Post Some Cool Quotes

[8BitNinja]

Share a cool quote from something

"Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Men of the West!*" -Aragorn, Lord of the Rings

[Fragenstein]

Socrates: "I drank what?"

[Ravens_cry]

"Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.” Gordon R. Dickson.
Also, "Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

[Kymme]

G.K. Chesterton - “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

[comicshorse]

“For when the One Great Scorer comes
To mark against your name,
He writes - not that you won or lost -
But how you played the Game. "

Grantland Rice

[Clertar]

[Batou1976]

"You've failed me for the last time, Admiral."
-Darth Vader (Star Wars, Episode V)

[Killer Angel]

"if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"

- A. Einstein

[factotum]

"The air is subtly different at the edge of the world." --Anon

(I can't actually remember where I read that--I think it was the first sentence of a short story, but I can't remember who wrote it).

[8BitNinja]

"Most test subjects do experience some cognitive deterioration after a few months in suspension. Now you've been under for... quite a lot longer, and it's not out of the question that you might have a very minor case of serious brain damage." - Wheatley, Portal 2

[GAAD]

"There are three types of teachers in the world.
The peer will tell you that it is wrong.
The critic will tell you how it is wrong.
The expert will tell you why it is wrong.
Seek the expert."

-Me

[HandofShadows]

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." made up by someone who wants to sell beer and use Ben Franklin's name to do it.

"It's a TRAP!"

"Stupidity is contagious."

"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

[factotum]

"There are three types of teachers in the world.
The peer will tell you that it is wrong.
The critic will tell you how it is wrong.
The expert will tell you why it is wrong.
Seek the expert."

Reminds me of an old engineering joke:

The end user knows that hitting it makes it work. The technician knows where to hit it to make it work. And the engineer knows why hitting it there makes it work.

[Traab]

"I have no idea. People who boast about their iq are losers."

Stephen Hawking upon being asked about his IQ.

"When I was a child my mother said to me,"if you become a solider, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you will end up the pope." Instead I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso."

"Dont fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

Bruce Lee

"Im genetic garbage."

Danny Devito

[TheThan]

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[Sapphire Guard]

Kallor said: “I walked this land when the T’lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?”

“Yes,” said Caladan Brood, “you never learn.”

-Malazan book of the fallen.

"I greet you as guests and so I will not crush the life from you and devour your souls with peals of laughter. No, instead I will make some tea."

Gothos, from same.

[Bhu]

'Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.'

'The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.'

'The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.'

[Pex]

"How rude!" - Michelle Tanner, Jar-Jar Binks

[FLHerne]

"He went right through an inch thick wooden windscreen as if it were paper, left his rubber face behind, and finally came to a halt 710 feet downrange. Clearly, some damnable forces of physics were at work."
-- from an article about Capt. John Stapp's rocket-sled testing.

"There are no buttons to push. There are no buttons not to push. All perish here."
-- Dr McNinja

[Rater202]

"That's right. I don't create swords. I create a world that contains infinite swords. This is the only magic allowed for me. There's no need to be surprised. These are all imitations. As you say, these are all trifling swords. But there is no rule that says an imitation cannot defeat the original. If you say you are the original, I will surpass every one of your weapons and destroy your existence. Here I come, King of Heroes! Do you have enough swords in stock?"
-Shirou Emiya, speaking to Gilgamesh.

[comicshorse]

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. "

Ernest Hemmingway

[Pex]

"Bowties are cool." - The Doctor

[DataNinja]

Reminds me of an old engineering joke:

The end user knows that hitting it makes it work. The technician knows where to hit it to make it work. And the engineer knows why hitting it there makes it work.

Ah, that reminds me of some of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:

"The difference between something that might go wrong and something that cannot possibly go wrong, is that when something that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it is usually impossible to get at or repair."

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

[Fragenstein]

Oh, hey, if we're going D. Adams, then here's one which has stayed with me for decades... although, maybe more of an actual passage than a quote...


“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die."

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.

After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[TheEmerged]

"Always remember: most riddles contain their own answer."
-- the ORIGINAL "My Little Pony" cartoon, yes the one from the 80's.

"Can you destory the Earth?"
"EGADS! I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff..."
-- the Tick cartoon

"Sometimes, the knights are the monsters."
-- George R. R. Martin, in one of the Game of Thrones/ Song of Fire & Ice novels, can't remember which

"You can tell the size of a person by the size of person they let bother them."
-- I'm sure it's from someone else first, but this was one of my late father's favorite statements.

"The stranger the problem, the simpler the solution usually is."
-- another one from my late father

"No good deed goes unpunished. Neither does any bad deed. Everybody forgets the second part."
-- last one from my late father, honest...

"There is only ONE way to deal with a bully."
-- YuGiOh anime, first season, and something I wish I would have heard & heeded a LOT earlier in life.

"...any other method just pushes THAT method off on someone else, some time else."
-- an addition I usually make to the above.

"Well done is better than well said."
-- Poor Richard's Almanac

[Philistine]

I can do no better than to point to the origin of my sig...

Grandfather: "... When he was saying "As you wish", what he meant was, "I love you.""
- The Princess Bride

Darth Vader: "And I want them alive. No disintegrations!"
Boba Fett: "As you wish."
- The Empire Strikes Back

[Pex]

"Language!" - Captain America

[Kato]

Ah, so many good ones. And so many I could think of...
Okay, a bunch from my favorite author:

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

"Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom."

"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head."

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

And to finish...

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."

[Gopher Wizard]

"I'm attacking myself in Chinatown guy."
"I've dated girls uglier than you for breakfast."

[Bhu]

"The young sucker runs away with the sap from the old tree. The foal drains its mother, and then kicks her. The old saying is 'I taught you to swim and now you would drown me,' and many a time it comes true."


"Expect to get half of what you earn, a quarter of what is your due, and none of what you have lent, and you will be near the mark."