Ok so I had a little look around and I couldn't find one of these so I made this thread. Sooooo, this is where you can post your quotes that you have heard, read, made up or whatever. Here are some of mine for today:

 

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

- Samuel Johnson

 

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

- Paul Johnson

 

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

- Robert X. Cringely

 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

- Alexandre Dumas

"Siempre queda un poco de fragancia para la mano que da rosas"

(The hand that gives roses, always keeps some fragance)

 

-Chinese proverb

Thats a nice one.

"La sabiduría me persigue... ¡Pero yo soy más rápido!"

(Wisdom follows me, but I'm faster!)

 

-Odd graffiti in an Spanish University

Also another good one. Heres another one.

 

There is definitely something wrong with you if your nose is running and your feet smell. -Unknown

:laugh4: Good one!

"Legislation is aimed at insuring equal rights for all". (Martin Luther King)

That will never happen...

 

Yay 1400posts!!!!!

Congrats Man! :P

my two cents...

 

"When the people find they can vote themselves money,

that will herald the end of the republic." - Ben Franklin

 

and one of my all time favorites...

 

"Genius is Pain." -John Lennon

'Women who work in factories are just sluts'

- Gareth Keenan.

"Poop."

 

--Anonymous

"don't take life so seriously, you won't get out of it alive anyway"

Anonymous

Sorry did not know how to write it up properly

"Poop."

 

--Anonymous

 

i think i just died laughing. :lol:

 

 

most of my favorite quotes are funny and are said by people i know, but wouldn't really translate well to a forum :P

 

i do have some *actual* favorite quotes, though. i should think of them.

Heres some more-

 

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

- Doug Larson

 

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

 

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

- Alan Turing

 

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

- Dean Martin

 

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

- Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

"God damn these electric sex pants!" - Douglas Renholm (Matt Berry)

myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

- Augusten Burroughs

 

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

- Soren Kierkegaard

 

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

- William Feather

 

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

- David Russell

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

- Robertson Davies

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

- Anatole France

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

- Charles Peters

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

- Anonymous

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy

Ok, my favourite quote is not by some genius or someone who changed the world, so don't laugh...

 

"If you've got something to live for, you face the day with wide eyes, and that lets more sunshine in to your soul"

 

John Power

^who is he?

He was the lead singer with a Liverpool band called Cast in the mid 90's

I see

"Death is so sure about his victory that grants us a life of advantage"

Anonymous

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

- Kurt Vonnegut

 

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

- Aldous Huxley

 

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

- Adolf Hitler

 

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

- Anatole Broyard

 

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

- Robertson Davies

 

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

- David Russell

 

Love this one.

 

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere" - Einstein.