Quote of the Week suggestions and feedback

[Haruko]

"Everybody lies... every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception."
-- Mark Twain

[Eternal_Freedom]

"Life is a shipwreck - but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats" - Voltaire

[Panzersharkcat]

"We must have a police state in this country or immigrants will come here and support the creation of a police state." - Ryan W. McMaken on the "pro-freedom" anti-immigration position

[StarSword]

• Odd objects attract fire. You are odd.
• Friendly fire isn't, suppressive fire isn't, and recoilless rifles aren't.
• If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
• Don't look for the bullet with your name on it. Look for the shrapnel addressed to "Occupant".
• When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not your friend.

(There's lots more at http://www.military-quotes.com/murphy.htm.)

[StarSword]

A more serious contribution than my last post.

Shepherd Book used to tell me, "If you can't do somethin' smart, do somethin' right."

[Phantasee]

Quote boxes in signatures are hideous and should be grounds for a temp ban.

"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended." -Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

August 5 is the 49th anniversary of Nelson Mandela being jailed.

[Dominus Atheos]

This quote is making the rounds on liberal blogs lately.

“Is the White House out of their mind? Does the West Wing not know what the left wing is doing? We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?”

[Rogue 9]

I do believe I suggested the current quote sometime way back when. In fact...

"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." - Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

[Omeganian]

First I exited the Soviet Union, then all the others did.

---Viktor Suvorov/Vladimir Rezun, Soviet defector.

(сначала из Советского Союза вышел я, а потом все остальные.)

[TithonusSyndrome]

"Conspiracy theories are popular because no matter what they posit, they are all actually comforting, because they all are models of radical simplicity." - William Gibson

[Phantasee]

"The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather to save humanity from hell." - Dag Hammarskjöld

[Omeganian]

"When there is a dispute between two small nations, the UN steps in and the dispute disappears. When there is a dispute between a small nation and a large nation, the UN steps in and the small nation disappears. When there is a dispute between two large nations, the UN disappears."

Kenneth Rogoff (calling it "an old quip" http://www.project-syndicate.org/commen ... 19/English)

[Flagg]

"Ronald Reagan is dead and he was a lousy President" - Kieth Olbermann

[Panzersharkcat]

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." - William Gibson

EDIT:
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O’Rourke

[Haruko]

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
-- Ernest Gaines

[Darth Tedious]

What film was Ebert reviewing when he said that 'cult' line?
I can only think context would make it even better...

[Darth Holbytlan]

Google is your friend. Though it's not really that illuminating, to be honest.

[DPDarkPrimus]

What film was Ebert reviewing when he said that 'cult' line?
I can only think context would make it even better...

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.

[Darth Tedious]

Google is your friend. Though it's not really that illuminating, to be honest.

I was then, and am now, on a mobile device. Your link takes me to a blank page of Google. I wasn't just asking because I'm a Google-phobe.
I'll just wait until I get back to my 'puter.

[Darth Holbytlan]

I was then, and am now, on a mobile device. Your link takes me to a blank page of Google. I wasn't just asking because I'm a Google-phobe.
I'll just wait until I get back to my 'puter.

I'm pretty sure Google has a mobile site (m.google.com). Or you could read DPDarkPrimus's post, which also answered your question.

[Phantasee]

Or you could stop being a cunt.

"Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa—and it's about getting a balance." –Sir Richard Branson

[Haruko]

"I am glad to see you not so wanting in courage as in sense. But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant."
-- Myron, in The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

[Zaune]

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own; for the children, and the children yet unborn."
-- Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street"

[Rogue 9]

I must take issue with Dr. Freud on this one. Without civilization, there is liberty only for those strong enough to secure it for themselves.

[Formless]

Since the quote hasn't changed in over a week, I went out and found some good ones by Mark Twain:

• A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
• A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
• All right, then, I'll go to hell.
• No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
• Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
• The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
• There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
• Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
• We [Americans] have the best government that money can buy.