The Quotations thread!

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Urrgh... Pretty much every website I go on, I fill my signature full of quotes. Therefore, I decided to make this thread - the Quotes Thread! Post all your useless quotations here! I'll start:

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
- Anonymous

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
- Cao Cao

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.
- Anonymous

Friendship is not friendship without trust, without it I walk alone.
- James P. Michels Jr.

A friend will break your heart, a friend will mend it, a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world, good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate.
- Anonymous

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare

It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion.
- Anonymous

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion..
- Harvey Milk

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
- Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
- Theodore Parker

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
- Edward Everett Hale

Look up and not down;
Look out and not in.
Look forward and not back;
Lend a hand!
- Edward Everett Hale

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
- Edward Everett Hale

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
- Charles Fletcher Dole

The truly civilized man has no enemies.
- Charles Fletcher Dole

Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
- Charles Fletcher Dole

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
- William Ellery Channing

The path to perfection is difficult to men in every lot; there is no royal road for rich or poor. But difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
- William Ellery Channing

Undoubtedly some men are more gifted than others, and are marked out for more studious lives. But the work of such men is not to do others' thinking for them, but to help them to think more vigorously and effectually. Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his, who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less-favoured brother.
- William Ellery Channing

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
- William Ellery Channing

The influence of war on the community at large, on its prosperity, its morals, and its political institutions, though less striking than on the soldiery, is yet baleful.
-William Ellery Channing

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
- William Ellery Channing

We need not war to awaken human energy. There is at least equal scope for courage and magnanimity in blessing, as in destroying mankind.
- William Ellery Channing

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
- L.P. Jacks

My Favourite: I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin

So, do you know any good quotes? Post them here!

[Zhakiri]

"If one refuses to sit down and make a move, you cannot be checkmated."

-Frederick Copleston

[Lini]

Inb4 Warhammer 40k.
*edit* Also, hot diggity! My name is now green. Apparently I am registering.

[Kristeas Sunbinder]

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Al Einstein.

[Halya]

You cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

I can't remembow whom, but I suspect it to be a David Lloyd George.

[Elloa]

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Al Einstein.

This one is awsome !!

[Gesh]

What I wish for tommorow, will be earned today.

Myself 8D

[Kristeas Sunbinder]

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves

Both by Al Einstein.

[Geldar]

"Those who walk on the path of others, do not leave one of their own."

-Unknown (To me atleast)

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

-Marcus Aurelius

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

-Marcus Aurelius

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

-Norman Schwarzkopf

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

-Douglas McArthur

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."

-Omar Nelson Bradley

[bloop]

"Share and Enjoy"
-Douglas Adams, the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints division company motto.

[Magaskawee/Anaei]

A man who paints the sky green and the grass blue and sees it this way should be sterilised. - Adolf Hitler

[Kristeas Sunbinder]

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches.

Mike Godwin

((i know, the law doesn't apply, but above quote reminded me anyway))

[Tírius]

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. "
Buddha

[Torukan]

"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
- Hans Gruber

[Halya]

Stare not into the Abyss, less the Abyss stare also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche.

[Lini]

Stare not into the Abyss, less the Abyss stare also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche.

Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it.

[Guest]

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

- Charles V

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

- Harry Overstreet

And as already mentioned:

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
- Cao Cao

[Chase - Esou]

"I don't know how the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones." Kurt Cobain

[Guest]

/shrug

[Kristeas Sunbinder]

"I don't know how the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones." Kurt Cobain

Didn't Al Onestone say that aswell?

[Chase - Esou]

I wouldn't know. But here's my source:

[Kristeas Sunbinder]

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks!

Ninja'd from wikiquote, apparently said in 1949.

[Guest]

"Arbitrary power is best build upon the ruins of democracy" - John Henry Eden.

[Ehrfürchtige Bennedict]

"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."

- Random guy talking about The Chapter and DoL

[Gilraen]

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.” - Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Nancy Astor:"Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

"I do not love the arrow for its swiftness, the sword for its sharpness, or the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
Faramir in Lord of the Rings.

Men should either be treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injures - for heavy ones they cannot."
Niccolò Machiavelli

Inb4 Warhammer 40k.
*edit* Also, hot diggity! My name is now green. Apparently I am registering.

Can't resist.

"Orkz, orkz, orkz, orkz." -Da boyz

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