# Post a quote. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919 "2002-03-25T00:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/1 "2002-03-25T00:01:27Z")
Yes simple as that: “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” -H. L. Mencken ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/2 "2002-03-25T00:19:04Z")
Okay. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/3 "2002-03-25T03:22:34Z")
“Theology is just a debate over who to frame for creating reality.” “Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear—and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!” ~Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/4 "2002-03-25T03:31:52Z")
“Dude, where’s my car?” -That guy from _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ -Loopus ---
**Author:** ![Stinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Stinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/5 "2002-03-25T03:39:00Z")
The government that governs best, is the government that governs least. Tomas Jefferson ---
**Author:** ![Stinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Stinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/6 "2002-03-25T03:42:43Z")
Always tell her she is beautful, especialy if she is not. Robert A. Heinlein ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/7 "2002-03-25T03:46:36Z")
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food” - R. Wiggum. ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/8 "2002-03-25T03:56:19Z")
“Post a quote.” -Estilicon 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/9 "2002-03-25T03:59:45Z")
“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” –Terry Pratchett ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/10 "2002-03-25T04:18:52Z")
“The larger the searchlight, the larger the circumference of the unknown.” - Dick Taylor ---
**Author:** ![Solomon7t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Solomon7t](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solomon7t)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/11 "2002-03-25T04:51:44Z")
“WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP” ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/12 "2002-03-25T05:38:43Z")
“Chickenwire?” “Blue” Lou Marini ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/13 "2002-03-25T05:49:51Z")
“Childhood is short, and maturity is forever.” - Calvin "“When I grow up, I’m not going to read the newspaper and I’m not going to follow complex issues and I’m not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn’t represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn’t work and justify my further lack of participation.” -Calvin ---
**Author:** ![bwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bwk)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/14 "2002-03-25T05:53:17Z")
“They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grows; And there in a wood, a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose.” Edward Lear ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/15 "2002-03-25T06:10:21Z")
“One’s need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. If the waiter takes away a chair on which no one is sitting, I feel a void and my sociability is aroused. I can’t live without empty chairs.” - Karl Kraus ---
**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/16 "2002-03-25T06:13:11Z")
**Oth.** It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! 4 It is the cause. Yet I’ll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men. 8 Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, 12 Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume. When I have pluck’d the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, 16 It needs must wither: I’ll smell it on the tree. [Kisses her. O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade Justice to break her sword! One more, one more. Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee, 20 And love thee after. One more, and this the last: So sweet was ne’er so fatal. I must weep, But they are cruel tears; this sorrow’s heavenly, It strikes where it doth love. She wakes. Shakespere, Othello ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/17 "2002-03-25T06:14:33Z")
“The atom bomb are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going around the sun and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, as deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.” ``` George Orwell, on Spring ``` I find this a happy thought. Happy Spring, all! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/18 "2002-03-25T06:56:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Friends–with them, life is cool. Without them, it would be unbearably cold Dean R. Koontz ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/19 "2002-03-25T13:49:46Z")
“Son, you’ve got a panty on your head.” ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/20 "2002-03-25T13:53:48Z")
“No more yankee my wankee! The Donger need food!” You didn’t say an INTELLIGENT quote, thank the Gods. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919.md?page=2)