do you have any favourite quotes??

[evoluzione]

so i was wondering if anyone has any favourite quotes...a lot of peeps put one or two on their signature (like me) but i have a load that i like...

for example...

On Thursday, you will look up to the sky and see a cloud shaped like a banana. You?ll be pretty pumped about this.

"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand"

"A bank will only lend you money if you can prove to them that you really and truly do not need it"

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock"

"Mediocrity recognises nothing higher than itself. Talent instantly recognises genius"

and some quotes to do with Liverpool Football Club... :)

"For those of you watching in black and white, Liverpool are the team with the ball." - fans

"Mind, I've been here during the bad times too. One year we came second." - Bob Paisley

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude, I can assure you it is much more important than that." - Bill Shankly

"My favourite player in the whole world is Michael Owen." - Pelé

"It's not about the long ball, or the short ball, it's about the right ball." - Bob Paisley

"Anfield without European Football is like a banquet without wine." - Roy Evans

"I'd certainly like to be as, er, big as Lara Croft one day." - Michael Owen

"Are you Shankly in disguise?" - fans

[eyelikeart]

"never fall in love with your first idea"
-my first graphic design instructor

"measure twice...cut once"
-my dad

[vniow]

You ain't a baby no more, baby
You ain't no bigger than before, baby
I'll rub that cheek right off your lips, baby
So take a swallow as I spit, baby

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

[Sun Baked]

"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in."

"If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there."

"If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around."

"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.

The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut."

"Never kick a cow chip on a hot day."

"There're two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works."

"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging."

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco."

"It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep."

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket."

"Don't squat with your spurs on."

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."

"Always drink upstream from the herd."

"When you're "throwing your weight around," be ready to have it thrown around by somebody else."

"There are three kinds of men:
1. The ones that learn by reading.
2. The few who learn by observation.
3. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."

[scem0]

"My twinkies look shtinky on the benz" - Missy Elliot

Something like "We constantly try to change the world, but we
never change ourselves" by someone I forgot.

[zimv20]

Originally posted by Sun Baked

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."

that is AWESOME


I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have
of it. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author
(1743-1826)

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
-Mignon McLaughlin, author

Women mature faster than girls. -me

[G4scott]

"Before you criticize or insult somebody, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away, and you have their shoes..."

"You just have to accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue."

"The sex was so good, even the neighbors had a cigarette."


And of course, from my sig:

"The best way to accelerate your pee-cee is at 9.81 m/s^2"


There are a few others that are more sentimental, like this one (I think you all know where it came from)

"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do..."


I need to dig up some of my better ones...

[Kwyjibo]

"the B*tch set me up" Mayor of DC
"The busines of America is business" Calvin Coolidge
"When people are put out of work, unemployment results" Calvin Coolidge
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today" FDR
"only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I"m not sure about the former" Albert Einstein
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function" F. Scott Fitzgerald

[NavyIntel007]

"Man was born to live in the convulsions of distress or the lethargy of boredom" ~ Voltaire

[alex_ant]

"The best English is simple English. Plain speaking. If you don't know what you're talking about, you're going to gobbledygook yourself up." -- John Lydon

----

Samuel Beckett: I wanted also to ask you about the eggman from "I Am the Walrus."
John Lennon: Jerry.
Sam: What? Who?
John: Jerry Furman, he was our eggman. Every Saturday Jerry would come round and Mum would give him a bob for a dozen eggs. Once, while he was inside the house, I peeked into the back of his van. So many eggs! I'd never seen anything like it! God, I wanted his job!
Sam: So the eggman was Jerry! Why didn't you put that in the lyric of "Glass Onion" as well, like "and here's some good advice for the way / the eggman was Jerry."
John: No, no! I couldn't have done that!
Sam: Why not?
John: Furman was a very private bloke! I mean, ****, Paul was fair game. He'd already adjusted to the public. Furman's gig was eggs, just eggs. People would have ****ing hounded him to death! Anyway, he left after a time. We got a new, nastier eggman when I was about twelve. Jerry moved to Pennsylvania, Maryland, or someplace like that. Just one of the many fascinating commodity "men" I watched when I was small.
Sam: Lord, yes! There was a man for everything, wasn't there?
John: Now that you mention it, Christ, there was a milkman, a breadman, a fruitman, garbageman, rag-and-bone man.
Sam: Neighborhood life was a parade! There was the postman, policeman, fireman, telephone man, insurance man, Fuller Brush man, the Culligan man, the Maytag repairman.
John: Right! And always they'd identify themselves as such, like they didn't have a name or something. I mean, you'd hear this rap-rap-rap on the door followed by a muffled "milkman," or "eggman," or whatever!
Sam: Thank heaven that's all stopped. Can you imagine the cacophony in this age of overspecialized marketing?
John: And what on earth would "I Am the Walrus" have sounded like? Ha, ha, ha!
Sam: What?
John: Rap-rap-rap! Hemorrhoid Reeferman! Hemorrhoidman! Need anything up yours today?
Sam: Rap-rap-rap! Tweezerman!
John: Rap-rap-rap! Hola! Yardstickman here! Yardstickman!
Sam: Or in the rural areas: Rap-rap-rap! Pitchforkman! Pitchforkman!
John: Or for the Pinteresque machinists: Rap-rap-rap! High speed, tapered shank, spiral flube reamerman! Any high-speed, tapered shank, spiral flube reamers today?
Sam: Rap-rap-rap! Astronaut! Rap-rap-rap! Paperclipman!
John: Door-to-door Einstein! Rap-rap-rap! Cosmologyman! Theoretical physicsman! Fresh picked photoelectric effects! Nice pipe unified field theories!
Sam: Rap-rap-rap! Beanman!
John: What? Beanman? You mean like navy beans and kidney beans, like that?
Sam: Yes! That's it!
John: That's what I could have said. "I am the beanman, they are the beanman, I am the bovus! Toot toot toot toot!"
Sam: Rap-rap-rap! Fartman! Fartman!

[Nuc]

"If a woman tells me what to do, I say hey!, get your b*tch a*s back in the kitchen and make me some pie!!!"

"Screw you guys I'm going home"

"Noo kitty that's a bad kitty, nooo kitty that's my pot pie"

All courtesy of Eric Cartman. So sue me I'm a South Park fan..... :D

[LethalWolfe]

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." --?


Lethal

[3rdpath]

Desiderata



Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly: and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser person than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in you own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affaires; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be your self. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceiver Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
:)

[ShaolinMiddleFinger]

Three magical words to get a woman's heart:

"Here, have another...."

bahahahaaaaa!

[edesignuk]

See in my sig...:D

[maradong]

those i like most are these:

copy @ will :)


"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell

"The man who is able to look on war without feeling disgust is not a human being, but a patriot."
- Kurt Tucholsky

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me"
- William Shakespeare

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, is it the leafers of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether is a democraty, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every county."
- Hermann Goering @ the Nuremberg Trials after WWII.

[beez7777]

"All you need is love." - the beatles

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

"Hate the sin, love the sinner." - Gandhi

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett.

"The farther one travels, the less one knows." - the beatles.

i have a whole bunch more, but i gotta go to school now. :D

[WinterMute]

Illegitimi non carborundum (Don't let the bas**rds grind you down).

Just because you're not paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

[Sun Baked]

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

[Mr. Anderson]

What, no Monty Python?

"Its only a flesh wound"

"And now for something completely different"

"Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time"

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our cheif weapons are ....."

"Wait for it, wait for it"

"He's an ex-parrot!"

"Death awaits you all with big nasty pointy teeth!"

I could go on for quite some time....

D :D

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by dukestreet
What, no Monty Python?

