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Do you have a quote that you use or you find has great meaning in the world today. I personally like to use quotes to prove a point in an arguement.

anyway give me some quotes....

and which is the best.....

Do you have a quote that you use or you find has great meaning in the world today. I personally like to use quotes to prove a point in an arguement.

anyway give me some quotes....

and which is the best.....

The only quote I ever use is in my signature.

I like quotes, mostly those said by historical figures which just seem humerouse or poinient (SP?)

" This is my master plan, wake me when its over" Montgommerey of Alemein

" I like to think of this as one of those hollywood western films, the Airborne, their the homestead, cut offwith low supplies, The germans, their the bad guys, and 30 corps well were the cavalry" Brian Horroks

" Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best freind, inside a dog its too dark to read" Groucho marks ( i think)

More to come

"What the hell happened to the human race"-Classy Freddie Blassie

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's

this is by far my favorite line so far


At a prewar diplomatic conference, the Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop "sniffed" to Eden and Churchill that if there was another war, the Italians would be on Germany's side!
To which Churchill supposedly replied: "that seems only fair, we had them last time!"...

"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything."
-- George W. Bush, Bellevue, Washington, Nov. 2, 2000

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence."
--Mahatma Gandhi

so many good quotes

Here's serious one: "An eye for an eye, soon leaves the whole world blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Here's a not so serious one: ""I'm a practicing heterosexual, but being bisexual immediately doubles your chances on a Saturday night" -- Woody Allen

"We won't Die. What doesnt kill us only makes us stronger!" - Slipknot

"Border relations between Mexico and Canada have never been better" - George 'Dubya' Bush ( mmmmmmmmmmm, yes Mr Bush :rolleyes: )

"Thou shalt kick it to the pricks" - The Bible ( Yep it's in there )

I don't know about using quotes in an argument, since most quotes are opinion, but the best quotes I know of come from one person: Oscar Wilde. I heard from somewhere (don't know if it's true) that he's the "most quoted" person in history. Besides good 'ole Oscar, I quote Italian author Umberto Eco pretty often.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Those are some of my personal favorites from Oscar Wilde. And finally, Umberto Eco: "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Soooo many examples...

At a prewar diplomatic conference, the Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop "sniffed" to Eden and Churchill that if there was another war, the Italians would be on Germany's side!
To which Churchill supposedly replied: "that seems only fair, we had them last time!"...

woman to Churchill: "If you were my husaband, I'd feed you poison."
Churchill to woman: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd take it."

"Religion is the opiate of the masses" -- Karl Marx

"Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana

woman to Churchill: "If you were my husaband, I'd feed you poison."
Churchill to woman: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd take it."


Woman: Winston your Drunk!

Church: Yes but in the morning i will be sobre, but you will allways be ugly

"The difference between being paranoid and being stalked is having a name." (Mine)

Overkill Terms:

Customer Care Advocate
Return Privilege (instead of policy)
Electronic Correspondence Representative (cool email response)
Customer delight is a critical element in our culture and it is the cornerstone of our operating philosophy. (NCCI Mission)
Fostering dependence upon himself (Jim L)
"We expect to have a solution as soon as possible" (Quickbooks tech support)
"Washington needs a politician" (Joe G)
"Institutional Inertia" (Mike F)
"The tyranny of urgency" (Alan C)

This (http://quizilla.com/users/PainfulBliss/quizzes/What%20wise%20quote%20fits%20you%3F(pics)%20UPDATED) quiz has some good quotes in it.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" - Adam Savage - MythBusters

I can't remember who said this, "Make sure you have enemies in case your friends turn out to be bastards."

"It's easier to be generous with other people's money."- Ron Paul

"What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has made it his heaven."- F. Hoeldernin

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals

-Churchill

"They misunderestimated me." --George W. Bush

"I'm not drunk! I'm just tired because I was up all night drinking!" --What movie was that from again???

