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"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" - Kenneth Williams

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It was one of those funny proverb things from the far east. You KNOW those are never wrong, right. :V

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Give him ramen noodles, and you don't need to teach him anything."

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"Light a man a fire and he is warm for a day set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life" Terry Pratchett

"That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"" Terry Pratchett

"The best argument against Democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter" Winston Churchill

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Or in the same vein,
"Light a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

Edit: Aw, Ferro, ya beat me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

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I was thinking of throwing in some Firefly quotes, so I popped over to WikiQuote and as it turns out, pretty much anything anyone ever said on that show was quoteable. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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"This is the captain, we have a lil' problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight... turbulence, and then...explode."

Love that one especially http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Two of my all-time favorites
 

From a T-shirt at Disneyworld: "I'm Grumpy because you're Dopey."

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those that wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Tolkien (as if I had to tell you)

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"I'm not god. I don't know everything.

*Pause*

I'm not a teenager, either. I don't pretend to."

- Me, interjecting a moment of humor into a philosophical discussion yesterday.

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That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange æons even death may die

--Achmed the "I just get these headaches"

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It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.

From the 2008 Hugo nominated book by Michael Chabon "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"