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• Stargate
  • "Permision to barge in, Sir?"
         - Jack O'Neill
  • "I suppose now is the time for me to say something profound... nothing comes to mind, lets do it."
         - Jack O'Neill, (X, XX) - XXXXX
  • "Teal'c, look scary and take point"
         - Jack O'Neill, (X, XX) - XXXXX
  • "With all due respect, Sir, I don't think he saved the lives of my team or came over to our side so he could become a damn guinea pig for us."
         - Jack O'Neill, (5, 02) - Threshold
  • "It's my sidearm, I swear."
         - Jack O'Neill (X, XX) XXXXX
  • "Maybourne, You're an idiot every day of the week! Why couldn't you just have taken one day off!!!???"
         - Samantha Carter (3, 14) Foothold
  • "They didn't call it the dark ages becuase it was dark."
         - Daniel Jackson (3, 08) Demons
  • "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out."
         - General Hammond (X, XX) XXXXX
  • "Why are you so quick to come to the conclusion that I'm crazy , that I'm dangerous, I'm out of control?......It's because I'm kind of acting that way, aren't I"
         - Daniel Jackson, (3, 04) - Legacy
  • Maybourne: "Striking an officer is a quick way to a court marshal."
    Jack: "I'm not gonna hit you, I'm gonna shoot you!"
         - (X, XX) XXXXX
  • General Hammond: "Colonel, the United States is not in the business of interfering in other people's affairs."
    Jack: "Since when, sir?"
         - (X, XX) - XXXXX
  • Sam: "I've never been so happy to see you guys."
    Jack: "Sure you have! Remember that time on P3X595, you drank that stuff that made you take off y..."
    Sam: "Ahem... We won't get into that right now."
         - (X, XX) - XXXXX
  • Bra'tac: "Now we die."
    Jack: "That's a bad plan."
         - (X, XX) XxXXX
  • Daniel: "I'm real, you're not hallucinating!"
    Jack: "Halucinations always say that."
         - (6, 06) - Abyss
  • Nick: "Now we must wait for the giant aliens."
    Jack: "That just has a nice ring to it."
         - (3, 21) - Crystal Skull
  • Sam: "If we dont' make it, I won't have any regrets, you?"
    Jack: "I'll regret dying..."
         - (4, 03) Upgrades
  • Jack: "Can we get this damn car out of here?"
    General Hammond: "You know that's my car, don't you?"
    Jack: "You should get that window fixed."
         - (3, 12) - Crystal Skull
  • Jack: "Whole boxes of material could be missing."
    Daniel: "No, the pentagon said this was everything."
    Jack: "Oh, please, the pentagon's lost entire countries!"
         - (1, 10) The Torment Of Tantalus
  • Dol'ok: "No matter what you have endured, you have not experience the likes of what Anubis is capable of."
    O'Neill: "You ended that sentance with a preposition! Bastard!"
         - (6, 08) The Other Guys
  • Carter in Wormhole X-tream: "so in scene 3...im out of phase"
    Wormhole X-tream Producer: "yes, which means your matter cant be repelled by electrons of other solids"
    Carter in Wormhole X-tream: "so i can walk through the wall in scene 4, right"
    Wormhole X-tream Producer: "yes"
    Carter in Wormhole X-tream: "then why dont i fall through the ground?"
         - (5, 12) Wormhole X-tream!
  • Jackson in Wormhole X-tream: "Dammit, Colonel, just because they're aliens and their skulls are transparent doesn't mean they don't have rights! "
         - (5, 12) Wormhole X-tream!
  • Hammond: "Colonel, are you sure you're okay?"
    Jack: "I'm absolutely fine. There's nothing cruvus with me."
    <Everyone stares at Jack> Jack, irritated: "What?"
    Daniel: "You just said there was nothign cruvus with you."
    Jack: "I did not."
    Daniel: "Yes you did."
    Jack: "No, I didn't."
    Daniel: "Yes you did."
    Jack: "Didn't."
    Daniel: "Did."
    Jack: "Didn't."
    Daniel: "Did."
         - (2, 15) The Fifth Race
  • Robert Rothman: "I'm not goot at people, they're too recent."
