Quintessential Quotations

Quotations of Mine:

There are no catnaps when you are drunk, it is either awake or death.

Do you speak English or just jackass?

People are ridiculous and I hate them.

Quotations I Like:

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'" - Chris Rock

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind, and when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." - Julius Caesar

"To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?"   -Théoden

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

“It's a dangerous business going out your front door.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

"The only necessity for the triumph of Evil is for good men to do nothing". -Edmund Burke

"But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make god madder and madder." -Homer Simpson

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity.  I have erased this line." - Oscar Levant

“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me."
-Dave Barry

“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”
-Al Capp

“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”
-John Ciardi

“Hindsight is like foresight without a future” - Life as a House

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."  - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."  - Chess master Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."  - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."  - Isaac Asimov

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."  - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” - Sir Winston Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter."  -  Sir Winston Churchill

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”  - Sir Winston Churchill

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"  - Niels Bohr (1885-1962

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."  - General George Patton (1885-1945)

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -  Albert Einstein

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” - Benjamin Franklin

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” - Bertrand Russell

“The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” - Adolf Hitler 

“If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?” - Vince Lombardi 

“Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.” - Vince Lombardi