Quotes Worth Quoting

[WhiskeySandwich]

@endo I think if you were to look up this words etymology, you may find Snoop Dogg in there somewhere....

[endo]

ah , your Dad and Snoop Dogg

[T4920]

'The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain, and so obvious, and so simple, and yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves'

Alan Watts

One of the quotes I turn to when the trappings of modern life get on top of me...

Saw it painted on a hostel wall many years ago, and never forgot it.

[RobeOfTheMagi]

I listen to the voice of Alan Watts when I cannot sleep.

[T4920]

@RobeOfTheMagi me too!

[T4920]

'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.'
Carl Jung

Haven't been able to stop thinking about this quote since hearing it for the first time a few weeks ago.

[endo]

this just came up to my mind when reading of someone else’s ideals of freedom:

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

[gazza61]

I can resist everything except temptation (Oscar wilde)

[Jord]

You're damned if you do and you're' damned if you don't...

[Graham]

“I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut.”

[mclaincausey]

“I’m going to need to see proof of purchase for your doughnut sir.”

[seawolf]

@mclaincausey File it under "D" for Doughnut.

[Giles]

File it UYA....

[Mizmazzle]

@Graham Mitch is the best!!!

[ManiacLachy]

One of my late father's favourites, I'm sure he got it from somewhere: "Bullshit baffles brains, fucks science, and rules the world"

Seems more apt every day.

[ROman]

@Graham Kind of similar to when I buy a bottle of Vodka, at the same store, and the same brand for years. I tell them if I return it, it wont be in the original bottle. After they ask if I want a receipt.

[Giles]

Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

[mclaincausey]

Civilization is not having much of a go at it these days innit?

[Matt]

[mclaincausey]

Love that one. Reminds me of a situation but I can’t quite put my finger on it.