"It's only a flesh wound"
classic

"We are no longer the Knights who say Ni, but the Knights who say, Icky Icky Icky..."

[runningman]

Look wise, say nothing and grount. Speech was given to conceal thought.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. -Osler

If you wish to move the world. First move yourself. -Socrates

A most excellent adventure. -Bill and Ted

I crap bigger than you. -Fat Bastard

As Socrates once said, "I drank what?" - Val Kilmer Real Genius

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. -Camus

Never get a mime talking he won't stop. -Marcel Marceau

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -hoping it will eat him last -Churchill

A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go. -Duffery

Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run. -Anon

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. -Acheson

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by runningman
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. -Osler

hmm, dog's eat grass to make themselves regurgitate, so they feel better...

but cool quotes, i like the first one, i do that :p

[Kwyjibo]

"It takes two to lie, one ot lie and one to listen" Homer
"You've got to hide me, there are three bears chasing after me, theres a dsipute over some porridge" Jay Sherman
"See that ship over there, they're rebraodcasting Major LEague Baseball with implied oral conest instead of expressed written conset; or so the legend goes"Homer
One of my stoner friends "I used to get high on life, but then I built up a tolerance"

[evoluzione]

"Do you know what nemesis means?" - Bricktop

"Jeez, good in 'ere ain' it" - from the film "lock, stock..."

"I'm starvin', heh. I'm Lee Marvin" - from the film "sexy beast"

"All your dreams are made, when you're chained to a mirror and a razor blade"......."Another sunny afternoon, walking to the sound ofmy favourite tune" - Oasis

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Sir Winston Churchill

"it's alright, it's only Ray Parlour" - Tim Lovejoy just before ~that~ goal in the FA Cup final.

[medea]

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." -Eugene Ionesco

"The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary."
-Italo Calvino

[TEG]

Just a Few
(Mostly from Red Dwarf and Star Trek)

Rimmer: "I used to be in the Samaritans."
Lister: "I know. For one morning."
Rimmer: "I couldn't take any more."
Lister: "I don't blame you. You spoke to five people and they all committed suicide. I wouldn't mind, but one was a wrong number! He only phoned up for the cricket scores!"
- Rimmer and Lister, The Last Day

"This is the first time I've ever been seduced by predeterminism theory. "
- Kochanski, Cassandra

Rimmer: "I've seen Westerns, I know how to speak cowboy."
Steps up to the bar.
Rimmer: "Dry white wine and Perrier, please ."
- Rimmer, Gunmen of the Apocalypse

Cat: "Hey, I got it! We laser our way through!?"
Kryten: "Ah, an excellent suggestion, Sir, with just two minor drawbacks. One, we don't have a power source for the lasers, and two, we don't have any lasers."
- Cat and Kryten, White Hole

Rimmer: "Do you think it's because the sub-space conduits have locked with the transponder calibrations and caused a major tachyon surge that has overloaded the time matrix?"
Kryten: "Ah, no, sir. I've just been jabbing it too hard."
- Rimmer and Kryten, Tikka to Ride

"So this is really me? A no-style gimbo with teeth druids could use as a place of worship?"
- Duane, Back to Reality

"My brain's rebelled.It just won't accept nice things happening to me."
- Rimmer, Better Than Life

Lister: "I tell you one thing. I've been to a parallel universe, I've seen time running backwards, I've played pool with planets, and I've given birth to twins, but I never thought in my entire life I'd taste an edible Pot Noodle."
- Lister, Demons and Angels

"Picard would never have hit me..." (wounded voice) -- Q
"I'm not Picard" -- Sisko (Q-less)

"Rom's an idiot. He couldn't fix a straw if it was bent." -- Odo, to Quark (Babel)

"I have a dream; a dream that all people -- human, Jem'Hadar, Ferengi, Cardassians -- will someday stand together in peace... around my Dabo tables." -- Quark (The Search)

"I hate prototypes." -- O'Brien (Apocalypse Rising)

"Commander Chakotay was just showing me how to get in contact with my animal guide" -- Janeway
"I hope you have better luck with yours than I had with mine" -- B'Elanna
"B'Elanna is the only person I know who tried to kill her animal guide" -- Chakotay (The Cloud)

"This ship will not survive the formation of the cosmos!" -- B'Elanna Torres (Death Wish)

"If we don't get more power to the warp drive we're all going to have to get out and push!" -- Paris (Parallax)

"There's coffee in that nebula!" -- Janeway (The Cloud)


More to Come Later.

TEG

[jayscheuerle]

"No matter where you go, that's where you are"- Buckaroo Bonzai

"GRANDPAAAAAA BOUGHT A RUBBER...." - Steve Martin

"You know when you lean back on a chair, almost tip it over, catch yourself going too far forward to compensate and then jerk back again? I feel like that all the time..." - Steven Wright

"If I was half as dumb as you then you'd be twice as dumb as me"

"Have that removed" - Stripes

"I remember this time when I... wait, no... that wasn't me..."

"Women, can't live with 'em, pass the beer-nuts." - Norm on Cheers.

"I'd rather be lucky than good"

"You know what they say about _____."
"No. What?"
"I don't know. I was asking you!"

"Here I come to save the day!!" - Mighty Mouse. Must be done in the right voice!

"Life sucks- but it's better than the alternative."

"An apple a day pushes your gums back and causes tooth decay"

"It's not the heat, it's the stupidity."

"It's not the heat, it's... wait, yeah it is. It's pretty friggin' hot out there"

"I'd like to think you'd do the same for me, but I'm not that delusional."

"Happiness is a warm gun" - John Lennon

"There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there are some pretty idiotic inquirers."

"Losers always talk about 'Doing their best'. The winner gets to ****** the prom queen" - Sean Connery in The Rock

[mrjamin]

"i'd rather be rich than stupid" - jack handy.

[vniow]

I can't believe life's so complex
When I just wanna sit here and watch you undress

PJ Harvey - This Is Love

And nice to see you back medea.http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=251585

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by vniow
And nice to see you back medea.

Yes it is. How was the 'vacation'?

D

[jayscheuerle]

Originally posted by mrjamin
"i'd rather be rich than stupid" - jack handy.

Funny guy.

A few more. (http://hutchville.com/jack_handey.shtml)

[evoluzione]

i don't remember it all that well, but in Cheers, a guy walks in after being away for years, remarks on all the changes like...

"oh, and the stairs, they used to be over there, right behind Norm."


Hah! yes! Red Dwarf!! see if i can remember a couple...


"I am the King of the Potato People!" - Rimmer

"Sir, are you absolutely sure you want to step up to Blue Alert? .... It does mean changeing the bulb." - Kryten to Rimmer

"I propose we form the 'Campaign for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society, uh, one problem with that, the acronym spells clitoris." - Rimmer - Polymorph

"Give quiche a chance" - Rimmer - Polymorph

[mrjamin]

americans? red dwarf? i thought that was a uk-only program??

I remember a few years ago there was a US red dwarf that was pretty poor in comparison (they should the pilot episode in the uk). anyone care to enlighten me?

[vniow]

Originally posted by jayscheuerle
Funny guy.

A few more. (http://hutchville.com/jack_handey.shtml)


That was the guy that did those little poems on SNL a few years ago wasn't it?

[mrjamin]

the very same ;)

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by mrjamin
americans? red dwarf? i thought that was a uk-only program??

I remember a few years ago there was a US red dwarf that was pretty poor in comparison (they should the pilot episode in the uk). anyone care to enlighten me?

oh boy, they did an american men behaving badly too. let alone all the reality shows that are copied, actually "i'm a celebrity" was pretty good.

but yeah, you can get red dwarf over here once in a while on PBS (Public Broadcasting) and series 1 & 2 have just been released on DVD! great for us ex-pats. isn't there supposed to be a red dwarf movie????

[Spike Spiegel]

There's nothing more overrated than sex, and nothing more underrated than a good s***. -Mark Twain

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. -?

Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.

Rock is dead! Long live paper and scissors.

That's cold enough to kill a bullet-proof man -My friend Alex

You have not one power level at or above one million - the same

[medea]

Originally posted by dukestreet
Yes it is. How was the 'vacation'?

D
Thank you both, still on vacation (from work) and its been great, spent some much needed time with my fiancee and catching up on reading, writing and such.

"There are certain characters you don't hit with a pie. Hit the wrong person, the audience gets mad at you.
"You hit girls with pies, lots of them."
"Oh, that they didn't mind. I remember a lot of people wanting to hit Lillian Gish because she was so sweet and innocent." -Buster Keaton, in an interview.

[whfsdude]

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." - President George W. Bush.

"Toilet out of order. Please use floor below." - office building rest room

[Kwyjibo]

Mayor Richard J. Daley during the 1968 riots in Chicago "Shoot to Kill"
the next day "I never said Shoot to Kill"

"trying is the first step towards failure" Homer
"work is for chumps" Bart "I'm proud of you boy, I was more than twice your age before I realized that" Homer

[mrjamin]

Red Dwarf Topic (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23048)

[TEG]

Originally posted by mrjamin
americans? red dwarf? i thought that was a uk-only program??

I remember a few years ago there was a US red dwarf that was pretty poor in comparison (they should the pilot episode in the uk). anyone care to enlighten me?

Red Dwarf is seen in nearly every US state and Canadian Provence thanks to PBS and BBC America. It also has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japaneese, and Portuguese.

And yea they are working on a movie, coming this fall or next spring. More Info Here (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk)

Don't forget these...

" Starbug was built to last sir. This old baby's crashed more times than a ZX81. "
- Kryten, Psirens

"A pub - ahh yes. A meeting place where people attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence, by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks. -- Kryten, Backwards";

"Let's at least ask someone who's at least going to give us a slightly more intelligent opinion. Hello, wall! What do you think? -- Kochanski, Beyond A Joke";

"Causality? Well, OK, you know, one event causes another, OK, but sometimes, you just gotta say, the laws of time and space? Who gives a smeg! -- Kryten, Tikka to Ride";

"Broadcast on all frequencies and all known languages, including Welsh. -- Rimmer, Legion";

"My mind is so numb and brain-dead, I feel like I've just attended a 3 day seminar entitled 'The Future of Plumbing'. Have you any idea how irritating you have just been? You're a master, there are things you could teach to tropical skin diseases. -- Rimmer, Back in The Red Part I";

"I just want to say: over the years, I have come to regard you as ... people I met. -- Rimmer, Holoship";

"The thought occurs that we haven't actually reached earth. The even further thought occurs that we haven't budged a smegging inch. -- Rimmer, Parallel Dimension";

We have three realistic alternatives: (1) Sit here and get blown up, (2) Stand here and get blown up, (3) Jump up and down, shout at me for not being able to think of anything, then get blown up. -- Holly, Body swap

Lister: The red, green and blue alert signs are all flashing. What the smeg does that mean?
Kryten: Well either we're under attack sir, or we're having a disco.

More RD Quotes (http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0094535)

TEG

[beez7777]

Originally posted by Spike Spiegel
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. -?


i believe it was voltaire who said that, but i may be mistaken

[WinterMute]

Heres one that should oftenbe applied on the boards;)

"It is better to remain silent and appear foolish than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Could have been Noel Coward, this one definately was:

"We may all be in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

[wdlove]

"Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat history" author?

[medea]

Originally posted by WinterMute


"We may all be in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
That would be from Oscar Wilde.

[wdlove]

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others." Winston Chruchill

[scem0]

Originally posted by wdlove
"Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat history" author?

George Santayana.

[WinterMute]

Originally posted by medea
That would be from Oscar Wilde.

D'yknow, there's a sculpture just up from Charing Cross station that's entitled "A conversation with Oscar Wilde", it has the quote inscribed on it, which is where I read it originally, as I pass the damn thing most mornings.

Thanks medea, you are entirely correct:)

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by alex_ant
John: Or for the Pinteresque machinists: Rap-rap-rap! High speed, tapered shank, spiral flube reamerman! Any high-speed, tapered shank, spiral flube reamers today?I assume that you (or John) meant spiral flute reamers (http://www.nemicmach.com/nmcsite-III/reamer-spiralflute.html). A flube (http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/innovatn/inots653.htm) is apparently something completely different. Of course, I might buy either one if someone comes selling them door-to-door.

[howard]

"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it."

clint eastwood in a fist full of dollars

[Nipsy]

Weeks of coding can save you hours of thought.

[Nipsy]

There are no stupid questions, but there sure are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.

[wdlove]

DESTINY "There has to be a purpose to it all. I believe that I was chosen for a purpose far beyond our simple reasoning." Winston Churchill

[etoiles]

Originally posted by evoluzione

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock"

"brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace" ???
Actually, wars were all over Switzerland for hundreds of years and Swiss mercenaries faught all over Europe...there even was a civil war in the 19th century...and did you know that Milan became a Swiss protectorate in 1512 (the Swiss army was quite aggressive at that point...fighting with the pope against the French, ah the good old times :D ).

And the cuckoo clock is more of a Bavarian/Austrian thing...just saying.

I know, I know, nobody likes a smart@ss :D

[ejb190]

"First gather your facts, then contort them at your leasure" - Mark Twain

"Skydiving is a real rush. But if you want to do it twice, take a parachute."

"If at first you don't succed, don't take up scuba diving."

"Life is like an analogy..." - Aaron Allston

"There are two types of people in the world and I am one of them." - Aaron Allston

"You can look at life two ways: As the past or as the future."

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by etoiles
"brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace" ???
Actually, wars were all over Switzerland for hundreds of years and Swiss mercenaries faught all over Europe...there even was a civil war in the 19th century...and did you know that Milan became a Swiss protectorate in 1512 (the Swiss army was quite aggressive at that point...fighting with the pope against the French, ah the good old times :D ).

And the cuckoo clock is more of a Bavarian/Austrian thing...just saying.

I know, I know, nobody likes a smart@ss :D


very interesting, really. thanks :)
i do like the quote, although that doesn't mean i agree with it, it just makes me laugh.
so tell me about the swiss army knife..... ;)

[Thanatoast]

Now you've done it. I've been saving good quotes for about 6 months now. Actually, a good number of them came from macrumors. :cool: Sorry for any repeats.

"it's not having what you want; it's wanting what you got..."
-----------
I control my Mac
Redmond, the RIAA, and Fritz Hollings control my PC
----------
Just my opinion, I could be wrong... But I'm not.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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America has a lot of ****ing problems, but our biggest is that fact that we neither acknowledge our mistakes or learn from them.
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"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
--Sam Brown
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand
Russell
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The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all!
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire
(1694-1778)

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm
beginning to believe it. -Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term
security, deserve neither freedom nor security. -Benjamin Franklin,
statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author,
and inventor (1706-1790)

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
-----------
"If there's nothing wrong with me... then there must be something wrong with the universe." -- Beverly Crusher, Star Trek:TNG
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Learn by listening.
No one's ever gotten wiser by talking.
----------
It is our choices, not our abilities, that
make us what we truly are.
----------
Well, here we all are, wasting our time bickering with people we don't know. Oh well, what else do we have to do?
----------
The problem with conservatives is they can’t see past their own noses, and the problem with liberals is they can’t see what’s right in front of their faces. - John Riecke
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Nothing is either good nor ill but thinking makes it so.
----------
"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors"
"We borrow it from our children"
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'do not adjust your mind ... it is reality that is malfunctioning' - Robert Anton Wilson
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"The things you own end up owning you."
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
----------
Billy Connolly, the Scottish comedian, once said - "...The actual desire to be a politician should ban you for life from ever being one... ...Don't vote - it encourages them!”.
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---It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.---
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in war the first casualty is truth...
----------
RAYMOND SHAW
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.
From The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
----------
"Keep the company of those who
seek the truth, and run from those who have found it." -Vaclav Havel
----------
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot's last words (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator)
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First gather your facts, then contort them at your leasure. - Mark Twain
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Me, lie, never the truth is far too fun
---------
Always treat others as ends, never as means.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
--Philip K. ****
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Alexis de Tocqueville once said, "The American Republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the people with the people's own money."
----------
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create universe." - Carl Sagan
----------
Why is it a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in? Somebody's makin' a penny.
---------
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor bastard on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is in a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliamentary system, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

-- Hermann Goering, Hitler's second-in-command
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"Be formless, shapeless, like water... You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot... Now water can flow, or it can crash, be water my friend." - Bruce Lee
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
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"walk loudly and carry a small precise stick... "

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die....sartre
---------
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
-Mahatma Ghandi
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[vniow]

Awwww......none of mine?http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=252654

Anyhoo....

I love you baby but all I can think about is
Kielbasa sausage, your buttcheeks is warm

-Tenacious D

[shadowfax]

see my sig of course... the one by cubist is classic!

"whether 'tis nobler in the mind..." uh, yeah right. lol

from an AIM conversation tonight:
Shadowfax:when 75% of teens are sexually active in HS
buddy: true
Shadowfax: why should you have qualms about messing around with a landed conservative?
buddy: ohh my god
buddy: that was hilarious

he made an honest mistake--he mistook NBC for God ~Niel Postman

I never paid for it in my life, Yossarian ~ Aarfy, Catch-22

[Kethoticus]

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." -- Samuel Adams


Oh... for that person who said that it sounds ignorant to say "Because the Bible tells me so," doesn't understand the significance of the Bible. Christians believe the Bible is the Word of God Himself to humans. I share in that belief. Based on that faith, that the Bible says this thing or that means a great deal to me.

[SDimaging]

You did you best and you failed miserably, the lesson is Neever Trry.

-Homer Simpson.

[scem0]

Originally posted by Kethoticus
Oh... for that person who said that it sounds ignorant to say "Because the Bible tells me so," doesn't understand the significance of the Bible. Christians believe the Bible is the Word of God Himself to humans. I share in that belief. Based on that faith, that the Bible says this thing or that means a great deal to me.

That was me. I was just saying that it sounded ignorant to me,
but it doesn't have to be. There are exceptions. Lots of things
about christianity annoys me though. :)

[trebblekicked]

heres some from my favorite quipster of all time, Groucho Marx:

A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

I drink to make other people interesting.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

And from Mark Twain:
Dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

And a more random sampling of sources you could not find:

"Some people were born on 3rd base and think they hit a tripple"- Barry Switzer

"We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong -- this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it."
--W. E. B. Dubois

"you must be the change you wish to see in the world"-- MK Gandhi

[taeclee99]

"Always remember, others
may hate you, but those who hate
you, don't win, unless you hate them
back, and then you destroy yoursel

President Richard M Nixon


"I did not ask Monica to lie in the deposition. I asked her to lay in that position"

President William Jefferson Clinton


The problem with the French is that they do not have a word for entrepreneur."

President George W. Bush

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
That was me. I was just saying that it sounded ignorant to me,
but it doesn't have to be. There are exceptions. Lots of things
about christianity annoys me though. :)

lot's of things about whatever the heck you believe, presumably atheism, probably annoys a whole lot of other people, so maybe you should be more tactful in the things you say to them... i.e., stop being bigoted about religion, especially peaceful ones? it's just a thought. ;)

[Dad]

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


I don't hate lawyers - I just love the quote.

[Doctor Q]

I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up.
--Tom Lehrer

[wdlove]

Marriage: "At times I think I could conquer everything and then again I know I am only a weak vain fool. But your love for me is the greatest glory and recognition that has or will ever befall me: and the attachment which I feel towards you is not capable of being altered by the sort of things that happen in this world. I only wish I were more worthy of you and more able to meet the inner needs of you soul." Winston Churchill

[guitargeek]

"One lifetime is not enough to be a musician" - George Van Eps

[trebblekicked]

"colour my life with the chaos of trouble 'casue anything's better than posh isolation"- belle & sebastian

"between here and there is better than either here or there"- sm jenkins

[scem0]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
lot's of things about whatever the heck you believe, presumably atheism, probably annoys a whole lot of other people, so maybe you should be more tactful in the things you say to them... i.e., stop being bigoted about religion, especially peaceful ones? it's just a thought. ;)

oh of course. I know lots of people think things about aethiest
are annoying, but I don't care if they insult aethiesm. I could
care less what they think. :rolleyes:

[amnesiac1984]

"there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self." unknown

"If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson"
-- Thom Yorke, Radiohead

"...the more a discipline has intellectual substance, the less it has to protect itself from scrutiny, by means of a guild structure."
-- Noam Chomsky

"It's easy to be miserable. Being happier is tougher- and cooler"
-- Thom again (I think)

death is nothing at all. i have only slipped away into the next room. i am i, and you are you. whatever we were to each other, that we still are. call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way you always used to. put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. play, smile, think of me, pray for me. let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effort, no trace of a shadow on it. life means all that it ever meant. it is the same as it ever was. there is unbroken continuity. why should i be out of mind because i am out of sight? i am waiting for you, somewhere very near. just around the corner. all is well.
-- Henry Scott Holland 1847 - 1918
Canon of St Paul's, London

"we dont see any light at the end of the tunnel. there is a tunnel after the tunnel."
tariq aziz iraq's ambassador (a good bit of rhetoric, this was a quote form long before this war started, not sure when tho.)

"notes for a personality.
i got personality.
i got interesting things to say.
two sentences in a magazine.
a full page gormless pose in borrowed clothes."
-- Possibly Thom yorke again although don't "quote" me on that :p

[amnesiac1984]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
lot's of things about whatever the heck you believe, presumably atheism, probably annoys a whole lot of other people, so maybe you should be more tactful in the things you say to them... i.e., stop being bigoted about religion, especially peaceful ones? it's just a thought. ;)

Christianity, Peaceful?

Ha!

Sorry thats completely off topic.

there is a supermarket built on an island in the middle of the swamps
people are fishing from the misty banks
children are lost in the supermarket and are never found
fog in the meat aisle

[lmalave]

"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice"

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[mikulashek]

some Camus quotes:
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

[etoiles]

Originally posted by evoluzione
very interesting, really. thanks :)
i do like the quote, although that doesn't mean i agree with it, it just makes me laugh.
so tell me about the swiss army knife..... ;)

Well, the real Swiss army knife (the one used by the Swiss army) is silver (not red) and does not have a corkscrew...which makes it totally useless if you ask me :D

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by etoiles
Well, the real Swiss army knife (the one used by the Swiss army) is silver (not red) and does not have a corkscrew...which makes it totally useless if you ask me :D
i think it's about time to conjure up edesignuk's quote:
Originally posted by edesignuk's sig
"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by Shadowfax

Originally posted by etoiles
Well, the real Swiss army knife (the one used by the Swiss army) is silver (not red) and does not have a corkscrew...which makes it totally useless if you ask me

i think it's about time to conjure up edesignuk's quote:

Originally posted by edesignuk's sig
"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson


yeah that's gotta be one of my favourites, and plenty more of homer's classic pearls of wisdom. anyone got any more from homer????

etoiles, cheers for that, and yeah, useless without the corkscrew ;)

[jayscheuerle]

Originally posted by scem0
oh of course. I know lots of people think things about aethiest are annoying, but I don't care if they insult aethiesm. I could care less what they think. :rolleyes:

The most ironic aspect of atheism is that it's based on an unprovable belief, just like the religions it disregards. You can no more prove that God doesn't exist than you can prove that God does.

