Quotes

[SeanTK]

Just a random, time-wasting, and spontaneous curiosity:



Do you have any favorite meaningful or funny quotes that you enjoy?

Some of my choices....and yes I know some are....contradictory...

"Interviewer: We touched on earlier about the opposing forces you faced when in school; do you smile to yourself knowing they may be seeing your success?

I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead." - E. Autumn.

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"It takes a big man to cry... but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man." - Unknown.

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"People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least." - Unknown.

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"Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come."

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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
-J. Q. Adams

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[patchz]

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. " - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare, King Henry VI

Remember, first you pillage, then you burn. - anon

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. - anon

[BigTruck]

I deleted a few after further review, need to maintain a family environment here haha.  But here goes!

 

[an-225]

"Goddam it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
Captain Henry P. Jim Crowe - 13th January 1943 - Guadalcanal

"I agree it's expensive, but so is the Fire Department, the Police Department and Life Insurance but that doesn't mean you get rid of it"
SR-71 Retirement Speech

[skoker]

What a waste it is to loose ones mind, or not to have a mind, is being very wasteful. - Dan Quayle

...weither we are going forward to the future, or past to t-the back. - Dan Quayle

I knew Thomas Jefferson - Ronald Regan

[Romulus111VADT]

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[olderndirt]

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes"  Oscar Wilde

[aussiewannabe]

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

-- Mark Twain

[Matty203]

Love is giving someone the power to break your heart but trusting them not to. -unknown

Peace cannot be attained through violence, only through understanding. -Albert Einstein (although I don't completely agree with that, it's good)

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. -unknown (I know it's know I just don't know by who...anyone mind tellin' me who?)

"Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights." -unknown
Last ones for you BigTruck!

[Steve M]

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

[specter177]

How about some Reagan jokes.

Reporter: In talking about the recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes of the past and you have blamed the Congress. Does any of the blame lie with you?
Reagan: Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat.

Reagan: "My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes." -joking during a mike check before his Saturday radio broadcast

"I hope you're all Republicans." -speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency -- even if I'm in a Cabinet meeting."

Or just watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3z3eSVG7A

[Apex]

Baseball great Yogi Berra came up with some profound oddities during his career, here's a few, google him up for more:

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"This is like deja vu all over again."

"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"

And of course:

"It ain't over till it's over."

[a1]

Greatest things ever said and it's so true. 

[patchz]

Baseball great Yogi Berra came up with some profound oddities during his career, here's a few, google him up for more:

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"This is like deja vu all over again."

"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"

And of course:

"It ain't over till it's over."

[color=#000000]I love Yogi-isms. Haven't thought about them in a long time.

[Apex]

"Yogi-isms".  That's great!  New one there too, never heard that before.  Thanks.