P&N Quote thread

[misle]

I noticed a few good quotes on the Google personalized page and I thought it would be a fun thread.

Please no flaming, name calling, or any of those other things you guys are good at.

Here we go:

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
- PJ O'Rourke

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
- Dorothy Parker

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams

 

[miketheidiot]

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein.

 

[0roo0roo]

i want my boobs back
-lohan

 

[misle]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i want my boobs back
-lohan

I must admit, that was a wonderful quote.

Einstein has a lot of good quotes, I like this one.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I'm just waiting for someone to post the quote about young conservatives having no heart and old liberals having no brains. This quote is erronously attributed to Winston Churchill, who if anything got more] liberal as he got older.

My favorite is the one in my sig, which has been played out in living color in recent years: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." - Willam Butler Yeats

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Twain is always a goldmine of great quotes:

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: DonVito
My favorite is the one in my sig, which has been played out in living color in recent years: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." - Willam Butler Yeats

Does that make me your 2nd favorite?

Mark Twain:

I have never taken any exercise besides sleeping and resting.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:from bondage to spiritual faith;from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty;from liberty to abundance;from abundance to selfishness;from selfishness to complacency;from complacency to apathy;from apathy to dependency;from dependency back again to bondage.

Sir Alex Fraser Tytler

 

[slurmsmackenzie]

i'm not gonna fire a million dollar missle to blow up a 10 dollar tent and hit some camel in the butt. GWB

 

[CaptnKirk]

If you're just going to throw that away, at least throw it my way . . .

Jeff Dahmer to Lorena Bobbit.

 

[Zebo]

"I'm the commander, see. I do not need to explain why I say things. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation" -G.W. Bush

 

[datalink7]

?And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites?polar opposites?so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzchean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian ideal of love. Now, we?ve go to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on.?
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[Tab]

This investigation is important and it's ongoing, and a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief."
--George W. Bush

Now, if he could only take his own advice.

 

[Gaard]

"Over 50 percent of our energy comes from overseas. Fortunately, a lot of it comes from Canada."

guess who

 

[Stunt]

Prime Minister Jean Chretien:

"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."

(His remarks were made after reporters asked what kind of ?proof? Canada wanted to see before backing a U.S. attack against Iraq.)

 

[Mursilis]

Since the OP brought up P.J. O'Rourke, here's another of my favorites from that very funny man:

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

 

[JEDI]

"Power is a great aphrodesiac" - Notorious Asshole and War Criminal Henry Kissinger

 

[judasmachine]

"Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, leaves all of us blind and toothless."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ? From the essay "Notes on Nationalism"

George Orwell


"Over the hill, I think they're friendly Indians!"

Custer (OK not really, but it's funny)

 

[EatSpam]

"And Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." - The credit card president.

 

[Rainsford]

?Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.? --Buddha

Not a political quote exactly, but we could really use more of that attitude in politics

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
"Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, leaves all of us blind and toothless."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Isn't that just adapted from one of Ghandi's sayings?

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
?Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.? --Buddha

Not a political quote exactly, but we could really use more of that attitude in politics

Wow. Buddhism surely is an amazing religion.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: Rainsford
?Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.? --Buddha

Not a political quote exactly, but we could really use more of that attitude in politics

Wow. Buddhism surely is an amazing religion.

Certainly different, at the very least.

 

[Perknose]

"Isn't that just adapted from one of Ghandi's sayings?"

- kogase

 

[Perknose]

"Work is love made visible."

- Kahlil Gibran


"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."

-Rumi.


"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."

- Galileo