danthepoetman]

A great quote from a wall...
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/485521_617258608285046_1101626313_n.jpg

[danthepoetman]

The light at the end of the tunnel is often a train...

[Ananke]

Dictatorship is: SHUT UP
Democracy is: KEEP TALKING MATE.

[Stavros]

'The nuclear deterrent is there to deter all wars'
-Margaret Thatcher

[Jericho]

I pulled her knickers down and she had a fukkin cock!!!
(Any tourist...Thailand)

[danthepoetman]

I pulled her knickers down and she had a fukkin cock!!!
(Any tourist...Thailand)
Yeah!...

[Lovecox]

"Daemoni, etiam vera dicenti, non est credendum."
The devil must not be believed, even when he tells the truth.

This must have been the quote my ex girlfriend applied to me :neutral:.

[scorpioluva]

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today".....Whimpie

"Sleep with one eye open".....Metallica

"And that's the bottom line, cause Stone Cold says so"....Stone Cold Steve Austin

"I love it when you call me Big Poppa....Christopher Wallace

"We need a bigger boat".....Roy Scheider

[Jericho]

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today".....Whimpie


Oooo you 'orrible fukker, i hate you...That's going to headworm me!!! :hide-1:
:dead::dead::dead:

[scorpioluva]

Oooo you 'orrible fukker, i hate you...That's going to headworm me!!! :hide-1:
:dead::dead::dead:

Sorry, but it is a classic !!!!!

[scorpioluva]

Whimpie

[danthepoetman]

:yingyang:

[buttslinger]

"The World is three drinks behind" -Humphrey Bogart

[danthepoetman]

"The World is three drinks behind" -Humphrey Bogart
Oh! God, YES! is it ever!! Absolutely, Humphrey!
Love the Snoopy one too, Buttslinger!

[Prospero]

Too much is never enough

[luvs2lick1385]

A few Movie Quotes:

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Michael Corleone

It's not personal, it's just business. Michael Corleone

Leave the gun, take the canolis. Clemenza

It's good to be the king. King Louis XVI (Mel Brooks), History of the World Part 1

What in the wide wide world of sports is goin' on here? I hired you to lay some track not dance around like some Kansas City faggots. Taggart, Blazing Saddles

The sheriff is a ni. Gabby Johnson, Blazing Saddles

Surely your joking? Ted Stricker, Airplane
I'm not joking...and don't call me Shirley? Dr. Rumack, Airplane.

I could keep going but that's enuf for now

[buttslinger]

I like this one.

[danthepoetman]

Albert Camus and Edward O. Wilson.

[danthepoetman]

Niels Bohr and Winston Churchill...

[danthepoetman]

"If women didn't exist, all the
money in the world would have
no meaning."
-Aristotle Onassis

[Ananke]

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
Homer
......Sorry, I'm a bit down right now....

[danthepoetman]

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
Homer
......Sorry, I'm a bit down right now....
It's beautiful! Infancy of our litterature and of our culture, here in the West...

[danthepoetman]

If you wish to be loved. Love.
~Seneca

[LexusFire]

Donkey. Stop being such an ass

Im sure it's been done by someone else, but hey, you work with what you got...

[danthepoetman]

Im sure it's been done by someone else, but hey, you work with what you got...
I'm not sure, LexusFire, but you're right. And it's true for all of us... :)

[danthepoetman]

The Answer
Robinson Jeffers

Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams.
To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence,
and their tyrants come, many times before.
When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose
the least ugly faction; these evils are essential.
To keep one's own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted
and not wish for evil; and not be duped
By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will
not be fulfilled.
To know this, and know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand
Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars
and his history... for contemplation or in fact...
Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness,
the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken

[danthepoetman]

....

[danthepoetman]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1000825_476878409067185_1718990490_n.jpg

[martin48]

"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait" - James Whistler. Just thought of it looking at your Aventar.

[Gillian]

Dutch: Who are you and how did you get in here?

