Quotable quotes

[Prorpger]

What are some of your favorite quotes?

I've always liked:

“Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.”

-Wil Rodgers


Please reference your quotes so we aren't kept guessing.

[there_is_no_bob]

http://www.kaytastrophe.com/vb/showthread.php?t=167

In case anyone is looking for any...

[FeatsofClay]

One of my favorite art quotes is actually from a cartoonist:

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy)

[JavaElemental]

How about:


SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it is wrong. There is a lot more Science than you think. (From A Scientific Encyclopedia for the Inquiring Young Nome by Angalo de Haberdasheri)
-- Terry Pratchett, Wings

[Kyllikki]

"Living well is the best revenge"

Keeps me sane when the turkeys try to get me down. I don't get mad very easily, but i feel guilty that i never stand up for myself. So i try to channel that guilt into bettering myself and making myself stronger and able to shed bad opinions and move on like an adult.

It works really well on people who like to argue, or assert control. They hate it when their targets smile benignly and walk away.

[NGRI]

Tom Lehrer: "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it".

No truer words have ever been spoken.

[Keeper of Secrets]

"I like advice that rhymes."

- Mr. James, News Radio

[Northcott]

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” -- Robert E. Howard

“Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.” -- Baltasar Gracian

“We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass there is only one direction, and time is its only measure.” -- Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain

[Glass]

Four favorites from Winston Churchill.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

[Droid101]

"All I want is a warm bed, a kind word, and ultimate power."

"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent."

-Ashleigh Brilliant

[NRG]

Behold the bookend brilliance of Marx.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age. -- Groucho Marx

I intend to live forever, or die trying. -- Groucho Marx

The way that can be known is not the true way - attributed to Lao-Tzu

NRG

[mollygrue]

one of my more obscure hobbies is collecting quotes--i started jotting them in notebooks years ago-- i look forward to adding everyones contributions--this thread makes me smile!

[Limper]

one of my more obscure hobbies is collecting quotes--i started jotting them in notebooks years ago-- i look forward to adding everyones contributions--this thread makes me smile!

You could try shareing some with us rather than being all greedy and shit.

[Janos]

Some of my favorite lines from Chris Titus/Ken Titus:

Step up to the line, or step out of the line. Step up, or step out, you only get one choice.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

The normal make a living, the deranged make history.

[Schizm]

Give a man a fire and he's warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Prachett, Jingo).

[Stratego]

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz

"I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice." -CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Interview

[mollygrue]

Granny Soderquists mental unbrella: prepare for the worst --if it happens youll be ready and if it dont, youll be pleasantly suprised.

Wise words fm Daves Mom: bite your tongue and bide your time

SeeMoreSR : dont get crumbs in the butter--other people want to use it too.
(think about the life applictions in that directive)

Dad's drunken one size fits all answer: Want? Want? well you shit in one hand want in the other and see which fills up first!

gods tough love: Sometimes the Lord gives us a kick in the ass when he wants us to take a step forward.

mb's observation: ya caint fix stupid.

jims general advice: Put on a helmet and COPE.

[Andreas]

Here (http://www.unmoralische.de/zit_e1.htm) you might find a few great ones...

[mollygrue]

Here (http://www.unmoralische.de/zit_e1.htm) you might find a few great ones...
thank you-- i like it even better than brainy quote!


j's problem solver: when THEY give you lined paper, write sideways.

scarrlett says: i shall think about it all tommorrow, for tommorrow is another day.

dewaynes words of wisdom: Its only eggs.
(3rd shift bar rush line cook translation--it aint worth getting upset over)

[GreyOne]

That GreyOne! Boy. He sure knows his stuff!

--Professor Ron G. Wise

[doc]

Fuck it, drive on...........DI in basic

[mollygrue]

C. Eastwood: Dont give the bastard the satisfaction.

Gandolf: You shall not pass.

GS: Common, play ball with me, ---and ill shove the bat up your ass.


Soup Kitchen Minister: Sometimes the Lord's love is passed out one cup of coffee at a time.

[mollygrue]

Gray Dog's Wisdom:

"I dont care what They say, or what You believe, or what You learned in School, or what You thought it ought to be: I am telling you how it IS:

1. There aint no Santa Claus, there aint no pony, and Elvis is way dead. If your life is going to get better around here, it will be because YOU make it better. You can pray to God, but you best row toward the shore.

2. Before your life can go in the right direction you have got to put your head out of your ass and stop going in the wrong direction.

3. You dont have to stick your hand in your blender to know that it is not the best idea to put hands in blenders.

4. Make a plan and work the plan. Life is not a dress rehersal. Life is a competition, they are keeping score, and there is a time clock.

5. They will use you if you let Them. When they come around thinning the herd, or taking peoples lunch money, git a real serious look on your face and dig in.

[Limper]

"Oh Shit!"

Myriads

[mollygrue]

BE the change you wish to see in the world. Ghandi

[Dacke]

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." - Gandhi.

Though I first encountered it (or a slight variant) on Babylon 5.

[Limper]

"Damn! I'm getting hungry."

Gandhi

[mollygrue]

Always remember you're unique. just like everybody else. --connie

Generally speaking, you arnt learning much if your lips are moving.

There is no path so dark, no road so steep no hill so slippery that other people have not been there before me...and SURVIVED. May my dark times teach me to help others in their journeys. M. Bedrosain


Fm Judge Judy:

1. You are the trunk of the tree.
2. You cant teach the bull to dance
3. letting go is half the fun
4. beauty fades , dumb is forever.
5. what goes up will come down
6. denial is a river in egypt
7. failure does NOT build character
8. you can be the hero of your own story
9. master the game, the play at it
10. dont crawl when you can fly
if you spend your life defering to someone else, you will lose yourself.
its a high price to pay for being liked


In the depth of winter, I learned that there was within me and invincible summer. Albert Camus.


The World is Dark, and Light is Precious

there is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart---dickens

Knowledge is proud that he knows so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows so little. William Cowper

Nice guys finish first. If you dont know that,then you dont understand where the finish line is . Gary Shandling.

Quality--in the classic greek sense--is how one lives with grace and intelligence, with bravery and with mercy. Lord Chesterfield.


You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to dicover it within himself. Galileo Galilei.

[Hastur T. Fannon]

It's important to get the Barbarian pentathlon in the right order: rape then pillage. It's impossible to sack if you've already burnt it

[mollygrue]

' inside the circle of th etable, under the holy sword, a knight must swear he will obey to the eternal Code, eternal as the table, a ring bound to honour.

A knight is sworn to valor, his heart knows only virtue, his blade defends the helpless, his might upholds the weak, his word speaks only truth, his wrath undoes the wicked.

The right can never die, if a man still remembers him. Words are not forgottoen if a voice pronounces them clearly. The Code always shines, if a heart preserves it brightly..."

The Old Code
DragonHeart


"I wont be Wronged, I wont be Insulted, and I wont be Laid a Hand on: I do not do these things to other people and I require the same from them.

John Wayne, the Shootist

[Steampunk]

"I'm gonna kill you if I have to ride all the way to hell to do it." - Ellen, The Quick and the Dead

[NGRI]

I'm not a member of an organized political party, I'm a Democrat - Will Rogers

[Varaj]

Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Hastur T. Fannon]

I'm not a member of an organized political party, I'm a Democrat - Will Rogers

I'm not a practicing member of any organized religion. I'm an Anglican

- me