Always be drunk.
That's it!
The great imperative!
In order not to feel
Time's horrid fardel
bruise your shoulders,
grinding you into the earth,
Get drunk and stay that way.
On what?
On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.
But get drunk.
And if you sometimes happen to wake up
on the porches of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the dismal loneliness of your own room,
your drunkenness gone or disappearing,
ask the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock,
ask everything that flees,
everything that groans
or rolls
or sings,
everything that speaks,
ask what time it is;
and the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock
will answer you:
"Time to get drunk!
Don't be martyred slaves of Time,
Get drunk!
Stay drunk!
On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!"

— Charles Baudelaire

I love Mark Twain. Here are some quotes from him.

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

"...as for the contents of his skull, they could have changed places with the contents of a pie and nobody would have been the worse off for it but the pie."

"Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finisht the farce."

"I shall not speak a word of any of these things, or write a line. They shall be sealed as a book. I do not know what a sealed book is, because I never saw one, but a sealed book is the expression to use in this connection, because it is popular."

"No circumstances, however dismal, will ever be considered a sufficient excuse for the admission of that last and saddest evidence of intellectual poverty, the Pun."

"He traced our wheel tracks to the imminent verge of danger, in two places. I have always been glad we were not killed that night. I do not know any particular reason, but I have always been glad."

Here's the greatest anti-war quote of all time, courtesy of Twain:

"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

'Life's not a bitch, she's just sick of being personified' - Sage Francis

'Life's just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite.' - Sage Francis

'Life's a sexually transmitted disease.' - Sage Francis

'If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.' - MF Doom.

'Hip-hop quotes are awesome' - Joe the man

A few of my favorites:

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - JFK

"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Two Einstein quotes.

And to throw in a movie quote...

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
From The Usual Suspects.

quote:

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
From The Usual Suspects.

Anyone who mentions " The Usual Suspects" in this forum, gets a word of commendation! That movie was great.

I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Roddy Piper in They Live

The education discussion in the Politics forum reminded me of this quote from Bertrand Russell:

"A certain percentage of children have the habit of thinking; one of the aims of education it to cure them of this habit..."

I'm hungry for some new quotes. I've seen some good ones in people's sigs, but how about some more. Remember, it's OK to look back through the old threads.

"It is better to be looked over than to be overlooked" -- Mae West

I love Einstein's quote "Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."

it's my signature >>>

I have two quotes I like to share. There from the Mars Attacks trailer.

1. " But be prepared for a few changes from what we know and love."

2. " As we must love to dance, to a new tune."

martian leader

Is there any aspect of your life that has absolutely nothing to do with Mars Attacks?

It's what we're all wondering.

they were just some quotes i liked.

martian leader.

quote:

Originally posted by martian leader:
they were just some quotes i liked.

martian leader.

Are you sure you're not Tim Burton?

NO SORRY, IF I WAS I WOULD BE MAKING A MARS ATTACKS SEQUEL.

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I don’t know what’s more hilarious, the idea that someone could base so much of their personality off of any movie, let alone the fact that you have, of all films, chosen Mars Attacks.

Come on, you’ve got to be taking the piss, right?

You know, if I thought there were any chance martian leader would ever have sex with anyone, I would be asking if there were Mars Attacks styled condoms or something.

Fortunately, I don't think we have to worry about that. I wouldn't assume that "Ack Grak" makes for a great pickup line.

ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACKACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK!

MARTIAN LEADER

God....