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Quote of the Week suggestions and feedback
As the thread title says. Haruko suggested I open this up for user input. I can't promise that all suggestions would be used, but I will look in on this thread for ideas whenever I change the quote.
PS. Please check any submissions for accuracy, and please cite the source. I have a copy of Bartlett's Quotations and the Cynic's Lexicon at home where I get some of my quotes, which I consider to be more reliable than "I saw it on a blog somewhere". We don't want to post any misquotes if we can help it.
PPS. Also please add feedback here on current or previous quotes. If there are any you particularly like, or dislike, let me know.
PS. Please check any submissions for accuracy, and please cite the source. I have a copy of Bartlett's Quotations and the Cynic's Lexicon at home where I get some of my quotes, which I consider to be more reliable than "I saw it on a blog somewhere". We don't want to post any misquotes if we can help it.
PPS. Also please add feedback here on current or previous quotes. If there are any you particularly like, or dislike, let me know.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
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"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
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-Edward Gibbons "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
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"Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious"
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
-Oscar Wilde (the real one, obviously)
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
-Oscar Wilde (the real one, obviously)
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The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy wrote:...On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series wrote:Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
May you live in interesting times.
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'.
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
What is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?
The freedom to succeed goes hand in hand with the freedom to fail.
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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Perhaps I should have added that the Quote of the Week at the top of the forum should be reasonably compact, and not take up half the screen.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Hey, those are separate quotes .
"Always look on the bright side of life"
Monty Python.
"Always look on the bright side of life"
Monty Python.
Winston Churchill wrote: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke [Deceased] wrote:"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L.S. Churchill
"A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
Re: Quote of the Week suggestions
A few by some of my favorite politicians:
Frederick the Great:
Roosevelt stole that one.
EDIT:
Also, a fun one by Ken Don Rosa:
Bismarck:"A soldier's obedience finds its limits where his knowledge, his conscience and his responsibility forbid to obey orders." - Generaloberst Ludwig beck, leader of the 20th July plot
"God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."
"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."
"Politics is the art of the possible."
"He who has his thumb on the purse has the power."
Frederick the Great:
Vespasianus:"I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people."
"Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. — This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe."
Cato the elder:Vae, puto deus fio. - Alas, I think I am turning into a god.... (last words, attributed by Suetonius)
Tacitus:Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
Marcus Aurelius:Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - The greater the corruption/degeneration of the republic, the more its laws
Livius:ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις. - The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Caesar:Vae Victis
[/quote]Nihil nobis metuendum est, praeter metum ipsum. - We have nothing to fear but fear itself
Roosevelt stole that one.
EDIT:
Also, a fun one by Ken Don Rosa:
"Greed is the root of all evil and the republican party"
Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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I'm fond of
Same author, same story:
Cordwainer Smith, The Dead Lady of Clown Town.Bright brains serve madness as well as they do sanity - namely, very well indeed.
Same author, same story:
A bad idea can spread like a mutated germ. If it is at all interesting, it can leap from one mind to another halfway across the universe before it has a stop put to it.
DPDarkPrimus is my boyfriend!
SDNW4 Nation: The Refuge And, on Nova Terra, Al-Stan the Totally and Completely Honest and Legitimate Weapons Dealer and Used Starship Salesman slept on a bed made of money, with a blaster under his pillow and his sombrero pulled over his face. This is to say, he slept very well indeed.
SDNW4 Nation: The Refuge And, on Nova Terra, Al-Stan the Totally and Completely Honest and Legitimate Weapons Dealer and Used Starship Salesman slept on a bed made of money, with a blaster under his pillow and his sombrero pulled over his face. This is to say, he slept very well indeed.
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Two Heinlein quotes:
"Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them."
"War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose...The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want him to do."
"Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them."
"War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose...The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want him to do."
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"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. "
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An Einstein one:
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
"Still, I would love to see human beings, and their constituent organ systems, trivialized and commercialized to the same extent as damn iPods and other crappy consumer products. It would be absolutely horrific, yet so wonderful." — Shroom Man 777
"To Err is Human; to Arrr is Pirate." — Skallagrim
“I would suggest "Schmuckulating", which is what Futurists do and, by extension, what they are." — Commenter "Rayneau"
"To Err is Human; to Arrr is Pirate." — Skallagrim
“I would suggest "Schmuckulating", which is what Futurists do and, by extension, what they are." — Commenter "Rayneau"
The Magic Eight Ball Conspiracy.
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"Two things are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstine
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Re: Quote of the Week suggestions
Give it a character count then, counting spaces. The current quote is 148, say 150-180 characters max?Darth Wong wrote:Perhaps I should have added that the Quote of the Week at the top of the forum should be reasonably compact, and not take up half the screen.
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe
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"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." - Alan Turing
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear" - Thomas Jefferson
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." - Richard Dawkins
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." - Alan Turing
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear" - Thomas Jefferson
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." - Richard Dawkins
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Another good one:
- Henning von TresckowA man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.
Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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My LPs
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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in honor of how many people seem to have a vendetta against Mike, but won't play by the rules...
"The only thing worse then being talked about, is not being talked about." -Oscar Wilde
"The only thing worse then being talked about, is not being talked about." -Oscar Wilde
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
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"Nobody ever comes here anymore, it's too crowded."
"It's impossible to get a conversation going, everyone's talking too much."
-both by Yogi Berra
"It's impossible to get a conversation going, everyone's talking too much."
-both by Yogi Berra
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.The Grim Squeaker wrote:Sir Arthur C. Clarke [Deceased] wrote:"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Gregory Benford
(Source: Introduction of The Science of Discworld)
Any of Clarke's Laws could do:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
(Wikipedia)
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Robert J Hanlon
(Wikipedia
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you
because you are a vegetarian.
—Dennis Wholey
(No idea, it's in my big list of quotes i like that I picked up from the internet)
Pain Heals.
Chicks dig scars.
Glory, lasts for ever.
-Shane Falco
(Character payed by Keanu Reeves in The Replacements)
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the fucking bone
-Billy Connoly
(Can be found on the Two Night Stand recording of his stand up).
Never take an idiot with you, you can always pick one up when you get there.
-Billy Connoly
(Can be found in same performance as above, actually said by unknown Irish limo driver according to story Connoly was telling)
If we're allowed to be a little self aggrandising I also have a few quotes made on the board (and from the FUQ) that I thought were quite funny saved.
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"That's just fucking awesome..." - Me
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Honestly, this board is so fucking stupid at times. - Thanas
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I never would have thought I would wholeheartedly agree with Coffee... - fgalkin x2
Honestly, this board is so fucking stupid at times. - Thanas
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"When hunting monsters take care, least monsters ye become." Niezche predicting the American response to 9-11.
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
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Actually, I believe Napoleon is the source of that quote, save he used the term "incompetence" instead of stupidity.Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Robert J Hanlon
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
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How about the quotes I have in my sig?
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ASSCRAVATS!
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"It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matters. " -Thucydides
"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. " -Yasser Arafat
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war." -Isaac Asimov
"History tells us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -Abba Eban
"The first human being who hurled an insult rather than a stone was the founder of civilization." -Sigmund Freud
"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. " -Yasser Arafat
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war." -Isaac Asimov
"History tells us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -Abba Eban
"The first human being who hurled an insult rather than a stone was the founder of civilization." -Sigmund Freud
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
-Jean-Luc Picard
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
-Margaret Atwood
-Jean-Luc Picard
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
-Margaret Atwood
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Wait the Nazi's destroyed the ASVS fanfic archive, and the FUQ those fucking bastards!
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin