Historical (and not so historical) quotes

[Jamba]

"Now we all know that there's going to be a certain amount of...violence. But at least we know that it's all in a good cause... don't we?"

 

Prince Harry (Edmund's brother) in the first series (nay the first episode!) of Black Adder.

[Owario]

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity"

 

If you know a better way to make virgins, I'd like to see it. (Stolen from bash.org)

[Bogbas]

I think this needs a nerdy quote:

 

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."

- Linus Torvalds

[Whizkid]

If you give man a fish he will eat for a day but if you teach a man to fish he will eat forever

[Rummy]

God does not play dice.

[bart_k]

I think this needs a nerdy quote:

 

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."

- Linus Torvalds

 

That's a really good one. And it's true too.

"There are only 10 kin of people...

People that can read binary and people that can't."

 

"The only purpose for a soldier is making sure that bastarof the enemy dies...

Because else you'll be dead." - some american general

[Dan_Dare]

"The job of a soldier is not to die for his country. it's to make some other poor bastard die for his"- General George Patton (I think)

[Charlie]

Deep into the darkness peering.

Long I stood there

Wondering

Fearing

Doubting

[mariosmentor]

"I'll live forever or die trying." - Yossarian, Catch - 22

 

Bilbo Bagshot: "What about the Ewoks eh? They were rubbish. You don't complain about them."

Tim: "Yeah but Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like... fuckin'... Shaft." - SPACED

[mcj metroid]

'the highest form of life is man the lowest form of life is a man who workd in the post office'

holly from red dwarf

 

or

 

'stoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfeast'

ace rimmer

[darksnowman]

Deep into the darkness peering.

Long I stood there

Wondering

Fearing

Doubting

 

Edgar Allan Poe quote from Eternal Darkness. Nice one.

[Konfucius]

"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Jesus

 

 

I actually use that quote from time to time...

[Monopolyman]

"We got him."

[Ashley]

"Everyone asks me, just who the hell is she, that weirdo with five colours in her hair?"

 

Or more seriously;

 

"Fortune favors the brave" - Virgil

[david.dakota]

“The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn’t the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.”

 

- The Brilliant John Cleese

 

 

 

“Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.”

 

“People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.”

 

“Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs”

 

- The Brilliantly Brilliant Noel Coward

[Supergrunch]

Not so surprisingly:

 

"……嫌な事件だったね。…腕が一本、まだ見つかってないんだろ？"

 

Translation: "...that was an unfortunate incident. ...they still haven't found one arm yet, right?"

 

From Tomitake Jirou- it's the first sign that anything in Higurashi is wrong.

 

Perhaps more surprisingly:

 

"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,

Thy knotted and combined locks to part

And each particular hair to stand on end,

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine"

 

From the ghost in Hamlet... absolute brilliance.