Quotes?

[TehBorken]

What's your favorite quote (or quotes)?

I've always liked this one, but I don't know who said it:

"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."

[kits]

[SPAN class=body][FONT face=Verdana size=2]"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.[/FONT][/SPAN] "

[kits]

[SPAN class=body][FONT face=Verdana size=2]"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."[/FONT][/SPAN]

[kits]

[SPAN class=body][FONT face=Verdana size=2]"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."[/FONT][/SPAN]

[TehBorken]

[span class="gen_quote"]"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."
Bobcat Goldthwaite  
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[CK]

We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren't but only weak ones about who we are. We're passionate about what we don't want to become but oddly passive about what we should be.
John Cruickshank (in McLean's Magazine)

[P.C.]

A possitive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.  

[P.C.]

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[weird al]

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[weird al]

On a more sober note, a major fave:

 "Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

[tenkani]

Great thread!

"Democracy is too important to be left in the hands of the people"[/DIV]  -unknown

"Four legs good, two legs baaaaad."
 -George Orwell
 

Great troll-related quote    
[/DIV]"I have no opinions -- I believe in nothing -- but assume for the time whatever opinion amuses me or is opposite to that of the person or persons present."
-H.P. Lovecraft

[TehBorken]

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."
W.C. Fields

[kitten]

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Kierkegaard

[Schadenfreude]

[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" color=#7f003f size=5]"I read somewhere that drinking is bad for you, so I gave up reading"[/FONT]

[P.C.]

I ADORE W.C.Fields.

Another of his that amuses me....

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.