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What are some of the best quotes that you've ever heard/read?

 Matthew wrote:
What are some of the best quotes that you've ever heard/read?

"Grab 'em by the *****" - Donald J. Trump.

"Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night.

Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life!"

Dude, Chaotic Neutral Gnome Cleric of Pangrus

"Hold my beer and watch this."

Seven times out of ten hilarity ensues.

 kronk wrote:
"Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night.

Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life!"

Dude, Chaotic Neutral Gnome Cleric of Pangrus

Terry Pratchett, actually. Speaking of the great man...

Sir Terry Pratchett wrote:if Cats looked like Frogs, we'd realise what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember

Sir Terry Pratchett wrote:Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often caused by a lack of wisdom

Sir Terry Pratchett wrote:It's not worth doing something, unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it

Sir Terry Pratchett wrote:God does not play dice with the Universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the other players (I.e. everybody) to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch black room with blank cards, for infinite stakes, and a dealer who won't tell you the rules and who smiles all the time

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -Hunter S. Thompson

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
What are some of the best quotes that you've ever heard/read?

"Grab 'em by the *****" - Donald J. Trump.

Have an exalt mate!


"Life's changes are like a moving river. What is here today is gone tomorrow, and tomorrow brings a new journey."


Also,

"Stay cool hunny bunny"

"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed." - Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, at the beginning of Talladega Nights.

And of course...

“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.” -Jules Winnfield('Pulp Fiction')

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


Terry Pratchett, actually. Speaking of the great man...

No way! Dude totes stole that fair and square!


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Sir Terry Pratchett wrote:Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often caused by a lack of wisdom

I love this one!

douglas adams has the best quotes, this one is the one I live my life by.


about the size of the universe

Population: None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero, therefore the average population of the Universe is zero, and so the total population must be zero.

I'm not sure who wrote it, but Tom Baker said it.

"There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes."

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

sirlynchmob wrote:
I'm not sure who wrote it, but Tom Baker said it.

"There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes."

A similar one I'm quite fond of is;

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~ George Shaw

"Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true. Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil, and Jesus was an architect, previous to his career as a prophet. All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world, and there was only one thing i could do: was dinga ding dang my dangalong ling long." - A. Jourgensen, Jesus Built My Hotrod

I came here to do two things Kick ass and chew gum. I'm all out of gum

 Laemos wrote:
I came here to do two things Kick ass and chew gum. I'm all out of gum

Also: Shake it, bay-bee!

 Laemos wrote:
I came here to do two things Kick ass and chew gum. I'm all out of gum

"I don't have time to play with myself"

"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done'"
-George Carlin


"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both"
-Niccolo Machiavelli

Machivelli has some very good quotes if I do say so myself, I would have posted more but that would have been repetitive, instead I suggest you look them up yourself

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.” Mark Lawrence

"Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.” Scott Lynch

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

This is one quote I've always liked, it's from one of the Ravenloft RPG sourcebooks. It's a person's response to an interviewer's question about how his people's history, being oral in nature, generally does not differentiate between myth, legend, and truth. For all I know, though, it may be a variation of something a real person said sometime in history.

"What does history matter? What is done is done. Once a deed slips into the past, it affects us today only in the way that it is remembered. Many events that never happened continue to shape us today, and many events that did happen have long since been forgotten. What power has fact in the face of significance?"

So much truth in that quote, sadly.

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. "

“The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic.”

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. - Roy Batty

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

-Ancient Klingon proverb

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Revenge is a dish best served cold.

-Ancient Klingon proverb

You haven't read Ancient Klingon proverbs until you've read them in the original human

Here's another good one:

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!"

-Admiral James T. Kirk, from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, or Spock, from Star Trek Into Darkness

I rather enjoy the line from Kor's parting episode in DS9;

"Savor the fruit of life, my young friends. It has a sweet taste when it's fresh from the vine. But don't live too long... The taste turns bitter... after a time."

Kor's death in Once More Unto the Breach and how Worf thought of it fits well with the sentiment expressed in Tannhauser42's quote above now that I think of it;

"The only real question is whether you believe in the legend of Davey Crockett or not. If you do, then there should be no doubt in your mind that he died a hero's death. If you do not believe in the legend, then he was just a man, and it does not matter how he died."

'Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.'-Churchill.

"If you have enough ammunition, you don't need to aim."

Gunnery Sgt Axely - phoenix command.

(Axely got promoted and demoted so often it was often hard to keep track of what rank he was. The Phoenix command rpg books usually had comments attributed to him in the sidebars).