(Undercover) Drebben: I'm a locksmith ... and I'm a locksmith

Greatest Line in the History of Comedy - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRva7z8pvwc)

I wouldn't say it's the funniest line of all time, but it's up there ... :D

[danthepoetman]

Bukowski...

[thekretch]

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
― Tom Robbins

[danthepoetman]

Very nice, TheKretch...

[suppejung]

Pierce Brosnan's character from the movie “A few months ago I had this job in Manila… now normally this would make me happy. I like the hot climate, the guys look like chicks… it’s fucking fantastic.”
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4968071300711342&pid=15.1

[danthepoetman]

For the 4th of July, I will post some quotes from the founding fathers of the USA. These have an important actuality, as you will see. The quotes were gathered by Stephen D. Foster Jr.

“If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
~George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789


“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”
~George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792


“We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition… In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.”
~George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793


“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”
~John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” 1787-1788


“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
~Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802


“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
~Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814


“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.”
~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787


“Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.”
~James Madison; Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations, Ecclesiastical
Endowments


“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”
~Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 9 January 1788

[danthepoetman]

Aldous Huxley.

[danthepoetman]

Antonin Artaud, a French actor, writer and director from the mid 20th century.

[danthepoetman]

....

[LibertyHarkness]

They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me.
Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.

(emperor of mankind - upon his creation of the Astartes Legions)

[danthepoetman]

That's beautiful, space princess! <3

[NRT]

does anyone remember the quote in godfather3?? where the ageing Michael played by Al Pacino, meets his future son in law who has just proposed to his daughter. (I can not remember the name of the actor). He askes him 'How are you going to look after your wife?' (I found that a strange thing to ask because Michael's family were very rich and influential mafiosi. Or was it a case of the La costra nostra not liking 'free loaders' marrying in to the family to live off the wealth, without putting anything in?)

The son in law said 'I am embarrassed to say, i am a major stockholder in my family's timber business!' (or whatever it was). Michael smiled and replied, saying along the lines of:
'that is the trick of the rich who pretend they are ashamed of their wealth, so the poor feel guilty'

can anyone remember that line?

[my my my!]

this is not one of those "omg how profound" type of quotes, but it made me laugh , and it was a very heartfelt honest comment,

evaluate please:

"I would eat soft serve Ice Cream out of her asshole"
- youtube video response (anonymous)
Video: Vanessa Minnillo Maxim Photo shoot video

[DrinksMcGee]

Its not funny my ass is on fire
Paraplegic inhuman liar
-Mr Bungle

[Stavros]

does anyone remember the quote in godfather3?? where the ageing Michael played by Al Pacino, meets his future son in law who has just proposed to his daughter. (I can not remember the name of the actor). He askes him 'How are you going to look after your wife?' (I found that a strange thing to ask because Michael's family were very rich and influential mafiosi. Or was it a case of the La costra nostra not liking 'free loaders' marrying in to the family to live off the wealth, without putting anything in?)

The son in law said 'I am embarrassed to say, i am a major stockholder in my family's timber business!' (or whatever it was). Michael smiled and replied, saying along the lines of:
'that is the trick of the rich who pretend they are ashamed of their wealth, so the poor feel guilty'

can anyone remember that line?

Don't understand this -Mary Corleone's love interest in Godfather 3 is her cousin Vincenzo played by Andy Garcia who becomes the Don. There is a transcript of the film in the link below -a keyword search of the text did not reveal any of yours. Also no mention of a husband in the Wikipedia on Mary Corleone.

http://www.thegodfathertrilogy.com/gf3/transcript/gf3transcript.html

Mary Corleone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Corleone)

[Stavros]

Antonin Artaud, a French actor, writer and director from the mid 20th century.

http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/attachment.php?attachmentid=655537&stc=1&d=1386622761

I thought people invented things because they liked doing so and it sometimes made them millionaires; are love-poems keep-out-of-hell cards or expressions of, well -love? Why did Wagner write Tristan und Isolde? To seduce Mathilde Wesendonck, surely?

