Wise Statements

[Ursus Astrorum]

"Fortune favors the bold" (don't know who said this one but it is my motto)

It just so happens to be a moral of the D&D Goddess Avandra. Coincidence, yeah?


"Patience. Discipline. Above all, harmony." -Myself

"I should've been a plumber." -Albert Einstein

"Nothing exists but empty space and you. And you... Are but a thought." -Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

"Blood is thicker than water, and considerably harder to get out of the carpet. -Unknown

"I am Error." -Error

"People of superior virtue are so without intention, and are thus virtuous. People of inferior virtue are so with intention, and thus are not virtuous. -Lao Tzu

"In the common mindset, honor is something to be prized. Winning the respect of others is the noblest of things. It is on account of this that they are terrified of losing their honor. Disgrace is shameful and embarrassing, and is therefore to be feared. The reason we have disasters is that we worry too much about ourselves."-Lao Tzu

"If we can forget about ourselves, what else is there to worry about?" -Lao Tzu

"Mu." -Zhaozhou

 

[newdawn]

lago my eggo

 

[baker80]

"It's amazing how people try to sound deep and intelligent by quoting people who are trying to sound deep and intelligent."
--Random Guy From The Internet

 

[Sh0tgUntHen00b]

"Learn to be calm and you will be happy" my favorite quote although I can't remember who said it.

 

[Glerken]

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell

 

[bad rider]

Person A "Why are all decisions made by idiots"
Person B "Because decisions are made by people who have time"
Person A "But why don't people who are intelligent make decisions?"
Person B "Because they're too busy fixing the decisions made by idiots"

Not an exact quote found it on the dilbert comic strip.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.

-Necronomicon

 

[Snowalker]

one I came up with that I thought was good "pretty girls sleep in arms, not on the ground."

 

[Scolar Visari]

You're not a good person, you're just lucky you haven't had to be otherwise. When it comes down to it what a man can do is what a man will do. -The Jackal

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

"Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza"

lol 2 points to whoever can identify that phrase

but seriously, anything Bruce Lee said while he was a live. he was a great philospher

 

[RebelRising]

"In America, sex is an obsession. In the rest of the world, it is a fact." - Marlene Dietrich

 

[gregatron08]

i have 3

I'd hate to advocate drugs, Alcohol, Violence or insanity to anyone, but they have always worked for me - Hunter S Thompson

Be who you are and say what you feel, for those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind - Only time i ever saw this was credited as "Anon" but its what i live my life by

and a funny one to end with:

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: "Sir, If you were my husband I would poison your drink!"
Winstons response : "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it"

 

[RebelRising]

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

"Eating words has never given me indigestion." - Winston Churchill


And one I think we gamers can relate to:

"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." - Winston Churchill

 

[scotth266]

Life is a constant struggle:
Sometimes it is joyous, sometimes it is madness.
But at all times it is important.
To lose sight of this is to lose sight of our humanity,
So listen well, and never forget, lest ye be judged and found lacking.

Chaos is the engine of life. We MUST live on, if only to resist death.

The best man to hire is a lazy man: he'll find the most efficient way to do the job when put to it.

The best liars do not tell lies: they mislead truths. It's not so odd then that politicians are the best liars.

 

[filbertim]

" I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds " ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer after seeing the first nuclear bomb detonate in front of him, the bomb he helped create.

And, on the trinity (first nuke test) monument: "I am Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my work, ye mighty, and despair."

Obviously said first by Ozymandias, so it's a quote of a quote.

Also, after Churchill was slammed in a london paper for ending a sentence with a preposition:
"This is the kind of nonsense up with which I shall not put."

Philosophically, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." -Anon

 

[RebelRising]

Also, after Churchill was slammed in a london paper for ending a sentence with a preposition:
"This is the kind of nonsense up with which I shall not put."

As an English junkie, I've always loved that one.

My hero, Stalin, has some good ones.

"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem." - Josef Stalin

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance." - Josef Stalin

 

[Raptoricus]

One of my favourites:
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein

 

[filbertim]

One of my favourites:
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein

You know that picture of 'ol Al with his tongue sticking out? Now I imagine it inside his cheek. Facts vs. Theory indeed.

I see your Stalin and raise you a Mao:
"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun."

And, hell, a Machiavelli:
"[...]it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves. Those who rely simply on the lion do not understand what they are about." Damn Heavies.

 

[Mostly Harmless]

You can do anything, but not everything.
?David Allen

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
?Aristotle

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
?Gandhi

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
?A. A. Milne

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
?Oscar Levant

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
?Oscar Wilde

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
?Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Valyk Starkiller]

"He who controls the present controls the past"
I'm pretty certain that's george orwell 1984