Top quotes of all time

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by LogicTech, Dec 15, 2008.

  1. LogicTech Registered Member

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    Post your most favorite quotes you've run across in your travels.

    Here's one of my favorites:

    "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." -- Albert Einstein
     
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  3. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    " I never let my schooling interfere with my education" Samuel Clemens
     
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  5. weed_eater_guy It ain't broke, don't fix it! Registered Senior Member

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    "Drive defensively, drive a tank."
    -a poster on my auto tech instructor's classroom wall

    "There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." -Albert Einstein, 1932

    "...the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." — Dr. Who in The Face of Evil

    "Man will not fly for fifty years." -Wilbur Wright, 1901


    and my personal favorite, supporting my grossly overgeneralized view of the french...


    "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -Marshall Foch, future WWI French commander-in-chief, 1911
     
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  7. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, only then will peace be found".

    Jimi Hendrix
     
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    "God is dead."
     
  9. mikenostic Stop pretending you're smart! Registered Senior Member

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    "Some people go through life wondering if they ever made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem."
    -Ronald Reagan
     
  10. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    "I wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself"
     
  11. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family... --Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon
     
  12. orcot Valued Senior Member

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    yesterday is history tomorrow is mystery but now is a gift that's why they call it the present

    fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity

    It's on me
     
  13. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    "this nation will only need 3 or 4 computers"
    -can't remember
     
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  15. EndLightEnd This too shall pass. Registered Senior Member

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    "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
    Douglas Adams

    "Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
    -Einstein

    And some lyrics...

    Unimpressed by material excess
    love is free, love me, say hell yes
    -Red Hot Chili Peppers
     
  16. mikenostic Stop pretending you're smart! Registered Senior Member

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    "Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former."
    -Albert Einstein
     
  17. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    Dammit I was just about to post that.

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    Nothing of great value was ever found in a crowd – Voltaire
     
  18. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    On my tech room wall:

    "Your lack of preparedness does not necessarily constitute an emergency on my part." -Unknown
     
  19. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    Victory: Dwight Eisenhower
    What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

    Strategy: Napolean Bonaparte
    Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

    An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has time to get it's pants on.

    and one to break the tension:

    The force is strong with this one.
     
  20. tim840 Registered Senior Member

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    in my driver's ed class today we were watching a video of cop chases; some guy in San Diego hijacked a tank from a local armory, and was driving it around on public streets. the cops couldnt really do anything about it, seeing as how it was a tank, so he was just rampaging all over, crushing cars, knocking over lightposts, etc, he even tried to collapse a big concrete overpass by ramming the supports, but failed. He went on the freeway, tried to cross into oncoming traffic, but got caught up on the divider. The cops climbed up on top of it and pried open the hatch, he wouldnt give up so they were forced to shoot him.

    In 1966, French President Charles De Gaulle withdrew his nation from NATO and told Lyndon Johnson that he wanted all American soldiers out of France, to which Johnson replied, "Does that include the ones buried at Omaha Beach?" Ouch!!

    Mark Twain, as a matter of fact. Not Ike.

    Dang, I was gonna post that one. Anyways...


    "There comes a time when you’ve used your brains, your training, your technical skill, and the die is cast and the events are in the hands of God, and there you have to leave them." -Dwight Eisenhower

    "He serves his party best who serves his country best." - Rutherford Hayes

    "Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking." - Rutherford Hayes

    "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

    "I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down." - Douglas MacArthur

    "That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." - William McKinley

    "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
     
  21. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    "Always bet on black." -Wesley snipes. Passanger 57.
     
  22. electrafixtion Registered Senior Member

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    Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

    M. C. Escher
     
  23. LogicTech Registered Member

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    "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

    -- Carl Sagan
     

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