[nysprod]

"The internet brings out the fictitious side of people."

"The (trans) girls always claim their bf's are totally straight who love them as real girls...
reality: they're young gay thugs who sell weed and chase free tranny dick."

flabbybody (http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/member.php?u=143) of HA

[VictoriaVeil]

"time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so" Ford Prefect

[danthepoetman]

http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/attachment.php?attachmentid=655537&stc=1&d=1386622761

I thought people invented things because they liked doing so and it sometimes made them millionaires; are love-poems keep-out-of-hell cards or expressions of, well -love? Why did Wagner write Tristan und Isolde? To seduce Mathilde Wesendonck, surely?
You must know Artaud, Stavros: he was the skined alive type. He cultivated craziness as a form of representation, acting as a form of poetry, and life as constant cult to the "forces of life". I agree with you. I think the only element of what we are that really makes us humans is the capacity for useless acts... I wonder every now and then if art isn't, most of the time...

[danthepoetman]

"time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so" Ford Prefect
If it was to be the same for drink time, I think I'd quit, Veevee!

[danthepoetman]

"The internet brings out the fictitious side of people."

"The (trans) girls always claim their bf's are totally straight who love them as real girls...
reality: they're young gay thugs who sell weed and chase free tranny dick."

flabbybody (http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/member.php?u=143) of HA

The first one might have some truth to it, but the bottom one! what a crock...

[nysprod]

The first one might have some truth to it, but the bottom one! what a crock...

I think he was referring to the young girls who hang out at the tranny clubs around here...

[danthepoetman]

A few by one of my favorite authors, Emil Michel Cioran...

[NHG]

"Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden." Mark Twain -- Extract from Adam's diary

[luvs2lick1385]

"Leave the gun, take the cannolis" Clemnza, The Godfather

Also, see below.

[Stavros]

You must know Artaud, Stavros: he was the skined alive type. He cultivated craziness as a form of representation, acting as a form of poetry, and life as constant cult to the "forces of life". I agree with you. I think the only element of what we are that really makes us humans is the capacity for useless acts... I wonder every now and then if art isn't, most of the time...

Hmmm..I don't agree, as I cannot understand that the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi is useless, far from it -not only does it give me endless pleasure and inspiration, it also sets a lot of people to work as musicians, recording engineers, concert promoters, opera houses, and so on. And before photography painting was an essential part of propaganda, religious expression, vanity...far from useless it was crucial to the discourse of power. Effective writing, much of it distilled in the quotes in this thread, speaks to centuries of inspiration, some of it for political change. Words matter, the soul lives on.

[hondarobot]

http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1189120061p2/4.jpg (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4.Douglas_Adams) “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

[LibertyHarkness]

What is your life?
My honour is my life.
What is your fate?
My duty is my fate.
What is your fear?
My fear is to fail.
What is your reward?
My salvation is my reward.
What is your craft?
My craft is death.
What is your pledge?
My pledge is eternal service


"pledge from the Astartes to the Emperor of mankind"


****************


"You carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it destroy the shadows."




****************


Where there is uncertainty, I shall bring light
Where there is doubt, I shall sow faith
Where there is shame, I shall point atonement
Where there is rage, I shall show its course
My word in the soul shall be as my bolter in the field.


"Littany of Devotion"






*****************



One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness
One last blade, forged in defiance of fate
Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered
And my final gift to the species I failed


"The Emperor of Mankind - during the Horus Heresy"






*****************


Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death. My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die".


"Carab Culin - The Red Scorpions Chapter"




*********************


For eleven hundred years, I have fought and I have seen the darkness in our galaxy. I have seen the vileness of the alien and the heresy of the mutant. I have witnessed the sin of possession. I have seen all the evil that the galaxy harbours, and I have slain all whose presence defiles the Emperor. I have seen what you will see. I have fought what you must fight, and I have slain what you must slay... so fear not and be proud, for we are the sons of Sanguinius (http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Sanguinius), the protectors of Mankind. Aye, we are indeed the Angels of Death.


