quotes that you like

Mookow

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Do you have any particular quotes that you like? I'm kinda bored, so I'd like to hear some... Something along the lines of this:
"Experience is the hardest teacher. But you learn, by God, you learn." C.S. Lewis
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." Friedrich Nietzsche

Also, linking to websites is acceptable.

One little rule: If you post a quote in a language other than english, you must provide a translation after it.
 

JohnCU

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"Anyone who proclaims that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all has never been in love." - me
 

datalink7

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OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!-Ameesh@anandtech

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we?d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. - Gandalf

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare
and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all.
It's the best deal man has ever made"
- M. Facklam

Procrastination is like masturbation.... it's all good until you realize you are just fu*king yourself.....
-Unknown

"I don't believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good
citizen and you have solved the problem of life."
-Andrew Carnegie

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Henri Bergson
"Without education, we are in a
horrible and deadly danger of taking
educated people seriously."
-- G.K. Chesterton

"First they arrested the Communists -- but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists -- and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me -- and there was no one left to do anything about it."
- Rev Martin Niemoller (Nazi Prison Survivor)

Doh! ? Homer Simpson

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening

Men have two major organs, the brain and the penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Eric Idle

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
HL Mencken

"Anything, right or wrong, can be justified, with enough time and reasons, right or wrong."

"It used to be that I was afraid of dying alone. Now, more than anything else, I fear living alone." -Thomas Anthony Perez, Sr.

Millions cried
Millions died
and still the sun rose

Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistant one. - Al Einstein

"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

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

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. "
- Steven Wright

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
- Warren Zevon

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

"If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?"
 

Harvey

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God created man in his image, and man, being a gentleman, returned the compliment.

George Bernard Shaw


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

Groucho Marx
 

"I never let schooling get in the way of my education."
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
 

kranky

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"I am convinced life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." - Chuck Swindoll
 

Gaard

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"There's two types of people in the world. Those with guns...and those that dig. You dig." - Clint
 

Cyberian

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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we?d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
Oh!, but wait, we are!
 

Vadatajs

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" I contend that you and I are both atheists; I just believe in one less god than you do. And when you realize why you discredit all other possible gods, you'll understand why I discredit yours."

"Goodbye blue Monday"

"TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFATS EST"

 

Dudd

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Female to Churchhill: "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchhill: "That may be true, but in the morning I will be sober, but you will still be ugly."

(something like that, I'm going off the top of my head)
 

conjur

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"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
Andy DuFrain (Tim Robbins) - The Shawshank Redemption
 

Mookow

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Another one:
Voltaire, on his death bed is asked by a priest to renounce Satan. Voltaire responded with:
"Now, my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
 

toph99

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my favourite site

i have too many quotes i love to list... i could make a book out of them. my favourite people to quote are Groucho Marx, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nietzsche. those are just my absolut tops too, i have many more
 

KthxBye

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"Resolve to perform what you must, perform without fail what you resolve." -Benjamin Franklin
 

dirtboy

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A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.
 

Stiler

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We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers" - Henry V

If you prick us will we not bleed?if you tickle us will we not laugh? and if you wrong us shall we not revenge? - Merchant of Venice

Cry Havoc!, and let slip the dogs of war. - Julius Caesar

To be or not to be; that is the question - Hamlet
 

Hammer

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see my sig ;)

edit:
forgot the translation in case you didn't know. It means "the one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety".
 

Zenmervolt

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"This too shall pass" - Abraham Lincoln quoting a Chinese Proverb.

"You will survive being bested." - Steven Stills

"To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns." - Gordon Lightfoot

"Nothing I have never said has ever done me any harm." - Calvin Coolidge

"Better to die on my feet than to live on my knees." - ?

"In matters of taste, flow with the current. In matters of principle, stand like the rock." - Jefferson (I think, I'll look it up later.)

"McCarty shootsHESCORES!!!!" - Micky Redmond (sp?), calling Darren McCarty's Hat Trick goal in the first game of the 2002 Detroit-Colorado conference finals.

ZV
 

aphex

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"God i havent been fvcked like that since grade school"

-Fight Club
 

joohang

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"The way you perceive others is a reflection of yourself."
- Brian G. Rice, president of Entier Solutions, my boss

"Software ships on a Monday because to a developer, a weekend is an infinite amount of time."
- Jim McCarthy, former product manager of Visual C++ team, in his 23rd suggestion to ship better software on time

"Religion is a system of myths, rituals, beliefs and practices which prevent the otherwise unpreventable, predict the otherwise unpredictable, and explain the otherwise unexplainable."
- Professor Don L. Baker, Head of Centre for Korean Research, University of British Columbia

"Neo-Confucianism served as a functional equivalent of a religion to the scholar-officials of Choson Korea. Today, Juche, the state cult of Kim Ilsung in North Korea, also serves as a system which is functionally equivalent of a religion."
- Don Baker (I modified it a bit.)