Quotes Thread

[Steven Purcell]

"We are VERY MUCH amused!" - Queen Victoria

[Steven Purcell]

"I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." - William Tecumseh Sherman

[HULK-Puffin]

Hulkurion wrote:

::Wanders into thread concealed underneath an extraordinarily long great coat::

*wearing a top hat and monacle, mounted on Hulkurion's head.*

Hulk say... you wouldn't like me when me angry.

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Steven Purcell wrote:

...

I have to ask: are you the same Steven Purcell who draws Sam and Max?

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

You've been in the business too long when you recognize the sound of a .45 caliber over a phone.
- Mike Westen, Burn Notice

[Hulkurion]

::Loud rumbling is heard from inside the coat under Hulk-Puffin. The clumsy giant lumbers out of the thread, running into several posters on the way out.::

[Steven Purcell]

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Steven Purcell wrote:

...

I have to ask: are you the same Steven Purcell who draws Sam and Max?

Decidedly not Shiny, I'm Canadian, 27 at the time of this post, and not famous by any measure at this point.

[Steven Purcell]

“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.”

– Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries)

[Steven Purcell]

"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." - John Godfrey Saxe

[Steven Purcell]

"It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance." - Charlie Haughey, in reference to the Malcolm MacArthur case

[Bitter Thorn]

Steven Purcell wrote:

"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." - John Godfrey Saxe

"If you like sausage or respect the law never watch either one being made."

[Steven Purcell]

“It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person and to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.”

– Aristotle

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Steven Purcell wrote:

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Steven Purcell wrote:

...

I have to ask: are you the same Steven Purcell who draws Sam and Max?

Decidedly not Shiny, I'm Canadian, 27 at the time of this post, and not famous by any measure at this point.

I didn't think you were the guy, but there's always the off-chance...

[Steven Purcell]

"Thank God, I have done my duty ... drink, drink ... fan, fan ... rub, rub" - Last words of Admiral Horatio Nelson

[Steven Purcell]

"We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time." - Hartley Shawcross

[Steven Purcell]

There grows the stuff that won Waterloo. - The Duke of Wellington, about the players in a cricket match on the fields of Eton decades after the Battle of Waterloo

[Steven Purcell]

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

[Set]

‘Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.’

Possibly Marcus Aurelius, not sure 'though.

[Steven Purcell]

“The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.”

– Marquis of Halifax (1633-95)

[Xpltvdeleted]

"If you don't vote, you're giving up your right to choose who manipulates you."

Maynard J. Keenan (lead singer of Tool)

[Orthos]

"The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid. Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
~ Zeddicus Z'ul Zorander, Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind

[Orthos]

"And then there was Abenthy, my first real teacher. He taught me more than all the others set end to end. If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today.

I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well."

~ Kvothe, son of Arliden, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

[Orthos]

"I have a favor to ask beyond mere admission. It has taken me nearly three years to get here. I may seem young, but I belong here as much, if not more, than some rich lordling who can't tell salt from cyanide by tasting it.

Admit me for more than two jots and I will not be able to attend. Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. I will do whatever it takes.

But admit me free, and give me three talents so I can live and buy what I need to learn properly, and I will be a student the likes of which you have never seen before."

~ Kvothe, son of Arliden, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

"Necrophilia is f!!!ing dead."
- Jeff Smith-Luedke

[Steven Purcell]

“Every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered.”

– Susanna Centlivre (1667-1723)

[Steven Purcell]

“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.”

– Alice Wellington Rollins

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Steven Purcell wrote:

“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.”

– Alice Wellington Rollins

A young Texan walks into a bar and orders a drink. “Got any ID?” asks the bartender. The Texan replies, “About what?”

[Steven Purcell]

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

– Albert Einstein

[Steven Purcell]

“The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.”

– Edsger Dijkstra

[Steven Purcell]

Why do these films always forget to put their most famous lines in?
—David Mitchell, QI

[Steven Purcell]

"Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here." - Jim Lovell

[Crimson Jester]

"Listen; Do you smell that?" -Dr Ray Stantz

[Dragonsage47]

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

[Dragonsage47]

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Edmund Burke

[Steven Purcell]

“What you risk reveals what you value.”

– Jeanette Winterson

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

"If you have to defend your beliefs with threats and censorship, then you shouldn't defend them at all."
- L. Aron Nelson

[Steven Purcell]

“It’s not work if you love what you’re doing.”

– Steve Sears (1941-96)

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

"There are two types of people in this world: those who divide the world into two types of people, and those who don't."
- Jeremy Bentham

"The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense."
- Sir Ken Robinson

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
- Abraham Lincoln

[Steven Purcell]

“The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.”

– Henry George (1839-97)

[Steven Purcell]

“When an old man dies a library burns down.”

– African proverb

[Steven Purcell]

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

[Steven Purcell]

“To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero-worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man – these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. … History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that, when a society, in flight from hero-worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.”

– Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

[Steven Purcell]

“Pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”

– Ian Anderson

[Mr.Fishy]

"When you wake up look in the mirror and laugh at your self, that way at least you made one person happier today." Mr. Fishy

"Smile at a fool because he may be you." Mr. Fishy

[Steven Purcell]

“Do you greet each other with excitement, overlook each other’s flaws and easily forgive bad behaviour? If it’s your pet, the answer is probably yes. But your spouse? Probably not.” - Tara Parker-Pope

[Steven Purcell]

“Cigarettes are very like weasels. Perfectly harmless unless you put one in your mouth and try to set fire to it.”

– Boothby Graffoe, English comedian

[Steven Purcell]

“There are multitudes of men and women who … attempt to get rid of the sense of moral failure by identifying themselves with groups which condone or approve the indulgences which they are either unable or unwilling to give up.”

– Anton T. Boisen (1876-1965)

[Steven Purcell]

"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" - Rodney King

[Steven Purcell]

“Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.”

– E.F. Schumacher

[Steven Purcell]

“Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you.”

– John Irving, quoted in The Times of London