Quotes that you like

["couldbecousin"]

  "You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse.
   You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."

  --- Ripley,  Aliens

[TheoK]

"Here is Europe - a motley madhouse."

Kurt Tucholsky

[TheoK]

"If you have a rotten tooth you have two choices - to have it pulled or to fill it up with gold. With d'Annunzio I have chosen the latter."

Mussolini

In 1944 Mussolini admitted that he had been wrong and that d'Annunzio had been right, though it's still a brilliant expression.

[earthboundmisfit]

Not all who wander are lost

[bodie]

 "Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
 

[Lestat]

There once was a young lady from Venus,

Whose body was shaped like a penis.

Her husband, so brash, was shaped like an ass.


Not sure why exactly, but I immediately thought 'this has to be DFG's handiwork' in the news box,

But their vagina shaped kid was a genius.

[TheoK]

"Every time someone's rudeness upsets you, ask yourself: does it exist people in the world that aren't rude? That's not possible. Thus, don't demand the Impossible."

Marcus Aurelius

[TheoK]

"If an evil stems from yourself, why do you do it? If it stems from someone else, who do you accuse? Maybe the atoms or the gods? Both are senseless. No-one is to accuse here. Thus, if you can, improve the one from whom it originates; but if you can't, then at least improve the case itself; can't you do that either, what good will the accusations do for you? Because without a cause, one should not do anything."

Marcus Aurelius

[TheoK]

"If someone slays a Swede or a Smålander, a man from the kingdom, but not a West Geat, he will pay eight örtugar and thirteen marks, but no wergild. [...] If someone slays a Dane or a Norwegian, he will pay nine marks. If someone slays a foreigner, he shall not be banished and have to flee to his clan. If someone slays a foreign priest, he will pay as much as for a fellow countryman. A priest counts as a free man. If a Southerner is slain or an Englishman, he shall pay four marks to the plaintiff and two marks to the king."

Elder Westrogothic Law, about 1225. A "Southerner" is a German.

 

[TheoK]

"Ick liebe dir - ick liebe dick. Dat wees ick nich - und is mir ooch Pomade."

Berlin dialect

[TheoK]

"I am as great as God, he is as small as me.
He can not above me, I not beneath him be."

Angelus Silesius

[TheoK]

"Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated you will be thought to have deserved it."

"Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals."

"Great empires are not maintained by timidity."

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

Tacitus

[TheoK]

"People, knight and those oppressing,
at all times they will agree:
earthly children's highest blessing
is just Personality."

Goethe

[Trigger 11]

"Guns don't kill people, people WITH guns kill people!" -Trigger 11

[MissKitty]

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where you're headed”
― Jodi Picoult