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i was thinking today that the photos we have in our album seem to be reserved for the most eminently quotable people who have ever lived. Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Voltaire belong to a special class of quotewrights: those whose words are written in the interest of all mankind, and thus find a home in the arsenal of nearly every collector, regardless of race, culture or creed.
Lets see how many more we can come up with by general consensus. Post here with suggestions and we'll expand our collection of uberphilosophs...
Lets see how many more we can come up with by general consensus. Post here with suggestions and we'll expand our collection of uberphilosophs...
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 1:50 AMI would suggest Shakespeare and Einstein. -
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 2:29 AMoh yeah, those are good. any suggestions for representative quoting quotes or self-referencial quotes?
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Sat, June 10, 2006 - 11:06 PMWill Rogers--very homespun with a zing--easy to remember; people still quote him without
remembering where the quote came from. Here are a few:
"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and US senators."
"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
Just a sampling--kate
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 4:27 AMAlso Winston Churchill. -
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 9:57 AMis a little humor welcome? I would nominate mae west and/or w.c. fields. do I hear a second on this motion? -
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 10:51 PMi'll second mae west! -
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Sun, June 11, 2006 - 4:19 AMi looked everywhere for a good mae west quote about quoting, or people repeating what she's said, and i came up with nothing. i think she really belongs in the gallery, but i defer the authority to decide which quote to use to someone more tenacious than i. -
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Sun, June 11, 2006 - 2:34 PMhere are a couple to start:
"a hard man is good to find" - mae west
" when there is a choice between two evils I'll try the one I haven't had yet" -mae west
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Mae West
Sun, June 11, 2006 - 6:59 PMAnything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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Re: Mae West
Sun, June 18, 2006 - 4:28 AM> Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
well, none of those were *exactly* what i was looking for... but this one will do. :)
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Re: Mae West
Sat, July 22, 2006 - 1:14 PMjust ran across this elsewhere on tribes:
"When I am good I am really good
When I am bad I am better" - Mae West -
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Re: Mae West
Thu, August 24, 2006 - 7:12 AManother one -
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" - Mae West -
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Re: Mae West
Thu, August 24, 2006 - 8:04 AMActually, Oscar Wilde used that one long before Mae West:
"I can resist anything but Temptation" -
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Re: Mae West
Thu, August 24, 2006 - 11:33 PMOscar Wilde is the pimp of all pimps. -
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Re: Mae West
Fri, August 25, 2006 - 9:27 AMI second Caleb: www.brainyquote.com/quotes/a...ilde.html -
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Re: Mae West
Sun, August 27, 2006 - 6:13 AMthanks for the ow link glen. great stuff.
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Thu, June 8, 2006 - 1:03 PMand also in the humour, (albeit dark humor) category, I would have to nominate miss Dorothy Parker. she kicks ass. -
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Fri, August 25, 2006 - 6:37 AMDude, dorothy Parker rules!! Her and Charles Bukowski. Allan Moore has some good quotes but Dorothy Parker has a delightfully sharp tounge -
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Sun, August 27, 2006 - 7:38 AM
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, June 7, 2006 - 4:49 PM
Lao-Tsu: "The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.
Confucius: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. "
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Fri, August 25, 2006 - 9:44 PMConfucious: "Before you critisize somebody walk a mile in their shoes, that way, when you critisize them your a mile away and you have their shoes"
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Thu, September 7, 2006 - 10:06 AMyogi berra
"they give you cash, which is just as good as money"
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Mon, September 18, 2006 - 2:34 PMOn a lighter note i'd have to go with samual L. Jackson. I mean come on the man has some damn memeroable quotes.
With the most recent being " Enough is Enough, I've had it with these Mutha Fuckin Snakes on This Mutha Fuckin Plane!!!"
If it weren't actors as good as him we would remember so many lines from movies the way we do now. It's a big part of pop culture.
Thats my two single cent money units. -
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Mon, September 18, 2006 - 7:13 PM"Pig is a filthy animal, I don't eat filthy animals" - Samual L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Fri, November 10, 2006 - 9:30 AM
The left Gate Keeper; Noam Chomsky
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
-Noam Chomsky
He is the most frequently quoted person on the planet, and Chomsky was once described in The New York Times Book Review as "arguably the most important intellectual alive."
www.princeton.edu/~freshman...e/chomsky/
Oh, and as long as I'm putting the left foot forward, Carl Marx.
"Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them, so what good are they?"
-Ammon Hennacy
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Sat, November 11, 2006 - 12:58 PMHi all I'm new here.
"Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not."
- Marcus Aurelius
(don't know what you've got till its gone)
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, December 6, 2006 - 9:27 PMBen Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr, Mark Twain, Malcom X, and Lois McMaster Bujold
No, the last is not a joke, she has more quotes on the internet than any president.
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, May 16, 2007 - 12:33 PM
Shakespeare, Thoreau and H.G. Wells!
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Fri, November 23, 2007 - 9:47 AMAbe Lincoln
"You can fool some of the people, all of the time.
You can fool all of the people, some of the time.
But you can't fool all of the people, all of the time."
One of my favorite quotes, which seems to apply
in many different ways besides fools, foolers and time.
I also wonder if it always true.
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Fri, August 1, 2008 - 4:11 PMC.S. Lewis, by far.
Also, Kurt Vonnegut. I know he's "science fiction" even though he hated that classification, but he's got some amazing quotes.
T.S. Eliot, and e e cummings are some of my favorites, too. -
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Mon, August 25, 2008 - 1:18 PMlol. I say Woody Allen:
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve immortality through not dying." -
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Fri, August 29, 2008 - 9:43 AM> lol. I say Woody Allen:
> "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
good and good.
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Sat, September 26, 2009 - 4:52 AMI think Jane Austen came up with a few good ones including 'the more i see of the world, the more i am dissatisfied with it' - I can certainly identify with that one!
If we're talking humour, I do enjoy a bit of Groucho Marks and Emo Philips
But Twain, Wilde and Churchill have to come up top for me.
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, December 30, 2009 - 5:33 PM
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Re: Most quotable people of all time?
Wed, January 13, 2010 - 3:08 AMhorace greeley:
"i am not wealthy myself, but I have got a wealthy newspaper"
