Great Quotes - a little long, but worth it

[MILAMBER]

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"Wit is educated insolence. "
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. "
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. "
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. "
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. "
- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"Men have become the tools of their tools. "
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. "
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. "
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. "
- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I think it would be a good idea. "
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. "
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Half this game is ninety percent mental. "
- Yogi Berra
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)



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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-General George Patton (1885-1945)

[Tobbin]

My favorite is:

No amount of kindness, No matter how small, is ever wasted (AESOP)

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Protectorate of the OHF
Death Waits 4 U ALL

[Charlie]

King Harold....Battle of Hastings 1066.
"Watch that bloke, he'll have some fu**ers eye out the way he's performing".

Captain of the Titanic.
"Where's all this water coming from?"

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One love, peace.

[This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 05-01-2001).]

[Charlie]

Tobbin, that's not true, it's just a fable.

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One love, peace.

[Tobbin]

Originally posted by Charlie: Tobbin, that's not true, it's just a fable.

Oh that's it, take my favorite quote away from me will ya. LOL
I know that, but it sounds cool saying it like that anyways.
People actually believe it.



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Protectorate of the OHF
Death Waits 4 U ALL

[Charlie]

Oops, I wuz kidding....Aesops fables and all that, sorry.
(He may well have said it.)

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One love, peace.

[This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 05-01-2001).]

[MILAMBER]

Just wanted to bump because I get a kick out of these. Memnoch's quoting Voltaire reminded me of them.

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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-General George Patton (1885-1945)

Member of CLAN HADB

[This message has been edited by MILAMBER (edited 09-13-2001).]

[Silver Cheetah]

Originally posted by MILAMBER: Just wanted to bump because I get a kick out of these. Memnoch's quoting Voltaire reminded me of them.

Can I pinch one to put in my lovely sig?



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[MILAMBER]

Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Can I pinch one to put in my lovely sig?

Of course my dear! I don't have them copywrited!



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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-General George Patton (1885-1945)

Member of CLAN HADB

[DragonMage]

Can we add to it? I've got some good ones around here somewhere......

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"Allright! We'll call it a draw."

"I'm INVINCIBLE! ... You're a LOONEY!"

Dare to dream. Be bold enough to try.

The day we stop learning is the day we start dying!(c)