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Your single favorite quote?
Freejack
Jake the Not-so-Wise
in Zocalo v2.0
I just like to know what your single favorite quote is and a bit of the reason you like it, mine is from Winston Church:
[i]He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire[/i]
I just know so many people that are like that, that try to be so virtuous that they are unhappy. I think the people who are often most a peace with themselves are those who've done a few 'bad' things in the past.
Jake
[i]He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire[/i]
I just know so many people that are like that, that try to be so virtuous that they are unhappy. I think the people who are often most a peace with themselves are those who've done a few 'bad' things in the past.
Jake
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i may have it slightly wrong but thats the gist at least:D
[B]its not my favourite quote of all time, but its my favourite by winston churchill: "if your going to kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it"
i may have it slightly wrong but thats the gist at least:D [/B][/QUOTE]
Just one? ugh.
"Time is an Illusion, Lunchtime Doubly so" -- Douglas Adams
"sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of entertainment" - Oscar Wilde i think
describes my sense of humor perfectly:D
tho i do like the one in my sig quite a lot as well
-Abel Cauthon
It speaks for itself...
;)
- William Faulkner
:p
-Albert Einstein
[B]One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.
-Abel Cauthon [/B][/QUOTE]
Quoting fantasy literature eh?
"I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith--it strikes me a sloppy way to run a universe."
- Robert Heinlein, [i]Stranger in a Strange Land[/i]"
[B]"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein [/B][/QUOTE]
i think i might have to nick that for my sig now!:D
[B]Quoting fantasy literature eh? [/B][/QUOTE]
it's true though! :D
[B]i think i might have to nick that for my sig now!:D [/B][/QUOTE]Here's couple other alternatives if you like some of those more.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-Douglas Adams
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-Douglas Adams
"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
"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 and repair."
-Douglas Adams
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
-Scott Adams
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
-Robert Heinlein
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
-Robert Heinlein
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
-Aldous Huxley
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
-Aldous Huxley
"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."
-Aldous Huxley
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
-Aldous Huxley
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
-Don Marquis
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
-Bertrand Russell
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.."
-Bertrand Russell
[B]
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-Douglas Adams
[/B][/QUOTE]
That one is true in many cases, that's also why rebels and freedom fighters, who fight to remove a incompetent regieme, often end up running a government that hurts the very people they were attempting to liberate. The skill sets needed to bring ones self to power are very different than the set needed to competently manage that power.
Jake
-Murphy
[B]aww crap.. - fawkes [/B][/QUOTE]
Hell yeah. Why'd that get canned, anyhow?
[B]Hell yeah. Why'd that get canned, anyhow? [/B][/QUOTE]
Stupidity of the common man aka Mr and Mrs G. P? :)
[B]"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." -- Mark Twain [/B][/QUOTE]
except dying;)
[B]except dying;) [/B][/QUOTE]
You would rather die tomorrow, than the day after tomorrow?
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
- W.B. Prescott
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."
- William Jennings Bryan
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
- Adlai Stevenson
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."
- Robin Williams
"Woman was God's second mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"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
Horace Mann:
"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
Winston Churchill:
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Benjamin Franklin:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
Ecclesiasticus 6:14:
"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure."
Sir Francis Bacon:
"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
George Washington:
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
William Blake:
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
--- Winston Churchill
'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.'
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
"Truth is a river."
"And what is God?"
"God is the mouth of the river."
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
Robert Browning (1812-89)
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected."
Red Buttons
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
Ronald Reagan
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.
--Benjamin Disraeli
A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight
--Unknown
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
"If you're going through hell, keep going." ~Winston Churchill
"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
- from a post-war debriefing of a German General
"There is no problem that cannot be solved by the use of high explosives."
- Bumper Sticker
"It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
- Ferdinand Foch
"Paper-work will ruin any military force"
- Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
"I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind."
- General George S. Patton Jr
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time."
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller--, USMC
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton Jr, about reconnaissance troops
"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line."
- Charles Edward Montague
"Aim towards the enemy."
- Instruction printed on U.S. Army rocket launcher
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
- U.S. Army training notice
"Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. From 30,000 feet, every single bomb always hits the ground."
- U.S. Air Force ammunition memo.
"Tracers work both ways."
- U.S. Army Ordnance Corps memo.
"If you see a bomb disposal technician running, try to keep up with him."
- U.S. Army ordnance manual
"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed"
- U.S. Air Force flight training manual
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons."
-- Russian military doctrine
"One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." -- From a Russian military document
- Clint Eastwood, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
- PJH
Forgot who
Not verbatim, but close enough. It's from the movie "12 Monkeys." A weird old pimp said it.
"Kept calling it murder when I did it."[/i]
- Johns and Riddik, Pitch Black
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