"No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." ~John Donne

"We've done colder...and uglier" ~ Me and my roomie

"See no evil, hear no evil, screw no evil."
"I shaved! Touch it!" me

" Life is Hard.....Then you Die"- Some guy in California


Think about it.....this is actually the secret to life.
Seriously

"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that makes life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living it is finite."
Richard Dawkins.

"I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."
-Bertrand Russell

"save a tree, eat a beaver"

Sorry if any of these have appeared already:


"Behind every successful organization stands at least one person who knows the secret of how to keep the managers away from anything truly important.''


"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 500SL convertible."
P. J. ORourke

Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons
For you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
-Terra from Dragonlore.hyperboards.com [EDIT]

"Mama always says life is like a box of chocolates... You never know what'cha goin' to get."

Quote- If you don't know, then shame on you.

Hey, do you guys know how the quote goes thats like "The liberty of a country should not be measured by the rights it gives its majority but to the rights it gives to its minorty"
It's something along those lines...gah I can't think of it for the life of me!

"Adventavit assinus, pulcher et fortissimus."
The ass arrived, beautiful and most brave.

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx

four of my faves:

"I can resist anything but temptation."
-Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

"She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itself she dismissed them as only romance and knitting in a new form."
-Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."
-Nietzsche

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
-Groucho Marx

To riff off Oscar Wilde,

"The difference between a friend and an enemy is that the latter will stab you in the front."

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - M.L. Mencken
"The men who really beleive in themselves are all in lunatic asylums." - G.K. Chesterton
"I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry." -Pierre de Beaumarchais
"There is pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know." -John Dryden
"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it." - Napoleon
• Remember this motto to live by:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "YAH HOO what a ride!"

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher ... and that is a good thing for any man."
- Socrates

"It is, therefore, a just political maxim that every man must be supposed a knave ..."
- David Hume

"In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for."
- Adam Smith

"When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere."
-- Munku on TFP has this as a signature

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
-- "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
-- "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
-- "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
--Albert Einstein


-- "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
-- "See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too"
-- "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
-- "Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce."
-- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds."
--Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux OS kernel

MILITARY LOGIC

If the enemy is in range, so are you.
Incoming fire has the right of way.
Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire.
The easy way is always mined.
Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
Professionals are predictable; it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions: When you're ready for them and when you're not ready for them.
Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.
Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you.
The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
When in doubt, empty the magazine.
Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.
Anything you do can get you shot. Including doing nothing.
Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.
Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
A Purple Heart just proves that you were smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything.
Five-second fuses only last three seconds.
It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
Carpet bombing from B-52s is very accurate. At 30,000 feet, every bomb hits the ground.
If you see an Explosive Ordanance Technichian running, try to keep up.
Friendly fire isn't very friendly.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne

"Here we go again,
same old sh!t again..."
-Army Cadance

"Dragon Hide makes excellent armor... And sinew from any animal can be used to make rope or bowstrings. Again, no bonuses other than being really f****** awesome. You don't f*** with people who make their rope out of dragons."

by Osiris Memnoch in the D&D forums

"Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won"
- Adolf Hitler

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one."
- Adolf Hitler

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Hermann Goering

"An unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates

"somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands"
-E.E. Cummings

"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges."
-Vladimir Nabokov

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
-Vladimir Nabokov

"We must never forget, that it is a constitution we are expounding."
-John Marshall

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
-Mao Tse-tung

"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means"
-Carl von Clausewitz

" Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
-Y.B. Yeats

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
~G. K. Chesterton

All emotions have a price.. -- Russell K

Imagen a king who fights his own battles -- Movie Troy..

True reality is a shadow. -- me