NationStates Jolt Archive

It can be political, humorous, religious, whatever, but what is your favourite quote of all time?
Alright, you can put more than one

Fine I'll start. I'm quite fond of this-

"We shall hang the last capitalist by the rope he sells us" by Lenin

Humorous, Political and Threatening. What more could you want?

"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant, next to the power of the force."
Darth Vader

It gives you the idea of how destructive the dark side can be(and power hungry as well). If the force can destroy a planet(as heard of in KOTOR 2), what is there that is more powerful?

Oh, and here's another one of my favorite quotes(well, more like "Scene")...

*Homer strangling bart*

"Dad, you can strangle Bart all you want, but it's not going to give you your reputation back."

"DEAL!" (Homer continues to strangle bart)

Here's my favorite:

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

The funny thing is all three of my best friends agree I am the designated crazy person of the group. :p

A couple by the Khans. First, Genghis Khan:

"I am the fiery wrath of God. Had you and your fellows not sinned so often and grievously, the Lord would not have sent me to punish you."

And now his grandson, Kublai:

"The greatest pleasures for a Mongol must be to drive our enemy before us, sieze his tents, ride his horses, embrace his wives and daughters, and to witness the tears of those who held him dear."

One more:

"Think for yourself. Question authority. Think for yourself. Question authority. Throughout human history, we have been haunted by the fightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos. It has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities, who attempted to 'comfort' us, by giving us 'order', 'rules', 'regulations'. Informing and forming in our minds -thier- view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority."

-Tim Leary. My favorite quote of all time.

"I feel infinite."

Q. U. O. T. A. T. I. O. N.

It is a fucking QUOTATION. There is such noun as 'quote'. QUOTATION. Let's say that again. QUOTATION.

Anyway, I've always been quite partial to:

'A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.' (Pope)

'A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.' (Also Pope)

'If God did not exist, it would have been necessary to invent him.' (Voltaire - I've never been exactly certain of the best translation of this.)

'Space remains a big priority for NASA.' (George W. Bush)

I also like the Leary one (the next sentence is in all probability 'so let's all go drop acid').

And, from the ever-wonderful bash.org (http://www.bash.org) My parents caught me masturbating one day, and responded with making me a cake to celebrate my ascent into manhood. At the time I should have been "what the holy bejesusing fuck" but instead I was like "hey, free cake."


QUOTATION

"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live"

- Charles Bukowski

Q. U. O. T. A. T. I. O. N.

It is a fucking QUOTATION. There is such noun as 'quote'. QUOTATION. Let's say that again. QUOTATION.

Anyway, I've always been quite partial to:

'A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.' (Pope)

'A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.' (Also Pope)

'If God did not exist, it would have been necessary to invent him.' (Voltaire - I've never been exactly certain of the best translation of this.)

'Space remains a big priority for NASA.' (George W. Bush)

I also like the Leary one (the next sentence is in all probability 'so let's all go drop acid').

And, from the ever-wonderful bash.org (http://www.bash.org) My parents caught me masturbating one day, and responded with making me a cake to celebrate my ascent into manhood. At the time I should have been "what the holy bejesusing fuck" but instead I was like "hey, free cake."


QUOTATION

Those are some nice quotes you got there

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller

I think my favorite quotation would have to be:


"I hate Quotations"- R.W. Emerson

"It's not pink! It's lightish red!"- Donut to griff, Red vs. Blue
(Situation: Donut just got pink armor as a "reward" from Red Command. He doesn't want to think of it as pink, he's also a rookie.)

There's another one.

Three varients on same quote
The enemy of my friend, he is my enemy. The friend of my enemy, he is my enemy. The enemy of my enemy, he is my friend.

The enemy of my friend, he is my enemy. The friend of my enemy, he is my enemy. The enemy of my enemy, he maybe my friend.

The enemy of my friend, he is my enemy. The friend of my enemy, he is my enemy. The enemy of my enemy, he is still my enemy.

Marx's last words to somebody who asked if he had any

"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"

My favourite's the British national favourite: "All that is needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". It has proven itself correct time and time again.

Or: "If you would seek peace, prepare for war".

