I have some good quotes for those looking for something to put in their sig. Warning: this is long.
Me:
When life hands you lemons, throw them at stupid people! (the end of my graduation speech actually)
Ben Franklin:
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Where there?s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Necessity knows no law.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
Thomas Paine:
Virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Jefferson:
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry, too.
If I could not go to heaven but with a [political] party I would not go at all.
Henry Clay:
Sir, I would rather be right than President.
Horace Mann:
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Nature abhors the old.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The young may die, but the old must!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:
Man has his will, - but woman has her way.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Henry David Thoreau:
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
If I owe Smith ten dollars, and God forgives me, that doesn?t pay Smith.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain):
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
There are two times in a man?s life when he should not speculate: when he can?t afford it, and when he can.
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Ambrose Bierce:
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored with the existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Clarence Seward Darrow:
I don?t believe in God because I don?t believe in Mother Goose.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Me:
When life hands you lemons, throw them at stupid people! (the end of my graduation speech actually)
Ben Franklin:
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Where there?s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Necessity knows no law.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
Thomas Paine:
Virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Jefferson:
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry, too.
If I could not go to heaven but with a [political] party I would not go at all.
Henry Clay:
Sir, I would rather be right than President.
Horace Mann:
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Nature abhors the old.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The young may die, but the old must!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:
Man has his will, - but woman has her way.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Henry David Thoreau:
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
If I owe Smith ten dollars, and God forgives me, that doesn?t pay Smith.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain):
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
There are two times in a man?s life when he should not speculate: when he can?t afford it, and when he can.
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Ambrose Bierce:
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored with the existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Clarence Seward Darrow:
I don?t believe in God because I don?t believe in Mother Goose.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
AreaCode707
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Explain my sig? The verse hopefully keeps people from automatically deciding to get mad at me because I'm Christian. The other one, well, see, adul claimed he had "never duplicated" quotes so naturally I had to make him wrong. 
Emos
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Mine is the famous line from Stanley Krubrick's classic Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Plus the sig also seems appropriate when flame-fests get out of hand!
couple more (sorry)
Frank Ward O?Malley
Life is just one damned thing after another.
(James) Branch Cabell
Marrying a woman because you happen to be in love with her is about as logical a proceeding as throwing the cat out of the window because the rhododendrons are in bloom.
Alexander Woollcott
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
James J. Walker (major of NY back around 1929)
Some folks call me the ?night mayor? of New York.
(sorry)Frank Ward O?Malley
Life is just one damned thing after another.
(James) Branch Cabell
Marrying a woman because you happen to be in love with her is about as logical a proceeding as throwing the cat out of the window because the rhododendrons are in bloom.
Alexander Woollcott
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
James J. Walker (major of NY back around 1929)
Some folks call me the ?night mayor? of New York.
Well, anyone ever watch "Mr. Show with Bob and David" on HBO? That's the bottom one...
Top one is Mr. Wiggum...
I want to use the "America's Favorite Negro" stuff that user "firestar46" uses, but he still posts here, and I don't wanna be a biter...ahh, what the hell...I'll be back
Top one is Mr. Wiggum...
I want to use the "America's Favorite Negro" stuff that user "firestar46" uses, but he still posts here, and I don't wanna be a biter...ahh, what the hell...I'll be back
I change mine periodically. It's usually just something I come up with.
Before this one I had "Reach out and torch someone." That came from the Descent 3 manual.
Before that, I had "Why do vegetarians deliberately lower themselves on the food chain?" That was short lived, because I realized that it could offend someone so I took it down. It was inspired by a T-shirt that I saw at Cabela's.
Before that, I had "The voice in my head decided to become a mime. I haven't heard from him since..." I came up with that one myself.
I also included the phrase "OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!" in my sig for awhile.
Before this one I had "Reach out and torch someone." That came from the Descent 3 manual.
Before that, I had "Why do vegetarians deliberately lower themselves on the food chain?" That was short lived, because I realized that it could offend someone so I took it down. It was inspired by a T-shirt that I saw at Cabela's.
Before that, I had "The voice in my head decided to become a mime. I haven't heard from him since..." I came up with that one myself.
I also included the phrase "OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!" in my sig for awhile.
It's from a problem we did in class in my Engineering Physics I course - the answer was the work done by the object is equal to its mass times gravity times the distance it moved.
Of course, MGD also stands for the name of an alcoholic beverage. It's one of those had-to-be-there things, I think.
Of course, MGD also stands for the name of an alcoholic beverage. It's one of those had-to-be-there things, I think.
When you people make a signature, is it like "wow, that's really cool. I think I'll put it in my signature" (spontaneous) or is it more along the lines of "Hmm... what's cool enough to put in my signature?" (deliberate)
Well yeah, if you have an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of typewriters they will instantaneously produce the complete works of Shakespeare and other writers.
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