Amazing Quotes

[Ommadawn]

No matter where you go, there you are.

Buckaroo Banzai

Flash, Flash I love you! But we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!

Dale Arden

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Genius is born--not paid.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

[Eighties Burnout]

In war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.
~ Sun Tzu

[Johannes]

What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there is nothing to compare it with.

Short people get rained on last

In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don't need it

ACHTUNG!!!

Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengraben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit spitzensparken. Ist nik fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!!

There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.
    -- H.  L.  Mencken, 1930

[Wern8]

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

- C.S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

- C.S. Lewis

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

- Winston Churchill

[Caddies]

Anything Charles Bukowski-- a nice offset to the dreadful C.W Lewis spam.

[DangerousDan]

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

- Joeseph Stalin

42nd Street: Women's breasts draped across every billboard, every display, littering the sidewalk. Was offered Swedish love and French love, but not American love. American love; like Coke in green glass bottles, they don't make it anymore.

- Rorschach's Journal, Watchmen

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d a n e a t s s h i t

[9lives]

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

- Meursault

[PanamaLane]

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau

[efuincarnate]

"Everything today has its point, but nothing is more important than becoming a person. More is required to produce one wise person today than used to be required for seven;and more is needed to deal with a single individual in these times than with an entire population in the past."

-Baltasar Gracian, 1647

[Garem]

Caddies, provide us some! It's more insightful than calling someone else's quote (or perhaps simply the quantity of them) awful!

These are some great quotes, but a little more background might help everyone understand them better! Don't hesitate to explain the who's, what's, or where's if they might be helpful.

[Sternhund]

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." ~ Ray Bradbury

[Yalta]

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
~ Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC ~
 
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
~ Plato ~
 
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

[Secutor]

Call your best friend let's take him with us!
Eugene Hütz

[Requiem]

To the fall of Zordon and the destruction of the Power Rangers, Ha ha ha ha ha!
-Tommy (Evil Green Ranger)