OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

Originally Posted by 273 I found out a couple of hours ago that the comedian, writer and actor Rik Mayall who was responsible for uttering my more frivolous quote died today. I wish I'd have found a quote from the man himself.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-o...lliant-7241525

I really liked him in the young ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnZnnkJxoC8

“I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying”
― Rowan Atkinson
http://youtu.be/-Gr0Fa_QPNU

Originally Posted by sycamorex http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-o...lliant-7241525 I really liked him in the young ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnZnnkJxoC8

I saw him live a few years ago in Bottom Live 4 -- it was rude, crude, childish at times but very funny and with some intelligent observations.
I can't find a reference, therefore I don't know who wrote it, but I remember in Bottom Eddie saying something like "My relative was in The Great War!" to which Ritchie replied "But war is never great, it's s***". "Ah," replies Eddie "OK, my relative was in the in the s****y war.".
I know the above isn't exactly philosophy but it always made me think as well as chuckle.

“There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.” -- Koren Zailckas

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.-- Joe Strummer

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for

crime

whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".--Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Killing in the name of... --http://youtu.be/QNzIKoAy2pk

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
--Dalai Lama

"We're pro-choice. We think everyone should have the right to smoke pot or not. "
--Bud (Sublime)

"Forget what hurt you in the past but never forget what it taught you. Everybody deserves second chances, but not for the same mistakes." duuu

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. ”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

We fought to survive - we fought back
From the oppression of our own lives
We fight against what’s wrong
Because it’s us against the world
We fight to live our lives, we fight back
To live the way we want and strive
We fight against what’s wrong
Because it’s us against the world
Us against the world

--Agnostic Front (Us Against the World)

“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great." [Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
― Slavoj Žižek

Respect my authoritah!

"Capitalism has created an accounting apparatus in the shape of the banks, syndicates, postal service, consumers' societies, and office employees' unions. Without big banks socialism would be impossible."

"First Published: October 14, 1917 in the magazine Prosveshcheniye No. 1-2. Published according to the magazine text. Source:Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 26, 1972, pp. 87-136"

https://www.marxists.org/archive/len.../oct/01.htm#1n

Highly debatable.

Optimist - The glass is half full. Pessimist - The glass is half empty. Fatalist - The water will evaporate. Feminist - All glasses are equal. Realist - Glass is half drunk. Engineer - Glass aint big enough. Narcissist - Look at me in the glass! Evangelist - The glass must repent. Capitalist - Sell the glass. Anarchist - Break the glass. Psychologist - How does the glass feel about the water? Communist - This glass is for everyone in equal measure Nihilist - The glass does not exist, and neither do I Sexist - The glass isn't gonna fill itself darling... Racist - Where's that boy with my glass Rapist - Just watch your glass!

The Pessimist sees only the dark in the tunnel. The optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel. The realist sees a train coming in the tunnel. The train driver sees three complete pr!*ks sitting on the fu*k!ng railway line.

To add to the above: the glass is full -- half full of liquid and half full of air. (Me)

" all we are is dust in the wind" --Kansas

Originally Posted by jamison20000e Engineer - Glass aint big enough.

I work with a few engineers that confused. But I don't think it is typical. Perhaps you misquoted.

I questioned more than just that one... I was looking for the one that starts basic "the optimist says ... the pessimist says ..." then states "the capitalist drinks the water" but I went with it. :/ http://www.sickipedia.org/getjokes/similar/142457

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it"
– Yogi Berra

I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.– Frederick Douglass, Speech Given at Rochester, New York [July 5, 1852]