Great Quotes

[Gonzo]

The ideal Islamic society is a theocracy (religious dictatorship) run primarily by clerics. We have seen this before in the West—it was called the Dark Ages

 

[Spirit]

I can never seem to commit quotes to memory, I always screw them up and they have a completely new meaning.

That's a goodie, Gonz.

 

[fury]

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[br0ck]

"Baby, your parents must be retards, cause you're special"!!

 

[Gonzo]

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

 

[Spirit]

"The sun is always shining"


"Once the bullets left the barrel, you can't take it back"

 

[fury]

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 

[75renegade]

"Foxes 'ave holes an' birds of the air 'ave nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay 'is head"

 

[fury]

"I post too much."

 

[Fuser Man]

Man who go to bed with itchy bum, wake up with smelly finger.

 

[unclehobart]

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great. "
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

 

[unclehobart]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. "
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

 

[unclehobart]

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

 

[unclehobart]

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

 

[unclehobart]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown

 

[unclehobart]

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)


"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

 

[unclehobart]

"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

 

[unclehobart]

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

 

[unclehobart]

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco

"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 (1709-1784)

 

[unclehobart]

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)