What is your favourite quote?

All it takes for evil to triumph is good men to do nothing.

"Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" Doctor Lazardo in Buckaroo Banzai.

"Increases the IQ level in both countries."
Former NZ Prime Minister's reply to a question about people moving to Australia.

Jules: Wanna know what I'm buyin' Ringo?

Pumpkin: What?

Jules: Your life. I'm givin' you that money so I don't hafta kill your ass. You read the Bible?

Pumpkin: Not regularly.

Jules: There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. I never game much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. See, now I'm thinkin': maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. And I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.

From Pulp Fiction

I'm surprised Oscar Wilde hasn't been mentioned yet. Pretty much any of his one-liners do it for me! e.g...

"There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"

I also like something a friend told me once and I am always reminded of usually after doing something stupid:

"Embarrassment is good for the soul!"

Confucius-

"It is better that the snake bite someone else."

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."


Truman Capote

"Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad"

I like this one:

Opinions are like arse holes everyones got one.

Dirty Harry.

No Groucho Marx quotes yet!
"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
"These are my principles and if you don't like them, I have others."
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

I came across this tonight -

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

Actually, there was one about the Powerline and a Supercap....

I can't for the life of me remember it right now - will see if I can dig it out....

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Originally posted by Dr John William Martin:
It doesn't matter who you vote for, the Government ALWAYS gets in.

The late and great Bill Hicks, it is one of my favourites too.

Nice to see some Hunter S Thompson here too.

Winston Churchill was a great source of quotes, I believe the one about being sober in the morning was to Bessie Braddock, a Labour MP, although is often attributed to Lady Astor who had some fine exchanges with Churchill.

Lady Astor said to Churchill, "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea," to which he responded, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!" from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...r,_Viscountess_Astor

My favourite from Churchill (by way of Marv Levy, Buffalo Bills coach, and historian) is:
"He has all the virtues I don't admire, and none of the vices I do."

Graucho Marks, Woody Allen are great sources too.

"If you don't stand up for something, you'll fall for anything"

Chaps

My favourite is ..... JFDI

Regards

Mick

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[QUOTE] The late and great Bill Hicks, it is one of my favourites too.

I note there is a new documentary just out about Hicks (being premiered at Caanes)

Thanks for that, I didn't know. I'll look out for it.

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Bill Hicks

John Fogerty took the title to one of his solo efforts from a Bill Hicks quote déjà vu all over again.

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Graucho Marks, Woody Allen are great sources too

My favourite Groucho Marx quote goes something like "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member"

'It's better to say nothing and be thought stupid, than to speak and remove all doubt.'

''Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.''

''I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.''

Homer.

"If it looks right then it is right"

Most bricklayers on the job.

Austin Powers on being reanimated from cryogenic suspension in 1997, after being frozen for 30 years:

"...as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound!"

Best Regards,
Mark Dunn

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. (Charles Lamb)

Over 200 years old too

"If it ain't broke then don't poke"

My advice to my children regarding loudspeakers...It works!

Of all the fickle faces of fortune the most wretched is to have once been happy.
-Boethius

Woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.

Ulysses -Oh Brother Where Art Thou.