Hey, the box is there for a reason, I like thinking inside of it, I feel safe in there. – Private Tucker from Red vs Blue.

've got a few but the best are:

"There is no force so powerful as an idea that's time has come"
-Victor Hugo, only one af about a thousand translations of this quote

"Ten out of Ten for style but minus several million for good thinking"
-Zaphod Beeblebrox (from Douglas Adams 'The Hitchickers guide to the Galaxy')

"Revenge is a dish best served cold, its very cold in space"
-Khan (From Star Trek 'The Wrath of Khan', so cheesy I had to include it)

"Power corrupts, Absolute power is actually kinda neat"
-Can't recall, I know Howard Tayler (Schlockmercenary.com) wrote it but I believe it originally comes from another source.

"Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of 'Hop on Pop'." -- Geroge W. Bush
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." -- George W. Bush

This isn't an all time one; just one I saw today. From Kagro X of the blog The Next Hurrah (http://thenexthurrah.com):Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Bush administration abhors a truce. Not coincidentally, many people think that vacuums and the Bush administration both suck.

Here's a few good ones:

"It is not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end."

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

--Douglas Adams

**"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money." - Cree proverb

My friends Pete and Jeff having a conversation.

"Jeff, we're coming up to a red light."
...
"Yeah, I know."
"Jeff."
"Yeah?"
"Red means stop."
"OH SHIA#ELK!!@$!@$#!FDLKJGEJA!"

*sound of brakes screeching*

I'm so hip I can barely see over my own pelvis!-Zaphod Beeblebrox, from H2G2 or
"The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' `Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.' Man went on to prove that black is white and got run over at the next zebra crossing.
Gotta love Douglas Adams! HSBM

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
- Captain James T. Kirk, Enterprise

And many quotes from the game Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri. Great game, great quotes. And a host of others, which I have compiled and organized to aid me in any arguement. I guess I don't really have a favorite, I just have ones that I like to use for certain situations.

Best quote for life -
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus Christ, variations found in every major religion and many lifetime philosophies

Awesome quote to throw at Christian fundies -
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Good for war discussions -
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone—it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
—Dwight Eisenhower, Speech (1953)

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
Mohandas Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mohandas Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Mohandas Gandhi

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." - Albert Einstein

And a good socio-economic policy quote also Einstein -
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
- Albert Einstein

I love those quotes. And I have many more where those came from.

Someone once told him that if humans were meant to fly, they would have been born with wings. But he sees this as an obstacle to be overcome, not a dictum of nature. Humans were born without language or art or differential calculus, after all, but still spent their lives working towards understanding and beauty and dy-over-dx. So he spends his life working towards the sky. ~Author Unknown

There are only two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. About the universe, I am still not certain. ~ Albert Einstein.

Its inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ~Henrik Ibsen

A woman approaches a tipsy Winston Churchill:
She says, "Mr. Churchill, you are drunk."
He replies, "Yes I am. And you, madam are ugly. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

Q. U. O. T. A. T. I. O. N.

It is a fucking QUOTATION. There is such noun as 'quote'. QUOTATION. Let's say that again. QUOTATION.

Anyway, I've always been quite partial to:

'A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.' (Pope)

'A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.' (Also Pope)

'If God did not exist, it would have been necessary to invent him.' (Voltaire - I've never been exactly certain of the best translation of this.)

'Space remains a big priority for NASA.' (George W. Bush)

I also like the Leary one (the next sentence is in all probability 'so let's all go drop acid').

And, from the ever-wonderful bash.org (http://www.bash.org) My parents caught me masturbating one day, and responded with making me a cake to celebrate my ascent into manhood. At the time I should have been "what the holy bejesusing fuck" but instead I was like "hey, free cake."


QUOTATION



Usage Note: People have been using the noun quote as a truncation of quotation for over 100 years, and its use in less formal contexts is widespread today. Language critics have objected to this usage, however, as unduly journalistic or breezy. As such, it is best avoided in more formal situations. The Usage Panel, at least, shows more tolerance for the word as the informality of the situation increases. Thus, only 38 percent of Panelists accept the example He began the chapter with a quote from the Bible, but the percentage rises to 53 when the source of the quotation is less serious: He lightened up his talk by throwing in quotes from Marx Brothers movies.

i consider this an informal setting

Vidi Vini Vici- i came i saw i conquered not sure how to spell it though.