I prefer agnosticism, secure in the belief that I really don't know anything... - j

[Vanilla]

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by Vanilla
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)

haha, forgot about hitchhikers....

"42"
"the solution to life, the universe, and everything"

that's correct no?

[Over Achiever]

Originally posted by Thanatoast
Now you've done it. I've been saving good quotes for about 6 months now. Actually, a good number of them came from macrumors. :cool: Sorry for any repeats.

"it's not having what you want; it's wanting what you got..."
Hey great list you have there. (and my sig is the top one!)

Just want to mention that it's from Sheryl Crow's "Soak up the Sun" just in case one hasn't heard the song before. (Sorry I didn't give credit in my sig).

And theres the other quote from my sig:
"If you want something you've never had, then you've got to do something you've never done." ... forgot where I got that, and sorta awkward. :)

And a really short one:
"D'oh!" -Homer Simpson

More:
"I am evil Homer, I am evil Homer..."
"Mmm..donuts...*drool*"
"The doll's trying to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me!"
"Don't blame me. *I* voted for Kodos"
"Come, let us bask in TV's warm, glowing warming glow"
"Urge to kill ... rising ... "

Homer: No beer and no TV makes Homer ... something ...
Marge: Go crazy?
Homer: Don't mind if I do! *crazy dance*

Bart: I'd sell my soul for a formula 1 racing car.
Evil Flanders: That can be arranged.
Bart: Naw, changed my mind.
Marge: Bart stop pestering Satan.

Smithers: I think women and seamen don't mix
Mr. Burns: We know what you think, Smithers

[Computer_Phreak]

May have been said before, but:

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine"
-B. Franklin

Dunno the exact quote, but:
You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
-A. Lincoln

And my quote:
"AOL: It's almost as gay as Microsoft"
-Computer-Phreak

[evoluzione]

"mmm....beeeeeer" - Homer

"I was like, good gracious, asses bodacious" - Nelly :D

[wdlove]

Change "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." Winston Churchill

[bbarnhart]

This is for playing games.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

[shadowfax]

OH! i just thought of the best fascist quote ever:

"when i hear the word 'culture,' i reach for my revolver." ~ Mussolini

[daniel77]

"Be nice to people, because you never get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression."
-Me

[Foxer]

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -- George Orwell

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them. -- Either Yogi Bera or Casey Stengal

Elementary school Teacher to Yogi Bera: Don't you know anything?
Yogi's Response: I don't even suspect anything.

When children are taught to devalue someone, they can devalue anyone - including their parents. -- Jean Luc Picard

If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are. -- Picard

They say that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are of course wrong, as you shall soon learn... -- Blackadder, while playing with a carving fork, to Mrs. Miggins.

If I could turn to solid, I could fill the cracks up in the rocks; but no, for I am solid, and I am my own bad luck. -- Peter Gabriel "In the Cage"

Luck is the residue of design. -- Branch Rickey

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve - Bilbo Baggins

Only Nixon could go to China -- Anon.

With him, mercy is a passion; with me, it is merely good manners. You may judge for yourself which motive is the more reliable. -- Prince Feisal, speaking about T.E. Lawrence

How quickly we become history while wanting always to be news. -- John Updike

Traveller, there are no roads. Roads are made by walking. -- Spanish proverb

I must win on my merits, not on the failings of others. -- Me

In Brussels, Bonn and Barcelona - I'm in demand and quite at home there. -- Pet Shop Boys, "Single"

If we do not hang together, we will surely hang separately. -- Ben Franklin at the Second Contenental Congress

I wish for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes, and just for that one moment I could be you. Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes, you'd know what a drag it is to see you. - Bob Dylan "Positively Fourth Street

When it becomes apparent that someone is going to jail, make sure it's your client and not you. -- My Civil Procedure law professor.

Best Simpsons:

Bacon-up that sauage, boy! - Homer

Burns: Do you think maybe my power plant killed those ducks, Smithers?
Smithers: There's no maybe about it, Sir.
Burns (tearful): Excellent.

I've probably got more, but I need to get to sleep. Hell, I left out the two in my signature line. I could do a whole page of Simpsons and Python, I'm sure.

[Sun Baked]

"Take this example: suppose you were a person who was incredibly stupid but was trying to come off as intelligent. What would the proper response be if you were me?"

[evoluzione]

"chinaman goes to the eye doctor, and the eye doctor says 'I see the problem. You have a cataract.' so the chinaman replies 'no i don't i have a rincoln continental'" - Corrado "Junior" Soprano

[wdlove]

DUTY: "The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world, we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." Winston Churchill

[sosumi]

"He not busy being born is busy dying"
- Bob Dylan

"I'm trying to read your poetry but I'm helpless like a rich man's child"
- Bob Dylan

"In a world without fences and walls, who needs windows and gates?"

"Sanity is not statistical"
- George Orwell

"One hundred percent of the shots you don't take, don't go in."
- Wayne Gretzky

"The reasonable man adepts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw

"If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him - Is he still wrong?"

"Its my God given right to be an atheist"


And here are a few Homer's...

"Don't be scared Lisa, vampires are just fantasy characters, just like dragons, goblins and eskimos"

"Okay brain, I know you don't like me, and I'm not very found of you either, but if you help me out of this I will fill you with beer tonight"

"I thought I wanted to rebel, but all I really wanted was some love & understanding and a big sandwich"

"First you didn't want me to by a pony, and now you want me to sell it, make up yer mind Marge!"

Homer: "Oh God, why are you teasing me? Just like you teased that poor Moses in the desert?"
Marge: "Tested, Homer, tested..."

[wdlove]

Family: "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened, and maintained."

[Sun Baked]

Emo Phillips' Quotes

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something...

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face."
I said, "You'll be sorry."
He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?"
I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."

Probably ... the toughest time ... in anyone's life ... is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas...

The other day a woman came up to me and said, "Didn't I see you on television?"
I said, "I don't know. You can't see out the other way."

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, "I don't know... reelection to the Senate?"

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.

My girldfriend said, "Emo, I'm seeing another man." I said, "Well, try rubbing your eyes or something."

Well, the next day I caught her in bed with this other guy. I was crushed. I said, "Get off me, you two!"

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

You know what I hate? Indian givers...no, I take that back.

When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, "Why limit yourselves?"

People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.

[wdlove]

History: "The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history."

[mrjamin]

"My winkie was the key!" - goldmember

[vniow]

Found a new Marilyn Monroe quote for my sig.

Fits don't you think?

[mrjamin]

man, i love marilyn monroe - you have no idea how many books i've read on her!

[wdlove]

Realism: "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may destroy it, but there is is." Winston Churchill

[scem0]

I love it V! Goes nice with your new tar. :)

[wdlove]

Humor: "In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing." Winston Churchill

[Doctor Q]

Those who forget the past are, um, er, I forget the rest.
-- Doctor Q

[wdlove]

Character: "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill

[evoluzione]

not sure exactly how it goes, but something along the lines of....


"the only thing golf does, is ruin a good walk"
- Winston Churchill

[Doctor Q]

Winston Churchill said it about prepositions, but I don't which reported form is the accurate one:

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."

