Favourite quotes

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Brothers,what we do today echoes in eternity (Russel Crowe in Gladiator )

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Winston Churchill

My favorite quotes are :

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

foul tasting thing. hit it again!

essenric the talking longsword from neverwinter nights

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

illus!on!sT a scris:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

Is that a quote? Who by?

Rogeroo a scris:

Is that a quote? Who by?

some american dude...his name evades my memory anyway, he inspired other dudes to go into forests

Still, my favourite quote remains: Think before you act .

Rogeroo a scris:

Is that a quote? Who by?

Yes,is a quote from "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau