Hey everyone. It seem's this is the place to post anything we want (within reason) so I thought I would start a thread to find out what your favorite quotes are. I'll start with one of mine (though I have loads more):
People always turn away from the eyes of a stranger. Afraid to know what lies behind the stare.
Jump to PostRemember to hold hands and cherish the moment, for someday that person will not be there again.
Jump to Post“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the
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intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming
“WOO HOO what a ride!”
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Jump to PostIt is much easier to be critical than correct.
Jump to PostI read this in a cubicle the other day:
"Heisenberg may or may not have been here."
This is not my favourite quote but its depressingly true lol
behind every smile is a tear
This is not my favourite quote but its depressingly true lol
behind every smile is a tear
I like that one, really true.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment, for someday that person will not be there again.
Another: To love and be loved, is to feel the sun from both sides.
Engraved on a gravestone:
"It distresses us to return work that is not perfect"
Hmm....I would put one here but I can't remember any good quotes from my English class.
People always turn away from the eyes of a stranger. Afraid to know what lies behind the stare.
I like yours....BTW also my signature ;)
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Whilst out on a date 'I've had a perfectly wonderful evening... Pity this wasn't it'
- Groucho Marx
Well the first one that came to mind is:
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
But then Groucho came to my rescue:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend -- inside of a dog, it is too dark to read"
If at first you dont succeed, try, try, try again
with my own addition
then hide the evidence that you tried
hehe
Nine out of ten voices in my head are telling me I probably would.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
-- Henry Ford
I have looked into the mirror of madness
and seen my own reflection...
- Anon
war related quotes:
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered
automatic weapons."
-General Douglas MacArthur
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
-Actual U.S. Army Training Manual
"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
-Actual U.S. Air Force Training Manual
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to
visit violence on those who would harm us."
-George Orwell
Abra-cadabra....catch me if you can.
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming
“WOO HOO what a ride!”
(author unknown - I've looked hard)
How is it possible to have a civil war?
Just another war related quote for jbennet's taste:
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
--- General Omar Nelson Bradley
I really don't understand why I love this quote so much, but I do:
The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this staring.
Stormy Norman
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
He <Saddam Hussein> is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
hamlet is good for it
loads of modern sayings like "dog have its day" and "in a nutshell" are from it
All people are equal but some are more equal than others.
The universe is a pretty big space. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right?
-- Carl Sagan
If fire fighters fight fires and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
If a vegatarian eats vegetables, then a humanitarian must be a cannibal.
Not a favorite, but
We cannot expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism until they awaken one day to find they have Communism.
If "pro" and "con" are opposites, what's the opposite of "progress"?
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -- GWB
Energy and persistence alter all things - Benjamin Franklin
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