         - (4, 08) The First Ones
• Andromeda
  • Tyr: "I can usually spot a planet, they're large; I have good eyes."
         - (1, 09) A Rose In The Ashes
  • Uncle Sid: "Money is not the disease, it's the cure."
         - (1, 11) The Pearls That Were His Eyes
  • Tyr: "I wish you would stop looking for beauty in things that want to kill us."
         - (1, 11) The Pearls That Were His Eyes
  • Tyr: "I would say let God sort them out, but someone told me God is dead!"
         - (2, 07) Una Salus Victus
  • Major Korgo Korgar: "You can't outrun Death forever. But you can make the Bastard work for it."
         - (2, 13) Lava And Rockets
  • Tyr: "Sometimes the situation requires that we hold the hand of our enemy. The difficult part is not letting them see you while you use the other hand to draw the knife."
         - (3, 04) Cui Bono
  • Major Korgo Korgar: "You're never more alive than the first time someone puts a gun to your favorite head and asks you to dance."
         - "Last Of The Lancers" - (3, 04) - Cui Bono
  • Dylan: "Every man is the hero of his own story."
         - (3, 10) Unconquerable Man
• Gargoyles
  • Xanatos: "Marry me."
    Fox: "You can't be serious!"
    Xanatos: "Why not? We're genetically compatable, highly intelligent, and have the same goals."
    Fox: "True... but what about, love?"
    Xanatos: "I think we love eachother enough. As much as two people such as ourselves are capable of that emotion."
    Fox: "Proposal accepted."
         - (27, 2, 14) Outfoxed
  • Younger Archmage: "You mean we came all this way, and I can't even take it in with me? What am I supposed to do? Eat it?"
    Older Archmage: "You are learning."
         - (35, 2, 22) Avalon, Part 2?
• Amusing Shakespeare
  • "You blocks! You stones! You worse than senseless things!"
         - ?Guard?, Julius Ceasar
  • "Poor Yorik, I HAVE KNOWN HIM, Hoooratio!"
         - Hamlet, Hamlet
  • "Aye, you are a fishmonger"
         - Hamlet, Hamlet
  • "Hie thee to a nunnery!"
         - Hamlet, Hamlet
  • "I am dead, Horatio!"
         - Hamlet, Hamlet
  • "Out vile jelley!" <stabs out eyes>
         - Duke of Cornwall, King Lear
  • "Have you eyes!?"
         - Hamlet, Hamlet
  • "Alack, I have no eyes"
         - Glouchester, King Lear
  • "Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!"
         - Earl of Kent, King Lear
  • "A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-talking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceabel, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel b*tch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition."
         - Earl of Kent, King Lear
  • "He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. He has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange, with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings, 'Jump her, and thump her'; and where some stretch mouthed rascal would, as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into the matter, he makes the maid to answer, 'Whoop do me no harm, good man': puts him off, slights him , with 'Whoop, do me no harm, good man!'"
         - Servant, The Winters Tale, Act 4 Scene 4, Lines 190-198
• Meaningful Shakespeare
  • "I must be cruel only to be kind."
         - Hamlet, Hamlet
• Fight Club
  • "We are not special unique snowflakes, we are the same rotting compost heap as everything else."
         - Tyler Durden
  • "If you don't know what you want in life you end up with a lot you don't."
         - doorman
  • "Everything you ever love will reject you or die."
         - Jack
  • "I felt like destroying something beautiful."
         - Jack
  • "The things you own end up owning you."
         - Tyler Durden
  • "You are not your fucking khakis."
         - Tyler Durden
  • "Self-improvement is masturbation. Self-destruction is the answer."
         - Tyler Durden
  • "The condom is the glass slipper of our generation."
         - Marla Singer
  • "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
         - Tyler Durden
• Dr. Strangelove
  • "Peace is our profession"
         - 843 bomb wing strategic air command moto
  • "I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy, to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
         - General Jack Ripper
  • "So lets get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear and in true health through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all."
         - General Jack Ripper
  • "As human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids"
         - General Jack Ripper
  • "Do you realise that flouridation is the most monsterously concieved and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?"
