Favorite Quotes

JakeH wrote:

"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence" - Doug Mcleod

Haha, I love that one!

I found this in a Times piece once and quite liked it:

Sex is what universities are for. For geeks to lose their virginity and studs to get their numbers up, for gays to come out or go back in, for public schoolboys to have their eyes opened by a big-arsed lass from the Valleys and council-estate girls to grab a bit of posh, for old to do it with young, poet with critic, student with teacher, counsellor with counselled, patient with doctor, friend with friend, drunk, stoned, high as a kite or stone-cold sober, and there is no point pretending otherwise.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/giles_coren/article6850146.ece

Fantastic Jake, and so true!!

My fave quote of all is probably this one from Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden ( no i haven't read it! would like to though ) :-

"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world."

Probably says a lot about me actually!

Mr Boob wrote:

My fave quote of all is probably this one from Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden ( no i haven't read it! would like to though ) :-

"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world."

Probably says a lot about me actually!

True oh so painfully true.

 From an enraged Brummie during an alocohol fuelled 'getting to know you' after last orders at a uni hall of residence.

.....

'Jon, you're intolerant'

'FUCK OFF, I'M NOT intolerant!!!!!'

 "No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle, even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say Jehova"   Monty Python, Life of Brian.

'Tis a fitting end to the foul ungodliness in womankind'  Witchfinder  General, Vincent Price.

'I will do what needs to be done when the right time arrives' ...(Me) !

There's plenty of others, I would need to look them up, I can't recall that well.

 "I believe in karma...  That means I can do bad things to people and assume they deserve it" - Dogbert

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin

I really like that quote

 "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."  - Walt Disney.

"Scars remind us where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going..."

'Which one is worse, ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?' - Tommy Cooper

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji

 "YO FUCKNUTS...  It's probin' time..." - Paul

" The bigger the berry,  the sweeter the juice "

Red Dwarf

Cat- There's an old cat proverb that goes, " Better to live an hour as a Tiger than an entire lifetime as a Worm"

Rimmer- There's an old human proverb - " Whoever heard of a Worm-Skin Rug!"

So funny,love it.

SnoWMan wrote:

"Scars remind us where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going..."

Love that quote!!

" At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here..... but Stardust!"

From the film Sunshine.

I saw this tattooed on someone and thought how beautiful the words were.

"Can you drive a tractor, bb?

Yes, someone did actually ask me this one night when I was on cam. Now, perhaps I'm being naive and it's some sort of euphemism...

RebeccaT wrote:

"Can you drive a tractor, bb?

Yes, someone did actually ask me this one night when I was on cam. Now, perhaps I'm being naive and it's some sort of euphemism...

Well... can you?

 "Dream as if you'll live forever, but live as if you'll die tomorrow"

sanda wrote:

 "YO FUCKNUTS...  It's probin' time..." - Paul

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA