Your Favorite Quotes

[Sailor Steve]

"Let me tell you a little secret: People in their seventies don't really appreciate listening to children in their fifties whine about feeling old."
― Don Bradfield, my dad, when my older daughter turned 21 and I complained about my age

[Jimbuna]

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Sailor Steve]

"All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure."
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

[Jimbuna]

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Tango589]

I, madam, may be drunk, but you are ugly. I will be sober in the morning.

Churchill

[Tango589]

Oooh, yes.

Churchill

[Jimbuna]

'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.'

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"I have the right to do anything I want, as long as I don't infringe anyone else's right to do the same."
― Me




Yes, I'm going to stoop so low as to quote myself. I've said some things I like over the years, and I'm going to share 'em, whether I survive the experience or not!

[Jimbuna]

None of us is as clever as all of us.

Me (pinched off my previous CEO).

[u crank]

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Jimbuna]

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

[Aktungbby]

Yes, I'm going to stoop so low as to quote myself. I've said some things I like over the years, and I'm going to share 'em, whether I survive the experience or not!
:yeah::timeout::O:

[Jimbuna]

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behaviour is patience and moderation.

Moliere

[TarJak]

We've been outplayed, and haven't played very well. You can't get away from that. - Alistair Cook

[Sailor Steve]

“I say what I think. This gets me into trouble a lot, especially when I say what I think without thinking first.”
― Me

[Jimbuna]

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

[u crank]

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck

[Jimbuna]

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

1. You can't spell "failure" without U R A

2. There is no "I" in Team... looks like there is no "U" either

:D

Not surprising, we have a lot of Dispair.com products in our office. :up:

[Sailor Steve]

"I'd say my life sucks, but it's not that good."
―Me

[Aktungbby]

I, madam, may be drunk, but you are ugly. I will be sober in the morning.

Churchill

"Winston if you were my husband, I'd poison your drink".-Lady politico. "Madame if you were my wife I would drink it!"- Churchill

[Jimbuna]

"I'd say my life sucks, but it's not that good."
―Me

You sound a bit like Todd did once.

Me

[Tango589]

Anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Unless it bites your legs off, when it makes you shorter.

Unknown

[Jimbuna]

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

George Harrison

[Sailor Steve]

"It takes a real fool to convince himself he's intelligent."
―Me

[Jimbuna]

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Vince Lombardi

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can stop your country from doing!" -John Stewart

[u crank]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte

[Jimbuna]

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

Joel Osteen

[Sailor Steve]

"It has been said that the more we learn, the less we know. I've reached a point in my life where I've learned so much I'm now convinced I don't know anything."
―Me

[Aktungbby]

I've learned so much from my mistakes, I'll make a few more!

[Jimbuna]

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

― Dr. Seuss

[TarJak]

Knowledge may be power, but understanding is control of power. - Me

[Jimbuna]

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Khalil Gibran

[u crank]

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

Yogi Berra

[Jimbuna]

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw

[Sailor Steve]

"Quick to judge, quick to condemn, and quick to kick myself for being so stupid. That's me in a nutshell."
―Me

[Jimbuna]

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

[u crank]

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

Mark Twain

[Jimbuna]

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford

[Sailor Steve]

"'Society' has no rights. 'The Majority' has no rights. 'The Minority' has no rights. No group has rights. Only individuals have rights."
―Me

[Jimbuna]

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

[Buddahaid]

"Looking into his eyes was like watching fish in an aquarium bowl."

Barry Craig
Fictional private detective

[u crank]

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."

Adlai Stevenson

[Jimbuna]

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

[u crank]

"Experience all the frustrations of a Uboat Captain , and that's only installing the game and mods."

sober

[Jimbuna]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Some people are born stupid. I've had to work hard my whole life to get this way."
―Me

That was the original version. When I quoted it to one of my passengers in my ski van he said "And you've done a job you can be proud of!"

Then I started adding a variant of that: "And I'm proud of the job I've done."

When I quoted that longer version to my dad he had another add-on: "And if you don't like it, I can try harder." :D

[Jimbuna]

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

[u crank]

"If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize."

Muhammad Ali

[TarJak]

I did not see it coming but the more I see of England's cricket, the more I realise it is going to be a 5-0 whitewash. - Ian Botham

[Jimbuna]

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

[Sailor Steve]

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself."
―Sir Richard Francis Burton

[Jimbuna]

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

[u crank]

"If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments."