         - General Jack Ripper
  • "Well, I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly."
         - General Jack Ripper
  • "I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a 'water man,' Jack, thats what I am. And I can swear to you my boy, swear to you that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jacky."
         - Major Mandrake
  • "Shoot it! With the gun! Thats what the bullets are for you twit!"
         - Major Mandrake
  • "I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I, I do deny them my essence."
         - General Jack Ripper
  • "I... I.. don't know exactly how to put this sir; but are you aware what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he'd see everything! He'd see the big board!"
         - General Buck Turgenson
  • "Mr. Fairman! You can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
         - The President
• Upright Citizens Brigade
  • "You handle my ass pennies everyday, all of you! You all handle my ass pennies! Oh, I laugh at you before you can laugh at me, because your pennies have been in my ass! You hear me? Because your pennies have been in my ass!"
         - Nick Albertson, (1, 04) Power Marketing
  • Anouncer: "Why would you eat the Vomit Jesus?"
    Vomit-Eating Kid: "You wouldn't make fun of that other chick for eating the spaghetti."
    Anouncer: "Spaghetti is food!"
    Vomit-Eating Kid: "Vomit's a food..."
    Anouncer: "No it isn't!"
    Vomit-Eating Kid: "It's edible."
    Anouncer: "No it is not!"
    Vomit-Eating Kid: "It's the purest form of nutrition food there is! You just scoop it in and..."
         - (2, 07) Spaghetti Jesus
  • Pirate 1: "argh!"
    Pirate 2: "Argh!"
    Pirate 1: "Argh!"
    Pirate 2: "Argh!"
    Pirate 1: "Argh!"
    <They fight, pirate 2 dies>
    Pirate 1: "Fairly warned be thee, says I!"
         - (1, 04) Power Marketing
  • "So, you have children? Thats wonderful, my parents had children as well."
         - House salesman, (1, 01) The Bucket Of Truth
• Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri
  • Col. Corazon Santiago
    • "Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?"
           - Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
    • "Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort. Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present. Men and women work harder knowing their children are safe and close at hand. And never forget that, with children present, parents will defend their home to the death."
           - Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
  • "I don't know but I've been told,
    Deirdre's got a Network Node.
    Likes to press the on-off switch,
    Dig that crazy Gaian witch!"
         - Spartan Barracks March
  • "It is not uncommon to see patients undergo permanent psychological trauma in the presence of the sphere, before the nerve stapler has even been strapped into position. Its effect on the general consciousness of the culture is profound. Husbands have seen their wives go in, mothers their children. You can hear them in there, you can see them. It is a terrible beauty"
         - Upon completion of the Punishment Sphere
  • "God does not play dice."
         - Albert Einstein
  • Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
    • "Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
           - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
    • "Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken."
           - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
    • "If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself."
           - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
    • "Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself."
           - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye"
    • "My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?"
           - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
    • "What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output."
           - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
  • Acamedician Prokhor Zakharov
    • "Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist."
           - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
    • "The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components. Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons quarks. Each layer unraveled reveals new secrets, but also new mysteries."
           - Acamedician Prokor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
    • "Time travel in the classic sense has no place in rational theory, but temporal distortion does exist on the quantum level, and more importantly it can be controlled."
           - Acamedician Prokor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
    • "The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat. I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not as great as they say."
           - Acamedician Prokor Zakharov, "See How They Run"
    • "What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that."
           - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
    • "A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one."
           - Acamdemician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone"
    • "The Academician's private residences shall remain off-limits to the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability, we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this ridiculous witch hunt!"
           - Fedor Petrov, Vice Provost for University Affairs, upon discovery of retroviral engineering
    • "The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say 'It cannot be done.' "
           - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, University Commencement
    • "Have you ever wondered why clouds behave in such familiar ways when each specimen is so unique? Or why the energy exchange market is so unpredictable? In the coming age we must develop and apply nonlinear mathematical models to real world phenomena. We shall seek, and find, the hidden fractal keys which can unravel the chaos around us."
           - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, University Commencement
    • "Let the Gaians preach their silly religion, but one way or the other I shall see this compound burned, seared, and sterilized until every hiding place is found and until every last Mind Worm egg, every last slimy one, has been cooked to a smoking husk. That species shall be exterminated, I tell you! Exterminated!"
           - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, Lab Three aftermath
  • Sister Miriam Godwinson
    • "Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem."
           - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God" (Don't agree with, but nice quote)
    • "Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"
           - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"
    • "And so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void EXISTS, just as surely as you or I. Is nothingness any less a miracle than substance?"
           - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
    • "Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought."
           - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
    • "Already we have turned all of our critical industries, all of our material resources, over to these . . . things . . . these lumps of silver and paste we call nanorobots. And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day and announce that they have no further need of us?"
           - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
    • "Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind."
           - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
  • CEO Nwabudike Morgan
    • "Organic Superlube? Oh, its great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it though--it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets."
           - T.M. Morgan-Reilly, Morgan Metagenics
    • "What goes up . . . better doggone well stay up!"
           - Morgan Gravitonics, Company Slogan
    • "Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony.
      We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours--the works.
      People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers. "
      
           - "Mythology for Profit", Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech
    • "Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you really find God in technology."
           - Anonymous Metagenics Dockworker, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
    • "Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."
           - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
    • "Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements."
           - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
    • "Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us."
           - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morgan Data Systems press release
    • "Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say that Superconducting Fiber alone makes our present economy possible."
           - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
    • "I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice."
           - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Interview
    • "Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the system. He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival."
           - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
    • "Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse."
           - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
  • Commissioner Pravin Lal
    • "Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."
           - Commissioner Pravin Lal, "A Social History of Planet"
    • "I hold a scrap of paper in the darkness and light it. I watch it burn bright and curl, disappearing into nothingness, and the heat burns my fingers. Where has it gone? What has it become? I cannot shake the feeling that I have witnessed a form of transcendence."
           - Commissioner Pravin Lal, "The Convergence
    • "As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
           - Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
  • Lady Deirdre Skye
    • "Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind." Have you drunk your fill?"
      
           - Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet", Epilogue
  • Misc.
    • "Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest."
           - Friedrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
    • "If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for your future rulers, a well-governed city becomes a possibility. For only in such a state will those rule who are truly rich, not in gold, but in the wealth that makes happiness--a good and wise life."
           - Plato, "The Republic"
    • "Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean."
           - Aristotle, "Nichomachean Ethics"
    • "The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us."
           - Aristotle, "Nichomachean Ethics"
    • "We sit together,
      the mountain and I,
      until only the mountain remains
           - Li Po, From the Yang Collection
    • "I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and
      dispose of it in the cold ground.
      And in all the million ages to come, I will never
      breathe or laugh or twitch again.
      So won't you run and play with me here among the
      teeming mass of humanity?
      The universe has spared us this moment."
           - Anonymous
    • "We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?"
           - Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
      Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
      TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED
    • "There are only two ways in which we can account for a necessary agreement of experience with the concepts of its objects: either experience makes these concepts possible or these concepts make experience possible."
           - Immanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason"
    • "Therefore a wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince"
    • "The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever."
           - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Rocketry
    • "I swear sometimes they're watching me."
           - Bozon Pete, Shift Foreman, Metagenics Biomachinery Division
• The Bible
  • "And the jews were amazed and asked: 'how is it that this man knows so much without having studied?'"
         - Temple Leaders, John 7:15
  • "Don't be stupid."
         - *****
• Machiavelli's The Prince
  • "Let it here be noted that men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver."
  • "But while it was their opportunities that made these men fortunate, it was their own merit that enabled them to recognize these opportunities and turn them to account, to the glory and prosperity of their country."
  • "And he decieves himself who believes that with the great, recent benefits, cause old wrongs to be forgotten."
  • "Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting my the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished."
• Greek
  • Chorus: "What is beautiful is what is always loved."
         - Euripides' Bakkhai
  • Chorus: "Those whose lives are happy / Day by day -- those / I call the blessèd."
         - Euripides' Bakkhai
  • Dionysos: "What's shameful can be found even by light of day."