"ITS F**KING QUOTATION" who ever said that in this thread.

NOOOOOOOOOO-Darth Vader (it was soooo cheesey)

Just about anything by Groucho Marx. My most oft used is of course:

"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!"

If you stare to long into the abssy the abssy shall stare back into you.

Here's a few good ones:

"It is not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end."

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

--Douglas Adams

"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move."

"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue.
Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."

i personally like this quote

"if one is allergic to something, it is best if you do not put that something in your mouth. especially if it is a cat"
~Lemony Snicket

Here are ten quotes. Eleven if you count my signature.

"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
-Jack Handey

"Arguing with the moderators is like shaking your fist at God. There's nobody there; and if there is, he's not listening. And if he's listening, all you're doing is pissing him off."

"I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for."
-Jasper Carrott

"Sure, your guilt might force you to vote Democrat, but secretly deep down inside you long for the Republicans to lower your taxes, ignore the poor, brutalize prisoners, dictate what goes on in your bedrooms and rule you with an iron fist."
-Sideshow Bob

"Sanity is a one trick pony -- all you have is rational thought. But when you're good and loony, the sky's the limit!"
-The Tick

"There are a thousand forms of subversion, but few can equal the convenience and immediacy of a cream pie."
-Noel Godin

"Shop our store with great deals on the material things you capitalist pigs have been brainwashed into craving."
-Found on Website: UGO Networks, Inc

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
-Woody Allen

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
-Albert Einstein

"The Soviet propaganda ministry ordered 10 million condoms from an American manufacturer, all 16" long and 3" in diameter. The American manufacturer filled the order, sending the merchandise in boxes marked 'medium.'"

My signature doesn't show... so nevermind.

My signature doesn't show... so nevermind.
Yes it does--my guess is that you just don't have your settings where you can see it.

"give me a fast ship for i intend to go in harm's way" paul jones.

"the best of men cannot suspend their fate, the good die early and the bad die late"

Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

A day without sunshine is like, night.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

! I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

Honk if you love peace and quiet.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

Get a new car for your spouse. It'll be a great trade!

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand...

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
something.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Everyone has a photographic memory; Some just don't have film.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

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

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

"no im not gay, but i really wish i was just to piss of those homophobic rednecks."- a friend

A few of my favourites...

"...right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion. It's easy to cry when you realise that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
- Ben Franklin

"When he went off to Penn, he found Mother and won her affection, a prize that took some winning... for while Mother was smart, talented, stylish, attractive, and sought after, our father was only smart and talented."
- F. & S. Barthelme, Double Down

"Give a man fire and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life."
- Terry Pratchett

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
He who laughs last, thinks fastest.

He who laughs last, thinks fastest.

"Oh, very deep. You should send that in to the Readers Digest. They've got a page for people like you."

"Oh, very deep. You should send that in to the Readers Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
I can't tell if your being serious or sarcastic, which is it?

I can't tell if your being serious or sarcastic, which is it?

Neither. It's a quote from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Had to use it on somebody.

Ah.

I can't tell if your being serious or sarcastic, which is it?

well, what with the "very deep" and "people like you" i think i'm leaning more towards sarcastic.

That was still used in a sarcastic manner.

*after being asked what the blow hole is for*

"I'll tell you what it's not for, son. And when I do, you'll understand why I can never go back to Sea World." --- Peter Griffin

"72.6% of statistics are completely made up."
That one's a classic.

"If I gave a crap, you'd be the first person I'd give it to."

"I don't think you're acting stupid. Actually, I'm sure it's completely authentic."

