OT: Repository of quotations

[Randallw]

A particularly favourite quote of mine is from a book I read. I use it as my sig on another forum.

"You are who you are because of where you come from, Captain Ventris, so do not presume to judge me by your own standards....until I was chosen to become one of the Emperor's warriors, I knew neither sunlight nor joy.....I have since seen the sun, yet still I know no joy"

I also like a Latin phrase I figured out

"Dulce et decorum est pro frateri mori".

[AgentZero]

A few favourites of mine:


"There is no innocence in my court. A plea of innocent is guilty of wasting my time!"

"Light travels faster than sound, which is why most people look bright until they open their mouth."

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."

"It's not that I hate you, it's just you have delicious cranial fluids."

And of course: "Burn, heretic."

And I wouldn't be Irish if I didn't mention that walking quote-factory of ours, Oscar Wilde.

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." (zing!)

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"Biography lends to death a new terror."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." (oh snap!

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

Yes, that's a copy pasta from AZ's Big List of Oscar Wilde Quotes. Yes, it is alphabetized. I'll let someone else get a post in edgewise before I go so far as to post the Big List of Oscar Wilde Quotes From His Books.

[Randallw]

I quite like this example of judicial poetry

"Time will pass and seasons will come and go; Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then will come sultry Summer, with her shimmerin' heat-waves on the baked horizon; and Fall, with her yeller harvest-moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun; and finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em, Carlos Robles; not by a dam' sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, you olive colored son-of-a-billy-goat!"

I realise I may stretch somewhat the understanding of the term "quote"

I have in my possesion a rather elderly Pocket Book of Quotations (though it would, as do I towards quotes, stretch them somewhat). I have leafed through and have found a section on puns, and who am I to argue with the appropriateness,

We wanted Li Wang
But we winged Willie Wong
A sad but excusable
Slip of the Tong.
-Keith Preston (whomever that is)

[Xrati]

That would classify as a passage. You should put it to music though...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

'Freedom of religion'

[Slick]

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those who understand binary math, and those who don't."

"Why are you ducking? They couldn't hit an elephant at this range" Last words of General Sedgwick, Union army, American Civil War.

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."



And some favorites from my personal life:


"Half of one, six dozen of another... makes no difference."

"Don't try to tell me that my kid doesn't need a visa to go to school in Hawaii! Hawaii is NOT one of the 52 states."

"This can't be a real driver's liscence. Hawaii is kind of like Disneyland, nobody actually LIVES there."

"When Mr. _____ asks me to do something, I gladly do it because I still feel guilty about putting his son in the garbage can so many times when I was in intermediate school."

"I was driving my sister's car. It burns a lot of oil, so she keeps a case of oil in the trunk. I'm late because I had to pull off the road and put some more oil in the engine. It sure took a long time and I spilled a lot on the road." ... "You didn't try to pour it down the dipstick hole, did you?" ... "How else do you add it?"

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"There are two great ways to end a game of Lemmings...One is getting all your lemmings to the end. The second is the nuke button." - Me, just now.