I'm quoting, here (no spam)

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:30 am

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes." - Jimi Hendrix

"The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history." - Robert Heinlein

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. " - Oscar Wilde

Cuchulain82 · Post by **Cuchulain82** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:11 pm

"In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity—please observe, a plodding mediocrity—for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry."

-Benjamin N. Cardozo, former 2nd circuit and US Supreme Court judge. By all accounts one of the greatest and most brilliant jurists in US legal history.

(I read this whenever I think I just can't hack it, and it makes me feel better because even Cardozo said he wasn't smart, just hard working)

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:37 am

Quote from book serie of "A Tale of The Malazan Book of The Fallen"

- "Explanations are what people use when they need to lie. Y'can always tell those, 'cause those explantions don't explain nothing and they look at you like they just cleared things up when rally they did the opposite and they know it and you know it and they kno you know and you know they know that you know and they know you and you know thm and maybe you go out for a pitcher later but who picks up the tab? That's what I want to know."

- "Right, and answers?"

- "Answers is what I get when I ask questions. Answers is when you got no choice. I ask, you tell. I ask again, you tell some more. Then I break your fingers, 'cause I don't lke what you're telling me, because those answers don't explain nothing!"

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:07 am

As a rule, I don't like to quote comics, because politicians are so insane that poking fun at them requires no effort at all. But I did find this eminently quotable, not for substance but for pith:

Earlier today, Senator Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president. Upon hearing the news, Hillary Clinton punched a pillow so hard it turned into a diamond. ---Amy Poehler

...And to finish with a classic that is more serious--worth remembering, in light of the kind of people furiously prosecuting the Iraqi war in the US, UK, and Australia--let's remember this:

War hath no fury like a non-combatant. ---CS Montague

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:54 am

“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” -Augustine of Hippo

Curdis · Post by **Curdis** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:37 pm

"Hatred of evil is itself a kind of bondage to evil. The way out is through understanding...resistance, if it is to be effective in preventing the spread of evil, should be combined with the greatest degree of understanding and the smallest degree of force that is compatible with the survival of the good things that we wish to preserve." - Bertrand Russell, Knowledge and Wisdom: Portraits from Memory(1956)

*Resists temptation to editorialise, further, doh.* - Curdis !

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:51 pm

Nihil aliud scit necessitas quam vincere.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer. -Syrus

Cuchulain82 · Post by **Cuchulain82** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:06 am

"I GO TO AMERICA!!!"

-Borat

(c'mon, we need a few lighter quotes in here)

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:21 pm

Some quotes about football (or soccer) from Reader's Digest:

"The rules of soccer are simple. Basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does." -Phil Woosnam, former US coach

"I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football." -Victoria Beckham

"Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always win." -Gary Lineker, former English national footballer. :laugh:

KoreeGahn · Post by **KoreeGahn** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:31 pm

First off lets start with a few churchill ones ( Gotta love him

)

Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober"

Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison"
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I would gladly drink it"

hmm this one is prolly wasted on you non scandinavians, but gonna post it anyway since i found it hilarious!

A friend and me was at a soccer game, when my friend told his girlfriend that the one with the ball was the "Anfører(captain in english)" she replied with " oh, who is "førstefører" then:laugh:

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:08 am

In the midst of winter,
I suddenly discovered there was in me
an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Cyro · Post by **Cyro** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:20 am

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
– Winston Churchill

"The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason."
- Richard Rahl (Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind)

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:12 am

"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically." -Aneurin Bevan

Cyro · Post by **Cyro** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:26 am

fable wrote:"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically." -Aneurin Bevan

On the same theme:

"Give me control over a nations currency and I care not who makes its laws" -Baron Rothschild

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:59 pm

Under good government, we should be ashamed of poverty; under bad government, we should be ashamed of wealth. -Confucius

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:03 pm

How true!

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:04 pm

"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
- Mortimer J. Adler

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:11 pm

"Of course [the world price of oil] is going to rise. Certainly! And how...; You [Western nations] increased the price of wheat you sell us by 300%, and the same for sugar and cement...; You buy our crude oil and sell it back to us, refined as petrochemicals, at a hundred times the price you've paid to us...; It's only fair that, from now on, you should pay more for oil. Let's say 10 times more." -addressed by the Shah of Iran in the 1973 edition of New York Times (quote from [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC"]Wikipedia[/url])

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:12 am

"In my generation, we were asked by the Smith vocational office how many words we could type a minute, a question that was never asked of then all-male students at Harvard or Princeton. Female-only typing was rationalized by supposedly greater female verbal skills, attention to detail, smaller fingers, goodness knows what, but the public imagination just didn’t include male typists, certainly not Ivy League-educated ones.

Now computers have come along, and "typing" is "keyboarding." Suddenly, voila! --- men can type! Gives you faith in men’s ability to change, doesn’t it?"

---Gloria Steinem, addressing a graduating class at Smith College

Avane · Post by **Avane** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:49 pm

The forward thinking of today is the common sense of tomorrow. Matthew Arnold, Cultural Critic and 19th c. poet.