Wise men make proverbs, only fools repeat them

[ParryRiposte]

"Two languages in one head? No-one can live at that speed!"
"But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana."

~ Eddie Izzard

[notalent]

Originally Posted by Inquartata

Ahem.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I see madness was in stock, too bad they had to back order the genius

"Those as can, do
Those as can't, teach.
Those as can't teach, administrate."
Teachers axiom

[ParryRiposte]

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
~ Mel Brooks

[sabreman]

One time, there was this sword, in a stone, then I pulled it out, and BAM insta fame.

~ Arthur.

[ParryRiposte]

[talking about Bush's approval rating]
Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass, is my point. But I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.

~ Stephen Colbert

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"NUTS!"

~General Anthony C. McAuliffe

-replying to the German demands for surrender as they surrounded the US 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge-

[ParryRiposte]

"Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”

~ William Dement

[I_luv_saber]

"Don't worry! She'll hold together!!! -- Hear me, baby? Hold together..."
-Han Solo

[ParryRiposte]

"There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock."

~ The boring prophet from Life of Brian

[fences_like_a_lemur]

You are like the Wind and I like the Lion. You form the Tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the Ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours.

~Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates. -not that this guy had an ego problem or anything...-

[ParryRiposte]

I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating"

~ Jack White of The White Stripes, in "Fell in Love With a Girl." Which is a crazy awesome song.

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Once our false thinking has completely ceased
There is neither start nor conclusion, beginning nor end
In the oneness of Buddha and sentient beings
Say Namu-amida-butsu.

~"Hymn of Amida's Vow" (Chapter 1, p.4)

[lochinvar]

It may be that your true purpose in life is merely to be a bad example for others.

[AdamH]

"Don't go fishing while your house is on fire"

~ go proverb.

[SSMSabreMN]

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
~Henry Cate VII

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"Trust is trusting someone without knowing that you can."

~Anonymous

[ParryRiposte]

If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"? Congress.

~ Anonymous

[notalent]

May you live in interesting times.
Chinese curse.

[fences_like_a_lemur]

No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency.

~Theodore Roosevelt

[notalent]

"One must consider the final results"
Commonly misquoted as "The ends justify the means"

Machiavelli - The Prince