What's your favorite quote?

“"What do you mean, you through the map away?!"

Blair Witch Project”

“"Beware of any enterprises that require new clothes"

Thoreau, as I recall.”

“" dont ask what is wrong with your behavior,ask what is right about it"

Wayne Parker (my pastor)”

“"kleetn's a dried up, slack jawed, cross-eyed, buck toothed, limp-d!cked, chicken sh!t moron."

--The TrailTalk Consensus”

“Another contender: "Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Ben Franklin (A bit theistic for my inclination but the wine part seems right. Have also seen this as "beer is sure proof..." but BF fancied the grape, I think, so...)”

“Amen”

“"Sometimes bein' a (witch) is all a woman has to hold onto"

-from Dolores Claiborne”

“That's a true classic, TD.

And thanks for that Oppenheimer quote, kleetn. I've been looking for that one.


Let's see....


"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
J. Robert Oppenheimer



"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."

Richard M. Nixon



"As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Jean Kerr



Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.”

“"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"

A. Einstein”

“Wanderer, why Einstein? We are never gonna travel through time in our lifetimes, we can't even get out of the flippin stratosphere!

(remember Challenger)”

“"Hoof Arted"

Author unknown, but probably guilty.”

“Three women lost their husbands. Steven McAuliffe lost his wife. Six children lost their fathers.”

“Doh!

- Homer Simpson”

“Lassie kills chickens.”

“Now back to our regularly sceduled program!


"Industry without art is brutality."

Alexis de Toqueville



"Oh crap! It just keeps going!"

Homer Simpson
on "The Murderhorn"”

“h”

“"Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing"
Thoreau

"If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn."
Bernie Siegel, MD”

“Industry without art? According to Pirsig, industry is art..”

“Today is a good day to die.”

“'True adventure has no plan'

-my Dad before a backpacking trip”

“but when I do I like to quote scientists (I have the same birthday as A. Einstein, Mar. 14)

Imagination is more important than knowledge
--Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein

If I've seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
--Issac Newton

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
--Aristotle

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. --Thomas Edison”

“If there's a will, there's a way out. - Griz”

“"I refuse to have a battle of wits with a man that is obviously not equipped to do battle"


"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"

"Two roads diverged in a wood.."”

“"Life is a terminal disease."

Someone from my company.

"If you're asking me if I got laid last night, the answer is no, but, I DID get my MIND f**cked in all the right places".

My friend Doug's response to "How'd the date go with that babe you were telling me about?"

"I'll live to piss on YOUR grave"

My Dad.

"Frankly, I'm not as interested in resisting temptation as I am in FINDING it."

My 1st favorite Frand and Ernest comic.

"I'm giving up trying to get ahead, so I can concentrate on slowing down the rate at which I'm falling behind."

My 2nd favorite Frank and Ernest comic.

"I need you to actually TELL me that you love me. Leaking it to the media isn't good enough."

My favorite Wall Street Journal comic.”

“TXWoodswoman: I've come across another wording - "I refuse to engage in a duel of wits with an unarmed man." - but I lost track of who said it, though my remaining impression is one of our revolutionary luminaries. Thanks for adding it, one of my favs.”

“"If you want to look busy just move your arms a lot and look confused."

-my son”

“...I always wondered why he looked so confused when he was supposed to be cleaning his room...”

“Maybe this is the place to ask this.

Tolkien is credited with "Not all who wander are lost."

But I've seen something similar credited to Shakespeare, anyone know it?

Thanks.”

“All I've been able to find is the attribution to Tolkien. I did find some other marvelous things, like:


"When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander?d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look?d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman (1819?1892),
?When I Heard the Learn?d Astronomer?


Hmm, Puck seems to wander quite a bit. So does Thoreau... but I can locate no other Shakespeare references that fit.

I suppose you might go to Project Gutenberg and ctrl-F on 'wander' through the collected works or something like that if you've got the time? yikes{}

It'd be nice to have everything on CD-ROM and be able to do a global search!”

“I know some Shakespearians, here is their list of links. ;-)”

“Dang, hair trigger.

”

“There's a kangaroo outside the window!!!!


Walkindude 8/5/2001 Galehead hut in the Whites”

“"If you are willing to leave mother and father, sister and brother, wife and child-- and never see them again; if you have paid all debts, written your will, settled your affairs and are free man, then you are ready for a walk." (Thoreau)”

“that is 9/5 not 8/5”

“"If you're asking me if I got laid last night, the answer is no, but, I DID get my MIND f**cked in all the right places".

This deserves a second go around..”

“Shakespeare just quoted "All that glitters is not gold"
(from ”

“well, that was weird!

Shakespeare just quoted "All that glitters is not gold"
(from The Merchant of Venice)

Tolkien used a similar "All that is gold does not glitter" and added "all who wander are not lost"”

“oooooooooooooh...

So where does the bit about

the old that is strong does not wither
deep roots are not reached by frost

come from, Smartypants?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

what the hell am *I* doing awake without a buzz?{}


"Ack. Thpppbt."

- Bill The Cat”

“childhood is short, immaturity is forever

-Calvin & Hobbes”

“That one is my motto.”

“"Tact: the ability to tell someone to go to hell and have him look forward to the trip."
--Jayne LaPlant Frandsen

"One man's slime is another man's penicillin."
--G. Grossman”

“Long car ride. Old Peter Gabriel.

From Biko:

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher


Have always thought the lyrics captured a difficult concept well. That once something is thought, articulated, it is difficult to stuff it back in the box. No amount of oppression or suppression can erase the simple ideas.

Broadly relevant to many ideas although the song is specific to South Africa and freeedom.”

“Make love, not war.
Hell, get married and do both!”

“he he

I wasn't married long enough to do battle- I got out before the war started”

“I don't think a want to re-enlist either

too political”

“My fav quote is
"Been there, Done that"”

“I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
so I went to pick her up in the rain
but before I could get to the station in my pick-up truck
she got run over by a damned old train.”

“sirpete, who are you quoting?”

“Isn't that the Highwaymen?”