Favorite Quotes

[John Doe]

Well folks heres a new one for everyone to participate in.

Post your favorite quotes or any good quotes that you hear, keep em clean though. We like funny, subtle, ironic, patriotic, serious or witty quotes and pretty much anything in between.


I shall go first with one that I receive today.



"You can never be certain of the authenticity of quotes on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

[crimsonshootingstar]

“You’re in America now. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.”
Harry Dresden

[metacide]

*cough*cough*cough*

"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll understand why"

[MrBlah]

"It is a mistake to think any major problem can be solved with just potatoes."
~Douglas Adams

[John Doe]

*cough*cough*cough*

"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll understand why"

I did a search first Meta but it didnt come up with any results....... Doh !

[Guardian]

Starcraft 2 Ghost: "Whenever I see a world untouched by war, a world of innocence, a world of lush forests and clear rivers... I really just wanna nuke the crap out of it!"

[ketchuo]

Soldier: "If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor."

[IrkedScientist]

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room."

President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove

[Flobee]

"The best possible piece of advice anyone could give you about anything is this:"

and then I can't remember the rest of it.

Plus I can't remember who said it.

[Zork Nemesis]

Strong Bad when attempting to use a katana on Strong Sad in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People:
"The sword would get caught up on all the layers of fat. What good is a samurai sword if you can't just cleft things in twane?"

The Princess Bride, spoken by a random person in City of Villains:
"Life is pain. Anybody who says differently is trying to sell you something."

Conspiratorial Evidence, an item and it's description from City of Heroes.
"Who knew that the simple aglet's true purpose was so sinister?" (an aglet being that little plastice piece on the end of one's shoelaces)

Various lines from Zapp Branigan
"If we can hit the bulls-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!"
"I am the man with no name. Zapp Branigan at your service"
"Branigan's Law is like Branigan's love....hard! and fast!"

Psycho Mantis, Metal Gear Solid
"I am going deeper into your mind....into your soul....you like Castlevania, don't you?"

Guybrush Threepwood, upon examining a pile of skulls in Curse of Monkey Island
"It looks like a ship's skipper, his first mate, a professor and the rest!"

Guybrush Threepwood, when talking to his past self in Escape from Monkey Island
"Don't talk to me! You'll cause a Paradox!" "Um...thanks...me"

Max, upon reading a 'No shirt, no shoes, no service' sign in the Sam & Max cartoon series
"At least pants are optional!"

The heavy, when being busted out in Poker Night
"This reminds me of famous song from homeland, 'you must know when to hold onto your cards. And you must know when to burn them in fire; for if you lose you bring insufferable shame to Republic and are sent to work camp in forest.'"

I've got more, i'll be back to this later.

[Bronze Fox]

KING: What you are trying to say in the fewest words possible is that my daughter is not beautiful.
CHANCELLOR: Her beauty is certainly elusive, your Majesty.
KING: It is. It has eluded you, it has eluded me, it has eluded everybody who has seen her. It even eluded the Court Painter. His last words were, "Well, I did my best." His successor is now painting the view across the water-meadows from the West Turret. He says that his doctor has advised him to keep to landscape.

[Dirty Dan]

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens"

[Dirty Dan]

*cough*cough*cough*

"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll understand why"

+1 for having a similar quote

[Lt.Tango]

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army"

General George Washington
July 2, 1776

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."

John Lennon


"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."

John Lennon



"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

Hunter S Thompson

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
Oscar Wilde

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
Oscar Wilde

[MrBlah]

“We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.” – Calvin & Hobbes