Do you hate pretentious people who throw quotes around in their email signatures and Facebook pages?

[Barracuda]

I'm not talking about funny quotes from people they know, I'm talking about pretentious quotes from authors and academics. AAAARRRGH, I used to remember so many people who put them in their email signatures in college! IT'S ANNOYING! I form a bad opinion of anyone who throws them around, either in person or on their web pages, blogs or Facebook! I sometimes read them and usually find them very obvious, snide or baffling.

Please people, don't do that shit.

[Holly]

I agree that it is way out of hand----and certainly not original---enough already!

[J-Dawn]

Give some examples. I quote a movie in my e-mail signature. It's not funny, but it's inspirational. And it's me.

[jane a]

pithy quotes sometimes make me yawn, as well. then recently, proposition 8 (taking away the civil rights of homosexuals to be married in California) passed. my heart was devastated. so many families ripped apart. thousands and thousands of children growing up with the message "your parents are second class citizens, therefore YOU are a second class citizen, as well." so, now i have a quote pasted to the bottom of my emails: “All men are created equal: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;” - Declaration of Independence. ----well, after losing 10 pounds and crying for days about the entire debacle, i feel as though i've earned the quote. it is important for me that all who i dialogue with, know that i stand on the side of love, on the side of civil rights, on the side of my fellow man. with my heart i feel these things ever so strongly. so, the quote appears on my emails automatically. and no, i do not feel in the least bit holier-than-thou by putting placing it there. i am standing up for my fellow man the best i know how. actually, on this earth, at any given time, we are all probably doing the best we can with what we've got. please forgive your contacts if you disapprove of their message. after all, are we all not seeking just a little grace? i hope my friends and contacts will give me grace. my very best regards to you. perhaps you won't have to be brought to your knees like myself, before you can let it go. good luck!

[ladybug_jane22]

It doesn't bother me.