"This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put."

"That is a kind of errant nonsense up with which I will not put."

"This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put."

"The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put."

"Young man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will not put!"


And, speaking of prepositions:

"What did you bring that book, that I don't want to be read to from out of about Down Under up for?"
-- a boy who didn't want an Australian bedtime story


And, speaking of speaking of prepositions:

Man #1: "Excuse me, where is the library at?"

Man #2: "At this university, we never end a sentence with a preposition."

Man #1: "O.K. Excuse me, where is the library at, jerk?"

[Stelliform]

Obi-Wan "Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."

[scem0]

Originally posted by Doctor Q

Man #1: "Excuse me, where is the library at?"

Man #2: "At this university, we never end a sentence with a preposition."

Man #1: "O.K. Excuse me, where is the library at, jerk?"

The version I heard had bitch as the last word, not jerk.;).

Lots of Churchill quotes...

[shadowfax]

do you suppose churchill could be more quotable than shakespeare, long renowned the most quotable author in the history of Go--er, i mean, english....?

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
do you suppose churchill could be more quotable than shakespeare, long renowned the most quotable author in the history of Go--er, i mean, english....? For the English-speaking, you could last quite a while with Shakespeare (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/a132378.html), Churchill (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/a131649.html), and Twain (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/a129981.html). Maybe throw in Will Rogers (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/q103742.html) and Yogi Berra (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/y/q139938.html) too.

[scem0]

don't forget Missy Elliot ;).

:D:D:D:D:D

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
don't forget Missy Elliot ;).

:D:D:D:D:D

i don't think that "My twankies look stanky on the benz" qualifies one for being quotable :eek:

[wdlove]

Self-Examination: "The final tribute is our own conscience." Winston Churchill

[scem0]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
i don't think that "My twankies look stanky on the benz" qualifies one for being quotable :eek:

Well, I disagree. It is the most fun thing to
puzzle your friends with. Say that to your
friends, and they won't know what it means, and
act like you know. Doesn't sound like much fun,
but it is... ;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
Well, I disagree. It is the most fun thing to
puzzle your friends with. Say that to your
friends, and they won't know what it means, and
act like you know. Doesn't sound like much fun,
but it is... ;)

hmmm. all my friends would say, "you're bending over a mercedes to take it? stop talking like a slutty ho, schmuck!"

ok, not all of them, but many.

[wdlove]

"Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short." William Shakespeare

[billyboy]

Live today as though it is your last, plan as though you will live forever.

[bousozoku]

One of my favourite quotes was the $150 per share of Apple stock. :)

Perhaps, otherwise, "Excellence is only adequate."

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by bousozoku
One of my favourite quotes was the $150 per share of Apple stock.Don't forget these important quotations:

* ASCII double quote mark (")
* ASCII single quote mark ('), alias apostrophe
* ISO-8859-1 guillemets (« and »), which HTML calls laquo and raquo for "left-pointing double angle quotation mark" and "right-pointing double angle quotation mark"

Then there are the other Unicode quote marks as defined in RFC 1345 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1345.html):

The curly ("smart") quotes...

* left single quotation mark
* right single quotation mark
* left double quotation mark
* right double quotation mark

The angle brackets...

* left-pointing single angle quotation mark
* right-pointing single angle quotation mark

And, last but not least, the low-positioned and high-positioned quotes...

* single low-9 quotation mark
* single high-reversed-9 quotation mark
* double low-9 quotation mark
* double high-reversed-9 quotation mark

And you may quote me on this!

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
Don't forget these important quotations:


~completely lost~ :rolleyes: :confused: :eek:

[wdlove]

Self-Improvement: "We are all worms, but I intend to be a glowworm." Winston Churchill

[Groovsonic]

Originally posted by scem0
[B"Because the bible tells me so" - I hate when people say that,
it just sounds ignorant to me. :rolleyes: [/B]

Come on, dude... Was that really necessary???

Does "because I feel like it" sound any less stupid?

Love. Respect.

[wdlove]

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." William Shakespeare

[wdlove]

Compassion: "One should be just before one is generous." Winston Churchill

[MacFan25]

I think that this is how it goes:

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" - Aristotle

[shadowfax]

"this far, but no further." ~Radiohead, "Backdrifts"

[scem0]

Originally posted by Groovsonic
Come on, dude... Was that really necessary???

Does "because I feel like it" sound any less stupid?


depends..... I wasn't trying to insult anybody, or christianity. I
was just saying how I felt, in a non-insulting way, I'm sorry if
anyone takes it as an insult. :(

(It is just that, to me, that is a stupid argument - I believe there
are wizards, and we are all muggles....why? Because the Harry
Potter series told me so. - I dont want to start flames, especially
not in this thread which has nothing to do with this, but I just
though I would add why I don't like people using "because the
bible tells me so" as an argument.) :)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
depends..... I wasn't trying to insult anybody, or christianity. I
was just saying how I felt, in a non-insulting way, I'm sorry if
anyone takes it as an insult. :(

(It is just that, to me, that is a stupid argument - I believe there
are wizards, and we are all muggles....why? Because the Harry
Potter series told me so. - I dont want to start flames, especially
not in this thread which has nothing to do with this, but I just
though I would add why I don't like people using "because the
bible tells me so" as an argument.) :) just to prove you have no social grace. i get it.

[scem0]

Once again, I'm sorry if anyone took offense to it. :(. I really
don't mean anything by it though.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
Once again, I'm sorry if anyone took offense to it. :(. I really
don't mean anything by it though. i am sure you didn't. but having social grace means that you know when not to speak your mind. obviously, saying something like that, especially out of context, is going to offend people. you should have known this when you were saying it, as a person who has been around other people. the odds that you haven't heard someone make a flippant remark like that (or done it youself) and then seen people's reaction is next to nothing. so as i said before, there are opininions you should maybe keep to yourself, like how you feel about porn, obviously, from another thread. ;)

[scem0]

I didn't think anyone would possibly take offense to that!

I will remove it. :)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
I didn't think anyone would possibly take offense to that!

I will remove it. :)
to the porn? you didn't say anything about it, lol. don't take it down. it's funny, because you didn't actually say anything, just hinted. it was much more subtle than you usually are. if you had been that subtle about this, we wouldn't be having this discussion, heh.

[scem0]

that's true. I took down the 'because the bible tells me so' quote.
;)

[wdlove]

Home: "We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us." Winston Churchill

[wdlove]

Poetry of Life: "Expert knowledge, however indispensible, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon a human story with all its sadness, with all its unquenchable hope." Winston Churchill

1963, British statesman Winston Churchill was made an honorary US citizen. 4/9/63 :)

[evoluzione]

Be intersting to see when he said this then...

"Americans generally do the right thing, after first exhausting all the available alternatives."
- Winston Churchill

:)

[amnesiac1984]

the best one of his that relates to recent days is

"THis is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end. It may, however, be the end of the begining"

Churchill was a genius.

[evoluzione]

he certainly was. i never knew he was so on the ball (and Bill Shankly too heh ;) )

some great quotes of his around that's for sure

[wdlove]

The Written Word: "Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing."

The Spoken Word: "The English language is one of our great sources of inspiration and strength, and no country, or combination, or power so fertile and so vivid exists anywhere else in the world."

Winston Churchill

He trully had extaordinary character!

[Doctor Q]

America and Britain are two countries separated by a common language.
-- George Bernard Shaw (sometimes attributed instead to Oscar Wilde, and even occasionally to Churchill)

[voicegy]

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Eschew obfuscation." - my bumper sticker.

[wdlove]

"O, how this spring of love resembleth. The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away!" William Shakespeare

[Foxer]

I'll add another:

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and, then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
- Melville, from Moby Dick.

