Meme

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from nickys

Write down your top ten(or twenty-five or whatever) favourite quotes.

In no particular order, and omitting the really long ones and those used in the recent quotes meme here:

I'm sorry, you're mistaking me for someone who gives a shit.

Thou call'st me effeminate, for I love women's joys;
I call not thee manly, though thou follow boys. (John Donne)

Cowards fear to die, but courage stout
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. (Sir Walter Raleigh)

Well son, as you get older you find that people all over the world are pretty much the same.
That's why I got myself this nice shield. (Hagar the Horrible)

Good and evil? I prefer them and us. That way you can skip the philosophy and get right down to cases (Belgarath, in David Eddings' Belgariad)

Dogs die
Horses die.
Men die.
One day you too will die.
But I know one thing which never dies - the verdict on each man dead. (Norse proverb)

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not graven only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives (Thucydides)

What's done is done, Ralf. Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds. (..) So put all this behind you, and take what the gods send. (Myrddin Emrys, in Mary Stewart's "The Hollow Hills")

Then he told me that we all fail, and that we would again and again, and that was just the way it was. (Agent Dale Cooper, quoting his father)

I find the attraction of academics pales in comparison to sex, particularly when one is not getting any. (Dale Cooper again)