Quote thread!!!

[Devra]

"You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one"
Will Rogers

[ghostsofgiants]

1. ...

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Frozen Hamster]

45. ...

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963

[hippywife]

2. There comes a time

when silence is betrayal. MLK

[billyskank]

3. "Channel Five, I mean, it's a load of shit, isn't it?"

Last words of Adam Faith (UK tv actor).

[Rising Phoenix]

4. ...

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Richardo]

5. "If there are no dogs in heaven,

...then when I die I want to go where they went."

I loves me the Will Rogers...

[driver8]

37. I like that one!

My sentiments exactly.

[Devra]

6. here's one from Mark Twain

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
Mark Twain

[Frozen Hamster]

43. Here's another one

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. -- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

[Initech]

7. One from Zappa:

"My music never gets played on the radio because I dont do drugs, I'm not an alcoholic, I'm neither a democrat or a republican, and ah, I'm just generally sane."

Another one:

"You know something people? I'm not black but there's whole lots of times I wish I could say I'm not white!"

[Frozen Hamster]

44. The man was a genius

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. – Frank Zappa

[Initech]

75. Here's another good one:

"You know, we cant really be dumb if we're just following God's orders. Because after all, he wrote this book here, and in it it says that GOD created MAN to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then GOD is dumb. And maybe a little ugly on the side."

[Merrick]

8. Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner!..Tina, eat. Food. Eat the FOOD!"

-Napolean Dynamite

[anarch]

9. "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. "

- H.L. Mencken

[Devra]

11. ...

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


George Carlin

[Frozen Hamster]

42. ...

There are times when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
-- George Carlin

[Rising Phoenix]

13. I like that one

[Frozen Hamster]

46. ...

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. -- Henry Louis Mencken, Notebooks (1956), ‘Minority Report’, 62 J.E.H. Shaw (2004). Some Quotable Quotes for Statistics

[LaraMN]

10. "I cannot give you the formula for success,

but I can give you the formula for failure-which is: "Try to please everybody"-

Herbert Bayard Swope

[hfojvt]

17. "Well, Iguess that depends of how you define success

If to you, success means having a house in Aspen, one in Acapulco, a penthouse in New York, a mansion in Malibu, a sixty foot yacht, an eight seat Windstar, a Belljet Ranger, a Bentley, a personal trainer, a full-time chef, a live-in masseuse, and a staff of twenty four, then yeah, I guess I've been successful." the Frinkazoid in "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion"

"It ain't how far you go. It ain't how much you make. Son, it's what
you give, not what you take. It's being true to those counting on
you. It's lending a hand, taking a stand, that's the measure of a
man." Kevin Sharp "Measure of a man" (song and CD) 1996

[hippywife]

12. One of my favorites:

We can no longer afford to confuse peaceability with passivity. Authentic peace is no more passive than war. Like war, it calls for discipline and intelligence and strength of character, though it calls also for higher principles and aims. If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we now prepare for war.

Wendell Berry "A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America" Orion Magazine March/April 2003

http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/03-2om/Berry.html

Edited to add link to the article.

[hfojvt]

15. "If there is any law that has been consistently operative

in American history, it is that the members of any established people or group or community sooner or later become 'redskins' - that is, they become the designated victims of an utterly ruthless, officially sanctioned and subsidized exploitation." The unsettling of America p. 4

[hippywife]

16. Berry is a national treasure!

Don't you think? :hi:

[hfojvt]

19. I could not understand why I went to seven years of college

without being told to read one of his books, especially since I was studying ag econ. He's too much of a hidden treasure.

[underpants]

21. Who's that?

Berry?

:shrug:

[hippywife]

22. Wendell Berry

Check out the link I added to my original post. He has some great essays online in Orion Magazine. Enjoy!

[Devra]

14. "The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[bertha katzenengel]

18. I don't give 'em hell. I just tell 'em the truth and they think it's hell.

Harry Truman

[alarcojon]

20. T.S. Eliot, from Little Gidding

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

[Greyhound]

23. Always relevant, particularly now

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin

[Beaverhausen]

24. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage...

...and a career. - Gloria Steinem

[hippywife]

25. From my favorite presidential candidate:

The Attorney General recently covered up a statue of Lady Justice showing her bosom as if to underscore there is no danger of justice exposing herself at this time, before this administration.

Dennis Kucinich "A Prayer for America"

Actually, nearly the whole thing is wonderfully quotable! :)

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0226-09.htm

[eridani]

36. And another one--

We are already paying for universal health care--we just aren't getting it.

[madinmaryland]

26. "I can't comment, its an ongoing investigation"

"The are definately weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, to the north and west of Baghdad."

[Rambis]

27. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much

Oscar Wilde

[mwooldri]

28. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."

Stated by Ken Olsen, the founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, a maker of mini and mainframe computers, subsequently taken over by Compaq, a maker of ... home computers.

[Eagle_Eye]

29. That an intruder

That an intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry over your retaliation and kill you.
http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com

[WeRQ4U]

30. "Maybe I'll learn a trade. I've considered taxidermy.....