I love stories about obsession and what it can do to an individual. Moby Dick, Vertigo, Bridge on the River Kwai, most of the music I listen too..

[MacFan25]

This quote is posted in one of my classes:

A person who asks a question may sound dumb for 5 min. But, a person who doesn't ask a question is dumb forever.

It goes something like that.

[Winston Smith]

Originally posted by wdlove
Change "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." Winston Churchill

And:
"It is not the strongest nor the swiftest species that survive but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

"The more I practice the luckier I get" Arnold Palmer

"We've got to change the name. Nobody is going to take it seriously." Steve Jobs (When selling the Apple I)

[Winston Smith]

Originally posted by evoluzione
not sure exactly how it goes, but something along the lines of....


"the only thing golf does, is ruin a good walk"
- Winston Churchill

I thought it was:

"Golf? A good walk spoiled" Mark Twain

[scem0]

I roll solo not with a gang
Don't carry guns kick ass wit a chain
- Missy Elliot

Yet, yee , som
Microphone testing 1-2-3
In the place to be
whusup everbody? My name is Tai Mai Shu!
and I am going to be rapping for u today jus' a lil' freestyle
but first and for most i'd like to thank Roadie style beyond compare
for geting my belt back and helping me promotion my skills
and in return i will teach them how to make one million dollars
wow, And when you hear it you be like wow! I don't belive it! So simple!
no skilled involved at all I could've thought of that my self
and then u say what? What the hell? I don't believe it.

Check it out though

-Tai Mai Shu :D

[wdlove]

Work:

"I still like work."

"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night."

Winston Churchill

[wdlove]

"Lust is but a bloody fire Kindled with unchaste desire, Fed in heart, whose flames aspire As thought do blow them, higher and higher."

William Shakespeare

[wdlove]

Religion: " I found no comfort in any of the philosophical ideas which some men parade in their hours of ease and strength and safety. They seemed only fair weather friends. I realized with awful force that no exercise of my own feeble wit and strength could save me from my enemies, and that without the assistance of that High Power which interferes in the eternal sequence of causes and effects more often than we are always prone to admit, I could never succeed. I prayed long and earnestly for help and guidance. My prayer, as it seems to me, was swiftly and wonderfully answered." Winston Churchill

[senseibiz]

"Never Mistake Kindness For Weakness"

[celaurie]

"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud."

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

[dstorey]

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is intelligence with an erection." - Victor Hugo

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." - Jim Morrison

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luthar King Jr.

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

"Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster, no errors of ignorance, no evasion from reality." - Jeff Buckley

"I don't have any allegiance to an organized religion; I have an allegiance to the gifts that I find for myself in those religions." - Jeff Buckley

"They will acuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump thier loads of garbage upon me. I face them like the man he never was and say 'The only thing I ever stole from my father was a fleeting glimpse!!' " - Jeff Buckley

"Music is my mother...and my father...it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love." - Jeff Buckley

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." - James Dean

"Only the gentle are ever really strong." - James Dean

"I think there is only one form of greatness
for man. If a man can bridge the gap
between life and death. I mean, if he can live
on after he has died, then maybe he was a great
man. To me the only success, the only
greatness, is immortality." - James Dean

"A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart." -Sarah from The Crow

"If the people we love are taken from us, the way they live on is to never stop loving them.Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever." -Sarah from The Crow

[evoluzione]

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

[evoluzione]

"Si possis recte, si non, quocumque modo rem"

-Horace


"By right means, if you can, but by any means make money"

[Foxer]

It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentile and kind. -The Smtihs

[wdlove]

"Prosperity's the very bond of love. whose flesh complexion and whose heart together affliction alters." William Shakespeare

[evoluzione]

"Information is knowledge, knowledge is power."

- unknown (well, i got it from this BBC or C4 TV documentary on hacking in the early 90s)

[dstorey]

intresting technology quotes (found as a link off Woz's page)....check the last one especially ;)

http://www.bible-reading.com/quotes.html

[wdlove]

"Love, and be silent" William Shakespeare

[MetallicPenguin]

Someone posted in this thread (might have been in the signature) something that I can't find now that I really liked. It had something like this in it:

"...the best tiime to take a step forward in dream is yesterday, the worst: tomorrow. The only compromise is today."

Can someone post the whole thing and tell me who said it?

[wdlove]

Poetry Of Life: "Expert Knowledge, however indispensible, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon a human story with all its sadness, with all its unquenchable hope." Winston Churchill

[celaurie]

Heh.

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal

[szark]

Quite a few of my favorite quotes have already been mentioned in this thread. Especially the Douglas Adams quotes.

The only other quote I have to add right now is from my sig:

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

--T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[phampton81]

'...so it goes.' -Kurt Vonnegut

[wdlove]

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful." William Shakespeare

[MrMacMan]

Futurama (the best action/comedy/cartoon/drama ever, you get if you watch adult swim):
God says (a galaxy basically):
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

You want a sound bit of that? (http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/3ACV20/19.mp3)

[topicolo]

A little science stuff:

"In God we trust. All others must have data"

[solvs]

Originally posted by Thanatoast

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

- Benjamin Franklin

Also:

Those who desire to give up freedom in
order to gain security will not have, nor
do they deserve, either one.

- Thomas Jefferson

[Sun Baked]

"Most Dems are in denial about their one glaring, elephant-siz flaw -- a lack of positive ideas."

-- Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Dec 2002

Commenting on the chorus of No's from the Democrats.

[Perceptes]

Here's a great one I saw on a Simpsons episode tonight. Not verbatim cause I can't remember exactly:

"But Marge, when I learn knew things, old things fall out of my brain! Like, remember that time I took that home wine making class and then forgot how to drive?"

[wdlove]

Rest "A change is as good as a rest." "A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using it and tiring it, just in the same way as he can wear out the elbows of his coat. There is, however, this difference between the living cells of the brain and inanimate articles: one cannot mend the frayed elbows of a coat by rubbing the sleeves or shoulder; but the tired parts of the mind can be rested by using other parts. It is not merely to switch off the lights which play upon the main and ordinary field of interest; a new field of interest must be illuminated." Winston Churchill

[celaurie]

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

Theodore Sturgeon

[MrMacMan]

I read this on a shirt:
95.7% of all static's are all made up.

:D

[garzy]

Read this somewhere:

> I work at an auto parts store, heres some recent quotes:
>
> "I've owned it ever since I bought it."
>
> "I should fix you up with my ex-girlfriend" (80 year old man)
>
> "No, I don't need any help, I'm just walking around listening to this
> stupid ****ing music." (said as Bee Gees play on store radio)
>
> "I only asked for a little vaseline when I bought this truck so it
> wouldnt hurt so bad when they ****ed me in the ass." (female
> customer angry about cost of auto parts)


edit: woooo, that was my 100th post

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by Perceptes
Here's a great one I saw on a Simpsons episode tonight. Not verbatim cause I can't remember exactly:

"But Marge, when I learn knew things, old things fall out of my brain! Like, remember that time I took that home wine making class and then forgot how to drive?"


HAHAHAHA, awesome!!!!!! he's my hero, Homer. classic.

hey, anyone know where I can get snippets of Simpsons sounds?? like Homer's classic quotes? there must be a site somewhere no?

[evoluzione]

ok, so i found this site...

http://www.bestsimpsonsquotes.homestead.com/homersounds.html

but i click on a sound and it cuts out after the first word or so, wierd (sp?)


edit: nevermind, it's fine in explorer, crap site anyways. anyone have any decent sites then??

