Famous, Inspiring Quotes

Discussion in 'Next Island' started by evodlelry, Jan 20, 2011.

  1. Hey. I'd like to share some of my favorite famous quotes
    here. Please feel free to jump in and share some of your favorite famous
    quotes as well. By the way, most of these were borrowed from the
    Life Quotes section on this site... I'm not clever enough to remember all of
    these. :)

    Enjoy!

    Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no
    vision. -Helen Keller

    Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. -Ralph Waldo
    Emerson

    Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you
    please. -Mark Twain

    Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the
    noblest motives. -Oscar Wild

    I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that
    people are really good at heart. -Anne Frank

    Life is
    an incurable disease. -Abraham Cowley

    Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. -Mark Twain

    Happiness is a choice that requires effort at
    times. -Aeschylus

    Have more quotes? Bring on the inspiration!
     
  2. My favorite quote:

    Whatever!

    :)
     
  3. "Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. Those who fail to learn history correctly, well they are simply doomed."
    -Anonymous
    "I don't believe we have been visited by aliens, after all, why would they appear only to weirdos?"
    -Stephen Hawking
    "God himself can't even sink this ship."
    -Said of the Titanic.
    "Only two things in life are certain, death and taxes. If your clever you play one against the other."
    -Unknown


    I guess those were not very inspiring lol. Unless I inspired some to commit tax evasion....:)
     
  4. "Rot at the core spreads outward." - Frank Herbert
     
  5. Well this is a famous one, at least around here.. Although not quite inspiring. How about......

    :dynamic:


    :happylaugh:
     
  6. Meg

    Meg Next Island : Game Content Designer

    A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever. -- Shigeru Miyamoto

    Ok, that's inspiring to me at least! :)

    More seriously, I have this one taped to my mirror:

    We must wake ourselves, and stay awake, not by some mechanical means but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep.
    -- Henry David Thoreau
     
  7. My favorite:

    Well behaved women seldom make history.

    -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
     
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  8. LOL is that why I misbehave?
     
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  9. Lex

    Lex

    A wise man speaks because he has something to say, A fool speaks because he has to say something. __ Plato__
     
  10. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark.
    Professionals built the Titanic.
     
  11. Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do to help you pay your rent because you blew it all on booze and gambling.
     
  12. LordLongLicious

    LordLongLicious Do you fear death?

    Praise not the day until evening has come ~ Odin.

    All generalizations are wrong- including this one ~Mark Twain.

    God is dead ~ Nietzche.

    Nietzche is dead ~ God.

    Law is mind without reason ~ Aristotle.

    And last but not least:

    It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. ~ Aristotle. 8D
     
  13. Calin

    Calin Due for an Ultra-Uber Loot.

    You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to lay down on his back and float in it, then you have something.
    - Joe E. Brown

    Maybe not famous or inspiring, but one of my favorites:

    Anatomy (n): something everyone has, but which looks better on a girl
    - Bruce Raeburn.
     
  14. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has got one, and they all stink. - The Dead Pool (1988)
     
  15. "If you think an opinion is below you, why are you debating it?"
    Me :)
    "The highest honours a man can receive are husband and father"
    Gene Roddenberry or maybe Neitzsche, not sure exactly :)
    "I would rather be a pessimist then an optimist. At least as a pessimist I am happy when I'm wrong"
    Can't remember where I heard that one :)
     
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