Quotes to remember

[C C]

Bertrand Russell: Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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[TheVat]

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

- Noam Chomsky

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Olga]

Love has broken more lives than all wars, and brought more happiness than all dreams of Paradise.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

"You've been playing with your own ding-a-ling"

Chuck Berry

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

"Everything in excess, except moderation."

"Politics is witchcraft."

"Everything has an end, but a sausage has two."

~Richard Perez

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

He not busy being born, is busy dying.

~Bob Dylan

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

"Up against the wall mother fucker"

~Jefferson Airplane

 

[wegs]

Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

In response to the quote in post 3,478:

I used to care, now I don't give a damn.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

"one thing i can tell you is you got to be free"

~The Beatles

 

[Killjoy]

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

Give me liberty, or give me death!

~Patrick Henry

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

"He who thinks deaths' honesty
Won't fall upon him naturally
Must sometimes get lonely."

~Bob Dylan

 

[TheVat]

Great Dylan song.

While preachers preach of evil fates

Teachers teach that knowledge waits

Can lead to hundred-dollar plates

Goodness hides behind its gates

But even the president of the United States

Sometimes must have to stand naked...

 

[Sarkus]

Posting these so that I can link to them in future:...

"A man who quotes others is like a man who borrows money; he shows his lack of independence." - Samuel Johnson

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” - G.K.Chesterton

“Most men do not really want knowledge; they only want the authority of others’ opinions.” - Nietzsche

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

"We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young"

~Jefferson Airplane