"Commander Dante - Blood Angels chapter "

[hondarobot]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/222/bukowskicharles.jpg

[trish]

"Pass the salt, please."_____the attributions of this much celebrated phrase are too numerous to list.

[hondarobot]

Lol. Good to see you again Trish.

"That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. . . "

Lou Costello

[NHG]

"Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but you cannot live in the cradle forever."
Arthur C. Clarke in "Out of The Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..."
First published in Dude, March 1959
Collected in Tales of Ten Worlds
Collected in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clark

[danthepoetman]

Hmmm..I don't agree, as I cannot understand that the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi is useless, far from it -not only does it give me endless pleasure and inspiration, it also sets a lot of people to work as musicians, recording engineers, concert promoters, opera houses, and so on. And before photography painting was an essential part of propaganda, religious expression, vanity...far from useless it was crucial to the discourse of power. Effective writing, much of it distilled in the quotes in this thread, speaks to centuries of inspiration, some of it for political change. Words matter, the soul lives on.
Having such thoughts is normal for an artist or an art admirer in the world we live in, which put so much emphasis on production. Artists don't make bread, cars, don't put food on the table, don't drive busses or purge the pipes of your drain... For a Beethoven or a Bartok, there are countless artists who will go unnoticed and miserable. A great number, instead of expressing themselves, will have to resort to entertain the populas, which I must admit is not unnoble or unvalidating in itself, on the contrary, but steps aside from authentic art... That's what I meant by my last reflection, Stavros. Art, for most artist, is completely free, but not yet just for these reasons; it is free because it is a compulsion: an artist can't do anything but create. Anyone who pretends to art without such intimate, visceral drive is not an artist.
So you see, we've tried forever to define what differentiate us from animals. We thought it was reason, but we know today that our reason is greater quantitatively rather than an element of a different nature to the intelligence of animals. We then thought it might be tools before discovering how many animals are using and even creating some. We thought it might be laughter, but we now know many animals have some kind of laughter. We thought it was the "instinct", a word largely discredited today, when ethology showed us we also are the prisonners of primary pulsions. We thought it was a sense of aesthetic before witnessing apes admiring every night the sunset, or female bird choosing their male mate by appreciation of the artefact he create to seduce. We thought it might be suicide before acknowledging such behavior in many animals. So I'm thinking that maybe, if there really is a difference, it's the fact that we can do things totally gratuitously, make gestures that don't have any survival, social, material value. Difficult to say if we are the only animals to recognize the futility of what is, I tend to think we're the only ones to be able to act accordingly.

As to Artaud, he hated our notion of art. To him, a created object of admiration, be it a symphony, was anything but artistic expression. Any such separation of aesthetic from the feeling of individuals was an abomination to him. He made his whole purpose as an artist to reunite the art "object" and the living artistic emotion. The only true art for him, was the one that we lived off of. We admired infinitely the art of traditional cultures, which is never considered as art, but always a vivid experience of meaning, aesthetic, spiritual, functional. He wanted art to have, as it does in such cultures, the same meaning as hunger. Then again, Artaud was as nutty as a fruitcake...

[danthepoetman]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/222/bukowskicharles.jpg
I love the old guy...

[Rolando]

Flirting is way more electrifying than sex! It's the anticipation! Kenny Rogers talking about Dolly Parton

[danthepoetman]

François de La Rochefoucauld, XVIIth century...

[pantybulge69]

" No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!" ....

- Walter White ( Breaking Bad episode " Cornered" )


:hide-1:

[TempestTS]

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”
― Chief Joseph (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/345131.Chief_Joseph)

[youngblood61]

" No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!" ....

- Walter White ( Breaking Bad episode " Cornered" )


:hide-1:Awesome!

[danthepoetman]

Diogenes of Sinope, the dog, cynic philosopher... IVth century BCE.

[danthepoetman]

....

