Topic awaiting preservation: Topic 1000: Quotes

Just seeing the 999 topics made me start this.
Anyway, here are some interesting quotes,
Or should I say some intersting, some stupid.

Discordian Quotes

--I like these--

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"The rarity of genuine feeling in human society sometimes
makes me stop in the street to watch a dog gnawing a bone."


.quotes.

So the 1000th topic is a stupid topic ? Why not... here is my participation :

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
-- Scott Adams

1000? Really?

*chuckles*

Look again, sport...hehe.

"the pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with"

yeah... means we have to clean up a little.

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions; their lives a mimicry; their passions a quotation."

- Oscar Wilde

For me, reality can take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. -- Stephen King.

Greetings INFIDELS! -- Michael Savage.

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wow, I can't believe I read the whole thing...


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I know this post has generated serious, meaningful quotes, but I must include my all time favorite from the movie Airplane!:


Pilot: "Surely, you must be serious"

Doctor: "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"

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A Quote form the, IMO, best show ever aired on television, family guy.

Lois: Peter, I want you to help Chris. kids do better when parents take an interest in their schoolwork. I saw it on an episode of dateline Tuesday and dateline katilsaday.
Peter: What the hell is katisday.
Lois: Oh NBC invented another day so they could air another episode of dateline.

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Now Officially Superior!

"Don't Panic!" (in nice friendly letters)
-Douglas Adams- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

words...they're meaningless and all that's true

--The Police
Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

"You are unique, like everyone else."

"I was told yesterday to shut the hell up. That begs me to ask 2 questions. What is the hell up, and how do I shut it?"

"Is it the red or the blue wire?"

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

"Why can't we all just get along? Oh yeah, there aren't enough longs."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit."

"Don't quote me."

"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum."

"Life's a bitch and she's back in heat."

"That's it man, game over man, game over, man! Game over!"

"I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won."

"I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!"

"Oh, you're right. And when you're right, you're right. And you - you're always right."

"I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!"

"SPACE HERPES!"

"IceHole!"

C.S. Lewis:

quote:

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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

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Ghandi:

quote:

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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

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Fight Club/Chuck Palahniuk

quote:

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This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

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Irvine Welsh"

[quote]
I don't think people do change that much. I think they just become more like themselves. They become more-of, or less-of, more torn down. If they're desperate, they become more-of, and if they've accepted their lot, they're not restless; they become more content, more at ease.[/wipyr]

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"It's coffee time! Coffee, coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee! Cappucino, java, YES!"

"And furthermore, I want this pigsty cleaned up. I will not be rescued in such filth!"

"Do you know what my owl would say about you?"

"Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it."

"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."

"How the hell am I going to find her with only one boot. I'm going to find my boot."

"What bloody rhinoceros?"

"If I were human, I believe my response would be 'Go to Hell'. If I were human."

"Pathetic human race. Organising your knowledge into categories only made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool, your decimal system has played right into my hands. Hahahahaha!"

"And as for you, my cowardly lobster, who needs courage when you have a gun?"

"Satisfaction guaranteed or our money back."

I like that Ghandi Quote CFB.

"Protection? Protection from who, Tommy? Ze Germans?"
-Turkish "Snatch"

Wesley: You seem a decent fellow, I hate to kill you.
Inigo: You seem a decent fellow, I hate to die.
"The Princess Bride"

Wesley (to Fesik): I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. Sleep well, and dream of large women.
"The Princess Bride"

Bodhi - Cell 617

quote:

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Wesley: You seem a decent fellow, I hate to kill you.
Inigo: You seem a decent fellow, I hate to die.
"The Princess Bride"

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I think you mixed up the quote. Indigo tells Wesley he's the decent fellow. I've watched that movie too many times :-/

Jestah

So have I... they blend together in my head...

called out! dang it! *hangs head in shame*


Bodhi - Cell 617

"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war against brutality and darkness."
Pablo Picasso

"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams

Jason

"My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast."
--Miguel de Unamuno

"Strong leaders make for a weak people; strong people do not need a strong leader."
--character from 'Viva Zapata'

"If voting could change anything, it would be illegal."
--Jello Biafra

"I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in someone else could lead you out."
--Eugene Debs

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei

Just because you do not take an interest in politics
doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles

politics
me

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his
fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with
your money.
G. Gordon Liddy

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always
depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor
people in rich countries to rich people in poor
countries.
Douglas Casey

Giving money and power to government is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke

Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until
you see what it costs when it's free.
P.J. O'Rourke

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the
legislature is in session.
Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap--except when Congress does it. The
government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a
happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the
other.
Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing
of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism
is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into
prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill

What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians.
Edward Langley

Jason

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight that counts; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."

"Yes! YES! Jesus H. Godblessed Christ! I have seen the light!"

"Sex is like air. It's only important when you don't have any."

"Have you seen my submarine? It's long, hard and full of seamen."

"ET phone home."

"Huh? Upgrades?"

"Why are you dressed as a tiger?"

"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'"

"It started out like Romeo and Juliet, but it ended in tragedy."

"in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit..."-Priests /Reverends.

This is kind of off-topic, but I just wanted to say this: Gilbert, your idea for asylum quotes in the FAQ has been great. There's been a lot of wisdom spread around these halls (not to mention some outright hilarious things!). Kudos

Well said Yannah ... most of the world's major atrocities have been blessed and/or justified by those very words.

Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær ...
(There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing)

la madre degli idioti è incinta sempre ...
(The mother of idiots is always pregnant)



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Okay, found some really good quotes here.

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"I could really use a robo-knee."

"Are those Sea Monkeys? Oh wait - they're people!"

"You know that noise Charlie Brown makes when Lucy pulls away the football?
That's the sound in my head right now."

"How do you fart in German?"

"An obloquy of a thousand words begins with a single quote..."

"Don't try and tell daffodills their business, they know better than you."

"If morons could fly, the sky would be black."

"I'm so surprised to see me! How fortunate that I and myself showed up at that time!"

"Food is a very important meal."

"That'll teach you to be a bug in my car."

"I think squirrels and cats are related, but maybe not."

"Wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka."

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas (George Bernard Shaw)



Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips

And here's some more...

"I come bearing Tri-Ominoes."

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."

"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."

"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest."

"That's my window. And that's my door. And that's a chicken! There's a chicken in the house!"

"Man, I have a tiny steering wheel. Oh well, I am a magical gnome."

"We live next door to America, in the snow, amongst the French, so if I say it's a pleasure to be here, f#@k off, it is!"

"It was soup?"