Raven Nightshade wrote:

"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." --Rev. Jesse Jackson

"You have entered the fabulous door to the north.  There is an elf with super shoes in front of you."

Ragnarok wrote:

satyreyes wrote:

Who knew Assyrians were so hung, though?  Gonna make the Israelites jealous...

Not so, overly long penises are "shameful!"

You're kidding.  Really?  Wow.  According to whom?

dollface wrote:

Hebrew folklore, I believe.

Wow.  Good thing I'm not Hebrew.

Everything good has to be bad, doesn't it? 

satyreyes wrote:

Raven Nightshade wrote:

"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." --Rev. Jesse Jackson

"You have entered the fabulous door to the north.  There is an elf with super shoes in front of you."

I think I love you.

And here's an actual contribution: "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire

Frosty wrote:

Dorothy Parker 1893-1967 wrote:

Resume
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

I had never read it, but it reminds me of something I can't find right now Nevermind.

He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven (aka, my favorite lines ever written)
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Stormcrow wrote:

“I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host”

That is SO awesome! I swear I'm going to stand up and read that at the next AA meeting!!!

Elizabeath Barret Browning wrote:

"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, sir, I say.
Colours seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day.

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Deep hearted man, express
Grief for they dead in silence like to death;
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe,
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it the marble eyelids are not wet--
If it could weep, it could arise and go

Straightaway I was 'ware
So weeping, how a mystic shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair
And a voice said in mastery while I strove...
"Guess who now holds thee?" --
"Death", I said, but there
The silver answer rang..."Not Death, but Love."

Sexy! On a more pleasant note:

Richard Lovelace wrote:

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free;
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

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Frosty wrote:

Elizabeath Barret Browning wrote:

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Glad to know I'm not the only one who likes these Sonnets!!!
Here they're not really well known...

Then I will look for my favourite
Edit: looks like I can't find anything today
But I found some Emily Dickinson!

Emily Dickinson wrote:

Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.

[Ummm... may I say I prefer the translation? Is that heresy? ]

Another one:

Federico García Lorca wrote:

The Dawn, from A Poet in New York

Light is buried under chains and noises
in impudent challenge of rootless science.
Throught the suburbs there are people who vacillate sleepless,
as though just delivered from a shipwreck of blood.

That's surrealism at its best

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e.e. cummings was a dirty old man.

i like my body when it is with your
   body. It is so quite a new thing.
   Muscles better and nerves more.
   i like your body. i like what it does,
   i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
   of your body and its bones, and the trembling
   -firm-smooth ness and which i will
   again and again and again
   kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
   i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
   of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
   over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big Love-crumbs,

   and possibly i like the thrill

   of under me you quite so new

A good friend of mine got me interested in his poetry when she sent me "somewhere I have never travelled" telling me that whenever she read it, all she could think about was me. It has one of my favorite single lines in any piece of poetry.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility

Gives me chills.

Also, Stormcrow, I loves me some Joan Osborne.

I dreamed about Ray Charles last night
He took me flying in the air
Showed my own spider webs
Said, "Honey, you had best take care.
The world is made of spider webs
The threads are stuck to me and you
Be careful what you're wishing for
'Cause when you gain you just might lose

And because I'm a cynic at heart.

Something Positive wrote:

You always struck me as the sort to sell a friend for thirty pieces of silver if you weren't so lazy.

Something Positive wrote:

An Angel: Lord, I know you like watching shit happen to that guy, but, you see, there's this war about to happen, and the prayers are really backing up
God: Shhh! You're gonna make me miss the look of complete horrific realization and that's the best part!

Something Positive wrote:

I used to think every day I woke up and didn't gargle a few rounds from a revolver was a victory, but little 'golden' moments like this make me wonder, 'A victory for who?'

Something Positive wrote:

Y'know, it's not that God assfucks me every chance he gets that pisses me off so much as that annoying laughter of his I constantly hear in the back of my mind.

Last edited by morosemocha (06-21-2007 06:35:36 AM)

morosemocha wrote:

e.e. cummings was a dirty old man.

i like my body when it is with your
   body. It is so quite a new thing.
   Muscles better and nerves more.
   i like your body. i like what it does,
   i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
   of your body and its bones, and the trembling
   -firm-smooth ness and which i will
   again and again and again
   kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
   i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
   of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
   over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big Love-crumbs,

   and possibly i like the thrill

   of under me you quite so new

Oh, I had forgotten about this one!!!
It was the prologue to a beautiful fanfic I read once (RemusxSirius, in case you wondered).

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm."”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.”

And his final note before his death in 11th of January, 2007:

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

"I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd."

Really, he has too many great quotes for me to choose from. These are some of the most memorable.

Hail Eris! All hail Discordia! Hail Bob!

I like my music like I like my life: Everything louder than anything else!

that reminds me of one of my favorite Eddie Izzard gems:

I like my women like I like my coffee -COVERED IN BEEEEEEES!

Haven't found these yet while skimming through so I thought I'd share.

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool - shun him.    
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child - teach him.    
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep - wake him.    
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man - follow him.

-Chinese proverb

(that used to be on the door of our french room in school, I literally memorized it. Thinking about it now, I probably move between child and asleep.)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

-Ghandi

So Anthy, Shiori and I are not happy then. No??

(That quote is on the wall in my college)

Nah. Not Mari, she's totally doing that whole I'll bully you because I like you thing, kids do at that age. She's as fucked up as the rest of them. I see a budding sarcastic when she reaches the age of the rest of the cast.

Really?? Tokiko? Oh yea, yea probably. Though for someone who should be happy, she seemed pretty miserable when she turned up ag-oh....oh wait, oh, oh yes, the whole Mikage, robot, thingie, right, okay, cool.



Has someone already said this one, because it is sooooo me:

"You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood"

"What mood is that?"

"Last-minute panic.” O.O



This sounds like something I would say:

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

My sister just had a baby boy yesterday. Funny I came across this.



I was just having a conversation with Shiroi and this slipped out:

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”

Notice how hard I am trying NOT to write any Merphy's laws.....trying....trying so hard

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