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I was looking for some good quotes and I found a cool site.
http://www.coolquotescollection.com

I really like this one:

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Attributed to Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln

So what is your quote favorite from history or book(s)?

"Courage is the complement of fear. A fearless man cannot be courageous. He is also a fool." -- Robert Heinlein, the notes of Lazerus Long. I use that as my sig on EZBoard.

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." -- John F. Kennedy

Check my sig

But that site is nice

"Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
--Teilhard de Chardin

As well as the TS Eliot quote in my sig.

Eat me
- Lewis Carrol

Phil Skayhan wrote:Eat me
- Lewis Carrol

Topped only by "Drink me."

"I begin to feel that I am shut up in a madhouse."
-J.R.R. Tolkien, 12 September 1965, in a letter to Rayner Unwin.

That was my quote for my high school senior yearbook.

I've got a few.

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." - Carl Sagan

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon

"If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face."
-Rage Against the Machine

"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway."
-Elbert Hubbard

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"It was a gory day. Consequently, it was a rather satisfactory one." - Mark Twain, 'Tom Sawyer'

It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
-- Richard Dawkins

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."

"Don't try too hard. Just be natural, 'cause life is funny." - Chuck Sonnenburg

I have a few:

"I'm an apatheist. The question is no longer interesting, and the answer no longer matters." - petro

"We aim to please. Ourselves, mostly, but we do aim to please." - Anthony DeBoer

And, wonderfully, a quote on the idiocy of man by Babbage himself:

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing." -Homer Simpson

"Trying is the first step towards failure" - 'inspirational' quote my friend put in his profile of his high school senior yearbook. Hilarious.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

Writer Ron Hubbard in 1949
who later founded the Church of Scientology

The Darwin one in AV's sig.

God is playing a comic to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

Come meet your maker, boy
Some things you can't enjoy
Because of heaven/hell
A fucking wives' tale
They put it in your head
Then put you in your bed
He's watching say your prayers
Cause God is everywhere
Now I'll play a man learning priesthood
Who's about to take the ultimate test in life
I'd question things because I am human
And call NO ONE my father who's no closer than a stranger

Pantera "Fucking Hostile"

Face down, arms out
Nailed to the cross of doubt
Blood runs like rain
Drowning for this world in vain

Crown of black thorns
Human skin, ripped and torn

Where is your saviour now?

Fear Factory "Pisschrist"

"It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women." - Scott Adams

"The difference between a smart man and a wiseman is that a smart man knows the right thing to say at the right time. The wiseman knows wheather to say it or not"---

I forgot who said that one but i like it

"Retreat hell! We just got here!" Captain Lloyd Williams, USMC.

"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" ..............Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945.

And to sum it up;

"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Daly, USMC

I don't know who told me, or where I heard it from, but it always helped me out in life:

"Never argue with an idiot. You will have to bring yourself down to his level and he will beat you with years of experience."

And "his" has no reference to males, but to any human being. Stupidity is not sexist or racist.

'Raine

figure i'll toss in a few.

Bernard Avishai wrote:"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

Karl Kleinpaste wrote:"Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet."

unknown wrote:"If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes."

Blair Houghton wrote:"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare!"

Rich Kulawiec wrote:"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature."

"WARNING: Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue."

"COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key."

"Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though."

hell, pretty much anything on This page.

case anyone's interested, the rest of the quotes are from the main site,Quoteland.Com

"I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'."
-Steven Wright

"If you shoot at mimes...do you need to use a silencer?"
-Steven Wright

"I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child."
-Steven Wright

"When I was a child... We had a quick-sand box in the backyard...... I was an only child........ eventually....."
-Steven Wright

"Sometimes I...No, I don't."
-Steven Wright

The death of a thousand cuts is still death.

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Terry Pratchett