the quote thread

[SoCal]

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”

¯ Mark Twain

[avp60685]

Quotes from the Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas:

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

When one loves, one always believes in love.

We will not pay for our freedom with a single promise of silence.

[SoCal]

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”

¯ Natalie Babbitt

[AntiArbitrator]

All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you. --Galdalf

[gilmorefanalways]

It was some kind of beautiful peace we found out there in those sweet summer days

[SoCal]

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

¯ Charles Lamb

[avp60685]

Aramis: Perhaps you should take his offer. We're dead anyway.
Porthos: He's right, D'Artagnan.
Phillippe: Wait. Bargain me to Louis for all your lives. You've done your best. Please let me go.
D'Artagnan: No, I cannot do it. Even if I could give up my king, I could never give up my son.
[they all look at him, thunderstruck]
Phillippe: Your son?
D'Artagnan: I loved your mother. I love her still. You are my son. I never knew you existed. And I never felt pride as a father... until this moment.


Porthos: [the Musketeers have just broken into the Bastille to free Philippe] It worked!
Athos: Of course; it's a prison. There's no trouble getting in, the problems will come when we want to get out.

D'Artagnan: Anne, to love you is treason against France. But not to love you is treason against my heart.


Athos: [to Phillipe] Once I, once all of us, believed in serving something greater than ourselves. Aramis had his faith, Porthos his lust for life, D'Artagnan his devotion and I had Raoul. But we all had a common dream. That one day we would finally be able to serve a king who was worthy of the throne. It is what we dreamt, what we bled for, and what we have waited a lifetime to see. I taught Raoul to believe in that dream, and now my son is dead. And now I want to know if my son's life was in vain, and the only person who can answer that is you.

Phillippe: [to Athos after D'Artagnan's funeral ends] Athos... after all you have done, I must ask you one more service. Let me love you like a son to a father. And I pray you live for this: to love me like your son.
[Athos kisses Phillipe's breast and walks away]

[SoCal]

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

--Robert Green Ingersoll

[SoCal]

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Thomas Sowell

[SoCal]

“Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms.

If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.”


¯ Chris Rose

[jamesottosweethart]

^^^ Amen.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

[avp60685]

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”


“It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”



“True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)”

From the book "Anne of Green Gables"

[SoCal]

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

-Terry Pratchett

[avp60685]

"To truly love someone is to see the face of God" from Les Miserables the musical!

[SoCal]

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

-John Adams

[avp60685]

Lyrics to I dreamed a dream:

There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid

No song unsung
No wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we'll live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.

[SoCal]

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”


¯ Friedrich Nietzsche

[SoCal]

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
¯ Bette Davis

[gilmorefanalways]

we're all aching for some unobtainable peace

[SoCal]

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

¯ J.R.R. Tolkien,

[mercurytheatre]

“Slowly, slowly the whole world was suffused with that strange orange glow which happens rarely toward sunset. The clouds turned to gold as the sun moved behind them, and the reflection of the clouds colored the earth. I have never seen the Gulf so quiet. There were no ripples, no birds, no sign of feeding fish, no offshore vessels moving across the horizon. I had seen this strange coppery light in Tahiti, in Ceylon (before it became Sri Lanka), and in Granada and the Grenadines. The world must have looked like that before the first creatures came crawling out of the salt water to spawn on the empty land. I turned my head and saw, beyond the shoulder of my beloved, the empty copper sea, hushed and waiting, as if the world had paused between breaths. Perhaps it was like this in the beginning, and will be like this again, after man has slain every living thing. Sand, heat, and water. And death.”

[SoCal]

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

-Soren Kierkegaard

[AntiArbitrator]

Ouch!

[SoCal]

As Peter Schickle, creator of PDQ Bach said......"Truth is is truth. You can't have an opinion about truth."

[AntiArbitrator]

[SoCal]

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

¯ Charles Bukowski

[jamesottosweethart]

^^^ Amen to that one definitely.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

[avp60685]

Joan D'Arc: You seem troubled, Captain.
La Hire: Yes, I'm troubled! Attacking Paris is madness! The walls are too high; our ladders may not even reach the top. And as for me, I'm paid to fight soldiers, not tradesmen.
Joan D'Arc: Are you still, after all, just a mercenary?
La Hire: Paris is neither an enemy nor a friend.
Joan D'Arc: Our Lord said, "He who is not with me, is against me."
La Hire: With Jesus... or with Joan?

From the miniseries "Joan of Arc"

[SoCal]

“Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.”

¯ Taylor Caldwell

[SoCal]

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”


¯ Bill Watterson