Quotable quotes

When you come to a fork in the road ... Take it.

Originally posted by dale21
When you come to a fork in the road ... Take it.

Originally posted by Varg
Surely you have to take one of the forks?
This advice is useless - which one?

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody

Originally posted by abejnood
What is the best quote you have ever heard? Did it come from an actor, a celebrity, a friend, or perhaps someone long gone? What makes it worth quoting?

Originally posted by Varg
Surely you have to take one of the forks?
This advice is useless - which one?

If at first you don't succeed... then skydiving is definately not for you.
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Here's one for chess:

"The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
Lay Sermons, 'A Liberal Education' - Thomas Huxley - (1825-95) British biologist. A supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution, his books include Science and Culture (1881) and Evolution and Ethics (1893).

""Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

--Josef Stalin

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism."

-- Hermann Goering

George W. Bush Jokes > Quotes 2003
A look at some of the President's more interesting and sometimes hilarious quotes in 2003:

"We're here for have a substanative talk on a lot of issues"
- Oval Office meeting with the President of Poland, January 14, 2003

"And ... it's getting worse. That's what people have gotta understand up there in Washington, down there in Washington, wherever - thought I was in Crawford for a minute"
- Speaking about increased medical malpractice insurance costs, Scranton, Pennsylvania, January 16, 2003

"Hydrogen power will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas admissions"
- Speaking on the topic of energy independence, Washington D.C., February 6, 2003

"I think war is a dangerous place."
- Washington, D.C., May 7, 2003

"It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America."
- Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003

"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace."
- Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003

"We had a chance to visit with Teresa Nelson who's a parent, and a mom or a dad."
- Jacksonville, Florida, September 9, 2003

"Whether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called themselves."
- Washington, D.C., October 8, 2003

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
- Washington, D.C., October 27, 2003

"As you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say."
- Washington, D.C., October 28, 2003

"This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed."
- Washington, D.C., November 6, 2003

"The Iraqis need to be very much involved. They were the people that was brutalized by this man."
- Washington, D.C., December 15, 2003

it was one humble man that built the ark, but a whole load of experst built the titanic.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Einstein

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Shakespeare

Why would anybody need more then 640 kb of memory on a home computer?

Bill Gates