Rorschach's Uncle John wrote:Children are like farts. You can just about tolerate your own...

Rudyard Kipling wrote:If any question why we died / Tell them, because our fathers lied.

Michael Scheuer wrote:U.S. presidents in the past quarter-century often have resembled nothing so much as teenage girls who cannot possibly go to the restroom in a public venue without the accompaniment of their closest girlfriends.

"'Place the turkey in a "pre-heated" oven.' It's ridiculous! There are only two states an oven can possibly exist in: Heated or unheated." -George Carlin

RadicalDreamer wrote:Best insult I've heard on 4chan:


Thanks. I'm sorry to see that you've somehow managed to survive yet another night without drowning in your own saliva or succumbing to the fatal sleep apnea that so plagues the morbidly obese.



Quote I read on a friend's forum:


But did Kojima confirm that Dumbledore was dead? - "psycho mantis"
If Kojima didn't confirm it, then it's bullshit. - "Imguam"

Ouch that quote was ruthless.

That's probably one of his worst jokes ever. It doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.

Cicero, 55 BC wrote:The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Maybe it's just me, but I doubt the Romans had ever developed the concept of a balanced budget.

Yeah, it's a questionable quote, but what does that have to do with an assumption Romans didn't balance their budgets? How else would they ensure they had proper savings of their denarii for emergencies? Although, to be honest, they did a lot of currency debasing near the end - just like us....

Here are some more accurate quotes of Cicero:

"Endless money forms the sinews of war."

"A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety."

F.A. Hayek wrote:The recognition of the insuperable limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson of humility which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in men’s fatal striving to control society — a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.

From a former guildmate on WoW

y'think mobs ever think when they spawn "say... this corpse here looks an awful lot like me"

Ghandi wrote:Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress

the individual is the one supreme consideration. No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom. It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own

Chris Ryan wrote:In England there's this idea that the same rules and regulations should govern Sunday park-league football as govern matches played at Old Trafford. I can't decide what's more infuriating: this idea or repressed, early-20th-century English butlers who can't express their emotions.

A footnote in an article about the bemoaning state of Premier League Referees, which makes complaining about the NBA refs and the MLB umpires look like nitpicking.

some Nike advertisement reads:

"Tomorrow, you said yesterday."

Shit Engineers Say wrote:I like my women like my engineering projects: nearly impossible to do and even after I've invested tons of time, I've gotten nowhere.