I've got one for you, just a general philosophy quote:

"Live long and get some!"

Ha ha, very nice. Well I guess I should share one since I haven't actually put a quote in yet.

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
-Albert Einstein

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."
PJ O'Rourke

"We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable."

-Texas Declaration of Secession, 1861

"Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered."

-Proverbs 21:13

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"

Michael Cain - The Italian Job

I think kramerkov's point was that he would post quotes from his collection, right? Perhaps other people posting quotes would wish to create another thread.

I did mean that, but I don't really mind. If I'm only posting one a day I figure everyone else can just piggy back off the thread if they want to.

August 11th, 2013

"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." PJ O'Rourke

"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."

-Alexander Pope

"Power must be analyzed as something which circulates, or rather as something which only functions in the form of a chain. It is never localised here or there, never in anybody’s hands, never appropriated as a commodity or piece of wealth. Power is employed and exercised through a net-like organization. And not only do individuals circulate between its threads; they are always in the position of simultaneously undergoing and exercising this power. They are not only its inert or consenting target; they are always also the elements of its articulation. In other words, individuals are the vehicles of power, not its points of application."

-Michel Foucault

"Too many twits make a twat"

UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Twitter and social media in general.

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have honors and not deserve them." -Mark Twain

"Confidence is the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool."
- Vikram, The Office (2009)

If this quote comes from somewhere and The Office just took it, let me know its real origin! Google just points to The Office, where I heard it.

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." Milton Friedman

August 12th, 2013

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."
-Abraham Lincoln

Any quote I pull from a big name, like Lincoln, I will try to use less commonly known ones. Let me know if you think the ones I share are a little too common. I have plenty to choose from.

"If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools....."

Possible nomination for the byline of this entire thread? (lol)

"Un bon mot ne prouve rien." -Voltaire

"A clever saying proves nothing."

That's pretty good. Odd I've never heard that considering it's from Voltaire (he's well known enough I figure I would have come across it). I should probably read more... =)

One of my favorites:

Don't Panic - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

With faith all facts are ignorable.
Tweet from God@The TweetOfGod

Only a Democrat could believe a man who doesn't know the definition of "is" is superior to a man who doesn't know how to spell potato.
Mad Magazine

August 13th, 2013

"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
-Bess Myerson

"Every man's memory is his private literature."

-Aldous Huxley

August 14th, 2013

"Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances."
-Livy

"All of us are atheists when it comes to 99% of the Gods the world has every known. Some of us just go one God further."

-Richard Dawkins

@yj - thx for posting that quote. I'dnever heard it, but so true (assuming the world knows of 100 gods) we must count them one day and redo the quote scientifically. I think RD would approve.