What is your favorite quote?

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
# Contentment is the capital which will never diminish.

Only He who has the power to punish can pardon.

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained.

Poverty is the worst form of death.


I have never won a debate with an ignorant person.

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

A man's measure is his will.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

That seems to be particularily appropriate for the Anandtech forums.


As for me: "We need to take the safety labels off everything and let these problems work themselves out."
Its been said a number of different ways, but I always like it.

 

[invidia]

"The greatest evil in the world is the indifference of good men."

 

[lightstar]

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you-- Oscar Wilde

 

[CrimsonChaos]

People will treat you the way you let them treat you.

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: CrimsonChaos
People will treat you the way you let them treat you.

Tis true

 

[Shadow Conception]

"there is no spoone"

- the matricks

 

[matas]

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room."
"If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?"

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: invidia
"The greatest evil in the world is the indifference of good men."

and:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"We are not retreating, just advancing in a different direction" (IIRC from the General commanding the marines withdrawal from the Chosin Resevior during the Korean War)

On a lighter note:
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship." - Sharon Stone
"Her anger will fade, but being right lasts forever." Me

 

[olds]

Any of my Mod quotes. There are two in this thread but I think I like the BlancoNico (sp?) one the best.

 

[bobeedee]

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...

 

[PBMangan]

No one likes your doo doo, it goes somewhere secret or it stays in your butt.

-Professor Frank

 

[BoomerD]

If you can't laugh at yourself...make fun of other people.
Bobby Slayton


"Today you people are no longer maggots. Today you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood."
Gunnery Sgt. Hartman

 

[SlitheryDee]

TANSTAAFL! (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch)

Anything that is right for a group to do is right for one person to do.

You can't enslave a free man. The best you can do is kill him.

The difference between science and fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

What is an Elephant? A mouse built to government specifications.

A generation which ignores history has no past, and no future.

Progress doesn't come from early risers ? progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

 

[xanis]

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." -Elbert Hubbard

 

[BoomerD]

My hardhat used to have this on it:
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
(Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck?)

 

[Jeff7]

Just about anything Carl Sagan said.

 

[timosyy]

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

- Brendan Gill

 

[potato28]

Pat attention to the fucking world - Family quote, can't really pin it back to someone.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: potato28
Pat attention to the fucking world - Family quote, can't really pin it back to someone.

What does it mean?

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: potato28
Pat attention to the fucking world - Family quote, can't really pin it back to someone.

Is that Aunt Pat or Uncle Pat?

MotionMan

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: potato28
Pat attention to the fucking world - Family quote, can't really pin it back to someone.

What does it mean?

Pay attention?

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: potato28
Pat attention to the fucking world - Family quote, can't really pin it back to someone.

Is that Aunt Pat or Uncle Pat?

MotionMan

One of my French cousins, they used to swear at me and yell it in my ear.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: potato28
Pat attention to the fucking world - Family quote, can't really pin it back to someone.

What does it mean?

Pay attention?

Why are you asking me? You're the one that said it.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: potato28
Pat attention to the fucking world - Family quote, can't really pin it back to someone.

Is that Aunt Pat or Uncle Pat?

MotionMan

One of my French cousins, they used to swear at me and yell it in my ear.

Did you ever ask Cousin Pat what it meant?



MotionMan

 

[Shadowknight]

Alan Moore (comic book writer) has some good ones. Here's some quotes from Miracleman #15

1. "And then we fought. Given the speed of thought and motion shared by all the combatants, that opening skirmish took but seconds... seconds that erased the landmarks of two hundred years; that blew the past away... and launched mythologies that shall endure until the sun grows red, and over-ripe, and cold."

2. "The bank of England's mass of debt and credit could contain him not at all. Erupting in a waterspout of krugerrands, he showered in blood and gold while from a thousand fluttering notes the queen look on, as ever uninterested."

3. "There was no pause and no respite. He lept for Aza Chorn, fast as a cheetah; as a mamba; as an ink-black thunderbolt. Yet, when they brag amongst themselves, the cats and snakes and sheets of lightning use one ultimate comparison, albeit sparingly. Fast as a warpsmith."

4. "For my part, I prefer the gnostic faiths, such as the Knights of Warpsmith Resurrected, who in symbol-laden gospels, tell how I play chess with Bates for Earth, atop a mountain of the dead... and Aza Chorn, when I've lost every piece but one, tears out his heart and cries, "Here! Play with this instead!" But best of all, the Church of Deicide relates how we approached the old sick gods of Earth and murdered them to steal their power. They tell of Shiva, quite disarmed; of Gabriel's blazing sword snapped into two across my knee. The Church has only ninteen worshippers. I send them small donations under different names."

5. "He was amongst us, snorting, stamping. There was nothing sane in his incinerator eyes. He was Ahriman. He was Loki. He was Lucifer and Set. He was the bad god, cast in awful flesh. We'd had no time to draw up pentacles or work our charms."

6. "There were so many vehicles, all trying to get out of London. My apologists have claimed that the car that I first hurled at Bates was empty, those who'd been inside having all previously escaped. I'm sorry, but that simply isn't true."

7.
Miracleman: "Johnny, listen... You're dooming yourself. What... what happens when you've run out of things to destroy? It's just emptiness for you Johnny. Empty cruelty. Empty life. Look what you've done to yourself, to everything around you. You've taken something marvelous and turned it into sewage. God forgive you."
Kid Miracleman: "Burn in hell. "(smashes a truck over MM, covering him in burning fuel).
- pretty much all by Miracleman in Miracleman #15