Quotes of a Random Nature

[grievous]

On most forums I'm on, my Personal Text is usually of quotes, either funny or knowledgeable quotes.

[Streamstrider]

Yeah, I go searching for quotes, pick my favorite, and put it as my Personal Text. Then I forget to change it later and just leave it. >_<

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
~ Bilbo Baggins (The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien)

[grievous]

I change my PT every day, sometimes, anyway.

I've got lots of account notes on AYS and few other forums full of quotes.

[ravenholtex]

We are the people our parents warned us about.
- Jimmy Buffett

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
- George Bernard Shaw

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
- Theodore Roosevelt

[ravenholtex]

Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
- Unknown

[Whyerd Neighme]

"Salt and pepper lovers must die!"
-Mao, Disgaea 3

"Jesus is not an American, or a republican, or a subanite."
Rick James [author, not singer]

"If Jesus were to come back today, the only thing he wouldn't be is a Christian."
Mark Twain

"Do you trust me or not?
-Maybe?
Too late, you have no choice but to trust me!"
Venture Bros.

My quotes are usually things that make me laugh or try to make people think. No, I didn't pick Rick James or Mark Twain just to piss off people. If you read Huck Finn, you know why.

[Streamstrider]

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
-- Douglas Adams

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
-- W.C. Fields

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Somerset Maugham

[ravenholtex]

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
- Demetri Martin

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
- Jerry Seinfeld

[Whyerd Neighme]

"I don't like to brag. I love it!"
Stephen Colbert

[ravenholtex]

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
- Rita Rudner

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- Franklin P. Adams

[Streamstrider]

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
~ Robert Bloch

[ravenholtex]

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell

'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
- George Ade

[Streamstrider]

"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
- Jerry Garcia

"Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery."

[ravenholtex]

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann

[ravenholtex]

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
- Jane Wagner

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
- Dan Quayle