"Oh, COME ON!! This is getting to be RI-GOD-DAMN-DICULOUS!!!"
(from Anchorman)

Get off my plane!

here are some good ones that i found on the internet

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! DR. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you want because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind ~ Dr. Suses

NO world peace isn't possible without you. Your happiness, health, humor, bliss, awakening.... are ESSENTIAL to the evolution of us all. May all beings re-cognize the divinity of merely being and celebrate Brother David:

"An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea."
--Oscar Wilde

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
--Mark Twain

"You can no more become a Christian by going to church than you can become an automobile by sleeping in your garage."
--Garrison Keillor

"An opinion is a minimum of facts combined with prejudice and emotion."
--Herbert Prochnow

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."
--Harold Coffin

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
--Lillian Hellman.....letter to the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
--Henry J. Kaiser

*after being asked what the blow hole is for*

"I'll tell you what it's not for, son. And when I do, you'll understand why I can never go back to Sea World." --- Peter Griffin

HAHAHA! YES! Family Guy!

(writing letter) "Dear MacGyver, enclosed is a rubber band, a paperclip, and a drinking straw. Please save my dog."

there has never been a field so aptly named as politics-poly meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking parasites.--I don't remember who said this...

"Oh dear, I think I am becoming a god."- last words of Emperor Vespasian

HAHAHA! YES! Family Guy!

(writing letter) "Dear MacGyver, enclosed is a rubber band, a paperclip, and a drinking straw. Please save my dog."

"Owatasan would be honored to play for your team, but he wonders what compensation you offer him."

"Uhhhh...me love you long time?"

the object of war is not to die for your country, the object of war is to make the other son of a bitch die for his :sniper:

the object of war is not to die for your country, the object of war is to make the other son of a bitch die for his :sniper:

I really should see that movie.

"Sometimes when I'm driving behind a big cement truck, I think of how the valve on the truck could suddenly open, spilling cement over my car, encasing me inside and leaving me to slowly fall into an oxygen-deprived coma, from which I awaken five years later to find my wife remarried to my best friend. But then I think maybe I'm just being paranoid, because what are the odds of *that* happening again?"
-Jack Handy

"Owatasan would be honored to play for your team, but he wonders what compensation you offer him."

"Uhhhh...me love you long time?"

Brian: Hola. Me llamo es Brian. Nosotros queremos ir con ustedes...
Drifter: Hey, that was pretty good, except when you said "Me llamo es Brian," you don't need the "es," just "me llamo Brian."
Brian: Oh, oh, you speak English.
Drifter: No, just that first speech and this one explaining it.
Brian: Youre kidding me, right?
Drifter: Que?

(at the grocery store)
Man: Wow, Lois Griffin. Hey I love your act! Nice melons.
Peter: Hey listen pal!
Lois: Peter, Im holding melons.
Peter: Oh.
Man: And her hooters ain't bad either.
Peter: Now hang on a second there.
Lois: Peter, I'm holding hooters! (she is holding owls)
Peter: Oh, sorry.
Man: No problem... Your wife's hot.
Peter: Alright thats it!

NOOOOOOOOOO-Darth Vader (it was soooo cheesey)

Noooooooooooooo!!!!

Someone once told him that if humans were meant to fly, they would have been born with wings. But he sees this as an obstacle to be overcome, not a dictum of nature. Humans were born without language or art or differential calculus, after all, but still spent their lives working towards understanding and beauty and dy-over-dx. So he spends his life working towards the sky. ~Author Unknown

There are only two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. About the universe, I am still not certain. ~ Albert Einstein.

Its inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ~Henrik Ibsen

A woman approaches a tipsy Winston Churchill:
She says, "Mr. Churchill, you are drunk."
He replies, "Yes I am. And you, madam are ugly. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."


A woman approaches Churchil, alchoholic, and says "Mr Chuchill you drink too much. If i was your wife, I'd have half a mind to poison your liquer!"
He says, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

Peter: OH NO!
Family: OH NO!
Jury: OH NO!
Kool-Aid Dude (breaks in through Court Room wall): OOOOH YEAAAHHH!...
Everyone: (silence)
Kool-Aid Dude: (backs out and runs away)

Couldn't resists, last Family Guy quote, I promise...

Well, I got to go. That was fun.

Dunno if I would say it's my favorite, but I have this quote tattooed on my inner forearm:

"Ancora imparo."

