NationStates Jolt Archive

Just put down your favorite quote, NS or anything else. Have at it


This one is mine
"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out!" - Bishop Hugh Latimer to Bishop Nicholas Ridley

"More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol" -W.C. Fields

"And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good -
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"

Socrates, filtered through Plato,and then once more through Robert Pirsig

The one in my signature.

You can get a lot farther with a kind word
and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
Al 'Scarface' Capone

fight club- there that whole movie is my quote

"Don't keep all your baskets in one egg"- my dad

"Bullshit!!!!! I bet you could suck a Golfball through a garden hose!!!!!"

i'll think of more later

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." William Blake

"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane" -Mark Twain

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.

Friendly fire - isn't.

Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is
full of amateurs.

The greatest weight.— What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you in your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!"— Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine!" If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are or perhaps crush you; the question in each and every thing, "Do you desire this once more, and innumerable times more?" would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight! Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal? —

Nietzsche

(of course, I could post thousands, but Im really liking that one right now)

I really thought I’d gone to his house, you know, to heal our spiritual divide. But it turns out I was just gagging for a shag. Those two are so similar.

Jane in Coupling

"Of course I'm paranoid everyone's trying to kill me"

Weyon, DS9, "Trechery, faith and the great river"

My honourable sir, you are drunk!

Madam, I may be drunk, but you are ugly. And in the morning, I will be sober, but you will still be ugly.

William Churchill, of course.

"Of course I'm paranoid everyone's trying to kill me"

Weyon, DS9, "Trechery, faith and the great river"
Relating to that-
Paranoia is having all the facts.
I believe again William S. Burroughs.

"All problems can be solved by setting them on fire." - Me.

No sober man dances unless he happens to be mad.

I can't remember who this was, but:

A successful man is one who earns more than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I don't know, the sexist ones are just funnier.

"One day we will all be dead"- John Maynard Keynes

"Death solves all problems, dead man equals dead problem"-Joseph Stalin

No sober man dances unless he happens to be mad.
Apparently I can only think of quotes in contexts....

I feel sorry for those of you who don't drink. When you wake up in the morning that's the best you're ever gonna feel.
-Frank Sinatra

"One day we will all be dead"- John Maynard Keynes

"Death solves all problems, dead man equals dead problem"-Joseph Stalin

Somone likes death... so do I.

Pretty much anything that starts with, "Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

- Brain

Pretty much anything that starts with, "Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

- Brain

"I think so brain, but where are we gonna find a Cheese-Grater at this time of night?"

*WHAM!*

"The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race."

E.G. "Gough" Whitlam, Australian Prime Minister.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

Mahatma Ghandi

"There was a roar like the scream of a camel who has just seen two bricks."

Terry Pratchett, "Soul Music"

"Why cant people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?"

Ford gave out a loud very hollow laugh "42!" he said

DNA RIP

"hodiernus dies aptus est ad moriendum"
(today is a good day to die) - dunno who

"it's got big sharp pointy teefs!"
-the enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"All your base are belong to us"

"Life is demanding without understanding!" Ace of Base - The sign

"640kB ought to be enough for everyone" Bill Gates

"God does not play dice with the universe"
-Albert Einstein

fight club- there that whole movie is my quote

FUCK YEAH! (sorry, let me have my testosterone moment ladies).

And my personal favorite for the times:
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin

"I love it when a plan comes together"

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

A mexican rebels famous last words in the early 20th Century were:

"Don't let it end like this, tell them I said something famous"

:D

Apparently I can only think of quotes in contexts....

I feel sorry for those of you who don't drink. When you wake up in the morning that's the best you're ever gonna feel.
-Frank Sinatra

I believe that quote is from Dino, not Frank.

Apparently I can only think of quotes in contexts....

I feel sorry for those of you who don't drink. When you wake up in the morning that's the best you're ever gonna feel.
-Frank Sinatra
Not directed at your charming self but I like it none the less, I'm afraid I am paraphrasing and can't remember if it was Churchil or Groucho but..

'Yes madam I may be drunk, but in the morning I will be sober, you however will still be ugly.'

Or Churchills famous one.

Sir if you were my husband I would poison your tea.
Madam if you were my wife I would drink it!

Or groucho to some film starlet (help me out here)

G. Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?
Actress. Yes
G Would you sleep with me for a dollar?
A. No. What do you think I am?
G. I thought we had established that and were now haggling the price.

Everyone would like to live long, but no one would be old.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Caught in the act, the woman fears for her dowry." -Horace

"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." -- C. S. Lewis, "The Chronicles of Narnia"

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. -- Socrates

Homer: [to Bart in Japanese, subtitled:] Should we tell them the secret of
inner peace?
Bart: [Japanese, subtitled:] No, they are foreign devils.

