User:Wizardboy777/Quotes

I have a 'Quote of the day' gadget on my google homepage, and whenever I see a quote I like, I put it in my email signature. But that can only be so long. This is where I keep the overflow :P

Feel free to discuss any of these or whatever. If you feel like it, add some of your favorite quotes here. Just make sure to attribute them.

Quotes from real people
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule." - Stephen King

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - AA Milne

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." - Oscar Wilde

"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." - James Thurber

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost

"The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off." - Anonymous

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." - Ray Bradbury

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." - Thomas Mann

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." - Rita Rudner

"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." - Thomas H. Huxley

"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits." - Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

Quotes from imaginary people
"In the arena of logic, I fight unarmed." -- Red Mage