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dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:05 pm

Just found this by George Carlin and liked it enough to post

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:55 am

"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." -Audre Lorde

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:40 am

"If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."

- W. Somerset Maugham

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:28 am

"To think before you speak is like wiping your butt before you take a dump!" - [url="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~mosh/arne/arne01.gif"]Arnie the Duck/Charlie Christensen[/url] (before getting sued by Disney)

penguin_king · Post by **penguin_king** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:35 pm

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left" - i dont know who.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:50 pm

penguin_king wrote:"War does not determine who is right, only who is left" - i dont know who.

Bertrand Russell. Good quote.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:49 am

dragon wench wrote:"If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."

- W. Somerset Maugham

Along the same lines, from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle:

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.”

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:35 pm

"If the barons live at war, ploughfolk must eat roots." -Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:21 pm

"Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other involves orcs." -John Rogers

LeoStarDragon1 · Post by **LeoStarDragon1** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:35 am

Quotes?!

Wow! I managed to read all 469 quotes. Lots of repeats. I see two kinds, the funny and the not so funny. A lot used in "Call of Duty" games of which I was addicted to before Oblivion embraced me. Hm.

Here's the funny one: "What's with all the gloves in the glove box?" by Cassandra Angeline "Cassie Angel" Ogden. (See attached image.) She said that to me while looking for a map or something, while I was driving.

Here's the not-so-funny one: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate... we can not consecrate... we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Said by President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg.

Hm. Okay, a self-quote too while I'm at it. "There's only one reason to not smoke. Because it is illogical to do so. Everything else people have said about how bad smoking is for you, merely explains why it is illogical."

Hm. Hey! There's a commanality here! Mine is not so bad of course in comparison. I have a scar on my forehead where a BB I shot hit me after it ricocheted off the target I'd hit and I was behind a steel barrel. I have a scar on my right arm, where a piece of brass shell casing entered. It came from a shell used in nail-guns to make the nails go in. I learned a valuable lesson. Of course we know how Lincoln was killed by being shot. There's no comparison, really, between what happened to him and me, excep that I was just noticing a pattern of coincidence concerning the people I quoted. As for Cassie, she was married, pregnant, and sitting on a front porch, when stray bullets from a random drive-buy shooting in her neighborhood killed her in 1998. (I didn't learn of it until 2001 or so.)

To quote someone not shot to death or even injured: I think it was Groucho Marx who asked, while being the host of "You Bet Your Life", the question, "Yes or no! Have you stopped beating your wife lately?"

I think of that whenever I hear a yes or no question in a trial.

Sain · Post by **Sain** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:49 pm

"What can go wrong, WILL go wrong."

"Life sucks, then you die."

The good die young, the bastards never leave."

"Damn, hope your not one of those psychotic quiet types."-Fallout 3

"Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither."-Gears of War 2

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:10 am

A few from Oscar Wilde that I've always liked:

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Demortis · Post by **Demortis** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:19 am

Hero= Someone who gets other people killed. -Not to sure.

"There are no Atheists in Foxholes" -Actually heard my dad say this first, dont know who said it first, but he's/she's right.

Ronan · Post by **Ronan** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:30 am

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Probably my favourite quote although I rarely read them.

Also:

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
- Martin Luther

That's also one I've always liked and it tells much about me that I read it from the Medieval 2 Total War loading screen.

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:11 am

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop, than when we soar.
—William Wordsworth

We're all in this together — by ourselves.
—Lily Tomlin

Words of praise and fame serve only to beguile us, therefore blow them away as you would blow your nose.
-Atisha

When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.
- Kathleen McDonald, How to Meditate

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:37 am

"There are perhaps only two groups of people who view knowledge as a flaw, and ignorance as an asset: Seventh-graders, and the Washington press corps." -Scott Lemieux

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun May 03, 2009 9:53 am

"I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it."

William Burroughs

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Sun May 03, 2009 11:44 am

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But that doesn't mean it won't hurt like hell" - not sure, first time I heard this from my friends.

"If there is no blood it can't be painfull" -not sure

Can't you hear how the gods are laughing at you?" -from Supernatural tv series, the one with god Loki. Not sure if that's the exact words Loki used.

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Sun May 03, 2009 11:49 am

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
- Albert Einstein

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat May 16, 2009 8:45 pm

"When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do." -William Blake