Post the best quotes you've ever read...

[short bus]

"Huh??? What???"
- Beethoven

[TG]

This is the most exciting thing I've seen since Halley's comet collided with the moon.
Homer Simpson.

[BibleMonkey]

"Pull the pin and count to what? "

"It's strong enough for both of us"

" I'll hold it and you light the fuse. "

" I wonder where the Mother Bear is?"


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Oh ...quotes that you've ever read , not last words....

" The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness...."

~Vladimir Nabokov , opening sentence of


Speak Memory

[BibleMonkey]

"Huh??? What???"
- Beethoven

*swallow*BLAM!@..gurgle gurgle thump

~Adolph Hitler, April 30 1945

[TG]

Just bumped into this one:

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

- Cicero - 55 BC

Edited to add:
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=28532

[Rockie]

"Hold my beer and watch this"

Someone now deceased.

[SkyWolfe]

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ”

—Albert Einstein

[Driving Rain]

There are very few problems that cannot be solved through the judicious application of a sufficient quantity of high explosives. ...

[Widow]

Wasn't there another thread just like this not too long ago - I'm sure I contributed ... ah, here it is:

Your favourite quotes

Can a mod with power for this subforum merge the two threads?

[Hey Piiilot]

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

[Siddley Hawker]

There are very few problems that cannot be solved through the judicious application of a sufficient quantity of high explosives. ...

Who said that DR, Edgar Montrose?

[Topspin]

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

-Various, I cited Emilano Zapata

Anybody who has heard two different eyewitness accounts of the same traffic accident, stands to lose a lot of faith in the species.

-Unknown

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

-Vince Lombardi

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for Virginity.

The planet is fine, the people are fucked.

-George Carlin

[Icebound]

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*** A great civilization is not conquered from without until it
has destroyed itself from within. ***
- Ariel Durant 1898-1981


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[ettw]

"I never had sex with that woman."

You just trying to clear the air with that first line .?

Cheers,

ETTW

[F,D and H]

After two weeks in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

Never trust a man who doesn't drink.

[Brantford Beech Boy]

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ~W.C. Fields

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her. ~W.C. Fields

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. ~Dave Barry

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Benjamin Franklin


BBB

[NWONT]

If you're not the lead dog the view never changes. Some eskimo

[Siddley Hawker]

Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

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Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

I just fell head over heels over this quote

Is this an Siddley original??? Because if it is...I pledge my allegiance to you sir...

[Siddley Hawker]

BD at the risk of losing a follower, I can't claim that one.
On the other hand, I can't remember where I got it. It reads like something H. L. Mencken would have said though.

[mashowski]

You can only predict things after they have happened.
Eugene Ionesco

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman

[...]

BD at the risk of losing a follower, I can't claim that one.
On the other hand, I can't remember where I got it. It reads like something H. L. Mencken would have said though.

WHO CARES...just the fact you found it and quoted it makes me the #1 fan & president of the Siddley Hawker wannabe club...I'm making T-Shirts

[GilletteNorth]

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - Dale Carnegie

[AEROBAT]

"When the big hand goes over the little hand it's bedtime."

Michael Jackson

[AEROBAT]

"OK...I pulled the pin out. I just throw it now... right?"

I actually saw a recruit say that when we were doing live grenade practice at Camp Wainwright. He still had his hand on the spoon but the instructor freaked!