         - Euripides' Bakkhai
  • Dionysos: "You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are."
         - Euripides' Bakkhai
  • Dionysos: "Rule not my mind. Thine own is thy mind. Rule thou it."
         - Aristophanes' The Frogs
  • Aiakos: "You bastard, bastard plus, and bastard double-plus."
         - Aristophanes' The Frogs
  • Aiakos: "That's more than crazy, bud, that's super crazy plus."
         - Aristophanes' The Frogs
  • "Thus would the commons and its leaders best accord, not given too free rein, nor pushed too hard. Surplus breeds arrogance, when too much wealth attends such men as have no soundness of intent."
         - Solon fg. 6
  • "Hard to please everyone in politics."
         - Solon fg. 7
  • "Remember, profit is in the immortals' gift, but loss' source is in men's selves."
         - Theognis fg 13
  • "Fear mortals... doom has come to this world."
         - Archimonde
  • "It seems limp and slack to get whith the sweating of your brow what you can gain with the shedding of your blood."
         - Tacitus
  • "Demon-spawned wretches... you will all die!"
         - Cenarius
  • "You now, for instance, with your fine physique -- a god's, indeed -- you have an empty noodle."
         - Odysseus, The Odyssey (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald) Book VIII ln 185
  • "One of [the sailors] found [the girl] washing near the mooring and lay with her, making such love to her as women in their frailty are confused by, even the best of them."
         - The Odyssey
  • "Haha, now i know how to say 'fucked her brains out' in greek verse"
         - Chad Hansen (refering to the above quote)
• Friends
  • "Don't knock on Death's door, ring the doorbell and hide in the bushes. He hates it when you do that."
         - Patrick Cu
  • "My clitoris is a representation of my inner being!" - Laura
  • "Booze is a form of love! And it is a good thing." - Angeli
  • "You have very nice, thighs; and I mean that in a totally heterosexual way." - Angeli, to Julia
  • "The fact of the matter is a lot of the world is crap, a lot of life is crap, the only thing we can do is wipe it off our faces and smile."
         - Alden King
  • "I throw caution to the wind, only knowing that it will fly back to me."
         - Alden King
  • "Too bad root beer doesn't have Stagate in it...."
         - Joanna Pickup
  • "Aren't sky bridges the best thing in the world? You know, besides love and Christmas."
         - Kelsea
• Misc.
  • "When you kill one, it is a tragedy; when you kill ten million, it is a statistic."
         - Joseph Stalin
  • "If you can't convince them, confuse them."
         - Harry S. Truman
  • "I never let my schooling interfere with my education"
         - Mark Twain
  • "Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive."
         - Graff, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (35)
  • "Happiness is the agent of purification."
         - Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (47)
  • "The Romans had crappy gods... like Jeff: god of biscuits."
         - Eddy Izzard
  • "Go stick your head in a pig"
         - sign from A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • "Their flying beasts will be useless when our wolf riders have ensnared them!"
         - Warcraft III's wolf raider
  • "Not even death can save you from me"
         - Diablo II's Diablo
  • "You exactly told me it was a magical coodies creator!"
         - Captain Murphy, Sealab 2021 (12) - Policy on what a credit card is
  • "The life of the wife was ended by the knife."
         - Stewie, Family Guy (32, 3, 04) - One If By Clam, Two If By Sea
  • "Keep talking! All this stuff about eye gouging has gotten me all friskey."
         - Stewie, Family Guy (33, 3, 05) - And The Wiener Is...
  • "Mess with one of my chicks and I'll use my razor-sharp talons to rip your eyes out!"
         - Lois, Family Guy (33, 3, 05) - And The Wiener Is...
  • "Idle hands spend time at the genitals."
         - Ol' Drippy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (07, 1, 06) - Ol' Drippy
  • "The reason for the season, is pleasin'."
         - Master Shake, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (12, 2, 08) - Mail Order Bride
  • "Ten thousand dollars money. I know I shouldn't have stolen it, but I did, and now it's mine"
         - Master Shake, The Brak Show (09, 1, 08) - Father Knows Brak