[Stavros]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkKgBhsWZ1R_OpbzbS4pj9o6sZQ_P5c Jtk-Eof9wfzXyH6WRVJ6w

[Ananke]

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust

[buttslinger]

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. --Oscar Wilde

[AshlynCreamher]

A best friend is someone who stands up for you, even when they know you're wrong.
Train - drops from Jupiter (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc)

[Prospero]

"I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole i think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance and i am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I beleive that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years and in consequence we must still try to learn from history..... I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings,by satisfying our egos. And I think we should remember that we are part of a great whole, which for convenience we call nature. All living things are our brothers and sisters."

Sir Kenneth Clark

[scottnapx]

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
-Winston Churchill

[bob98105]

Overheard at lunch just the other day, a high school aged boy talking to his mother. "I am fascinated by your fascination with the word fascinating."

[TempestTS]

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. -- Frank Zappa

[LilyRox]

I like philosophy on extinction. Here are some of my favorites:

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication" - Susan Sontag

"Most organisms are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential." - Ernst Mayr

I think ultimately the human race will become extinct from the ability technology gives. Many people are constantly worrying about the health of the Earth, but truth be told it's highly more likely we'll kill ourselves eventually and the Earth & Sun will live on billions of more years. The problem comes when we start putting microchips inside people. If everyone has a microchip inside of them and a replicating digital virus infects someone, the entire population of the Earth can be wiped in a matter of literally seconds. In milliseconds viruses can multiply from 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc. Computers are so fast it could easily get up to multi-millions within a second of calculations. This is what we really have to worry about. Not the Earth or "killer robots".

We are created through DNA replication. Cells multiply over and over to create millions of cells to make up a organism. The is a mirror image of how the human race could become extinct. Instead of cells multiplying to create a single life, we'll die from viruses multiplying to kill an entire species in the matter of seconds. The scary thing is that this could not be possible this fast with biological viruses. Our growth in intelligence and technology can be our leading factor to death. It opens the door of the possibility that someone in the United States can infect someone in China in less than a second.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"No matter where you go ... There you are!!" The great Yogi Bera!!

[TS Evelyn Summers]

"Come with me, And I Will Show You Where the Iron Crosses Grow." - Unteroffizier Steiner


Cross of Iron <3

[Ts RedVeX]

The essence of life flows from within.

[crystalsopen]

I love Saint Friedrich ;)
“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

[danthepoetman]

....

[Jericho]

Yeah, I'll get back to you on that, I'm busy trying to give a fuck! :shrug

[danthepoetman]

Hehehehe!

[Jericho]

If you're not the sorriest whore by dawn, you'll certainly be the sorest!

[danthepoetman]

....

[danthepoetman]

Yeah, I'll get back to you on that, I'm busy trying to give a fuck! :shrug
Here's one you'll probably like, Jericho. It's much like you.

[Jericho]

Here's one you'll probably like, Jericho. It's much like you.


Not sure what you;re trying to imply there, shithead.
I might be offended!!! :banana:
:dead-1:

[danthepoetman]

You have the audacity to laugh at my sagacity and perceptiveness, Jericho?
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb444/Salute7/HATERZ%20GONNA%20HATE/madness.gif

[danthepoetman]

http://i.imgur.com/BdQXLzc.gif

[danthepoetman]

....

[Chaos]

The greatest quote I have ever heard has to be from Joe Fixit (Grey Hulk,Marvel Comics)...
"This is how I go.....When I go like this."

[martin48]

Certainly puts Shakespeare in his place!


The greatest quote I have ever heard has to be from Joe Fixit (Grey Hulk,Marvel Comics)...
"This is how I go.....When I go like this."

[timmartin]

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
Aesop.

[jonnie64]

Greatest quote of all time was made by my dad: "Son, don't do shit you suck at."

[LilyRox]

Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth... there is no spoon. You'll then see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

- The Matrix (1999)

[Torris]

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

[danthepoetman]

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

I love this one, Torris.

[dontarte]

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

- reminds me of Housman's

Malt does more than Milton can,
To justify God's ways to man.:cheers: