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C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri May 11, 2001 5:55 am

Karembeu: I think the Voltaire quite is:

"I dissapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it"

The Swedish translation, reads like this, I think:

"Jag håller inte med dig om det du säger. Men med mitt liv skulle jag försvara din rätt att säga det."

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Fri May 11, 2001 6:05 am

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET PORN OFF THE INTERNET???!!!
-Gruntboy (just kidding.

You’re my hero Grunt)

You’ve got to be fricking kidding me!
-Every Alaskan after an Australian tourist jumped the safety rail and got too close to Binky the polar bear’s cage in the zoo. (You’ve undoubtedly seen the footage on When Animals attack)

I’ve done far worse then kill you. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on… hurting you.
-Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-Gen. Douglas Macarthur

I find your lack of faith disturbing
-Star Wars

I am your father
-The Empire Strikes back

Bitch! Where’s my bacon?!
-The Dead Alewives

Fall! FALL!!!
-Transformers the Movie

Sarlag poof! Weng doh’mehai!!!! Foof yar teho!!! HA HA HA =)
-Kayless, messing with peoples’ minds on Battle.net

There can be only one!
-Highlander

I AM the last one!
-Dragonheart

Teamwork is so overrated.
-Gargoyles

My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
-The Simpsons

Who does number two work for?! Who does number two work for?!
-Austin Powers

"Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Was ever woman in this humour won?"
King Richard III I, ii, 227-228

"O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!"
Hamlet I, v, 106

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better"
Twelfth N, III. i.

Fear makes the wolf bigger then he is.
- Old German proverb

It is good that war is so terrible else we should grow too found of it.
-Robert E. Lee

All this has been my fault.
-Robert E. Lee

"The course of true love never did run smooth"
Midsummer Night’s Dream, I. i.

"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love"
T of the S, IV. vii.

Today is a good day to die.
-Klingon proverb

What can change the nature of a man?
-Planescape Torment

That depends what your definition of the word is, is.
-Bill Clinton

Democracy may be only a step removed from anarchy, but at least it’s not as loud.
-Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri May 11, 2001 6:08 am

@Karembeu:
Not being able to read french, I can't give you the excat quote - there are many english interpretation of it:

"I don't agree with a single word you are saying, but I'll defend until my death your right of saying them"

"I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

etc.
All with the same meaning though

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fable · Post by **fable** » Fri May 11, 2001 9:14 am

@Xandax, I think that was Voltaire.

"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething." -Sam Clemens (Mark Twain): Pudd'nhead Wilson

"A custom loathsome to the eye, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the Pit that is bottomless!" -James I of England, referring to smoking. A fave of mine.

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Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri May 11, 2001 10:04 am

Originally posted by fable:
@Xandax, I think that was Voltaire.
<snip>

It is Voltaire

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri May 11, 2001 7:57 pm

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies." -Groucho Marx

"Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out long ago." -WC Fields

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat May 12, 2001 7:40 am

"Television is democracy at its ugliest." -Paddy Chayevsky

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 14, 2001 7:57 am

"Life is but a game, shboom shboom, a yadda-yadda-yadda-da." -1950's song, Shboom.

Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:01 am

The best way to begin a day well is to think, on awakening, whether we cannot give pleasure during the day to at least one person. If this could become a substitute for the religious habit of prayer our fellow-men would benefit by the change

By my all-time favorite philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:06 am

"You sink my Loveboat and I will take your marines"

By Ubik

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:17 am

"Pray to God all you wish, Ivan, but keep rowing for the shore." -old Ukrainian proverb

Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:22 am

Weasel, you wanker

Are you the one who sank my loveboat? I think it was LeGrunt's pantless marines

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:26 am

@Ubik, "Weasel, you wanker" does not count as a notable quote, since that requires (according to the rules )a universality that results from more than 5,000 uses in the past, and...

Hm. Oh, wait a minute.

Well, it would appear "Weasel, you wanker" does qualify, after all. Carry on.

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:27 am

Originally posted by fable:
@Ubik, "Weasel, you wanker" does not count as a notable quote, since that requires (according to the rules )a universality that results from more than 5,000 uses in the past, and...

Hm. Oh, wait a minute.

Well, it would appear "Weasel, you wanker" does qualify, after all. Carry on.

Like I said too many words.

Ten more years have been added to your sentence.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:30 am

NOOOOO!!!!!

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:36 am

Originally posted by fable:
NOOOOO!!!!!

Careful or you will sharing a cell with Craig and Cheesemage.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:38 am

by Weasel

@Ubik..

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scully1 · Post by **scully1** » Mon May 14, 2001 8:55 am

"Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this." ~Musashi Miyamoto, "The Book of Five Rings"

"Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything." ~Ueshiba Morihei, O-Sensei

Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Mon May 14, 2001 9:02 am

one more from good-old Nietzsche:

Whoever thinks much is not suitable as a party member he soon thinks himself right through the party.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 14, 2001 9:07 am

Darkpoet chastises:
Careful or you will sharing a cell with Craig and Cheesemage.

Offhand, DP, I can think of only two things in the universe I would not do to avoid such a fate.