Soothsayer, say unto me the Sooth... add your favorite quote(s)

[Fearnest]

Knowledge is good.

Emil Faber

[wsk]

I have several here that I've been collecting:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Clifford's Dictum: "It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence."

Government should be small, unobtrusive, and ridiculous. At present, it's only one of these.
-- Edward Abbey

It is doubted whether a man ever brings his faculties to bear with their full force on a subject until he writes upon it.
-- Cicero

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
--H.L. Mencken

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
-- Robert Lewls Stevenson

Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.
-- Aldo Leopold

When looking for the root cause of a problem, never overlook sheer stupidity, or the limitless capacity of the human race to produce new and improved idiots.

[Caradoc]

I have several here that I've been collecting:

Another Mencken quote I like:

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

-H.L. Mencken

[TheSp8]

This before all else, oh Prince, go armed!
Machiavelli

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

I've never been lost but I was once confused for three days.
Daniel Boone

Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.
King David

YMOS,
Tony, whose list of quotes is still packed up somewhere

[Big Mikey]

"If there are no cigars in Heaven, then I shall not go."

Mark Twain

[Big Mikey]

"Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits!"

E. Fudd

[Doc]

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"

"It's only an island if you look at it from the water"

"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist half empty, I want to know who's been drinking my beer?!"

Doc

[wsk]

"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist half empty, I want to know who's been drinking my beer?!"

"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist half empty, the engineer notes that the glass is too large"

[auld argonian]

The way things have been going lately, this one from Babylon Five comes to mind very often...

"Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry. Go, go, Zathras take care."

Zathras, War Without End, Part I

Best

AA

[Caradoc]

"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist half empty, the engineer notes that the glass is too large"

No, no, no...

The salesman says the glass is half full.

The accountant says the glass is half empty.

The design engineer says the glass has 100% redundant capacity.

The graphic designer says the ad copy is going to be hard to produce because the glass and the water have similar refractive indices, and are making Pantoning the image very "interesting."

The support engineer knows that none of this matters, because the end user is going to spill the glass into their keyboard and open a trouble ticket on the problem.