It translates as "I am still learning," and was said by the artist Michaelangelo when he was about 80 years old.

"Say Hello to my little friend! KaBoom" Scarface

Anything by Yogi Berra.

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical
I take a two hour nap from 1 to 4
I didnt really say everything i said

O and this one

Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ~Jimmy DeMaret

And this


"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that a person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being freee unless made or kept so by the exertions of better me than himself" - John Stuart Mill

It would be unfair to pick a favourite Simpsons/That 70's Show quote.

Funny quotation:
"I hate the colour pink, it's so weak. It's like it's trying to be red but it can't"
-My friend Josh

Serious quotation:
"I don't repect a man who has to kneel before his god because he can't stand on his own."
-Me (discussing religion with my english teacher)

"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers

:D

"I'm not against half-naked ladies. Well, not as often as I'd like to be."

"I'm not against half-naked ladies. Well, not as often as I'd like to be."

That's a good one. I'll see you tomorrow. :fluffle: :fluffle:

Here are a few by Charles Bukowski,

"Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it."

"I have more faith in my plumber than I do the eternal being.Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing."

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

"No man is an island, unless his name is Madagascar"

Woody Allen :)

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"

- Sir Winston Churchill

"How lucky for leaders that men do not think" (Not the exact quotation)

- Adolf Hitler

"The Death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic"

- Stalin

"Quantity has a quality of its own"

- Stalin

"The object of war is not to bleed for your country, but to make the other guy bleed for his"

- Patton

"...though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. ...even if the recieved opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who recieve it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds."
-- John Stewart Mill, Chapter 2 - Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, On Liberty

"His name was Robert Paulson"! -Fight Club

"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?" -Juvenal?

"If anyone ever really understood the meaning of life the universe and everything, it would immediately explode and be replaced by something infinitely more complex" -DoUgLAS AdAmS

"When the going gets weird, The weird turn pro" -Hunter S. Thompson

"where political freedom fails, sexual freedom fills in the gaps" -Aldous Huxley

"Make the pie higher" -George W. Bush

"Terrorists never stop thinking of ways to harm our country and her people, and neither do we" -George W. Bush

"Help me Obi- Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" -princess Leia

"be of good cheer, for I bring you great news, I'm back" -Q

"I've had more women by accident than Kennedy had on purpose" -Lyndon Baines Johnson

"We are not amused" -HM Queen Victoria

"Guns make us powerful, all butter does is make us fat" - Adolf Hitler

"Religion ist opium furs Volk" -Karl Marx

"The meek shall inherit the Earth, if that's okay with you."

"Satan is a very good ostrich" - New Scientist

"I Think Everybody's Nuts."-Johnny Depp

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave"
-HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room"
-Dr Strangelove

"All your base are belong to us"

"A democracy is nothing more that mob rule, in which the 51% may take away the rights of the other 49%"
-Thomas Jefferson

"Those who would give up their liberty to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty or security"
-Benjamin Franklin

"feel a model, burn a tabloid, keep your pants on"
-- kenneth cole

"when we were teenagers, we wanted to be the sky"
-- cat power

and more as i think of them

TAG-me er not really just got to wait for some time to find something worth while...

My favorite ones are in my signature. I added my political compass readings about an hour ago and it disappeared momentarily, but it should be back soon.

"Those who would give up their liberty to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty or security"
-Benjamin Franklin

Now, maybe the internet's wrong and you're right, but I thought that quote was somewhat off so I checked it. Quote it in Yahoo, you get nothing. Look for Benjamin Franklin quotes, you get:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Key word being "essential," which many seem to miss.

The French will only be united under the threat of danger.
No one can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle

The French will only be united under the threat of danger.
No one can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle

LOL he was wrong, they're never united, they just let themselves be conquered and wait for an ally to come to their rescue. Fuck the French, fuck them like they've never been fucked before.