-Markreich,
"Member of Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force 1991-1950."

"Atheists are people who have no invisible means of support." ~unknown (by me at least)

The following all by Neil Gaiman:

"Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal."

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."

"Our existence deforms the universe. That's responsibility."

"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."

[QUOTE=Rejistania
"640kB ought to be enough for everyone" Bill Gates[/QUOTE]

It's actually: "640kB ought to be enough for ANYone". :)

Note: He said this in *1980*, and at the time even a 16kb (8088) PC cost about $3000 (or about $6697 today!))

My final point about alchohol, about drugs, about Pornography...What business is it of your's what I do, read, buy, see or take into my body as long as I don't harm another human being whilst on this planet? And for those of you having a little moral dilemna on how to answer this, I'll answer for you. NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS Take that to the bank, cash it and take it on a vacation outta my fucking life. And stop bringing shotguns to UFO sightings, they might be here to pick me up and take me with 'em.

- Bill Hicks

Im goiing through a bit of a bill hicks time at the moment.

"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution." - V.K. Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior to General A.N. Kuropatkin, Minister of War, 200 Ante-Diaspora (1903 C.E.), on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." - Robert Lynd (224–154 Ante-Diaspora)


Prologue of "Honor Harrington III: A Short Victorious War" by David Weber

"If you want a lot of space, buy a field"
(Jeremy Clarkson on the practicalities of driving a Ferrari)

"Political Power comes through the power of a gun." - Mao

"One man who has a gun can control a thousand who don't." - Lenin

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is but a statistic." - Stalin

"What fortune for governments that the people do not think." - Hitler

"I'll do everything I can to help Prime Minister Blair and Bertie Onion and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, now I wanna go and eat a hamburger." - W Bush

"I will smoke if I want. It's not HIS building." - Russia's UN ambassador on Kofi Annan, who banned smoking in the UN HQ.

"Anyone can make a throne of thorns. But you can't sit on it for long." - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin

"People who boast about their IQ's are losers." - Professor Stephen Hawking

"The Human race is more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H G Wells

"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Einstein

"Men will still say: This was their finest hour." - Winston Churchill

My favorite quote is:
"Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

"Shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more, and then when everybody's dead, try to ask a question"

From Wild Wild West with Will Smith...

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his." - General George Patton.

"Ours is an unrivaled constitution. So far from owing anything to our neighbors, it sets the standard for them... And we are remarkable for other qualities. We are lovers of beauty, and with us it is within the reach of all. We care deeply for things of the mind, but this does not make us soft. Wealth is with us a means to creative activity. Poverty itself we are never ashamed to admit. The disgrace lies in failure to struggle against it..." - Pericles

Lord Percy "vanished, like an old oak table"
Blackadder "Varnished?"
Percy "No vanished, we have this oak table that misteriously vanished. It was the night of the great fire of London.."

"Ezekiel 25:17

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is The Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Pulp Fiction-Samuel l Jackson

Prologue of "Honor Harrington III: A Short Victorious War" by David Weber
Sweet, another Honor fan.


God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players,* to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with balcnk cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. * i.e., everbody.
- Good Omens

It's a popular fact that 90% of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary grey goo if its only real purpose was, eg, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys, it is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, and turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, forced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "WOW" a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels
- Small Gods

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. - DA

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams

My favorite quote is:
"Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"
The full quote goes, "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?"

I believe that quote is from Dino, not Frank.
No, its Frank, I have it on a picture of him in my living room. :)

To those who understand, I extend my hand
To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am
Not under your command, I know where I stand
I won't change to fit your plan, Take me as I am

Conformity is bad...stop living in a world of following and doing what others do just to be like them...that's basically what this is saying..."As I Am" by Dream Theater

My favorite quote is:
"Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

This is a misquote, it should be, "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely" - Lord Acton (I think)

Ralph Wiggam - "My cat's breath smells like cat food."

"Whenever I'm not orange, I'm blue"
-Me (Yep, orange is my favorite color :cool: )

"In the name of all good and orange in this world..."
-Me (again...)

"If the sentence 'I think therefore I exist' was true, many people weren't with us today..."
-Unknown

Everything by Douglas Noel Adams (DNA - RIP):
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move"
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened"
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it

"There are 10 kinds of people:
Those who know binary
And those who don't
Now we only have to find the other 1000"
-Unknown

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
-Albert Einstein

And one last, translated from Hebrew:
"The optimist will always say we live in the best of all worlds.
The pasimist afraids it is true."