ALL TIME FAVOURITE QUOTES

General Sir Charles Napier to his superior after taking Sind against orders: "Peccavi." (Which means 'I have sinned' in Latin)

I love that one... You have to think he was laughing his ass off when he gave it to the messenger...

Or, alternatively, "Pussy scratch and sniff in a Playboy. Christ I'm a good looking man." - Monster Magnet, Nod Scene.

"You know how doctors say that there are two types of nervous breakdowns; those that happen very fast and dramatically, you know a big bang, and then there are the other kind that build up slowly over a number of years. Well i was 3 and this one had begun when i was 7 months and was just strating to really get a grip".

"I was thinking about the whole christmas thing; the birth of christ, the wizard of oz, family murders and quite frankly i was depressed".

Voltaire - "Je ne suis pas comme ceux qui déshonorent le nom qu’ils ont reçu ; j’immortalise celui que j’ai pris."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"I'm a mushroom cloud layin' motherfucker, motherfucker!"

take THAT Bucky Fuller

Listen...can you smell something? Dr. Ray Stanz (ghostbusters)

“Ladies and gentlemen, you have seen that the little show we have presented for you this season has been under a great deal of criticism. You have seen that certain citizens, some of them quite eminent have seen fit to call our performance, ‘filthy’, ‘obscene’, ‘offensive’, and that may well be their opinion, but I come to you ladies and gentlemen and ask you to be my final judges. I am, like you, a simple man, born of simple folk, a man of the industrial north of England. My pleasures are simply - My packet of Woodbines, my glass of Guinness. The simple joys of the seasons. Simple people of our kind understand the facts of life in a way that many of our critics don’t. You will know that my little bits of fun are founded upon the facts of life and because you understand life and the realities of life - I ask you to be my judges.”

Bernard Manning?

Charles Babbage is one of my favourites. Here's a quote from his anti-hoop rolling campaign:

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

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http://www.itsahotun.com/jpegs/images/frank_randle_hiker.jpg

Frank Randle, hero

Sorry, was being facetious. Randle sounds like an interesting character.

"Randle responded to his critics in robust fashion, frequently throwing his false teeth into the audience and once bombarding Blackpool from an aeroplane with toilet rolls" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Randle

he was a monster by all accounts, but a hilarious monster who stuck it to the man when sticking it to the man had consequences

and that line about "The simple joys of the seasons" i can picture him taking the piss and being thoroughly sincere at the same time, he speaks for something i love that's near dead i guess

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen." -Henry Chinaski

Buk belongs in truth bombs thread tbh

an idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup- mencken

"It is not a question of devoting oneself to this or that fetish, taking up a sublime cause, but rather of being unreconciled to the world as it is. If the world is not acceptable, you must undertake to change it. With no certainty of success, it goes without saying; there is no escaping that logic.

When you believe you are solemnly crossing the threshold of commitment, quite freely, you are in fact already under way, headfirst. Our commencements are always recommencements. From the middle, of course."

The Polish dissident Karol Modzelewski, when asked one day for the secret of his perseverance, despite disappointments and disillusions, simply replied: ‘loyalty to persons unknown.‘"

— Daniel Bensaïd

Thank you BIG HOOS.