Quotes You Like

@torunn said
“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else."
-- Mark Twain

Attributed to Woody Allen:

I don't want to achieve immortality through my works. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.....

@sonhouse

Funny that.

I thought he was trying to achieve immortality through young girls.

Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
-Robin Williams

your vice is worse than my vice...
-rookie

Attributed to a little boy-

"My bologna has a first name..."

Why must I lose top this idiot!? Aron Nimzovich,, losing to Friedrich Samisch 😲

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.



Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984)

Matt.7. [1] Judge not, that ye be not judged. [2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. [3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Matt.7 - Bible, King James Version

-VR

@very-rusty said
Matt.7. [1] Judge not, that ye be not judged. [2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. [3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Matt.7 - Bible, King James Version

-VR

Ezekiel 39:15
As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human skull will leave a marker beside it until The Gravedigger buries it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.

@the-gravedigger said
Ezekiel 39:15
As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human skull will leave a marker beside it until The Gravedigger buries it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.

New International Version

-VR

@very-rusty said
New International Version

-VR

Yes, I believe it was.

@the-gravedigger said
Yes, I believe it was.

Yes, that is what you quoted and where it comes from. 😉

-VR

"quelques fleurs et toutes les étoiles dans le ciel"
-- Victor Hugo

@caesar-salad said
"quelques fleurs et toutes les étoiles dans le ciel"
-- Victor Hugo

"some flowers and all the stars in the sky"
Victor Hugo

"You can't have everything -- where would you keep it?"
-- Steven Wright

@Very-Rusty -- re: the Hugo quote, I like the English translation that goes "a few flowers and all the stars in the sky" -- just that little difference in cadence, diction, and vowel sounds makes a difference to me.

TBH, I have never read past that section yet -- still sitting with Monseigneur Bienvenu in his little garden.

@very-rusty said
Matt.7. [1] Judge not, that ye be not judged. [2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. [3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Matt.7 - Bible, King James Version

-VR

"Is that a beam in your eye, or are you just happy to see me?"
-- CS

There are many biblical quotes I like even though I am not quite Christian or Jewish, but maybe those should be mentioned in the Spirituality forum instead.

This one is apocryphal or at least non-canonical:

Then He spake unto them, saying: "Now get back out there and give each other hell!"
-- New English Loosely Translated Paraphrase