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Draugluin · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:11 am

Most of the Founding Fathers had very similar stances on most issues, he's just the one that made the best quotes, although Jefferson came in a close second.

Franklin is stereotypically known for getting struck by lightning while flying a kite.

Telchar · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:54 pm

"Farewell, Prince without a country."
"Farewell, Count without a head."

The farewell exchange of the Count of Hoorne (who was beheaded by the Spanish shortly after for failing to energetically prosecute protestantism) and the Prince of Orange, who went into exile to avoid the same fate.

LordElrond · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:56 pm

"'Tis but a scratch" Black Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, after his arms and legs are chopped off.

"We've already got one" French Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when asked about the quest for the grail.

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" Brian's Mother, Monty Python's Life of Brian, about Brian

"If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favourable" Some Roman/ Greek guy

“I’m going to win because I’m better and I’m brighter.” Hannibal, on the eve of the Battle of Cannae.

"Wait 'til Bigus Dickus hears of this" Caesar, Monty Python's Life of Brian

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:39 pm

'Twroah him to the gwound, centuwion!'

Telchar · **Posted:** Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:27 pm

Hans Wiegel, a corpulent Dutch right-wing politician, met a fanatic socialist politician in a narrow walkway, prompting this exchange:

Socialist: "I don't step aside for pigs."
Wiegel (stepping aside): "Oh, but I do."

Azog · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:03 pm

"We trained hard - but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up
into teams we were reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend
to meet any new situation by reorganising, and what a wonderful method it
can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing
confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." - Petronius Arbiter - 50AD

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte
French general & politician (1769 - 1821)

"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
Groucho Marx

"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
Gandhi

...and a few not strictly quotes of Computer Haiku poetry .

It has strict construction rules: each poem has only 17 syllables - 5 in the first line, 7 in the second line and 5 in the third line. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.

Below, the essence of Zen.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

With searching comes loss.
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:54 pm

This from W.C Fields:

My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

Telchar · **Posted:** Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:46 pm

From the Roman poet Martialis:

"You have gold and silver all to yourself, Candidus,
And riches and exquisite pottery,
And expensive wines you have all for yourself,
All you have to yourself,
But your wife, Candidus, you share with all the city."

I shortened the list of things he has to himself, because that gets a bit boring.

Curufinwë · **Posted:** Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:35 am

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
- Thomas Paine

Curufinwë · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:31 pm

No [word deleted] ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb [word deleted] die for his country.
- George S. Patton

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:54 pm

If winning isn't important, why do we keep score - Vince Lombardi

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:23 pm

''It's so overt it's covert''
-Sherlock Holmes

Pindergorn · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:19 pm

Veni Vidi Vici.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:45 pm

Veni Vidi Vetinari.

From Jingo, by Terry Pratchett.
Don't let me detain you.

CyberAlien312 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:05 pm

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon

WhoelsebutHaldir · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:27 am

"I'de rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, cause sinners are much more fun."-Billy Joel

Pindergorn · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2013 2:19 am

Veni, vidi, reliqui.

...

I came, I saw...I left.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri May 17, 2013 5:44 pm

This is a quote from some random and presumably slightly confused person and it made me laugh so...

Quote:

"Krakens aren't fantasy creatures but Dire Wolves are..."

Telchar · **Posted:** Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:52 am

Winston Churchill is a fountain of these:

Lady Aston: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee."
Churchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

Florien · **Joined:** Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:30 pm **Posts:** 21

Not sure who it's by:

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”

I love this, the 'dance like there's nobody watching' is my favourite bit, i think about it a lot with me being a bit 'different' from everybody i know (read geeky) and it reminds me of the night i met my husband, drunk & dancing. All my friends were doing their 'im so pretty and sexy' dance moves while i was mortal and jumping about, doing all kinds of david brent dance's & face's, locked eyes with him doing the same thing :wub: took him home with me that night & never looked back :wub:

Is not a trollop ^^^

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