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.

-Edward Gibbons "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

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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. "
-Kingdom of Heaven

"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)

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It's funny how every Cracked reader seems to change occupation in between reading each article, so that they always end up being irrefutable field experts in whatever topic is at hand.-Dirty_Bastard, cracked.com commentator

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Photography
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.

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.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

- John Quincy Adams

Hey, those are separate quotes .

"Always look on the bright side of life"
Monty Python.

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Photography
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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”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.

Moderator of SDN, Former Spacebattles Super-Mod, Veteran Chatnik

A few by some of my favorite politicians:



Bismarck:




Frederick the Great:



Vespasianus:


Cato the elder:

Tacitus:

Marcus Aurelius:


Livius:


Caesar:
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Roosevelt stole that one.

EDIT:

Also, a fun one by Ken Don Rosa:

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Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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"You know, you insist government is depraved for not legislating against what we can see on newsstands, or what we can see in an art exhibit, or what we can burn in protest, or which sex we can have sex with, or a woman's right to choose, but don't you dare try to regulate this deadly weapon I have concealed on me, for that would encroach against my freedom!"
- Sam Seaborn
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Et si omnes ego non

I'm fond of
Cordwainer Smith, The Dead Lady of Clown Town.

Same author, same story:

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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.

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."

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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. "
-Kingdom of Heaven

An Einstein one:

"Two things are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstine

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The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin

Give it a character count then, counting spaces. The current quote is 148, say 150-180 characters max?

"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

Another good one:



- Henning von Tresckow

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Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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"You know, you insist government is depraved for not legislating against what we can see on newsstands, or what we can see in an art exhibit, or what we can burn in protest, or which sex we can have sex with, or a woman's right to choose, but don't you dare try to regulate this deadly weapon I have concealed on me, for that would encroach against my freedom!"
- Sam Seaborn
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Et si omnes ego non

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

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The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin

"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

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JADAFETWA

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
-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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Ph34r teh eyebrow!!11!Writers Guild Sluggite Pawn of Chaos WYGIWYGAINGW so now i have to put ACPATHNTDWATGODW in my sig EBC-Honorary Geordie
Hammerman! Hammer!

"That's just fucking awesome..." - Me

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Goddammit, now I'm forced to say in public that I agree with Mr. Coffee. - Mike Wong
I never would have thought I would wholeheartedly agree with Coffee... - fgalkin
GALE ForceFlooring: For a good lay, call...

"When hunting monsters take care, least monsters ye become." Niezche predicting the American response to 9-11.

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The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin

Actually, I believe Napoleon is the source of that quote, save he used the term "incompetence" instead of stupidity.

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”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.

Moderator of SDN, Former Spacebattles Super-Mod, Veteran Chatnik

How about the quotes I have in my sig?

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ASVS('97)/SDN('03)

"Peppercorn Tomatoes slathered in broken guacamole sauce. Put it in the microwave and press puree. 5 seconds in the dumpster and it is ready to be cooked in the freezer at -350 degrees for twenty minutes. Apply pressure in various hamster spots and scream like a psychotic banshee." My reply when asked what was on my mind.

By the sacred crotch of Arkvoodle!

"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

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"You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean that tin is worthless."
-Jon Snow, A Game of Thrones

"I prefer my history dead. The dead sort is written in ink, the living in blood."
-Rodrik Greyjoy, A Song of Ice and Fire

Wait the Nazi's destroyed the ASVS fanfic archive, and the FUQ those fucking bastards!

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The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin