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."
[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] "
[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]
[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]
[span class="gen_quote"]"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."
Bobcat Goldthwaite
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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)
A possitive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
[DT class=quote]Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.[DT class=quote] [DT class=quote] [DT class=quote][A href="vny!://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Wagner/"][/A] [/DT]
[H1 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 200%; lineh-eight: 100%; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma; LETTER-SPACING: -0.05em; font-stretch: extra-condensed"]"Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs." -- Lily Tomlin [/H1][!-- [img]vny!://photomatt.net/css/dante/title/Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. -- Lily Tomlin .png" alt=""Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs." -- Lily Tomlin " /] --]
On a more sober note, a major fave:
"Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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 (//vny!://www.motleycrow.com/ImageHost/icon_smile_tongue.gif)
[/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
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."
W.C. Fields
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Kierkegaard
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" color=#7f003f size=5]"I read somewhere that drinking is bad for you, so I gave up reading"[/FONT]
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.
Beauty is in the eye of the Beerholder[/DIV]~Kevlar (yes..Kevlar!)
"Hey! Who took the cork out of my lunch?!"
W. C. Fields
There are only 10 types of people in the world: [/DIV]Those who understand binary, and those who don't
Someone sent me a picture postcard of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here". Stephen Wright
HA! Steven Wright is amazing (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/11.gif)
"I saw a man with a wooden leg, and a real foot."
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- DiscoverSeattle
"[a href="vny!://www.quotationnation.com/quote_22944.htm" class="sm_quote"]The sex was so good even the neighbors had a cigarette.[/a]"
Another Stephen Write quote that I like: "It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."
[ul][li]He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.[/li][li]For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.[/li][li]The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.[/li][li]There are no facts, only interpretations.[/li][li]Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.[/li][li]Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.[/li][li]In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.[/li][li]Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.[/li][li]How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.[/li][li]One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.[/li][/ul]
- Friedrich Nietzsche
[FONT size=5]I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin' else.[/FONT][/DIV][FONT face=Arial size=5]~Marissa Ribisi[/FONT][/DIV]
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
-- Whitman
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
-- Pascal
A problem worthy of attack proves its worth by fighting back.
-- [well-known old mathematics saying, unattributed]
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express:
Err and err and err again
but less and less and less.
-- Piet Hein
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.[/DIV] [/DIV] Aristotle
"Experience is what allows you to recognize a mistake the second time you make it."
can he scratch and chew at the same time?????
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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone
A worthy resurrection.
That's two.
[FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff]"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great
and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)[/FONT]
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato (I think)
"Well behaved women rarely make history." [FONT size=2]Laurel Thatcher Ulrich[/FONT]
"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive, and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson
"When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
Variously attributed to Chuck Colson, John Wayne, et al.
girl "how tall are you"
boy "five feet nine inches"
girl "lets forget about the five feet and concentrate on the nine inches"
Ron Jeremy, a very short fellow, said, "I'm tall when I'm lying down."
"If predestined why bother? If not, why try?"
- Jack Kerouac
If practice makes perfect and nobody's prefect, why practice?
"Non-violence is the most powerful force in the world. It is a tool not for cowards but for the strongest and the bravest" - Gandhi
[span class="gen_quote"]"[a href="vny!://quotationnation.com/quote_9837.htm"]Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.[/a]"
[/span] [div style="text-align: left;"] [span class="gen_author"][a href="vny!://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Fran%20Lebowitz&btnG=Google+Search" class="auth" target="new"]Fran Lebowitz[/a][/span]
[span class="gen_title"]US writer and humorist[/span][/div][p align="right"] [/p]
"A true Friend unbosoms freely" - William Penn
Ahem!! Now I know what sort of friends you prefer.....bosomed buddies.
I cannot argue with William Penn, obviously one who unbosoms is best of all.
By "unbosoms" do you mean they are supposed to be detachable?
[a href="vny!://quotationnation.com/quote_22587.htm"][span class="gen_quote"]"A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same."[/span][/a] [p align="right"][/p][div style="text-align: left;"] [span class="gen_author"][a href="vny!://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Elbert%20Hubbard&btnG=Google+Search" class="auth" target="new"]Elbert Hubbard[/a][/span]
[span class="gen_title"]US author[/span][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][span class="gen_title"][/span][/div]
[a href="vny!://quotationnation.com/quote_13406.htm" class="sm_quote"]"It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.[/a]"
[a href="vny!://quotationnation.com/results.php?stext=W.+Somerset+Maugham+%26quot%3BOur+Betters%26quot%3B+1923&stype=author" title="More quotes by this author..." class="sm_auth"][/a]W. Somerset Maugham
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[FONT size=2]I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. -Oscar Wilde.[/FONT]
kitten wrote:
By "unbosoms" do you mean they are supposed to be detachable? ......
You mean to tell me that YOU, above all, don't know?
I couldn't find the zippers.
"Americans always do the right thing, after exhausting all other alternatives."
- Winston Churchill.
[TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0] [TBODY] [TR] [TD width="60%"][A title='"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."' href="vny!://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/4191"]"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."[/A][/TD] [TD width="25%"][A title="Albert Einstein" href="vny!://www.quoteworld.org/authors/albert-einstein"]Albert Einstein[/A].[/TD][/TR][/TBODY][/TABLE] [TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0] [TBODY] [TR] [TD width="60%"][/TD] [TD width="25%"][/TD][/TR][/TBODY][/TABLE]
And yet we still have so-called peacekeeping forces!
Oxymorons abound in war. Somewhat like was said about the early missionaries....."We're going to civilize you if we have to kill every one of you", or words to that effect.
kitten wrote:
Oxymorons abound in war.
...
So do morons
True, dat! I think perhaps there's a special breeding program for them.
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
Dorothy Parker
"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
- Shakespeare
If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we'd be too stupid to understand it.
"Trucks? It's good! Let them come across the border! We will take all we can get!"
- Jean Chretien In response to a question about cross-border drug trade, in a news conference in front of Bill Clinton, having misheard a question about "drugs".
submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King Jr.
Speech in Detroit, Michigan, (23 June 1963)
[FONT face=Arial size=2]The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy.[/FONT]
[FONT face=Helvetica size=4]Molly Ivins,[/FONT] [FONT face=Arial size=2]JULY 25[/FONT]
"What dreadful hot weather we have. It keeps me in a constant state of inelegance."
- Jane Austen.
"I came, I saw, I conquered"
by Julius Caesar
1)
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away". - Thoreau
2)
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist". - Dom Helder Camara
Thread Cop wrote:
"I came, I saw, I conquered"
by Julius Caesar
"I saw, I conquered, I came."
by Hugh Hefner (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)
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Flipping the national bird
"I have much more important things to do than this crap."
[!--IBF.ATTACHMENT_232526--]Yves Leterme, Belgium's prime minister-to-be, who was forced to admit he didn't know the national anthem. Asked to give a rendition by a television crew, he sang La Marseillaise (France's National Anthem)
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and you thought North American politicians were bad. lol This guy's party is the equivalent to the Bloc Quebecios they want Flanders part of Belgium to become free country. They speak Flemmish (dutch) while the french part of Beligium speaks French.
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[em]'You know, the President — it is no secret — sometimes makes grammatical errors.'[/em][/p] White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, on Mr. Bush's recent comment, during a speech about education, that 'childrens do learn when standards are high'[/p]
Oy
I forget who said this:
"A man may be a fool and not know it....but not if he is married."
Car buyers had better get used to the idea of V6 engines being the biggest engine choice available, as smaller turbocharged motors will become the norm and not the exception, said DeLorenzo.[p class="textBodyBlack"][span id="byLine"][/span]"The reality of the new fuel economy regulations hasn't even begun to hit home with the American car-buying consumer yet," he said. "They'll be in for a shock."[/p]
[p class="textBodyBlack"][/p]hahaha
"We've had a few lost-time incidents but for a big project like this involving the number of people that this project involves, we're above the industry average."
-Const. Howard Chow, a Vancouver police spokesman about the death of construction worker on Canada Line.
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"In France, many young people don't study the right subjects"
Agnes Urhweiller
Montpellier careers office
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Hmmm what's wrong now? We can't be what we want to be in life? god, not everyone has to be a stupid business major.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,"... "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
- Hillary Clinton as of this morning
"I can't believe Senator Clinton would say anything that dumb." - Charles Rangel
"Here's what she's really saying to party leaders: There's no way that white people are going to vote for the black guy. Come November, you'll be sorry.".... "The answer, which Clinton implies but doesn't quite come out and say, is that Obama is black—and that white people who are not wealthy are irredeemably racist." - Eugene Robinson writer for the Washington Post
"We can't win with eggheads and African Americans." - Paul Begala long time Clinton aid, strategist
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"What matters most is how you see yourself"