"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." -Abigail Adams

"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity." -William S. Burroughs

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. " -William S. Burroughs

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. " -John Stuart Mill

"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them." -Camille Paglia

"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. " -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." -Sigmund Freud

"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain." -Marquis de Sade

"Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble." -Agatha Christie

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you." -Agatha Christie

Video game: "I'd rather drink a cup of acid after chewing on a razor blade." - FemShep, after being hit on by that creepy ex-CSec

IRL: "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C. S. Lewis

My least favorite is, "Your princess is in another castle"

FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC. - Guards, Guards! Terry Pratchett

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.- Guards, Guards! Terry Pratchett

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.- Guards, Guards! Terry Pratchett

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.- Eric, Terry Pratchett

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous. Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett


"Stercus, stercus, stercus, moriturus sum." Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett

"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche-

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." -Confucius

I always fall for it. Every single time. :3

“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables



I am completely in love with the book, musical and music, and I love so many different quotes from all three, but this has got to be my favourite.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" - Cave Johnson, Portal 2.

"Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more look like?" - Unknown, but it is a meme.

"Fatty fatty no parents!" Wheatley, Portal 2.

"Zim: I put the fires out!
Tallest Red: You made them worse.
Zim: Worse... or BETTER?", Invader Zim, The Nightmare Begins.

"It's the guy who's not Ansem!" - Donald, Kingdom Hearts II.

Here is another one that I like muchly.

But why should one compare? The lover does not measure or compare; if comparison enters by the door, love takes flight out of the window.
— Yahya Haqqi

We are all genius' but if you judge a fish by its' ability to climb a tree, it will forever think it is stupid- Albert Einstein

Well, I've gathered some

"How many wicked intentions climb aboard a pure and innocent phrase, after it is already on its way! It is enough to make one suspect that lying is, many a time, as involuntary as breathing."

"Destiny is not only a dramatist, it is also its own stage manager. That is, it sets the entrances of the characters on scene, gives them letters and other objects, and produces the off-stage noises to go with the dialogue: thunder, a carriage, a shot."

"There is truly only one misfortune: that of not being born."
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, brazilian writer, the first two quotes are from "Dom Casmurro", the latter is from "Quincas Borba"


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"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry."

"There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten."
- Umberto Eco, in "The Name of the Rose"

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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
- Plato, "The Republic", first book.

"One day your going to land on something as stubborn as you are! And i DON'T do peices"-Sgt. Major A.J. Johnson: Halo 3
"Mabey its a sword all the time, and when you stick it in people, it unlocks their death?"-Caboose: red v.s. blue

juwt two. i cant think of any more

"Vini, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered)"
- Julius Ceaser

"Bella bambola, viva la tua vita (Beautiful doll, you live your life)"
- Myself

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
- Charles Darwin

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain

"Everything in life is luck."
- Donald Trump

"I love life because what more is there?"
- Anthony Hopkins

"If you don't know where you're going, you will end up somewhere else."
- Yogi Berra

"Those that matter don't mind, and those that mind don't matter."
- Dr. Suess

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
- Dr. Seuss

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
- William W. Purkey

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
- Maya Angelou

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
- Mae West

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
- Albert Einstein

My favorite quote, by THE Doctor Seuss:

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"People deal with grief differently. Some people fuck at funerals. I cut off heads." - Travis Touchdown

"If you're black, and you don't have any green, you end up in the red." - J.J. Evans

"Clown suckas then I kill em'. Gacey flow." - Donald Glover

"There's a place where the broken go, there's a room full of second chances, you're not stranded on your own, you're not invisble." - Invisible by Disciple
"Voces amicorum auxilum rogantium a nobis numquam auditae sunt." ("The cries of our friends calling for help are not heard.")
"To thine own self be true." - Hamlet - Shakespeare
"Draw thy tool. My naked weapon is out." Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." - Macbeth - Shakespeare

"You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things." - Macbeth - Shakespeare

"I invite you to a world where there is no such thing as time; and every creature lens themselves to change your state of mind. "- Her name is Alice - Shinedown

"Love is watching someone die" - What Sarah Said by Death Cab for Cutie

"I regret I have but one life to give for my country."

“I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.”

“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.”

“And it all boils down to one quotable phrase...
"If you love something, give it away."”

“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'”

All by Conor Oberst.