What are some of people's favourite quotes?

[Martin_Madej]

One of mine is from one of my mates that I play poker with and it goes something like this lol.


"blood is thicker then water, but you can drown in it all the same."


Think about it it's deep

[Meissner]

A person without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

An oldie but a goodie

[Lilith]

"Originality is the art of concealing your sources." - Unknown.

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity" - Abraham Lincoln.

[Martin_Madej]

Originally Posted by Lilith

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity" - Abraham Lincoln.

I almost pissed my self with that one.

[simonecuttlefish]

Originally Posted by Lilith

"Originality is the art of concealing your sources." - Unknown.

On that note ...

Copying someone's else's work is called plagiarism, copying lots of peoples work is called research.

[rayne]

Some of my favourite quotes are from Marilyn Manson

Most religions, work with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are "clean again" and can start to sin again without thinking about your old sins. I believe that people should ask themselves why they sinned. They should show some responsibility.

Stop relying on the crutches of religions that have failed us in the past and believe in yourself.

In a perfect world the criterion for anything would be intelligence.

The seeds of who I am now had been planted. "Fools aren't born," I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. "They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity.

We live in a society of victimisation, where people are much more comfortable being victimised than actually standing up for themselves.

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Some others ones:

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious - George Orwell

Voltaire: As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire: It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

If humanity focused less on what separates us from one another and more from what we could learn from our differences, we would stop killing each other.

The true measure of a man’s commitment to gender justice doesn’t just lie in how he treats women but how he interacts with other men when there are no women around.

[owheelj]

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain

[Lilith]

Originally Posted by owheelj

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain

This made me smile and reminded me of the Antoine De St Exupery's turkish astronomer:

Originally Posted by The Little Prince

I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612.
This asteroid has only once been seen through the telescope. That was by a Turkish astronomer, in 1909.
On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what he said.
Grown-ups are like that...
Fortunately, however, for the reputation of Asteroid B-612, a Turkish dictator made a law that his subjects, under pain of death, should change to European costume. So in 1920 the astronomer gave his demonstration all over again, dressed with impressive style and elegance. And this time everybody accepted his report.

[dilbadoon]

My favourite quote is also attributed to Twain, though I think it may not be confirmed.

"Sing like nobody's listening, love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching and live like it's heaven on earth."

My other favourite is Epicurus, who to me so easily sums up the problems that I see with religion.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

[rayne]

Originally Posted by dilbadoon

My other favourite is Epicurus, who to me so easily sums up the problems that I see with religion.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

I've been looking for that quote! Thank you!