Wise Statements

[Vauban]

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

Can't remember who said it, but it stuck with me.

 

[KayOss_92]

"Only a fool speaks in absolutes."
Get past the hypocrisy and it holds a fair point.

Wasn't there a variation in one of the star wars?? "Only a sith speaks in absolutes."

 

[damselgaming]

"And when you're not a little boy anymore, when the world has taught you how to be a man...then you'll still make mistakes. But your family and those good friends you've made along the way will help you. And even though you'll think the world has gone out of its way to teach you all the tough lessons, you'll realize that it's the same world that's given you your family and those friends. And you'll come to believe that no matter what happens... somehow the world will protect you."

'When you find love, you hold on to it. And cherish it. Because there is nothing finer, and it may never come again.'

'It's not the changes that matter, it's how you react to the changes. That's what makes you who you are.'

All from the legend that is Boy Meets World.

 

[Sigfried Wild]

"A choice isn't something someone gives you; it's something you make for yourself."

 

[amarks1]

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! -Rocky Balboa

'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan

 

[amarks1]

"He who controls the present controls the past" a nickel to whoever gets what its from

This is also used in a Rage Against The Machine song Testify

 

[Fangface74]

"I've got mood poisoning, must be something I hate!"

 

[Abedeus]

Beat up your girlfriend on the day of your wedding and your marriage will be successful.

- Chinese saying.

"When I was young, I have been thinking about making love. Now that I'm old, I love to think".

- A. Einstein. Not a direct quote, as I know only the Polish version, but I think I translated it right.

 

[Mr Fatherland]

"Friendly fire, isn't."

 

[Mr Fatherland]

My hero, Stalin

Stalin is your hero, I think you have some issues.

 

[Anarchemitis]

"He who controls the present controls the past" a nickel to whoever gets what its from

O'Brien from 1984. I effing hate that guy.

• Love each other or Perish
  -Morrie Schwartz.

Orwell not O'Brien.

Orwell wrote it, the Character O'Brien said it.

 

[Ionami]

"Sanity is the ability to accept reality for what it is, in all it's ridiculousness." - Dr. Drew Pinsky

 

[TwistedEllipses]

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"He who controls the present controls the past" a nickel to whoever gets what its from

This is also used in a Rage Against The Machine song Testify

Followed by 'who controls the past now controls the future'

 

[Seldon2639]

" 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.

The quotation I saw of this has him referencing "Shiva, destroyer of worlds", but that's neither here nor there.

My favorites are my family's motto:

"Never pass up the opportunity to do a good deed."

One from Oscar Wilde:

"Quando dio vuole castigarci ci manda quello che desideriamo"

"When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

And finally one from Joss Whedon:

"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do."

 

[RebelRising]

My hero, Stalin

Stalin is your hero, I think you have some issues.

To each his own, sir. If I may be so impertinent, you have grammatical issues that can be fixed with a semicolon.

 

[GonzoGamer]

"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

TMNT1 - I'm old.

Yes, Bruce was a genius. Get the Tao of Jeet Kun Do if you want a whole book of these kinds of things. As someone who's trained in JKD, sparring is the best video game you'll ever play.

Lately I've been into HL Mencken for these kinds of phrases. He summed up America's last 8 years pretty well:

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart?s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.?
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Some other Mencken quotes:
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. [can also be applied to the Bush years]

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.


It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever
ineligible for public office.


The men that American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

And what might be my favorite:
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

I have tons more but this is already a great wall of text.

 

[Kevvers]

*pulls out list of things the old guy says when you research new technologies in Civilization 4*

Yeah pretty much this.

That was Leonard Nimoy saying that I think.

 

[MrGFunk]

Any clever or witty things you'd like to share, feel free.

you asked for wise.

here's a personal one -" in all situations try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Sentiments can be misconstrued so always hear what is said as if meant with the best intentions."
Sometimes this is hard and usually takes time to think. I'm guilty of not doing this but it always has worked out when I have.

 

[Zani]

"You live because we allow it and you will die because we demand it" - Mass Effect, Sovereign.

"Fortune favors the audacious" - Erasmus

"I am the king of Rome and therefor I am above grammar" Emperor Sigismund

 

[Glerken]

"He who controls the present controls the past" a nickel to whoever gets what its from

O'Brien from 1984. I effing hate that guy.

• Love each other or Perish
  -Morrie Schwartz.

Orwell not O'Brien.

Orwell wrote it, the Character O'Brien said it.

Ah, thought you were quoting the quoter as the author, my mistake.