Quotes

[Berlin]

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music , people don't talk.

- Oscar Wilde

 

[Berlin]

The rash assertion that " God created man in His own image " is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths ...

- Arthur C. Clark



It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

[Thunderballs]

Be careful - with quotations you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux (French writer)

 

[Berlin]

With or without quotations, you can damn or shill almost anything.

- Berlin,
Senior Member,
Terb

 

[Berlin]

Until industrial feudalism is replaced by industrial democracy, politics will be the shadow cast on society by big business.

- John Dewey

 

[Berlin]

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

-- Marilyn Vos Savant, Writer

 

[Brill]

The problem with quotes from the Internet is that you can never quite be sure they are genuine.

- Abraham Lincoln

 

[Sisyphus]

"La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid" -- Revenge is a dish which is eaten cold. This is attributed to Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos in "Les Liasons Dangereuses" (1782) who either got it from a Klingon, or was a very popular writer among Klingons—in translation of course.

Reminds me of the old Vulcan proverb. Only Nixon could go to China.

 

[avxl1003]

"They fuck you, they fuck you, they fuck you!"

Leo Getz complaining about cellphone companies in Lethal Weapon 4.

 

[Berlin]

" I have a fantastic sex life with my hubby Todd."

- Sarah Palin

The problem with quotes from the Internet is that you can never quite be sure they are genuine.

- Abraham Lincoln

Quite true.

 

[Brill]

"I am a big believer in giving it all away and have always said that the best financial planning ends with bouncing the check to the undertaker."

Michael Bloomberg, 13th richest person in the USA

 

[WoodPeckr]

 

[T.O.tourist]

Truth!

 

[trm]

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken

 

[trm]

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken

 

[Berlin]

Give it your best effort and then fuck it.

- Michael Douglas

 

[Brill]

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire."

-Fred Shero, hockey coach

 

[Berlin]

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

- Jerry Lewis

 

[trod]

"You come at the king, you best not miss"

Omar Little ( The Wire TV series )

 

[Berlin]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children… This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

— Former U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a speech on April 16, 1953