The Quote Thread

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice" - Freidrich Schiller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller#Quotations

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. "
Thomas H. Huxley
English biologist (1825 - 1895)

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live. "
Douglas Adams

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea... "
Douglas Adams

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
Johann von Goethe

Ambrose Bierce: works include "The Devil's Dictionary"...Such an excellent curmudgeon.

LEARNING, n.
The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

LAWYER, n.
One skilled in circumvention of the law.

APRIL FOOL, n.
The March fool with another month added to his folly.

“Something is happening here, but you don’t what it is - do you, Mr Jones..?”

- Bob Dylan

"Actually, not much is happening in this thread at all lately"

Kathleen

"If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?"
Cynthia Heimel

"Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young"

John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi.

Act IV
Scene II

And, yes...I have a copy of this play. :roll: such a "le nerd" am I...

Poor ol' quote thread...:(

On a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK"
Anonymous

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Adams

"And all my days are trances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams—
In what ethereal dances
By what eternal streams."

To One in Paradise.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!" (Kevin Spacey)

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations--that is why one should be so patient with them."

Saki

"Darkness can be your ally
It is also a tool of stealth
The way that darkness hides you
It is a gift that is greater than wealth" - Me TAS

"Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair
Hover through the fog and filthy air" - William Shakespeare, The tragedy of macbeth

"Is that a dagger i see before me?" - King Macbeth

"How, now spirit, wither wander you?
The king doth keep his revels here to-night!
take heed the queen come not within her sight
for oberon is passing fell and wrath
becasue that she has her attendent hath
a lovely boy, stolen from an indian king
she never had so sweet a changeling
And jelous oberon would have the child
Knights of his train, to trace the forests wild
but she perforce witholds the loved boy
crowns him with flowers and make him all her joy
and now they never meet in grove or green
by fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen
but they do square, that all their elves for fear
creep into acorn cups and hide them there." William Shakespeare - a midsummer-night's dream

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
Ellen Glasgow

*Dory sees a baby jellyfish*

"awwwwww.....hey little guy
i shall call him squishy and he shall be mine, he shall be my squishy.
come here!!! come on! *baby talk*" Dory - Finding nemo

{quote}Steven wright is funny..{unquote}
http://www.weather.net/zarg/ZarPages/stevenWright.html

heh, yup.

Heh, I was doing a search on something completely unrelated, but I found this quote and it looked just right for the um...quote thread.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

1874-1965

Serious Sam The Second Encounter : Sam says in the snowy mountains area "Man its cold, my nipples are like pencil erasors"

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"Citizen, you are charged with multiple endangerments, level 1" - PA system in Half-life 2

"Attention, Protection team. Unauthorized person of interest, inquire" - Same

well these may or may not remotely fit or follow what TAS wrote however I had no idea that thomas jefferson was a profit

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”—Thomas Jefferson

"Juggle grenades! Its a blast!" - Charactor "Crash" In Quake III arena

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip
Will Rogers
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Source unknown, but I am sure it was someone famous
There is more to life than increasing it's speed - Gandhi
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world - Louis Pasteur
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have - Rabbi H. Schachtel, paraphrased by Sheryl Crow in her song "Soak Up the Sun"

“Early to rise and early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.” – Benjamin Franklin

"Mess with the best die like the rest!" - Your very own Aim4it after wining cal playoffs :P

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.

William Blake (1757-1827)

OOOOH! The fancy folk have come anew for another small taste of my caldran brew! - Verma

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and
a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue
suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks
with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care
who knew it.

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)

In that vein:

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

“I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?”
Anonymous

"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.”

Damon Runyon (1884-1946)

- either this man is dead, or my watch has stopped.. :woot:

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..the world is full of beauty, and life is wonderful!