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by MrMacman

You want a sound bit of that? (http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/3ACV20/19.mp3)
Hm... my link aint working!!!
When you do things right, people... (http://www.robotology.org/CGEF/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/3ACV20/19.mp3)
If that doesn't work, go:
http://www.robotology.org/CGEF/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/3ACV20/19.mp3

[celaurie]

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously."

Thomas Sowell

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

The Written Word: "Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence which is a noble thing."

The Spoken Word: "The English language is one of our great sources of inspiration ans strength, and no country, or combination, or power so fertile and so vivid exists anywhere else in the world."

Winston Churchill

[celaurie]

More Churchill...

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

Sir Winston Churchill , on the eve of his 75th birthday

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die." William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."

Fran Lebowitz

[wdlove]

Work: "I still like work."

"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden fligh, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night."

Winston Churchill

[sillymacgirl]

Success consists of simply getting up one more time then you fall down.

The saddest words of tongue and pen are those that ask "what might have been?".

A few lines picked up from the movie Fight Club-
It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything....Congratulations, you're one step closer to hitting bottom!....On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero....
and something else from that movie that I am currently working on in myself...the ability to let that which does not matter, truely slide. And of course, "just let go". :)

Love is patient,
Love is kind,
It always protects,
Always trusts,
Always hopes,
Always perserves,
Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:7-8

[wdlove]

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures Kings."

William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself."

Joseph Farrell

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

Religion: "I found no comfort in any of the philosophical ideas which some men parade in their hours of ease and strength and safety. They seemed only fair weather friends. I realized with awful force that no exercise of my own feeble wit and strength could save me from my enemies, and that without the assistance of the High Power which interferes in the eternal sequence of causes and effects more often than we are always prone to admit, I could never suceed. I prayed long and earnestly for help and guidance. My prayer, as it seems to me, was swiftly and wonderfully answered." Winston Churchill

[celaurie]

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

Clare Booth Luce

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"Our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time."

"There's not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself."

"Love is merely madness."

William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

Anthony Burgess

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

Loyalty: "To change your mind is one thing; to turn on those who have followed your previous advice is another."

Winston Churchill

[celaurie]

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Sir Winston Churchill

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[lmalave]

More Churchill:

To a lady that expressed shock at his obvious inebriation:

"Yes, but you are ugly, and I shall be sober in the morning."

[celaurie]

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"His part is played, and though it were too short, He did it well."

"Who are the violets now, That strew the green lap of the newcome spring?"

William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."

Dorothy Parker

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

Heritage: "Fortune is rightly malignant to those who break with the customs of the past."

Winston Churchill

[wdlove]

"No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May."

"The labor we delight in physics pain."

"O thou monster ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!"

William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five!"

Groucho Marx


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[GeneR]

Be kind, rewind... :D

[MacFan25]

Originally posted by celaurie
"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
lol...ive never heard that one...lol :D

[Angelus]

"I'm a man of simple tastes,the best will easily suffice"

That and my signatures.

[celaurie]

Originally posted by MacFan25
lol...ive never heard that one...lol :D

It's real... :p

[celaurie]

"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better!"

Laurie Anderson

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[celaurie]

"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better!"

Laurie Anderson

QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

The wilderness: "Every prophet has to come from civilizations, but every prophet has to go into wilderness. He must have a strong impression of a complex society and all that it has to give, and then he must serve periods of isolation and meditation. This is the process by which psychic dynamite is made."

Winston Churchill

[wdlove]

"East, west, north, south, or like a school broke up, each hurries toward home and sporting pace."

William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."

"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

Laurence J. Pete


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[mrjamin]

"What is it about great sex that makes me have to crap?" <- quote from Kingpin, cracks me up every time.

Check out my sig - another favourite quote of mine.

[evoluzione]

"Women, can't live with 'em....pass the beer nuts." - Norm

[celaurie]

"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."

Kin Hubbard


"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."

Michael Pritchard


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

Future: "I have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, let us tear aside the veils which hide it from our eyes and let us move onward with confidence and courage."

Winston Churchill

[celaurie]

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

Euripides


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

"Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in? Such may rail against great buildings."

William Shakespeare

[wdlove]

Death: "When the notes of life rings false, men should correct them by referring to the tuning fork of death."

"He was sustained not only by his natural buoyancy but by the sincerity of his Christian faith. During these last months the King walked with death as if death were a companion, an acquaintance whom he recognized and did not fear. In the end death came as a friend, and, after a happy day of sunshine and sport, and after 'Good night' to those who loved him best, he fell asleep as every man or woman who strives to fear God and nothing else in the world may hope to do."

Winston Churchill

[voicegy]

I'm beginning to think this is the wdlove quote post.:p

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by voicegy
I'm beginning to think this is the wdlove quote post.:p

beginning? ;)

[celaurie]

Originally posted by evoluzione
beginning? ;)

I miss posting on one day and it's suddenly wdlove's column!? I dunno. :p

[celaurie]

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."

Charles M. Schulz


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow, But vows to every purpose must not hold."

"In such business action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant more learned than the ears."

William Shakespeare

I hope that no one is upset by my posting? :(

[celaurie]

I hope that no one is upset by my posting? :(

Heh, *lol* Not at all! :P

[voicegy]

Originally posted by wdlove
I hope that no one is upset by my posting? :(

No, of course not my brother...just noticing how, er, prevelant your posts are on this topic. Not upset one bit.:p

[matthew24]

Genesis 1:1 - Revelation 22:21

[iAdam]

I’m chillin like Matt Dillion on penicillin

I have a reoccurring dream where I’m being eaten by a giant squirrel; does this make me a nut?

If the horse is dead, get off - My Social Studies Teacher

[scem0]

Originally posted by matthew24
Genesis 1:1 - Revelation 22:21

That's a long quote...... ;)

I have a reoccurring dream where I’m being eaten by a giant squirrel; does this make me a nut?

That reminds me of this guy who was selling LSD, saw some cops
comming towards him, stuffed the LCD in his pants, and ran. Since
LSD can be absorbed through the skin, he ended up taking a ****load
of it, and he still hasn't 'returned from his trip' (this happened like
10 years ago or something). He thinks he is a huge orange and he
is deathly afraid of being squeezed by anyone. Sad :( but funny :D.

[celaurie]

"We don't get offered crises, they arrive."

"I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one."

Elizabeth Janeway


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."

William Shakespeare

[mbustamante]

I like the one in my signature, and this one killed me: "I like being a pop star because you get to go to alot of overseas places, like Canada!"-Britney Spears

[wdlove]

Originally posted by mbustamante
I like the one in my signature, and this one killed me: "I like being a pop star because you get to go to alot of overseas places, like Canada!"-Britney Spears

that really shows the brain power of a blonde! :p

[wdlove]

"How every fool can play upon the word!" William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks."

H. Allen Smith


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"And oftentimes excusing a fault, doth make the fault worse by the excuse." William Shaskespeare

[void]

look down

[Doctor Q]

Graveyards are where dead people live.
--George Carlin

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.
-- Steven Wright

[celaurie]

"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man."

William Shakespeare
Hamlet; a.i, s.iii


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, make ill deeds done!"
William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood... Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."

Daniel H. Burnham


QOTD (http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html)

[wdlove]

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault, doth make the fault worse by the excuse." William Shakespeare

[celaurie]

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

Carl Sagan

[wdlove]

"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them." Thomas Mann

[celaurie]

"Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair."

Johnny Carson

[Zaid]

The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But, to return, and view the cheerful skies---
In this the task and mighty labour lies.

Virgil -- from the Aeneid

[funkywhat2]

Look at me sig:

[wdlove]

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." Robert Frost

[wdlove]

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." John F. Kennedy

[celaurie]

"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."

Robert Byrne

[wdlove]

"Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulities." Helen Keller