"FUCK YOU!"
-Aram, Men in Hats

"FUCK YOU!"
-Aram, Men in Hats
heh, men in hats rule :D

Real: What your gender is until you realize you've been performing it...then it becomes drag.
-Rikki Ann Wilchins

Each friend represents a new world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born.
-Anais Nin

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
- George Price

The French will only be united under the threat of danger.
No one can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle

Charles DeGaulle, apart from being a phony, was correct in this case, google "French Military Victories" and click im feeling lucky

Co-Pilot: *Sparks a fattyboombatty* Fuck this pete, if were going down, im going up!"

Pilot: This birds going down. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Im a big fan of Mark Twain, so here goes:

There has been only one Christian. They caught and crucified him--early.

If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be--a Christian.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying "our country, right or wrong" and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

If you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything.

Satan hasnt a single salaried helper, the opposition employs a million.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Be careful when reading health books; you could die of a misprint.

LOL he was wrong, they're never united, they just let themselves be conquered and wait for an ally to come to their rescue. Fuck the French, fuck them like they've never been fucked before.


HYEEE HAW

YOU WAN SUM FREEDOM FRY WITH THAT? I TELL U WHAT!!!!!! SHEEEIIIIT~!!


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Why does it hurt americans to study history?

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Theology - explaining the unknowable in terms of the not-worth-knowing.

HL Mencken.

Here's a few quotes by my favorite author;

"Witty sayings are useless" -Sal Lagonia

"He didn't mind dying, but to do so as the climax to a 500 foot fall was not very appealing. He supposed it was vainity" -Sal Lagonia,The Battle for New York

"The first step to making a film is to take all you know about the laws of reality, put them in a jar, wrap it in a towel and smash it repeatedly with a sledgehammer." -Sal Lagonia

"In a perfect world, we'd all be Italian" -Sal Lagonia

"Love feels like you're flying high over the clouds. Unfrtunatly, you have a good chance of getting sucked into a passing jet engine" -Sal Lagonia

"She was young, beautiful, intellegent and witty, but being a 14 year old girl, all she saw was wide hips" -Sal Lagonia The Battle for New York

"At the United Nations, the number of complaints about a nation's violation of human rights is inversely proportional to their actual violation of human rights."

-late American Senator and former Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto a blade of grass and not fall off the earth."- Irish proverb

"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have a half of one for breakfast."- Douglas Adams

Bored, so I dug up a few of my favorites:

"What do I care for your suffering?" - Chairman Yang

"I once killed a Mormon with a waterhose" - Cliff Yablonksi - Something Awful

"Ahhh! What a fine feeling it is to be young, with strong arms, quick hands, and a heart full of hell!" - Louis L'amour

"I think it's easy to put my face out there, because I'm sort of a poster-boy for what everyone fears, because I do and say whatever I want." - Marilyn Manson

"What are you but my reflection? Who am I to judge or strike you down?" Maynard J. Keenan

"She's infectious human waste!" - Marla Singer, referring to herself

"You like Jimmy-jokes and causin' drama? Hah, well here's a Jimmy joka about your mama." - Snoop Dogg. I can never remember the exact wording, but it's a good one.

"Why would you spend the effort and time to persuade a man to join in your endeavor, when by the example of his destruction you could have lit the fires of terror in a hundred like him?" - Saladin

Not really a quotation, but good nonetheless. In the days after the liberation of a camp in WWII, an amerian GI was put in charge of the apples and bananas in the incoming waves of food for the survivors of the Concentration camps. A Jewish boy, not knowing wether to choose an apple or banana, was noticed by this GI. When he heard the boys worry, he smiled kindly, immediately dumped his pack on the ground, handed the now-empty pack to the boy and said,"Son, you eat all the goddamn apples and bananas you can carry."

Uplifting. :)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." -Napoleon Bonaparte

Get off my plane!


From air force one...

Whatever happens... happens... I started saying that in the 80s at some point....? I like it... :)

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave"
-HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room"
-Dr Strangelove


Oh! Those are two of my favs as well! :)

"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit."
-Woody Allen

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Winston Churchill

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
-Winston Churchill

That's about all I have for now :D

this truly is the only quote i ever really liked, until i started reading what was posted on here...damn you people, now i am gonna be forced to search out some good ones....ok...here it is...:

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Gil-Scott Heron

I don't know if somebody already said this:

"Before criticizing someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes." :D