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[Fyuria'sLeo]

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it."


"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."


"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."


"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

[Cursed Wind]

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."


"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."


"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."


"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"

[Amy-chan]

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."


"The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can."


"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."


"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."

[Shadow Wolf]

"I will live forever or die trying."

"There's no excuse for laziness, but I'm working on it"

"My volition is like a piece of Tofu" (Seto Ichitaka)

and a serious one...

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.” (Erich Fromm)

[Fyuria'sLeo]

"Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them."


"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."


"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."


"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."

[Amy-chan]

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."


"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."


"Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at."


"Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you."

[Fyuria'sLeo]

"Only fools are positive."


"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."


"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."


"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

[Cursed Wind]

"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."


"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."


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


"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

[Fyuria'sLeo]

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."


"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."


"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."


"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim"."

[Toasty Warrior]

"You must open your heart before you can truly live and learn."

[Fyuria'sLeo]

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."


"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."


"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."


"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."

[The Tax-Man]

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Despite all the people that say Shakespeare was really good, he really was good. He is considered the best writer to ever have lived. That's apparently why we torture our kids with analysis which sixty year old people cannot grasp. The day I will support this mindless idiocy is the day Twistor mathematics and high-energy physics will be a requirement to get passing grades in high school. Or perhaps, seeing as the doctorates and the tenth graders are both analysing the same pieces, the whole study of the English language as it is today is a broken concept in itself.


I can't begin to tell you how true the last one is.

Edited by The Tax-Man, 16 March 2012 - 02:30 AM.

[Dragunov]

"A house divided against itself cannot stand"

[Fyuria'sLeo]

"A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last."


"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."


"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath."


"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."

[Jake]

"Those who give up a little liberty for a little security shall lose both and deserve nether" - Ben Franklin

"When the people fear the government it is tyranny, when the government fears the people it is liberty" - Thomas Jefferson

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word" - Al Capone

"No poor dumb son of a b*tch ever won a war by dying for his country, you win a war by making that other poor dumb son of a b*tch die for his country" - Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

Edited by Jake, 02 April 2012 - 06:03 AM.

[BlackLightning]

- The best thing anyone can do for someone else is to let them be whoever they want to be.

- There is no hero in this world, you just need to be your own.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."



"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."



"The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor."



"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."

[Amy-chan]

I gotta step up my game Leo-kun so I can beat you in Quotes~


"The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it."


"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."


"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."


"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."

[CloudMountainJuror]

"You never understood, why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special... you really don't know?... it was... it was the look on their faces... "

"Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called 'The Pledge'. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called 'The Turn'. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call 'The Prestige'."

- The Prestige

Two of my favorite quotes of all time from anything.

Edited by zacrathedemon5, 19 April 2012 - 06:10 PM.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Pff I've been better than you at mostly everything since day one.


"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."


"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood."


"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."


"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."