Flip Wilson

[Jimbuna]

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

[Sailor Steve]

"If you want to see how little they accomplished, try downloading every mod you can find without the game installed and see how far you get."
―John Channing, responding to a post trashing the SH5 development team

[Jimbuna]

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

Elayne Boosler

[Sailor Steve]

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope."
―Winston Churchill

[Jimbuna]

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

[Tango589]

Football, it's a funny old game.

Jimmy Greaves

[Gerald]

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

-Albert Einstein

[Tango589]

Git 'R Done

Larry the Cable Guy

[Platapus]

"If a man is kissing a pretty girl while driving safely, he is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." -- attributed to practically everyone at one time or another.

[u crank]

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Norm Crosby

[Sailor Steve]

That's one of Jim's favorites too. :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Sailor Steve]

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
―Winston Churchill

[Gerald]

Without music, life would be a mistake.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

[Jimbuna]

Stop following me...I'm lost!!

Jimbuna

[Gerald]

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

-Marie Curie

[Jimbuna]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

[u crank]

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov

[Jimbuna]

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Marilyn Monroe

[Sailor Steve]

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
―Christopher Dawson

[Jimbuna]

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

[Platapus]

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain,
Pudd'nhead Wilson

[Jimbuna]

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

[Platapus]

To err is human
To forgive is not SAC policy


SAC - Strategic Air Command

General Curtis Lemay was CINCSAC and was being briefed on why for the 14th time, a nuclear training exercise had to be canceled due to aircraft maintenance problems.

"I have neither the inclination nor the desire to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent." :o

[Sailor Steve]

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done his or her homework."
―Thomas Edison

[Jimbuna]

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

[u crank]

Life is short, live it up.

Nikita Khrushchev

[Jimbuna]

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

[Sailor Steve]

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
― Albert Einstein

[Tango589]

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Groucho Marx

[Jimbuna]

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[u crank]

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

[Jimbuna]

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

[Sailor Steve]

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde
"Opium is the religion of the masses."
-John Lennon

:O:

[Sailor Steve]

"There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair."
― Albert Einstein

[Jimbuna]

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

[Sailor Steve]

"Fear always springs from ignorance."
―Ralph Waldo Emerson

[u crank]

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

[Madox58]

"Well Buddy.. just pull that vehicle behind me—I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going!"

PFC Martin, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment at the Battle of the Bulge.

[Jimbuna]

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

[Sailor Steve]

“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.”
―Epictetus

[Jimbuna]

A wise man would have answered at least one of the three attempts to contact him on Skype.

Me

[Sailor Steve]

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
―William Feather

[Jimbuna]

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

[Gerald]

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

-Viktor E. Frankl

[Jimbuna]

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

[Sailor Steve]

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
―Henry Ford

[Jimbuna]

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Teresa of Avila

[u crank]

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Cyril Cusack

[Platapus]

A twofer

"Almost all nations observe almost all principles of international law and almost all of their obligations almost all of the time."

"The choice in the Bill of Rights of the word ‘person’ rather than ‘citizen’ was not fortuitous; nor was the absence of a geographical limitation. Both reflect a commitment to respect the individual rights of all human beings.”

Louis Henkin

[Jimbuna]

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Sailor Steve]

“Any government big enough to give you anything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.”
―Gerald R. Ford.

[Jimbuna]

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

[fireftr18]

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

I've always said the smartest character on Hogan's Heroes was Sgt Schulz. :haha:

[Jimbuna]

I've always said the smartest character on Hogan's Heroes was Sgt Schulz. :haha:

Rgr that :)

[August]

I've always said the smartest character on Hogan's Heroes was Sgt Schulz. :haha:

Rgr that :)

Of course. Not just anyone can be owner of a toy factory! :)

[Jimbuna]

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Platapus]

Don't litter. Spay & neuter your pets.
Unknown Author

[Jimbuna]

Don't litter. Spay & neuter your pets.
Unknown Author

Cats revenge!!

Claude Balls

[Aktungbby]

Cats revenge!!

Claude Balls

Pussy Galore! Ian Fleming

[Gerald]

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

-George Bernard Shaw

[Jimbuna]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

[u crank]

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

Albert Einstein

[Jimbuna]

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

[Sailor Steve]

"Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads."
―Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

[Platapus]

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams

[Jimbuna]

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Admiral Halsey]

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" - David Farragut.

