* add more quotes to the quotefile

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
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--- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt
+++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
@@ -853,3 +853,96 @@ Rule 30: "A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the
 further you'll go."
   -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 8th, 2003
      http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030308.html
+%
+There is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly
+pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the
+young author through mental contact with type metal.
+ -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Tilton 1947 p67)
+%
+It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
+ -- Frederick Douglass
+%
+"That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain
+power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkabilty
+of oneself not being there."
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
+%
+listen, what you do in the privacy
+of your neighbour's house while they're away
+is your own business
+ -- a softer world #511
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=511
+%
+Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes
+but then I think
+what if my mother could take back hers?
+ -- a softer world #498
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=498
+%
+Clean living is less fun
+and you wind up feeling stupid
+when you still die.
+ -- a softer world #489
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489
+%
+If god is always watching over us
+who's driving?
+ -- a softer world #487
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=487
+%
+Maybe I did steal your heart
+and I am such a perfect criminal
+that you never noticed
+ -- a softer world #481
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=481
+%
+Life would be way easier
+if I were easier.
+ -- a softer world #473
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=473
+%
+I always thought
+violence didn't solve anything
+until one day it did.
+ -- a softer world #470
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470
+%
+With one simple pill
+we cured unhappiness
+and art
+ -- a softer world #437
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437
+%
+First you take a drink,
+then the drink takes a drink,
+then the drink takes you.
+ -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
+%
+It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers
+that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts.
+Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always,
+somehow, be thanked.
+ -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction"
+%
+Let the victors, when they come,
+When the forts of folly fall
+Find thy body by the wall!
+ -- Matthew Arnold
+%
+unbeingdead isn't beingalive
+ -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_
+%
+nothing except the impossible shall occur
+ -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_
+%
+-tommorow is our permanent address
+and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
+we'll move away still further:into now
+ -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_
+%
+in Just-
+spring      when the world is mud-
+luscious the little lame baloonman 
+
+whistles       far       and wee 
+ -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]"