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Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#1001: Jun 13th 2014 at 5:34:48 PM

"Kiss my ass!"

Mozart. I think he actually did say that at one point

Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
Until further notice
#1002: Jun 13th 2014 at 8:18:00 PM

More than once.

Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
Lawyerdude Citizen from my secret moon base Since: Jan, 2001
Citizen
#1003: Jun 13th 2014 at 9:08:19 PM

"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of ass." - Gen. George A. Custer.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#1004: Jun 13th 2014 at 9:08:45 PM

[up][lol]

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
DaftPunch hiya, the name's scout. from lesbian Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
hiya, the name's scout.
#1005: Jun 13th 2014 at 9:10:40 PM

[up][up][awesome]

"My hips don't lie!" – Sacagawea

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Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#1006: Jun 14th 2014 at 1:21:10 PM

"The fire rises."

-William Tecumseh Sherman

Schild und Schwert der Partei
WillyFourEyes I have seen the amateur, and it is me. (Old Enough To Drive) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Lawyerdude Citizen from my secret moon base Since: Jan, 2001
Citizen
#1008: Jun 17th 2014 at 3:55:16 PM

"I don't have to do what you tell me. You're not my real dad." - Jesus Christ, age 16, to Joseph.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
RatherRandomRachel "Just as planned." from Somewhere underground. Since: Sep, 2013
"Just as planned."
#1009: Jun 17th 2014 at 4:13:54 PM

"But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General!" - Publius Quinctilius Varus speaking to Augustus before setting off for Germany.

"Did you expect somebody else?"
Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#1010: Jun 17th 2014 at 4:26:53 PM

"See the Colors of the Wind AS I BURY MY AXE IN YOUR SKULL! - Crazy Horse, Battle of Little Bighorn.

"I kick arse for the Lord!" - Antonio Conselheiro.

edited 17th Jun '14 4:27:23 PM by Gaon

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#1011: Jun 17th 2014 at 4:33:26 PM

My signature.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#1012: Jun 17th 2014 at 4:55:25 PM

"Damn South Koreans" - Vladimir Putin.

MrsRatched Judging you from Nowhere Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Judging you
#1013: Jun 18th 2014 at 3:25:44 AM

"Ok, guys, I'll hang out today, but I hope we're not all night out, I have some business to do in the morning"

-Christopher Columbus, accepting to do some partying in a boat

Haw Haw Haw
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#1014: Jun 22nd 2014 at 3:43:25 AM

"Marianne, you asked me if I was in the war business or the politics business. Neither. I'm in the empire business."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Schild und Schwert der Partei
Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
#1015: Jun 22nd 2014 at 10:30:34 PM

"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?

"Well, I'm the only one here."

-God and Adam.

edited 22nd Jun '14 10:30:47 PM by Smasher

Last_Hussar Since: Nov, 2013
#1016: Jun 23rd 2014 at 2:01:34 PM

No, wait guys, I think Benedict has a point. Parliament has given us what we want, are we really going to conspire with an enemy nation because we don't want to pay for our own defence?

- Washington.

Hey, the machine in the Gents is empty- anyone got a johnnie?

- The Pope.

edited 23rd Jun '14 2:01:49 PM by Last_Hussar

DaftPunch hiya, the name's scout. from lesbian Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
hiya, the name's scout.
#1017: Jun 23rd 2014 at 2:04:51 PM

"Basically, run." – Edison

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#1018: Jun 23rd 2014 at 2:11:07 PM

"In penitence for the suffering of my people, I shall now eat this whole cow by myself"

-Mahatma Gandhi

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Frishman Sinful Saint from Baton Rouge, LA Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Sinful Saint
#1019: Jun 23rd 2014 at 2:27:21 PM

"Boy, people downtown sure are friendly," - Kitty Genovese

If you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy, have some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste.
Last_Hussar Since: Nov, 2013
#1020: Jun 23rd 2014 at 3:18:24 PM

Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein representative democracy.

Last_Hussar Since: Nov, 2013
#1021: Jun 23rd 2014 at 3:22:53 PM

It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain, so I have written it on those blank pages at the end of the book.

Fermat

edited 23rd Jun '14 3:23:29 PM by Last_Hussar

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#1022: Jun 23rd 2014 at 3:35:02 PM

1v1 me irl noob fagt

- Abraham Lincoln, to Francis Pickens, after the Fall of Fort Sumter, 1861

u fuckin wot m8 ill bash ur head in swear on me mum

- Winston Spencer Churchill, responding to the German peace offer of 1940.

Schild und Schwert der Partei
Lawyerdude Citizen from my secret moon base Since: Jan, 2001
Citizen
#1023: Jun 23rd 2014 at 3:48:32 PM

"No, you fool, it says Britain will be in pieces for all time!" - Viscount Halifax to Neville Chamberlain, October 1938.

edited 23rd Jun '14 3:49:07 PM by Lawyerdude

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#1024: Jun 23rd 2014 at 6:49:20 PM

[up][up] I'm 67% sure that last one is an actual quote if I well know Churchill.

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
Lawyerdude Citizen from my secret moon base Since: Jan, 2001
Citizen
#1025: Jun 25th 2014 at 10:49:21 AM

"TRAMAMPOLINE! TRAMBOBOLINE!" - William Pitt the Elder.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

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