The Official Quote Thread

[khfreek]

The secret to being boring is to say everything - Oscar Wilde

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire

[Zaqarbal]

* "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" (Mark Twain).

* "There is a sexual morality and a business morality; the former collapses when faced with the latter, and the latter collapses when faced with the former" (Enrique Jardiel Poncela, writer).

* "Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples" (François de La Rochefoucauld).

[crukster]

"Blackness, is the essence to be free -
Essence of drifting floating solid areas of nothing
Through summer shrouds of painted rain,
Through hallowed madness of lunatics, quite sane"


"Cleanse my soul, spit out the grit, stand in the knife and carve out the grind

For the Darkness
is my,

Ultimate."

[Thom Yorke]

"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre

[monkeybiz]

Wisdom beings in wonder -Socrates

[Ghost]

"Which seat can I take?" - RB

[FRED HALE SR.]

"Wherever you go there you are." PJ O'ROURKE

[crash_override]

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." – Mark Twain

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." – Seneca the Younger

[Zaqarbal]

Since today is the birth anniversary of Mark Twain, I've thought it would be a good moment to post some quotes:


* "It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times."

* "A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."

* "The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey."

* "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."

* "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

[s_k]

I just read his biography. What an epic man