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[DirkGently1]

Wasn't Nietzsche British or something? Translation errors likely account for said differences.

"A lie will travel half way around the world before the truth has even put it's shoes on"

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

 

[Scotteq]

H. L. Mencken - on any number of topics.



The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H. L. Mencken


The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken


To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken


Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken


The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. Mencken



...and many many more..

 

[purbeast0]

"the only regrets we have in life are the risks we didn't take."

 

[thraashman]

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
-Aristotle

 

[Gigantopithecus]

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am knee-deep in dwarfs."

 

[soulcougher73]

"The journey is the destination"

 

[JeepinEd]

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." -Arthur C Clarke

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? - Conctact (The Movie)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have - Thomas Jefferson

 

[Locut0s]

Excellent choice!

Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water
After enlightenment chop wood, carry water

zen saying

I like that. Very... um... zen.

 

[blackdogdeek]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first successful nuclear test. (paraphrased from the Bhagavad Gita)

 

[Locut0s]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first successful nuclear test. (paraphrased from the Bhagavad Gita)

Always liked that one too. You really get the feeling he must have felt "oh fuck what have we created".

 

[Pantlegz]

They're in my sig, I think...

 

[Saint Nick]

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans."

-Ronald Reagan

Was also the dumb quote beneath my senior photo in my high school year book.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

See sig. It's from a "Step Right Up" a Tom Waits song.

 

[EagleKeeper]

"Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience"

Applies aptly here in P&N

 

[blackdogdeek]

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney Harris

 

[gophins72]

"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. "
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving."
- Dan Millman

"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
- PJ O'Rourke

 

[hanoverphist]

"never trust a bald barber, he has no respect for your hair" from Kuffs

my boss likes "a job without profit is a donation with risk"

 

[Atomic Playboy]

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
-Ripley in Aliens

It's useful for basically every situation that comes up in life. Also, "That's what she said," for the exact same reason.

 

[Scarpozzi]

"That’s what I love about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age."

 

[Locut0s]

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney Harris

:thumbsup: I need to take this one to heart.

 

[Angry Irishman]

You can't shine a turd

 

[rh71]

life is like a box of chocolates... when you have kids, it's just all a big mess.

 

[Locut0s]

You can't shine a turd

Actually I suspect you can:

http://web-japan.org/trends01/article/011005sci_r.html

 

[Fritzo]

"Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries." -- Some French Ka-nigit.