People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- AJ Liebling

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
- Will Cuppy

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon

Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
- Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
- Tommy Cooper [This guy was a comic genius]

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
- Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ) [another genius]

'His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!'
(I really like this one for some reason.)

'I am not bound to please thee with my answers.'
(This is what should be said to feminists just before you smash their 'arguments' with your own logic and evidence. :badgrin: )

'Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.'
(Needs to be said to some feminists. :lol: )

-William Shakespeare.


'I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.'
(Don't know why I like this one. )

'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'
(Feminazis!)

'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.'
(Like manginas and male feminists perhaps?)

'When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.'
(kind of sums up the situation with men and feminism.)

-Sir Winston Churchill

"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"
- Edith Evans

"Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen."
- Compton Mackenzie

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan


Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- HG Wells

That one I like!

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but by the time the friggin' Feminists have finished with it, the meek will have buggered off to Mars.

(Percy)

"Never wrestle with a pig you will both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it."
Anon

Churchill standing at a urinal beside a labour mp:
" stay away from me everytime you see something big you want to
nationalise it"

"Age before beauty" actress to woman writer (forget who)
Writer:" Pearls before swine"

High ranking person/ politician -rattily to police man outside No10:
"Do you know who I am?"
Policeman: "why sir have you forgotten?"

A selection of quotes from Babylon 5:

Susan Ivanova: Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future or the others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that the true strength comes from most unlikely places. Mostly though, I think it gave us hope, that there can always be new beginnings. Even for a people like us.

Lorien: It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?

Delenn: I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.

G'Kar: G'Quon wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

Marcus: You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you!

Citizen G'Kar: If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth... for understanding. Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light... pure and unblemished... not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us.

Kosh Naranek: Understanding is a three-edged sword.

Dukhat: When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be.

Susan Ivanova: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

Emperor Turhan: The past tempts us, the present confuses us and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last, fragile moment. To chose something better. To make a difference as you say.


Sheridan: What does the candle represent?

Delenn: Life.

Sheridan: Whose life?

Delenn: All life, every life. We're all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion stars, molecules that do not understand politics, policies and differences. In a billion years we, foolish molecules forget who we are and where we came from. Desperate acts of ego. We give ourselves names, fight over lines on maps. And pretend our light is better than everyone else's. The flame reminds us of the piece of those stars that live inside us. A spark that tells us: you should know better. The flame also reminds us that life is precious, as each flame is unique. When it goes out, it's gone forever. And there will never be another quite like it. So many candles will go out tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all.