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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Mar 7th at 2:28am 2006

I was buying chapstick today when I noticed one of those flowery type greeting cards. There was a watercolor painting of a sunrise and this underneath:

? quoting Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.


I'm not religous, I don't believe there's an afterlife, and maybe it's because I'm so lightheaded from giving blood today, but something about the quote really grabbed me. So much so that I walked back to my room and created a thread just to showcase it, and any other quotes worth sharing.

I'm sure many of you have quotes you particularly like (I know Juim shared one with us in the Philosophizer's thread recently) or that you live by etc.

Here's the place.




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Posted by French Toast on Tue Mar 7th at 2:40am 2006

Wasn't there already a "Favorite Quotes" thread?

Anyways, here's a good one;

? quoting Scott Adams
If I were king, I?d make attempted suicide punishable by death. That?s a win-win scenario.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Mar 7th at 2:44am 2006

Yes there was, but it was favorite movie quotes and the threads locked now.

Just to illustrate the differences between the two here's the lead off quote from that thread:

? quoting $loth
I would have to say that my fav quote froma movie would have to be from LOTR when gollum/smeagle calls sam a 'Fat little Hobbit'.

Whats your favourite?


So, to the best of my knowledge a serious type quote thread hasn't been done before.





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Posted by FatStrings on Tue Mar 7th at 2:48am 2006

"Nobody is perfect. Well there was this one guy, but we killed him."

i found this in Christopher Moore's book Lamb
the quote was on a blank page between books
i highly recommend it by the way




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Posted by French Toast on Tue Mar 7th at 4:11am 2006

Then that makes three quote threads... I remember another one...




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Mar 7th at 4:34am 2006

Before I made my thread I searched "Quote" and the only relevant thread it turned up was Sloths.

I just researched except this time I searched "Quotes" and the thread you started last May came up.

I feel silly now especially since I posted in the thread ... but its funny that you barely remembered your own thread. I guess I wasn't zealous enough in my searching the first time.

http://www.snarkpit.net/forums.php?forum=1&topic=5106&highlight=quotes




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Mar 7th at 2:17pm 2006

Dark Tree just pointed out that I'm an idiot.

I somehow forgot about Orphs Recently Quoted thread.

Talk about forum faux pas.

/frustrated




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Posted by French Toast on Tue Mar 7th at 8:49pm 2006

Man, I sounded way different in May '05. It's funny to look back at my earliest posts <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Mephs on Wed Mar 8th at 1:14am 2006

"Better to be pissed off, than pissed on"

own personal take on it; better for people to be angry with you than walk all over you (fairly literal)


EDIT: due to italic glitches it took me around 7 or 8 times to even make the above postable... insert the obvious "if first you dont...." <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by French Toast on Wed Mar 8th at 3:16am 2006

If at first you don't succeed, give up and try something else.

If life gives you lemons, choke on 'em and die. You stupid lemon eater.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Mar 8th at 3:24am 2006

? quoting Mephs
"Better to be pissed off, than pissed on"

own personal take on it; better for people to be angry with you than walk all over you (fairly literal)


EDIT: due to italic glitches it took me around 7 or 8 times to even make the above postable... insert the obvious "if first you dont...."


My freshman year in College the roommates across the hall never seemed to get along. Chris was a good guy, a rugby player with a tendency to get really drunk. His roommate Jamie was a ferrety type who no one really liked and he always seemed to be pissed off for no good reason.

In the middle of the night after an evening of drinking, Chris climbs down off the top bunk and proceeds to piss all over Jamie. It may sound terrible but everyone on the hall gave Chris a pat on the back when they heard what happened, even though Chris claims he can't remember doing it. Jamie, of course, was furious about it all. He requested a room change and effectively kicked Chris out of the room. The next day, an anonymous joker wrote on their whiteboard: "Jamie: either pissed off or pissed on"

I enjoyed it at least

Now for a good quote from the opening of Giving Up the Gun:

? quoting Charles Lamb
Alas! Can we ring the bells
backward? Can we unlearn the arts
that pretend to civilize and then
burn the world? There is a march of
science; but who shall beat the drums
for its retreat?





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Posted by Loco on Wed Mar 8th at 8:07am 2006

? quoting French Toast
If life gives you lemons, choke on 'em and die. You stupid lemon eater.

Hooray for Dilbert! (and of course, Sourpuss)


My site



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Posted by Foxpup on Fri Mar 10th at 5:31am 2006

Humans aren't at the centre of the universe. - DEVO

History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce. - Karl Marx


Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Mar 10th at 6:19am 2006

? quoting Foxpup

History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce. - Karl Marx


I like that one <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">





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