Your Favourite Quotes and Sayings

[zombywoof]

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

 

[NightsEpiphany]

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda

 

[Erikmen]

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Very interesting logic!

 

[Erikmen]

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

 

[NightsEpiphany]

If...

Rudyard Kipling


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

 

[Shambles]

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

So presumably the Pope parked his car in St Peter's one night and woke up to find it had miraculously turned into a Popemobile. Kewl.

 

[HouseFever]

I wouldn't put anything past what the Vatican can keep under wraps lately.

 

[zombywoof]

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”

 

[Sammy G]

"Ever since they'd dragged her away weeping with laughter and reaching out for me with our parents' blood still coating her hands with shiny red gloves, I'd felt amputated, like they'd pulled her kicking and screaming and insane out of my guts.”

 

[HouseFever]

Your fear of looking stupid is holding you back.

 

[mr.buffnstuff]

The journey of a thousand miles, starts with a single step

 

[Erikmen]

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Duran

 

[Sammy G]

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”

 

[Sammy G]

“I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.”

 

[Sammy G]

“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.”

 

[Sammy G]

"The soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes so embarrassing that I suffered, upon losing it, a little less emotion than if I had mislaid, while out on a stroll, my calling-card."

 

[Sammy G]

"What is annoying in love, is that it is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice."

"He who does not know how to people his solitude, does not know either how to be alone in a busy crowd."

 

[koneko]

^
They're great quotes Sammy - who are they by, references please?

And good morning my best Manchurian gigolo pal

 

[Sammy G]

Charlie B (no, not that sellout Brooker), Saint Augustine, Hector Berlioz and my auld, neglected sparring buddy, Oscar. In exact reverse, order, as it happens!

Gigolo? Hahaha. :D

Good morning to you too.

 

[NightsEpiphany]

we're all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars.

Oscar Wilde classic.