Post your favorite quote...

[a completely inoffensive name]

Since the only quote threads ended in 2005, and I am not a fan of necroposting, I have made this thread for everyone to post any quotes that are thought provoking, funny or are just interesting in general. I will start with some Carl Sagan...

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." -Carl Sagan (Cosmos page 4)

There is no limit on quote length and sourcing would be nice for those who might want to read more from a particular person. (Got mine from wikiquotes, don't know how accurate they are).

-ACIN

[seireikhaan]

*blind man heckling a comic

"GET OFF THE STAGE!"

*waits a few seconds

"IS HE OFF THE STAGE YET?"

[Reverend Joe]

So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut.

[Csargo]

The sig.

[seireikhaan]

Sorry for the double post.

Stephen Colbert-

"Wait, they're actually selling sand to Iraq? That's like selling to Washington!

[LeftEyeNine]

My recent times have been enlightened with the wisest set of words one mind could speak on behalf of me:

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

I should have been able to meet that brain so as to be better. Feeling understood always eases your pain since it yields a delusion of not being lonely at least to an extent.

[TevashSzat]

Refer to sig below

[Strike For The South]

sig

[pevergreen]

"Having fun there, with your abnormally low nipples?"
I havent got low nipples, their just right.
"You know the radiation there is going to kill you."
Ah, radiation, my one true foe. Wait no, I dont care. Begone with you

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.

Do you want to Sarathos?

The entire Wine In Front Of Me speech.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Lemur's brilliant thoughts on Zimbabwe, which i have written down somewhere and am too lazy to find, so i shall type from (my awful) memory.

"Mugabe's hand-crafted hellhole is like a cross between one of Stalin's five year plans and the Khmer Rouge's Year Zero 'Everybody dies' adventure"

[drone]

.Org quotes - see sig

Non .Org quote:

"My advice to you, is to start drinking heavily." John Blutarsky

[AlexanderSextus]

In Science we have finally come back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who said everything is flow, flux, process. There are no "things." NOTHINGNESS in Eastern language is "no-thingness." We in the West think of nothingness as a void, an emptiness, an nonexistence. In Eastern philosophy and modern physical science, nothingness — no-thingness — is a form of process, ever moving. - Bruce Lee

[Mouzafphaerre]

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My quotes.txt file:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

QUOTE	AUTHOR	SOURCE
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.	Richard Feynman	
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.	Richard Feynman	
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring	Richard Feynman	(Last words)
I think it would be a good idea!	Mohandas Karamçand Gandhi	(In reply to a reporter's question "What do you think of Western Civilization?")
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and The Sea (1952)
On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées	Victor Hugo	
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.	Albert Einstein	The World as I see it (1934)
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.	Albert Einstein	
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.	Albert Einstein	Scientific American. New York: Sep 2002. Vol. 287, Iss. 3; pg. 102
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist. (1949)
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle; old age a regret.	Benjamin D'Israeli	Coningsby (1844)
Ignorance never settles a question.	Benjamin D'Israeli	Speech in the House of Commons (May 14, 1866)
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.	Benjamin D'Israeli	Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845)
Dubium sapientiae initium.	René Descartes	Meditationes de prima philosophiae
不患人之不己之，患不知人也。 (I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.)	Kong Fu Zi	
学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。 (To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.)	Kong Fu Zi	
见贤思齐焉；见不贤而内自省也。 (When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.)	Kong Fu Zi	
APPETITVS RATIONI PAREAT (Rule your desires by reason)	Marcus Tullius Cicero	
OBSEQVIVM PARIT AMICOS; VERITAS PARIT ODIVM (Compromice makes friends; truth makes hate)	Marcus Tullius Cicero	
INTER ARMA ENIM SILENT LEGES (Amongst arms, Law stands mute)	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Pro Milone
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.	Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin	The Great Dictator (The Jewish Barber) (1940)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.	George Washington	Letter to Harriet Washington
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. (The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.)	Blaise Pascal	Pensées
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.	El-Hajj Malik el Shabazz (Malcolm X)	Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.	El-Hajj Malik el Shabazz (Malcolm X)	Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。 (We shall support whatever our enemies oppose; and oppose whatever our enemies support)	Mao Zedong	Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
没有一个人民的军队，便没有人民的一切。 (Without the people an army has nothing.)	Mao Zedong	Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	Speech at the Great March on Detroit, 23/7/1963
NOS NVMERVS SVMVS ET FRVGES CONSVMERE NATI. (We are but numbers, born to consume resources.)	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Epistles I,ii,27
IRA FVROR BREVIS EST. (Anger is a short madness.)	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Epistles I,ii,62
DVLCE ET DECORVM EST PRO PATRIA MORI. (It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland.)	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Odes III, ii, 13
PVLVIS ET VMBRA SVMVS. (We are dust and shadow.)	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Odes IV, vii, 16
History is for the future not the past. The dead don't read.	QwertyMIDX	Totalwar.ORG forums
Nationalism is a serious mental disorder.	Captain Lou	Ellaybe Island
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.	Flameberge	Ellaybe Island
We cannot choose who we are, but what are we but the sum of our choices?	Flameberge	Ellaybe Island
In view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.	Bertrand Russell	
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, I/2, Gandalf's words)
...I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend...	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers, IV/5, Faramir's words)
The servant has a claim on the master for service, even service in fear.	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers, IV/6)
It is best to love first what you are fitted to love...	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King, V/8, Merry's words)
...tears are the very wine of blessedness.	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King, VI/4)
...those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Silmarillion (Quenta Silmarillion, VI)
...and we cannot dwell in the time that is to come, lest we lose our now for a phantom of our own design.	J.R.R. Tolkien	Unfinished Tales (Part Two: The Second Age, II: Aldarion and Erendis, Erendis's words)
But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Silmarillion (Quenta Silmarillion, X)
Þæs ofereode; þisses swa mæg.	Déor the Minstrel	Exeter Book
I plan to live forever!.. or die trying.	Vila Restal	Blake's 7 (1;4)
Je parle espagnol à Dieu, italien aux femmes, français aux hommes, et allemand à mon cheval.	Karl V	
The point of Zen is to confuse the intellect into seeing the futility of concrete ideas.	D.C. Simpson	Ozy and Millie ("Words, Wisdom, W.", 11/7/2000, Isolde's words)
I love modernism. It's the only time where you can fail elementary school art class and still make millions of dollars.	Kekvit Irae	Totalwar.ORG forums
Ulan öküz Anadolulu! Sizin milliyetçilikle, komünizmle ne işiniz var? Milliyetçilik lazımsa onu biz yaparız. Komünizm gerekirse onu da biz getiririz. Sizin iki vazifeniz var: Birincisi, çiftçilik yapıp mahsul yetiştirmek. İkincisi, askere çağırdığımızda askere gelmek.	Nevzat Tandoğan	
devlet tarafindan atanmis bir kurumun internet uzerinde kimin hangi bilgiye ulasip ulasamayacagina karar vermesi insan haklarina aykiridir. web siteleri kullanicilarin istekleri dogrultusunda baglandiklari yerlerdir. kullanicilar isterlerse bir web sitesine baglanmayabilirler. bu gucleri ve imkanlari mevcuttur. bir kullanici bir siteye baglanmak istiyorsa bu onun tercihi ve hakkidir. baglanmak istemiyorsa bu yine onun tercihi ve hakkidir. halkin kendisine hizmet etmesi icin gorevlendirdigi kurumlar hadlerini asip halka neye ulasip ulasmayacagini bilmeyen cahil cuhela muamelesi edemezler. ebeveynlerin cocuklarini sakincali iceriklerden korumasi icin cok sayida bedava ve ucretli yazilim mevcuttur. bu yazilimlar bir web tarayicisini kullanmaktan daha karmasik teknik bilgi gerektirmemektedir. devletin milletini kucuk dusurmesi ve ebleh yerine koymasi yasaktir.	Elşi Sözlük	http://sozluk.sourtimes.org
The three rings of marriage: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.	Banquo's Ghost	TotalWar.ORG Forums
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.	Orson Welles

