NationStates Jolt Archive

For me, it's: "Ask not what America can do for you, but what you can do for America." - some president
i like this cause it sounds cool, not because I believe in it or anything.

"To know the truth is easy; to follow it is difficult." - Chinese Proverb

"The Truth is more important than the facts" - Frank Lloyd Wright

"War is gods way of teaching Americans geography" Some dude who's name I have forgoten and I am not making it up. I'll look it up if you want.

My usual apologies, I'm not generalising or saying that you are all like that. I'm not looking for a fight, it is just honestly my favourite quote because it is funny as hell.

For me, it's: "Ask not what America can do for you, but what you can do for America." - some president


"Ask not what you can do for your country, what's your country has been doing to you" - The Avengers, "The American In Me", 1978.

"We will never surrender"- Churchill

"The only different betwen genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.

-- The Life and Times of Corporal Nobbs (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

Or really, any Terry Pratchett, from any of his books.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx

"I'd rather have 2 German Divisions in front of me than a French Division behind me."- General Patton.

The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.

-- The Life and Times of Corporal Nobbs (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

Or really, any Terry Pratchett, from any of his books.
hahaha, :lol: I agree, far too many to select one quote!

"War is gods way of teaching Americans geography" Some dude who's name I have forgoten and I am not making it up. I'll look it up if you want. :lol: :lol:

"An eye for an eye makes everyone blind."
-My man Mohandus K. Ghandi

"We see things not as they are, but as we are."
-Anonymous

"you have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything" - anon.

The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.

-- The Life and Times of Corporal Nobbs (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

Or really, any Terry Pratchett, from any of his books.
hahaha, :lol: I agree, far too many to select one quote!

"War is gods way of teaching Americans geography" Some dude who's name I have forgoten and I am not making it up. I'll look it up if you want. :lol: :lol:

You've tempted me into one more :

They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

-- Discworld scientists at work (Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites)

"I came, I saw, I conquered" Julius Caesar, speaking of Britain.

"May God grant me a sword, and never a use for it." -Polish proverb

"When the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." -Italian proverb

"Wipe them out. All of them." -Darth Sidious

i agree with you, in theory. Communism works, in theory - Homer Simpson to Marge

"The Best arguement against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter" Winston Churchill

"Oh they have the internet on computers now" Homer Simpson

"i am unique just like eveybody else" anon

"Those rebels coudnt hit an elephant at this dist- THWACK" last words of Gen Sedgewick

One I use as a sig on another forum:

"It is not having been inside the dark house, but having left it, that matters."
-Teddy Roosevelt

"I disagree with your opinions but would die to protect your right to express them."

- Voltaire, if I'm not mistaken.

I believe every word you said. [how to tell the bigger lie in just six words]. I think that was Mark Twain that originally said that.

"When all is said and done... more is said than done." - Anon

I said I'd make a mousemat with that on once, but you know...

Aidan

"I disagree with your opinions but would die to protect your right to express them."

- Voltaire, if I'm not mistaken.

It's commonly misattributed to him, I believe it was in some book written by a woman whose name I cannot remember. I present a convincing arguement, I know.

Mine would be:
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
-Mahatma Gandhi

OR

"Philosophy is to real life what masturbation is to sex."
-Karl Marx

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, working for the worst of reasons, will somehow be to the benefit to us all."
-- John Maynard Keynes

or possibly

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
-- Plato

“Wise men choose death over war, wiser men choose not to be born.”
“Do they possess the darkness, or does it possess them? No matter, they shall die.”
Angelus
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Out of all the demons in this world, none is more frightening than man

"I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcome obstacles to succeed in the end. Life isn't like that, it just isn't."
-Charlie Kaufman

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children"

---Dan Quayle

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children"

---Dan Quayle

That's priceless!

"Live or Die, but don't poison everything." -- Anne Sexton quoting Pushkin, I believe.

or, that old standby...

"Arguing on the Internet is like competing in the Special Olympics: Even if you win, you're still retarded." -- About a million message board posters, myself included.

From the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle, last sentance:

"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!"

:twisted:

DP

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children"

---Dan Quayle

That's priceless!

Thanks, thats my personal favourite :P Some of the g.w Bush ones are funny too :)

Someone said to Winston Churchill, if I was your wife, I'd serve you poison coffee, Churchill replied: "If I was your husband I'd drink it."