Your Favorite Quotes

[kiwi_2005]

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. unkown

and one other: Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?

[Sailor Steve]

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

Hmm I like that one quite a bit

[Jimbuna]

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand

On the bias inherent in any discussion:

I know that history will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

On politics in general:

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell in Animal Farm

On creationism and religion:

The great thing about science is that it works whether you believe in it or not.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Sailor Steve]

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-Bertrand Russell

[Gerald]

There are two things that are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. However, I'm not quite sure the former.

-Albert Einstein

[Armistead]

"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Baltasar Gracian

If you want the best common sense qoutes, read Gracian.

[Jimbuna]

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

[Dowly]

"You have now gone deeper into the tunnel.
And you have reached a place where you should never have come.
Down here radiation is everywhere.
You do not know it, but something is happening to your body right now.
It is beyond your senses.
You feel nothing.
You smell nothing.
An invisible light is shining right through you.
It is the last glow of my civilization, that harvested the powers of the universe."

From "Into Eternity" documentary, spoken to someone in the far future who,
out of curiousity or otherwise might have found and entered the "Onkalo" nuclear waste repository.

[Platapus]

So hard to pick one favourite.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

- Theodore Roosevelt


And here is one that seems to become more appropriate these days

These are dangerous times. When we are afraid, we want to be protected

Since we can not protect ourselves against such horrors as mass murder by bombers, we are tempted to run to the government.

A government that is always willing to trade the promise of security in exchange for our freedom, which left as always the question:

How much freedom are we willing to relinquish for such a bald promise?

-- Gerry Spence

One could do a find/replace and make this up to date.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

and probably 99% of the shots you make. But at least people won't laugh at you when you don't make the shots you don't take.

[Jimbuna]

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

[Simmy]

"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War"

by George Santayana - 1922
Many think it was Plato but no one can find that he ever said it.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Simmy

"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War"

by George Santayana - 1922
Many think it was Plato but no one can find that he ever said it.

Whoever it was....a great quote.