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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth", Pablo Picasso

"I was trying to warm my hands in a discarded bap when the police picked me up", unknown

"En el verano no se pasa nada".

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill
(this is also in a great Amiga demo :D)

"En el invierno hace un frio do caralho."

"Gee 'n man wat jy hom skuld voordat hy dit vra, en jou raad nadat hy dit gevra het."

"మనిషి బరి నుండి తప్పుకొన్నప్పుడే అంతమొందినట్లు, ఓడిపోయినప్పుడు కాదు -నిక్సన్, మాజీ అమెరికా అధ్యక్షుడు"

Giles: Uh, well, basically the, uh, the She-Mantis assumes the form of a beautiful woman and then lures innocent virgins back to her nest.
Buffy: Virgins? Well, Xander's not a, uh... I mean, he's probably...
Willow: ...gonna die!

"In principle, the force that drives the charges to produce the current could be anything- chemical, gravitational, or trained ants with tiny harnesses."
- "Introduction to Electrodynamics", 3rd ed. David J. Griffiths (page 285)


No, it's not particularly funny, it's just unexpected in a physics textbook.

"Ich hoffe nicht, dass es nötig ist zu sagen, dass mir an Salzburg sehr wenig und am Erzbischof gar nichts gelegen ist und ich auf beides scheiße." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ağıl başda olar, yaşda olmaz

* Literal translation: Intelligence is in the head, not in the age
* Meaning: You do not have to be old to be intelligent


It is somewhat ironic to add an explanation to a quotation like this.

Rainier Wolfcastle: The geeks shall inherit the Earth.

"Programmeren vandaag de dag is een race tussen programmeurs die proberen grotere en betere idioot-bestendige programma's te maken, en het universum dat probeert betere en grotere idioten te produceren. Tot zover is het universum aan de winnende hand."

Barf.. nerds..

"Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere", Suetonio

Translation: a good shepherd shears his sheep, he doesn't flay them.

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.", Carl Sagan

Spock, from your phrase, it has another important meaning; you can be old enough and stupid.

"Pouet is like a lunatic Disco, first u want to dance with everyone, but after a while u realise they arent dancing, but they are just spastic!! :)" - ALIEN^PDX

"Suck me hiney"

- Nutman^IRIS (2006)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw

(Sorry for being on-topic...)

texel:

I took the explanation from wikiquote. The fact that it is inaccurate adds a nice twist to the irony of having to explain such a simple proverb.

Spock: [voiceover] Space, the final frontier. These are the continuing voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone... before.
[closing monologue]

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you will end up working for one." -Bill Gates

"Er kann mich im Arsche lecken !" - "He may lick my arse !" (Götz von Berlichingen)

"Die Steuern müssen nicht gesenkt werden; die Steuern müssen bezahlt werden!" -
"Taxes don't have to be decreased; taxes have to be paid!" (Volker Pispers from his programme 'Bis neulich...')

It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Attributed to Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln

tribão: They both talked a lot though, didn't they?