Random Quotes

Mike · 11-22-2006, 08:27 PM

I thought it would be fun to have a random / famous quote thread going, so here it is. Feel free to add your favorite quotes.

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
-Langston Coleman

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.
-Abraham Lincoln

He is poor who does not feel content.
-Japanese Proverb

Mike · 11-24-2006, 08:40 AM

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
-John F. Kennedy

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
-Chinese Proverb

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
-Pete Rose

NeoReporter · 11-24-2006, 05:45 PM

When the wise shows the moon, the fool is looking at the finger... Chinese Proverb, if i do remember well.

Mike · 11-24-2006, 11:35 PM

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
-German Proverb

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
-Abraham Lincoln

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
-Henry Ford

MillerLite · 11-25-2006, 01:15 AM

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

- Christopher Morley

crud3w4re · 11-26-2006, 10:46 AM

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.
Karl Marx

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star.
Karl Marx

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Karl Marx

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl Marx

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
Karl Marx

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx

zewlie · 11-29-2006, 05:10 PM

This is by far my favorite quote to try and live by:

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Gandhi

Not easy to practice, but I think people should still strive to think of it.

crud3w4re · 11-30-2006, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zewlie

This is by far my favorite quote to try and live by:

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Gandhi

Not easy to practice, but I think people should still strive to think of it.

Sort of pacific, don't you say?

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
Lester Bangs

DeViAnThans3 · 11-30-2006, 01:46 PM

Nothing is free, except the cheese of a mouse trap.
Unknown

crud3w4re · 11-30-2006, 01:50 PM

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
Edgar Bergen

manofgames · 12-01-2006, 02:22 PM

beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Noone ever made a success in life without a large bottom.

Errr.... the last one I got of a comedy show, so its sort of a wuote lol

crud3w4re · 12-01-2006, 06:52 PM

A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.
Italian Proverb

Mike · 12-02-2006, 10:34 PM

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Chinese Proverb

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
-Mark Twain

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-Robert F. Kennedy

The shortest answer is doing.
-English Proverb

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running the risks.
-Theodore Roosevelt