quotes

The game is rather simple. You post a famous quote or you quote a famous person & the next poster says he either agrees or disagrees with said quote, after which he posts another quote. Since it's so simple, I hope it'll survive for more than 2 pages...

so...

poster 1 quotes...

Oscar Wilde said:
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Poster 2 agrees or disagrees with it (you can say why you agree or disagree with it, but you don't have to) & posts his own quote

Frederick Nietsche said:
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Poster 3 agrees or disagrees with it & once again posts a quote.

Please mention who you're quoting.

Since I started this thread I'll post my first quote...

Oscar Wilde said:
Everything popular is wrong.
 
i agree, popularity usually has more to do with ease and homogeneity rather than what's best or most outstanding

evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
-jean-paul sartre
 
Agreed. "Evil" is an arbitrary, abstract concept. Actions have no moral value by themselves, because morals are always subject to personal interpretation.

the Who said:
Hope I'll die before I get old
 
I agree.... I'm afraid of becoming a drooling guy who wets his own pants & isn't even aware of it. Please let me die before that happens.

Genghis Khan said:
The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.
 

vodkazvictim

Why save the world, when you can rule it?
I agree.... I'm afraid of becoming a drooling guy who wets his own pants & isn't even aware of it. Please let me die before that happens.

Disagree. Soup is better according to mr Pratchett.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs - Lenin
 
Wrong. I have seen instant omelette dough at my local supermarket. You just have to squeeze the fluid from the bottle into the hot pan.

W.C. Fields said:
"Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one."
 
^ I don't completely agree or disagree. As time goes on, perception changes and facts becomes inaccurate.


(So, I'll take it that no one either agrees or disagrees with my last one.)
Here's another:

If Rock and Roll doesn't reinvent itself, it probably deserves to die.
- Gene Simmons
 
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