Favorite Quotes

[Inoculator9]

Favorite quotes... what are they?

"By life's eternal stream,

Death lurks and laughs his ass off,

At least so it seems."

-Edgar Allen Poe

"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."

-Saki (H.H. Munro)

Come on people, I'm curious ;)

[Andrew]

"If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets,"

Gurney Halleck, Dune.

Can't think of any more ATM :P

[DjCiD]

There is a quote I am looking for... something about a sword drawn from it's sheath cannot return without shedding blood... ???

[VigilVirus]

See: signature

[gryphon]

Nothing can seem fool to those that winn. . .

and no. . it's not just a quote from The X files. . ..some one thought of it before that. . ;)

- if you think your idea is correct. . there is nothing so stupid you won't assume. .and you can justify everything. .

Here, but for the grace of God.

think that's from God Emperor of Dune ?

- if there is a God .. .we are nothing more then powns here. ..

those are the first that come to mind. . .but then. . I have a whole book full of quotes and don't feel like posting them all .. ;)

[thomas]

He who controls the past controls the future- part of a quote by George Orwell used by westwoon in CnC.

Only you can prevent forum fires - that ones mine.

[Andrew]

There is a quote I am looking for... something about a sword drawn from it's sheath cannot return without shedding blood... ???

Does it have to do with the Crysknife?

[Cyborg]

"I have a plan so cunning that you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel" - Edmund Blackadder

[Dante]

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world, unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

-George Brenard Shaw.

More coming...

[Timenn]

"Just one thing captain"

"Yes lieutenant..."

"If we should trip on a mine, what must we do?"

"Normal procedure is... to jump 200 feet in the air, and scatter yourself over a wide area"

- Blackadder goes forth.

"I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but I know World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"

and:

"I believe He does not play dice" (refering to quantum psycics + chaos theory)

- Albert Einstein

[EWS]

"You spoony bard" FF4

The whole entire "All Your Base" cartoon (especially "Somebody set us up the bomb")

[DukeLeto]

Serious:

"Democracy is indespinsable to Socialism."

and

"Religion is the opium of the masses."

-Karl marx (Although sometimes mistankenly atrributed to Lennon)

"Religion is all bunk."

-Thomas Edison

"The point of war is not to die for your country.  It's to make the other poor bastard die for his."

-Can't remember

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Funny:

"Sloth is the mother of invention."

-Garfield (the cat, not the president)

"Surrender to me now or submit to me later.  The difference is trivial."

-Yuri

[graveside]

" Like a blind man in an orgy I was gonna have to feel my way through " Frank Drebin

[lowzeewee]

All by Herman Goering

1."Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, 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 pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

2."Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? 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."

3."I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense."

4."I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so."

5."Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."

[Dante]

"You know I've always loved children, and now I'm going to have one.

...

On toast!"

Winnifred Senderson.

EDIT: Why is there an attachment on this post? I didn't put one there...

[lowzeewee]

Moh_spearhead? ???

HELP I ALSO GOT AN ATTACHMENT!

[Gobalopper]

Just a leftover from the messages being lost.

[Timenn]

The attachments, who lost their posts, tried to find themselves a new master ??

[Gobalopper]

Ya if the ID # of the post was the same it would show up, but that should be fixed now.

[lowzeewee]

Let's get back on topic with quotes.

[Inoculator9]

So... what happened to most posts in this thread? :-

[Edric O]

They went to that great big forum in the sky. :)

But fortunetaly, I have been able to recover my own short list of quotes which I posted here:

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

- Albert Einstein

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

- Karl Marx

"I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist."

- Nikita Khrushchev

"And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all [men], as every man had need."

- Acts 2:44-45

[Khan]

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

- Karl Marx

That's a good one.

[lowzeewee]

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

-Confucius

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

-Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future.

-Confucius

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

-Mark Twain

Why are we so big yet so weak while England is so small yet so strong?

-A chinese imperial official during the last years of the Qing Dynasty,that ended in 1911

[SurlyPIG]

ooh good I love quotes.

"He is able who thinks he is able."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."

- Buddha

"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last."

- JFK

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

- Gandhi

"When one door closes, another door opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things."

- Stephen R. Covey

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Who's the more foolish?  The fool, or the fool who follows him."

- Alec Guiness in Star Wars

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

- Tom Clancy

"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."

- Turkish proverb