"The Libertarian Concordance of Czardas declares war on you. You will be nuked within 30 minutes. Have a nice day." --Me (IC: A TV address from my president), in a war RP

"1 PWNZ 73|-| W0R1|>!!1!!!!!!11111oneoneone!!shift+one" --a random n00b five minutes before being DEATed

"Calculus is the study of measuring and numbering exactly a Thing whose existence cannot be conceived of." --Voltaire

Rival to Dorothy Parker, stepping aside before a door: "Age before beauty."
DP to rival, going out: "Pearls before swine."

And lots more, too.

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

- Churchill

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." - Voltaire

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." - Robert A Heinlein

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." - Robert A Heinlein

"A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?" - Robert A Heinlein

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Billy connelly

Poor Michael Jackson and these sex allegations. As if it's not bad enough him being a Jehova's Witness, they're accusing him of behaving like a catholic priest!

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards

"A measure of a man is the sums of his fears" Can't remember who said it....

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards

Oh ta much.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwardsOh ta much.
Yeah. Everyone knows it would look better. :rolleyes:

Yeah. Everyone knows it would look better. :rolleyes:

Have you people ever been to Glasgow?

Yes i have been to glasgow. i liked it...but the quote is still funny..if they said it about...oxford i would still laugh.

And that quote is a billy connoly quote not one of mine.....

I personally like to use quotes to prove a point in an arguement.

There's only one that comes to mind when I encounter this point of view.

"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
Groucho marx

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
Groucho marx

Grouch Marx has the best comical quotes, in my opinion.

"Outside of a dog, books are man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Grouch Marx has the best comical quotes, in my opinion.

"Outside of a dog, books are man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."


I must confess, I was born at a very early age."

I must confess, I was born at a very early age."

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

"Whoever named it 'necking' was a poor judge of anatomy."

I'm having way too much fun with this. :D

"Those who dance are deemed insane by those who can't hear the music." :sniper:

Hmmmm....

http://www.everythingonline.org/principles.jpeg

"The Great Masses shall more easily fall victim to a big lie rather than a small one."

-Adolf Hitler

"The Great Masses shall more easily fall victim to a big lie rather than a small one."

-Adolf Hitler
makes me remember this one:
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945.

"Unless you are willing to die for it, you better take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary"
- Malcolm X

"The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human race had been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow men: 'Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the earth belongs to no one.'"
- Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1755

"It's not a real choice. It's an apparent choice. Like choosing a brand of detergent. Whether you buy Ivory Snow or Tide, they're both owned by Proctor & Gamble.
This doesn't mean that one takes a position that is without nuance, that [...] the Democrats and Republicans are the same. Of course, they're not.
Neither are Tide and Ivory Snow. Tide has oxy-boosting and Ivory Snow is a gentle cleanser."
-Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and anti-globalization activist, commenting on US elections

"You shall die a peasants death!"-Susan Sarandon

"They're dustin' off the hot seat for me!" On The Waterfront

"Go hump somebody else's leg, mutt face." Heartbreak Ridge

"Flush out your head gear new guy. If I'm gonna die for a word, my word is 'poon-tang.'" Full Metal Jacket

"Shut your filthy sewer, you scum." A Clockwork Orange

"I can tell by the way that guy looks through his face, he's crazier than a craphouse rat." The Border

"`God! Help! My son ate this! Help!' she kept yelling, running a tight pattern just inside the square of string; and my brother Orin remembers noting how even in hysterical trauma her flight-lines were plumb, her footprints Native-American-straight, her turns, inside the ideogram of string, crisp and martial, crying `My son ate this! Help!' and lapping me twice before the memory recedes."
-David Foster Wallace

"If it were not for Vaucanson's shitting duck, there would be nothing to remind us of the Glory of France." - Voltaire.

I have one in my sig... I love quotes but I'll only write a few here:

"An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind" Gandhi

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together" Goethe (i think)

I have heaps moe that i love but i have to go now, be back later :D