Best Quote Lately Reincarnated

[The Jade Knight]

"The white-robed harp-playing heaven of our sabbath-schools [are] lubberlands, pure and simple, one and all… To our crepuscular natures, born for the conflict… such pictures of light upon light are vacuous and expressionless, and neither to be enjoyed nor understood.  If this be the whole fruit of the victory, we say; if the generations of mankind suffered and laid down their lives; if prophets confessed and martyrs sang in the fire, and all the sacred tears were shed for no other end than that a race of cratures of such unexampled insipidity should succeed, and protract in saecula saeculorum their contented and inoffensive lives,—why, at such a rate, better lose than win the battle, or at all events better ring down the curtain before the last act of the play, so that a business that began so importantly may be saved from so singularly flat a winding-up[!]"
—William James, "The Dilemma of Determinism"

I find this statement hilarious, and think it rings quite true.

[The Jade Knight]

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
—Mark Twain, Christian Science

And another:
"In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
—also Twain, from The Innocents Abroad

[CthulhuKefka]

"I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for." --Jasper Carrott

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for." --Epicurus

[Inquisitor]

"We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm."
-Winston Churchill

[The Lost One]

My Wife "I forgot a tissue, for myself."

4 year old Son "Just use your shirt mommy."

[Shaggy]

That is really funny…and cute.

[ryos]

Ah the practicality of a child. Fashion? Hygiene? Never heard of 'em.

[ryos]

I'd punch you in the face, but I don't want to get any stupid on my hands.

[Sigyn]

Come on, girlie, don't cry---it only spoils your aim.

--Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce

[Inquisitor]

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

[Sigyn]

I need to watch this or I'll not be curious like Curious George.

---my five-year-old

[Sigyn]

That's terror, not ambition. Even a man with no ambition can run from a bear.

I didn't mind dying, but I hated to lose.