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Quotes
All of the quotes from the script on the Main page.

Die knowing something. You are not here long. --Walker Evans "Stiff upper lip, lads. We've been bombed worse by better bastards than this."
- A British WWII Veteran after 7/7/05 London bombings

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm"
- George Orwell

"Some scientist say that the major building block of the universe is hydrogen because its the most plentiful element, but my theory is that the universe is made out of stupidity because it is more plentiful than hydrogen."
- Frank Zappa

"… the Dalai Llama, he hauls off and whacks one, big hitter the Llama, into a 10,000 foot crevasse right at the base of this glacier. You know what the Llama says? Gunga-galunga, gunga, gunga-la-gunga …”
Caddy Shack

"Dabbling in philosophy leads to atheism, depth in it leads a man to God”
- Voltaire

"The Pen will block no blow from a sword, but the sword had best be ready to face jail time.”
- Sir Samuel De Grac'e

"Mama said knock you out,
I'm gonna knock you out ”
- LL Cool J

"If guns kill people, then I can blame my pencil for misspelled words."
- Larry the Cable Guy

"Ok anyone with the job title "Manager of the Fish Empathy Project" is not going to say anything rational.”
- James B.

"May our adversities make our strong. May our victories make us wise. And may our actions make us proud.”
- Unknown

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it"
- Epicurus

"The goal of every warrior is get his foe to participate in his own ass-whooping."
- Northern Army Tactics Maxim #2

"One of the advantages of being a Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."
- William Shatner as Kirk

"Life is like a grapefruit. It’s yellow and dimpled on the outside, pink and squidgy on the inside and sometimes people have half of one for breakfast."
- A. P. Apple

"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect the country and do good service to his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."
- Sun Tzu
The Art of War


El Guapo: "Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?"
- The Three Amigos

Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
- William Shakespeare
Julius Casear, Act I Scene 2


"Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!"
- Genghis Khan
Bukhara 1220


Caesar: "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Act II Scene 2


"It's good to be the King."
- Mel Brooks
History of the World Part 1


"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated."
- Sun Tzu
The Art of War


Jules: "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers."
- Quinten Terintino
Pulp Fiction


"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
- Henry Louis Mencken

"Only a coward supports gun control. You know how to stop carjacking? Shoot the carjacker. If someone is going to kill me for my Buick, I'm gonna shoot until I'm out of ammo - and then I'll call 911."
- Ted Nugent

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
- Jacques Chirac, President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
- Rush Limbaugh

Oddball: "Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning. Think that bridge will be there and it'll be there. It's a beautiful mother bridge and it's gonna be there."
Kelly's Heroes

"He's not the bleeding messiah, he's just a naughty naughty boy!"
Monty Python
The Life of Bryan


"As long as a hundred of us remain alive we will never be subject to tyrannical dominion because it is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but for freedom alone which no worthy man loses except with his life"
from the "Declaration of Arbroath"
Scotland, in the year 1320


"Life is a daring adventure, or nothing at all"
- Helen Keller

"Live free or die"
- New Hampshire State Motto

"The difference between success and failure in life is not due to lack of strength or lack of knowledge, but lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi

"Fall down seven times, stand up eight"
- Chinese Proverb

"I burn my candle at both ends, it will not last the night. But oh my foes and ah my friends, it makes a lovely light"
- Edna St Vincent Millay

"If you're not dead, you're not done"
- Jason James Bogden

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be"
- Voltaire

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"
- Henry David Thoreau

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength"
- Ralph W. Sockman

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem"
- Theodore Rubin

"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid!"
- Gurta

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness"
- David Dunham

"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to"
- Mark Twain

"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes"
- John Erksine

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers"
- Kahlil Gibran

"On the other hand, you have different fingers"
- Anon

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box"
- Italian Proverb

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed"
- Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

"90% of everything sucks"
- Sturgeon

"The simplest solution is usually correct."
- Occam's Razor





PHP3 quote script
The script on the main page that rotates a new quote every time the page is refreshed is written in PHP3. It works like a random number generator, where each quote is assigned a numeric value. When the page is refreshed, a random quote is posted by the script onto the page. This same script can be used to rotate graphics, pictures or banners. This PHP script is free if you would like to use it. Note that the server hosting your site must be running PHP3 for it to work.

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Java quote script
If you don't have PHP, here is a JAVA script that does the same thing you can use.

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