[Aktungbby]

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" - David Farragut.

(Glad my two posts yesterday inspired you!:O:) "When yer mad, count to four; If yer really mad...SWEAR!"- Mark Twain

[Sailor Steve]

"Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley."
―Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

[Jimbuna]

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

[Sailor Steve]

"You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns."
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

[Jimbuna]

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

[donna52522]

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"

Edgar Allan Poe

[Jimbuna]

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

[Sailor Steve]

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
―Ghandi

[Sailor Steve]

"Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side."
―Gandhi

[Jimbuna]

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

[Aktungbby]

"Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp"-Tom Clancy wsj;p.d4 1/10/14

[MGR1]

Here's a seventeenth century one:

"Falmouth was there, I know not to what act
(Some say 'twas to grow Duke too by contact).
An untaught Bullet in it's wanton Scope
Quashes him all to pieces, and his Hope
Such as his Rise such was his Fall, unprais'd:
A Chance shot sooner took than Chance him rais'd:
His Shattered Head the fearless Duke distains
And gave the last first proof that he had Brains"

The satirist Andrew Marvell on the death of the Earl of Falmouth aboard the Duke of York's flagship at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665.

Mike.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

Ron White

[Sailor Steve]

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
―Gandhi

[Jimbuna]

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

[Sailor Steve]

"Nonviolence is not a weapon for the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
―Gandhi

[Platapus]

If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.
Karel Capek

[Jimbuna]

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

[midat04]

From an old Naval Intelligence Officer.....one whom I should have listened to much more than I did.....(Not sure he really owned it, but he lived it..)

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER......

My Dad....... Capt USN (ret) NIS, DIA, FICEUR,

[MGR1]

“I had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else.”

Oliver Cromwell.

[Sailor Steve]

"There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations."
―Gandhi

[Jimbuna]

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

[u crank]

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Herbie Hancock

[Jimbuna]

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

[MGR1]

“...you have been sat to long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go!.”

Cromwell addressing the Rump Parliament, April 1653.

[Jimbuna]

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

[TarJak]

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Scott Adams

[fireftr18]

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

Looks like I'm not an intellectual. :O:

[Sailor Steve]

"To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy."
―Gandhi

[Jimbuna]

Looks like I'm not an intellectual. :O:

Nor is Billy Connolly :)

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Billy Connolly

[MGR1]

"You have done your duty in this remonstrance, now obey my orders. I say, lay me alongside the French Admiral!"

Sir Edward Hawke at the Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759.

[Platapus]

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. - Abe Lincoln

[Jimbuna]

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Marilyn Monroe

[Sailor Steve]

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."
―Jean Giraudoux

Or, as Timothy Leary put it, "Be sincere, whether you mean it or not."

[Aktungbby]

"I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know."-Greta Garbo

[Jimbuna]

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

[Sailor Steve]

"It is better to say 'This one thing I do" than to say 'These forty things I dabble in.'"
―Washington Gladden

[Biggles]

"Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action."


"Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them."

"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."

All from Catch-22, the best book ever put on paper.

[Jimbuna]

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

[Red October1984]

I finally found the text to this. It's from the movie Lone Survivor. Not sure if Shane Patton ever said this, but in the movie, the actor playing him does....and I like it.

“I’ve been around the world twice, talked to everyone once. I’ve been to three world fairs. I am a hard bodied, hairy-chested, rootin, tootin, shootin, parachutin, demolition double cap crimping Frogman.

There ain’t nothing I can’t do.

No sky too high, no sea too rough, no (censor) too tough. I’ve learned a lot of lessons in my life. Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet. I drive all kinds of trucks. 2x’s, 4x’s, 6x’s even those big trucks that bend and go TSSHHTT TSSHHTT when you step on the brakes.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

I’m a lover, I’m a fighter, I’m a UDT/SEAL Diver. If your feeling froggy than you better jump because this Frogman has been there, done that and is going back for more.”

[Aktungbby]

"It's useless to hold a man to anything he says when he's in love, drunk, or running for office"- Shirley Maclean

[Jimbuna]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

W. C. Fields

[Sailor Steve]

"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 tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
―Hermann Göring

[Platapus]

“Lord, we ain’t what we want to be;

we ain’t what we ought to be;

we ain’t what we gonna be, but,

thank God, we ain’t what we was.”
Anonymous, former slave, preacher
Quoted by MLK Jr, 1959 in Hawaii

[reignofdeath]

This thread still lives?!?! Holy cow. Nice to see I started one of these threads.

