Profound Quotes

[Connery]

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”~~John Dryden

“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”~~John Dryden

 

[Benzadmiral]

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. -Bette Davis

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -Katharine Hepburn

On that note:

"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."
( -- Dorothy Parker)

 

[LizzieMaine]

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
-- Connie Mack

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"They say that marriage is an institution. Well, I'm not ready for one"
-- Mae West

 

[Angus Forbes]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public" -- H. L. Mencken

 

[LoveMyHats2]

 

[sheeplady]

"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future." -Coco Chanel


Although this is originally a quote about marriage (and a partial piece of the full quote), I believe it is true about all aspects of life:
"... there is no coming to consciousness without pain." -Carl Jung


About the teaching quote- a university years ago turned that saying into "Those that can do, do. Those that can do more, teach." and used it on all their fliers and posters.

 

[PistolPete1969]

These are my personal favorites......used quite often in my life

"Never argue with idiots. Other people cannot tell which is which"
"There are two things in this world that are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. I'm not sure about the former"....Albert Einstein
"The eagle may soar, but the gopher doesn't get sucked into a jet engine".
"If you may something idiot-proof, only idiots will use it"....my dad
"Never buy a house on a hill"....my grandfather
"Never go into business with family or close friends"....my grandfather
"The only thing I have to delcare is my own brilliance"....Oscar Wilde

I have more, but they escape me for the moment

Pete

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"If you may something idiot-proof, only idiots will use it"....my dad

"You can make something fool-proof but you can't make it damn fool-proof."
-- Author Unknown

 

[Flicka]

"I believe in the lust of the flesh and the incurable solitude of the soul."
- Swedish writer Hjalmar Söderberg (1869-1941)

 

[Gromulus]

Some of my favorites ones, although I have no idea who the original authors were:

"Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine"

"When it is all said and done, there is usually more said than done"

" If you think experts are expensive, wait until you see what amateurs cost you"

"It's hard to soar like an eagle when you are flying with turkeys"

I have these posted in my office next to a picture my wife bought me years ago: a Silverback gorilla with the caption Patience my ass - I'm gonna kill something. (She says I bear a resemblance to said primate)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx

 

[LoveMyHats2]

"Never pet a barking dog"

Three fingers Malone

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm sure glad that I bumped this thread!

 

[John in Covina]

"I wish I knew who originated that one so I could see bloody vengeance exercised upon them. The only reason anyone can is because someone who could taught. And believe me, after thirteen years as a professional academic and nineteen years (five of them at university level) in full time education before that, the one thing I am surest of above all else is that were administration left to anyone other than those who far exceed the capabilities (both organisational and interpersonal) of any of the rest of us, there wouldn't be a university left standing on the globe.

In the California State university system the cost has gone up 5 fold increase in the last 25 years, why? In 25 years the number of CSU professors went from 14000 to 15000 but the admin went from 3000 to 9000. (Why? So the dept heads can be told that their minority quotas for their program has not been filled.) How was it that the CSU system was sooooo much better back then and sucks now? Admin parasites.

 

[Chasseur]

"Hard to have champagne tastes on a beer budget."

 

[Flicka]

"How noticeable in the progress of mankind in knowledge is the fact that before the opening of a door hitherto shut, another that has swung wide for generations should be slammed shut and double-bolted."
-Sabine Baring-Gould

And this I found in the memoirs by Swedish early 20th century banker Ernst Thiel (my own translation):

"When the Lord created Woman, he'd dined on champagne. Then the Lord got hung-over, and so he created Man."

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"We are all of us Daffy, Elmer and Wile E. Coyote. We just wish we were Bugs."
- attributed to Chuck Jones

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

I know there's a few threads on movie quotes that are doing well in the movie forum, but I think a thread for general quotations would also be good.

One of my favorites:

"Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity."

--Frank Herbert, in Dune: Messiah
American science fiction novelist (1920-86)

This quotation is pertinent in almost every aspect of society. It says that man inherently fears and distrusts fellow man. Any common bonds man may share in a society are constantly undermined by this suspicion; an animalistic and primal force that has the ability, when conscious effort is not devoted to its eradication, to display the most detestable forms of doubt that exist in human nature. Society must focus on correcting this behavior, or else every charitable and humanitarian effort is essentially corrupt.

I hope that this does not border too closely to political commentary; it is not meant to be. The quote is deeply insightful as to one of the major flaws of humanity, and this is a message important to all walks of life.


Does anyone else care to post a favorite quotation that they have read, and possibly an analysis of it? There is so much insight in the world, but it requires effort to sift through and locate what is sincere.

I imagine that this may become a very interesting thread. No political debates, though please. Respect each other's opinions, etc., etc.

Cheers,

That reminded me of Jung's 'Shadow' concept which I've read about over the years, starting in '06, since I made it a part of my 'spiritual healing'. I can post some quotes that might be related to yours, which are by Jung:

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

"The Stages of Life" (1930). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P.752

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

"The Philosophical Tree" (1945). In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse, and a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. The shadow is very much a part of human nature, and it is only at night that no shadows exist.

"A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity" (1942) In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.286

...those are my favorites by Jung. More can be read here.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Capital is nothing until labor takes hold of it."
-- Rev. David Swing, 1894.