Quote of the Week suggestions and feedback

[Formless]

I can't believe I just now remembered this one when I've been using it as a signature on another website:

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." — Philip K. Dick

[spaceviking]

A quote Stas Bush found in a old thread.

- Mutta suomen sotilas vastaa kymment:a ryssa.
- Mhiin... Kyll:a kai. Mutta mit:as sitten tehdan, kun tulee se yhdestoista?

- But a Finnish soldier costs ten Russians.
- Hm... yeah. But what to do when the eleventh comes?

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 2&t=128369

[RedImperator]

"Suppose you were an idiot. Then suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."--Mark Twain

[Force Lord]

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."--Attributed to Joseph Stalin

Am I correct?

[Edi]

A quote Stas Bush found in a old thread.

- Mutta suomen sotilas vastaa kymmentä ryssää.
- Mhiin... Kyll:a kai. Mutta mit:as sitten tehdan, kun tulee se yhdestoista?

- But a Finnish soldier is a match for ten Russians.
- Hm... yeah. But what to do when the eleventh one comes?

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 2&t=128369

Fixed the quote for you, but I don't think that's a good one for quote of the week.

Here are a couple, related to humor:

"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Impropriety is the soul of wit." - W. Somerset Maugham


Another couple on ignorance:

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" - Martin Luther King

"I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance." - Christopher Marlowe (1564-93)

[Simplicius]

"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." -H. L. Mencken

"The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters." -H. L. Mencken on the Scopes trial, 1925

"The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills." -Ambrose Bierce

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." -Tom Stoppard

"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world." -Edmond de Goncourt

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." -George Bernard Shaw

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." -E. B. White

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." -Will Rogers

[[R_H]]

"I haven't come here to enrich you. I left my country so that I could live in freedom."
-Hamed Abdel-Samad

(He used to be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, now he's an academic at the Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Münich)

[Kaiser Caesar]

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."--Attributed to Joseph Stalin

Am I correct?

That was actually Erich Maria Remarque.

[Force Lord]

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."--Attributed to Joseph Stalin

Am I correct?

That was actually Erich Maria Remarque.

Dammit, I never get my sources right.

[Haruko]

"Anecdotes,/The poor man's history."
-- Rita Dove, black poet, as quoted in Tram Nguyen's Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (p. 1).

[Lonestar]

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

[Rye]

From my favourite philosopher:

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Mencken is ridiculously and extensively quotable:

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

And since I'm on an Orwell binge at the moment:

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

[Lusankya]

I don't really have a quote to add, but personally, I think it would look better if it didn't have "Quote of the week" written in front of the quote. It's unnecessary and just clutters it up.

[LadyTevar]

They understand if Barack Obama were somehow able to cure hunger in the world, the Republicans would blame him for over-population.

They understand that if Barack obama could somehow bring about world peace, they'd blame him for destroying the defense industry.

In fact they understand that if Barack Obama has a BLT sandwich tomorrow for lunch, they will try to ban bacon.

[Rogue 9]

"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Sir Winston Churchill

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

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - Frederick Douglass

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." - Frank Zappa

[Broomstick]

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

[Instant Sunrise]

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953. "Chance for Peace" speech.

[LadyTevar]

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! – Adolph Hitler [1935] The Weapons Act of Nazi Germany.

[Rogue 9]

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." - H.L. Mencken

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." - Aristotle

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling." - Arthur Brisbane

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." - Oscar Wilde

[The Yosemite Bear]

"Chemicals, Chemicals, Chemicals, I need my Chemicals"- Fictional Eco-Terrorist, George Washington Hayduke

[Kristoff]

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution - Theodosius Dobzhansky

I didn't know that there are so many idiots, until I began using Internet - Stanislaw Lem

[Oscar Wilde]

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.-Samuel Johnson

[Oskuro]

Discworld quotes en masse here. Couldn't make my mind about wich I liked best, so here's a silly one instead:

"Fuck Chuck Norris, Spongebob Squarepants can barbeque underwater"

[Dartzap]

Me thinks someone got a copy of Great British Quotes Through the Ages

[Rogue 9]

"South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum." - James Louis Petigru, December 8, 1860, in reference to the state's impending secession.