"Youre supposed to be there 15 prior, so to be safe, Ensign said 15 prior to that, then Chief wanted all of third platoon 15 prior, so screw it, show up at 5 instead of 6, just to be safe. I hate the Navy." - My LPO.

I swear, the Chain can really mess things up sometimes.

another note, I got capped recently :arrgh!:

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

Napoleon Bonaparte

[Jimbuna]

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Cary Grant

[Sailor Steve]

"Democracy means sticking to the rules even when the referee is not looking."
―Manfred Hausmann

[u crank]

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

[Jimbuna]

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

[Platapus]

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

That has always been one of my favourite LBJ quotes. :up:

[Dvorakian Sy]

Save the ****/crap for the toilet....!

Anon

[Sailor Steve]

"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

[Peter Cremer]

If at first you don't succeed, just go do something else.

- also-

Those who can, do. Those who can't, become politicians.

[Platapus]

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”


- K'ung Fu-tzu

[Jimbuna]

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Kennedy

[Sailor Steve]

^ ^ ^

Kennedy freely admitted at the time that he was quoting the originator, George Bernard Shaw.

[Sailor Steve]

"A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

[Sailor Steve]

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Alex]

http://b8.uk.icdn.ru/c/compdrag/1/35929311Cjk.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
―Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

[TarJak]

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
- Steve Irwin

Crikey!

[Jimbuna]

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Bryant H. McGill

[Sailor Steve]

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Aktungbby]

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot...."
- Autobiography of Mark Twain

[TarJak]

“The only cure for a real hangover is death.”
― Robert Benchley

[Aktungbby]

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”― Napoleon Bonaparte (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/210910.Napoleon_Bonaparte)

[Jimbuna]

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

[Sailor Steve]

"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Aktungbby]

" I have never been able to understand why a Republican contributor ia 'fat cat' and a Democrat contributor of the same amount is a 'public spirited philanthropist"-Ronald Reagan

[Jimbuna]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein

[Platapus]

Gratitude: that quality which the Canine Mongrel seldom lacks; which the Human Mongrel seldom possesses!
Lion P.S. Rees

[Jimbuna]

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

[Sailor Steve]

"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors...and miss."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[BossMark]

You would never be able to live down to your reputation, but I see you're doing your best.

[Sailor Steve]

Is that aimed at me, or is it a quote from somebody?

[Sailor Steve]

"Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

[Tango589]

The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.

Victor Lewis-Smith

[Sailor Steve]

"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

[Sailor Steve]

"Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

[donna52522]

"Always burrow money from a pessimist, he won't expect it back."

Oscar Wilde

[Sailor Steve]

"Does history record any case in which the majority was right?"
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

[tmccarthy]

“Never complain and never explain.” Benjamin Disraeli

[Platapus]

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. -- Sammy Clemens

[Jimbuna]

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[u crank]

“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

[BossMark]

I'm impressed, I've never met such a small mind inside such a big head before.

[Jimbuna]

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics."
―Robert A. Heinlein



I'm impressed, I've never met such a small mind inside such a big head before.
Source? As in "who said it"?

[donna52522]

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

Demetri Martin

[les green01]

im so poor i couldn't buy tights for a humming bird

[Platapus]

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy.
You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. - G. K. Chesterton

[Aktungbby]

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7190.Ana_s_Nin)

[Buddahaid]

I'm impressed, I've never met such a small mind inside such a big head before.

I don't care who the quote is from it's funny as hell. Right up there with "All hat and no cattle".
:haha:

[Jimbuna]

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

[Sailor Steve]

"Learning isn't a means to an end. It's an end in and of itself."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Platapus]

Live your life in such a manner that if someone speaks ill of you, no one will believe them -- Pretty much everyone's Grandmother.

[Sailor Steve]

"Never insult anyone by accident."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[u crank]

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[Platapus]

You can't spell Failure without URA. - Dispair.com

[Jimbuna]

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[TarJak]

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. - George Mikes

[Jimbuna]

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

Kevin Rudd

[Sailor Steve]

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Sailor Steve]

"Place your clothes and your weapons where you can find them in the dark."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Winston Churchill

[u crank]

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

[Jimbuna]

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Platapus]

If you ever see a man hit, or kick a dog, you whoop that man's ass...understand? - J.C. Easterling