...I always thought it was a shame you couldn't do that on people."

David Sedaris

[mwooldri]

31. "I never forget a face, but in your case...

... I'll be glad to make an exception."

Groucho Marx.

[Frozen Hamster]

47. Remember men;

you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did. -- Groucho Marx

[mwooldri]

32. "I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already! "

Tommy Cooper, British comic genius of the 1950's to 1980's. Poor guy died doing what he loved best - on stage entertaining people.

[mwooldri]

33. "When the media ask him (George Bush) a question, he answers...

'Can I use a lifeline?' " - Robin Williams.

[Frozen Hamster]

65. ...

The Puritans... our ancestors. People so uptight the English kicked them out. How fucking anal do you have to be?! -- Robin Williams

[mwooldri]

34. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

35. Those who cast the votes decide nothing.

Those who count the votes decide everything.

--Josef Stalin

[drhilarius]

38. "Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer". nt

[Crazy Guggenheim]

39. If God and I disagree God must be wrong.

[NMMNG]

40. "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security,

unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Frozen Hamster]

49. ...

Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from a cornfield. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower in J.E.H. Shaw (2004). Some Quotable Quotes for Statistics

[NMMNG]

50. "Going to war is easy when you're sending other peoples' kids to die"

Me, 11/10/05

[Frozen Hamster]

51. The war in Iraq is being fought because

certain Americans want to kill Arabs and the Icelandic governemnt wants to help. -- Me, at the start of the whole mess.

Another one by me, regarding the Icelandic government's decision to join the Coalition of the Spineless: "Yes, lets put an end to a 50-year history of never engaging in a war, just to suck up to a sociopathic moron."

[NMMNG]

52. I like the second one!

I also like your screen name BTW. :rofl:

[Frozen Hamster]

53. Thanks

I don't know exactly where that came from, I was just trying to think up a screen name and it popped up in my head.

I think it may have helped that it was a rather cold day (e.g. your wrist freeze off in 5 minutes instead of 10). I don't know where the hell the hamster came from.

[NMMNG]

54. Here's the funny thing

Until I noticed your name, then looked again at your avatar, I thought the avatar was a moose or similar animal (even though it had no antlers). Silly me...

[Frozen Hamster]

55. Well it is a (very) crude drawing of a hamster

[NMMNG]

56. But a cute one

And he doesn't look frozen at all.

[Frozen Hamster]

57. Nope, I have yet to find a picture of a deep frozen hamster

But considering that this is the internet, it is only a matter of time.

[NMMNG]

59. This is allegedly a frozen hamster

http://www.frozendirect.com/shop/image.php?productid=16175

[Frozen Hamster]

61. I knew there had to be one.

Doesn't look frozen enough to use as my avatar.

BTW: love your sig-name.

[NMMNG]

62. No, he doesn't look frozen enough

Plus I think a picture of a "real" frozen hamster would be a bit crude and make animal-rights activists (like me) uncomfortable. A cartoon would be more appropriate.


And thanks!

[Frozen Hamster]

63. Yeah, a cartoon (or a good photoshop)

I'm a biology student so I can't be a die-hard animal-rights activist (it's a bit hard to preach that after you dissect thinks that were specifically killed so you muck around their insides.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. Two

"No generalization is worth a damn — including this one."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes


"A man gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one person's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn."

— W. Va. Board of Education vs. Barnette, 1943

[Frozen Hamster]

64. Three

Don't believe anything you read on the Internet, except this... well, including this I suppose -- Douglas Adams

A man can fight for many things; his country, his fellow men, a glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a wad of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn. -- Edmund Blackadder

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan

[Mobius]

48. "GAME OVER, GAME OVER!..

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE KEEPING UP ON CURRENT EVENTS, BUT WE ARE GETTING OUR ASSES KICKED OUT THERE!

Cpl. Hudson - Aliens

[Frozen Hamster]

58. How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?

[Mobius]

73. I had 2 WEEKS LEFT MAN, 2 WEEKS!

[Frozen Hamster]

60. This is just a delay.

All parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland Nothing Worked.
John, when the Pirates of the Caribbean break down the pirates don't eat the tourists. -- Jurassic Park, John Hammond & Ian Malcom.

[Callalily]

66. I put this on the bottom

of my work e-mail, (via compliments of a friend).

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Politically_Wrong]

71. I love that quote!!!

Good golly Miss Molly...Everyone should know that quote...it is soooo important in many many ways...oh well...back to class!

[Callalily]

74. I'm in total agreement

This is an important quote. As a matter of fact, it's my current mantra.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

67. I hope none of my students find me here

but this has to be one of my favorites: From Team America:

We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!

[wildhorses]

68. No matter where you go, there you are.

[raccoon]

69. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

--Frederick Douglass

My favorite quote for these interesting times we live in.

[Burma Jones]

70. This always makes me emotional

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.



Or a Short One:

"Never get out of the Fucking Boat"....Chef from Apocalypse Now

[RetroLounge]

72. "IT WAS INEVITABLE:

the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera

RL