Your favourite quotes?

[CathyInBlue]

Just try not to make them all about guns/liberty, `kay, guys? Here, that can easily swamp this kind of topic.

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road" — Stewart Brand

 

[Dirtebiker]

"I'll give you something to cry about!".... Dad, 1969

 

[Dirtebiker]

I'll knock you in to next Tuesday! Dad... 1971

 

[Dirtebiker]

"If you kids don't stop, I'll turn this thing around!" Dad 1968-1977

 

[pudly]

I prefer double quotes. Much easier visually than single quotes.

 

[PapaScout]

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

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - A. Einstein

 

[Woobie]

"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."

"To err is human; to forgive, divine"

"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see. That mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me."

All three are from Alexander Pope. Quite the poet.

 

[Alpo]

"If you don't stop, I will run this car into a telephone pole on your side!"--Mom, 1964

 

[sbu sailor]

Don't make me come down there! ~God

 

[Woobie]

"" -GodFearinGunTotin

 

[CathyInBlue]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke

"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." — CathyInBlue

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

"When mamma ain't happy...ain't nobody happy." Unknown.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke

"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." — CathyInBlue

"My remote won't control the satellite box....again *sigh*" -- Mom (God rest her soul), most of the late '90's and early 00's.

 

[Alpo]

"When mamma ain't happy...ain't nobody happy." Unknown.

I think it was "Adam" that said that. Genesis 1:14

 

[Lectric102002]

"No matter where you go, there you are."

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I think it was "Adam" that said that. Genesis 1:14

I'm thinking Jerry Clower or maybe Roy D Mercer.

 

[spec4]

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

 

[nettinyahoo]

Always keep your ass behind you. - Grandpa

 

[oldpink]

CIB stole my thunder with the A.C. Clarke one.

There are so many out there.

"Insanity: Doing the exact same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein

"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
-attributed to Edmund Burke, but apparently he never said that, at least not quite that way.

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
-Thomas Paine

A quote as such is ordinarily a single sentence or two, but the entire address at the opening of the then brand new cemetery at Gettysburg surely qualifies as truly great.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
― Francis of Assisi