Quotes I Like, expanded

Mmmm. Mind Candy.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. Carl Jung

"Then she added a prophecy, in which she foretold the end of the divine age, and the coming of a new one. A time in which the summers would be flowerless, the cows milkless, the women shameless and the men strengthless. A time where trees would have no fruit and the seas, no fish."  Prophecy of a Celtic Druidess, 5000bc


"To plunder their neighbor and gain all for themselves is what men want, using god as an excuse."
Firdausi

"The Europeans used to come, some times as raiders, the voracity of whose harm could not be contained and the fire of whose evil could not be quenched".  Saladin, on the christian crusaders, 1174

"Medicine is not one of the more difficult sciences, therefore I excelled in a very short time. To the point where distinguished physicians began to read medicine with me. I healed the sick, and there opened to me indescribable possibilities of therapy, which can only be acquired through experience. At the same time, I was also occupied by Jurisprudence and would engage in legal disputations, being now 16 years of age."  Sina c.1000

"This is the secret of propaganda; those that are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda without ever knowing they are being immersed in it." Joseph Goebbles, Nazi minister of propaganda.

"Government should be kept to a size where it can be conveniently drowned in a bathtub." Grover Norquist

"The greatest problem of men in all history has been the question how to secure both government and liberty. How to preserve order without depriving the individual of initiative, how to weld men into a mass, into a new and higher order, without destroying personal identity. That problem in its most serious sense, is ours. (America's)"   Nicholas Murray Butler.. from an address delivered before the Newport Historic Society, Aug 16, 1915

"The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money bagan to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, however, this process of corruption spread to the law courts and to the army, and finally, when even the sword became enslaved by the power of gold, the republic was subjected to the rule of emperors."  Plutarch, on the effect of money in the demise of the Roman republic.

"Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs or criminals out of so many." Bernard McGrave

"To him who overcometh, will I give some of the hidden manna. I will also give unto him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, known only to him who receives it."    Revelation 2:17

"So when you see standing in the Holy Place, the "Abomination that causes Desolation", spoken of through the prophet Daniel, let the reader understand.
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains." Matthew 24:15

"God does not dwell in temples made with hands." Acts 7:48







"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, either way, you are right."
Henry Ford

"Give me control of a nation's money, and I care not who makes it's laws."
Evelyn Rothchild

"You can stick your nine to five livin, and you can stick your silly rules. I'm no fool."
From a song by AC/DC

"If you want to reach the other shore of existence, give up what is before, behind, and in between. Set your mind free, and go beyond birth and death."
"Our life is shaped by our mind, we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves."
From the Dhammapada

"If a white man wants to give you a hat, look at the one he is wearing, before you accept it."
"You don't become chief by sitting on a tall stump."
"A stump that stays in the river for a hundred years, does not become a crocodile."
Ewe Proverbs, Ghana

"As above, So below. As within, So without."
The Phoenician Tablet, 3000bc

"People deserve the government they get."
Henry Ford

"Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it usually means he expects to get paid for it."
Mencken

"Doctors and Undertakers share a wink, whenever they pass."
Groucho Marx

Lear: "You see how this world goes.."
Gloucester, who is blind: "I see it feelingly.."

The B*****d Muses:
   1. Propaganda, which pleads, sometimes unscrupulously, for a special cause, at the expense of the total truth.
   2. Sentimentality, which works up emotional responses unwarranted by and in excess of the occasion.
   3. Pornography, which focuses on one powerful drive at the expense of the total human personality.
Cleanth Brooks

Apeirokalia: The Greek work for vulgarity, meaning "Lack of experience in things beautiful."

"Con dinero, baile perro."
= "Having money, even dogs will dance."

"To affect the quality of the day, is the highest of the arts."
Henry Thoreau

"You can't teach a pig to sing, It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
I don't know who.

Author's Note

I will try to add to these periodically, I have several thousand.

Reviews

[Creepy Swine Guy]

You have some good stuff in here. I particularly liked ...

"To plunder their neighbor and gain all for themselves is what men want, using god as an excuse."

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

thoughtful ponderables all around~

[Kennedy]

good quoets but some times when a man speaks of his love for his country he doesnt always expect payment but in most cases they do and thats a shame

[Desert Dreamer]

I like the new additions, and the older quotes as well. Thanks for sharing.

[jenniewren (J.W. Bouwma..]

w what? i think these all roll up into a perfect stew of YOU. eclectic wise irreverent and a teeeensy bit world weary.

i'll be keeping an eye on when you edit this *grin*

[Radiohead]

You covered some of my favorites. Ford quotes are great, aren't they? Well done!

[Samuel Dickens]

Meaningful, yes. Entertaining, even more so. Now I know why I love vulgarity.

[Ed Hart]

1. it reads good, and sounds straight forward, but having been wrong on both counts, it doesn't have to be accurate

2. mr rothchild seems to be implying that he is above the law... i'm
thinking there are laws he knows not of

3. if a person goes his way, that is one thing; if that person turns and sends up his middle finger, he will build the same quality of life where he's going, as the one he's leaving

4, 5, and 6. i bow my head

7. i guess if a man speaks ill of his country, he shouldn't expect to get paid for it

8. the man was an a*s hole, and he wasn't funny

9. how else could you really see it like it is

10. propaganda is always selling

sentimentality as a personality trait, is a reality defect
sentimentality at the joy of a child, i like to have it with my coffee

pornography is our one unique ascendance as a life form; apparently no
other creature can afford it

11. apeirokalia...ah, the greeks...the literal meaning of the word is "the back end of a boy's butt"

12. i was broke, buy my (free range) dogs always danced when i came out in the morning

13. you've never seen a pig sing? it's a prerequisite for becoming a politician