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[||Lz3||]

Wise men learn when they can, fools when they must

-Esto del cortejo es como el tango: absurdo y pura floritura. Pero usted es el hombre y le toca llevar la iniciativa.
-¿La iniciativa? ¿Yo?
-¿Qué quiere? Algún precio tenía que tener el poder mear de pie

(-Courtship is like tango, absurd and only flourish. But you're the man and is up to you to take the initiative
-Initiative? me?
-What do you want? , some price it had to had being able to pee standing)

[King Henry V]

Some quotes from a great film with Trevor Howard, "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End":

"I never met a man I didn't mutilate"

"If I had all the money that I'd spent on drink...I'd spend it on drink!"

"I don't know what I want, but I want it now!"

[Lord Winter]

“Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic he fights his fate, ofter desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.”
-H. L. Mencken

[Decker]

My all-time favorite quote:

Ernie Pyle-
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
The ******** Infantry

He was talking about getting a Masters and Doctorate Degree....

A Friend of Mine-
"No one said it was gonna be easy! If it was, everyone would do it..that's who you know who really wants it."

Our beloved Bierut discussing the tragedies of life

Bierut-
All us men suffer in equal parts, it's our lot in life, and no man goes without a broken heart or a lost love. Like holding your dog as he takes his last breath and dies in your arms, it's a rite of passage. Unavoidable. And honestly, I can't imagine life without that depth of feeling.-Bierut
Bierut's Post

Just some good ones I like:

Cullen Hightower-
"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."

Robert McNamara-
And the conventional wisdom is: don't make the same mistake twice. Learn from your mistakes. And we all do. Maybe we make the mistake three times, but hopefully not four or five.

And two random ones:

"Trying is just a easy way of saying you didn't do it"

"Due to the presence of fools wise people stand out"

[Reverend Joe]

“Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic he fights his fate, ofter desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.”
-H. L. Mencken

That is beautiful.

[Kralizec]

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

-Ronald Reagan

[woad&fangs]

Love truth, but pardon error.

~Voltaire

[KarlXII]

BUTTSCRATCHA! BUTTSCRATCHA HERE!

[Monk]

"Not even time to finish my cake?"

"No. There is no more time, even for cake. For you, the cake is over. You have reached the end of cake."

[LittleGrizzly]

One with some personal meaning...

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have them.

And a funny one...

Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”

[Legosoldier]

Refer to the sig

[drone]

"Not even time to finish my cake?"

"No. There is no more time, even for cake. For you, the cake is over. You have reached the end of cake."

The cake is a lie....

[KarlXII]

"But Aqua man, you can't marry a woman without gills... you're from two different worlds!"

Comic Book Guy

[Hax]

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word.

Al Capone.

[Martok]

Aside from the one in my sig, one of my other favorite Org quotes comes courtesy of Big John:

"Shakespeare and jazz = not good. Under any circumstances. Dissenters will be ostracized."



As for more well-known quotes, one of my favorites -- those not already mentioned here, anyway -- is from Robert E. Lee (apologies if I don't get it quite right):

"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it."

[Thermal]

'it's not that i want to kill you, i just don't want you to be alive' - Stewie - Family Guy

[a completely inoffensive name]

"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
-Theodore Roosevelt