OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

Hitler was a vegetarian.

So?

Originally Posted by brianL Hitler was a vegetarian.

was he?
anyhow, that's not a quote.
or is it?

He was!
But only a quote from the facts - somebody must have said it at some time.

Barbara J. King: "To plumb the depths of animal thinking and feeling means to reassess how we, collectively as a society and individually as persons, treat other animals."

Originally Posted by ondoho was he? anyhow, that's not a quote. or is it?

Originally Posted by dave@burn-it.co.uk He was! But only a quote from the facts - somebody must have said it at some time.

Hitler was a vegetarian.

--brianL
There, it's a quote now. Meant to indicate that vegetarians are not necessarily nice people.

Surely there are some quotes from his Time Magazine cover issue, "Hitler’s freedom from International Debt Slavery".

Looks like the international banksters just never learn. Maybe if Hitler had carpet bombed Paris and made it look like Fallujah he'd be remembered differently.

PELinux64, LQ is mainly for technical discussion and since you've joined you've posted in General far more than you've posted elsewhere. We've restricted your activity in General to allow you to work toward a more balanced ratio. If you have any questions, let me know.

--jeremy

I just save better quotes from the fortune cookies slackware gives out when you log in. I save to a file, then categorize them and remove them.
At the risk of flooding this thread, here's my in-need-of-shrinking goodquotes.txt

bash-4.3$ cat goodquotes.txt 
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
                -- Errol Flynn

Any man who has 0,000 left when he dies is a failure. -- Errol Flynn

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never any good to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

Authors are easy to get on with - if you're fond of children.
                -- Michael Joseph, "Observer"

Hope is a waking dream. -- Aristotle

He was the sort of person whose personality would be greatly improved by a terminal illness.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read.  -- Mark Twain

A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur
coat.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest
man a century.

A jury consists of 12 persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices
that the system works.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything ... a good reason and
the real reason

Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of
them keeps paying for it.  -- Peggy Joyce

Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman
is that one of them be good at taking orders. -- Linda Festa

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
                -- Groucho Marx

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the
inattentions of one.  -- Helen Rowland

Shannon's Observation: Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation
        that is beginning to improve.

Biggest security gap -- an open mouth.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.
-- Alexander Hamilton

no brainer: A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope,
is "obvious" to those who failed to make it originally.

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful. -- Frederick Locker-Lampson

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
                -- Charlie McCarthy

"I drink to make other people interesting." -- George Jean Nathan

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

Boy, n.: A noise with dirt on it.

To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts 
the job will take the longest and cost the most.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
                -- Arthur C. Clarke

Despite all appearances, your boss is a thinking, feeling, human being.

If God wanted us to have a President, He would have sent us a candidate.
  -- Jerry Dreshfield

The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Anonymous

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. Jorge Luis Borge

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. 
--Bhudda

History is a vast early warning system. Norman Cousins

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. Cardinal de Retz

All art is but immitation of nature. Seneca

If your aim in life is nothing; you can't miss.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less
and less until he knows absolutely nothing about everything.

Prejudice allows you to make quick decisions, because you can make decisions without having the facts.

True humility does not mean thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement?

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install 
your window blinds. -- John Perry Barlow

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. -- John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair. -- John Perry Barlow

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. -- Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Initiative is doing the right things without being told. -- Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token 
of greatness. -- Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made 
one mistake. -- Elbert Hubbard

Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward. -- Elbert Hubbard

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -- Robert A. Heinlein

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that 
it's not the answer. -- Jim Carrey

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. - Jim Carrey

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. -- Robin Williams

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? -- Robin Williams

Cricket is basically baseball on valium. -- Robin Williams

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it 
just doesn't work! -- Robin Williams

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. --Groucho Marx

Perfect Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

Failure is success if you learn from it.

Why should blondes not be given coffee breaks?
It takes too long to retrain them.

What's the mating call of the brunette?
All the blondes have gone home!

There was a young man who said "God,
I find it exceedingly odd,
        That the willow oak tree
        Continues to be,
When there's no one about in the Quad."

"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd,
For I'm always about in the Quad;
        And that's why the tree,
        Continues to be,"
Signed "Yours faithfully, God."

QOTD: "I used to be an idealist, but I got mugged by reality."

If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist,
he'll get rich or famous or both.

The Law of the Letter:
        The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.

No, "Eureka" is Greek for: "This bath is too hot."
                -- Dr. Who

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

Originally Posted by brianL --brianL ...nice people.

and some are‽

Ah, snails. They’re small. They’re slimy. They lack the charisma of a polar bear or a gorilla. And yet just like flora and fauna all over the world, they’re disappearing.

Many scientists dream of discovering new species. Not all of them imagine having that new species crawl across their face while they’re actually dreaming.

Put things to a vote for all but never vote for people, ever!

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Robin S. Sharma

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles

May you live in interesting times.
-- Chinese proverb

Originally Posted by jamison20000e May you live in interesting times. -- Chinese proverb

I think that was a Chinese curse

Half full, half empty? Ask Shel: https://youtu.be/BGALoQoxXrU

R. Buckminster Fuller: "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."