Your Favorite Quotes

[reignofdeath]

The premise is simple,

You comment on the above quote something about it.

And give your own that you like, with proper dues to the person who you heard it from of course. I'll start.

My favorite of all time, keeps me going when I box.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they have been given, rather than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." -This quote was written by the author of 'The Difference' also used by Muhammad Ali:arrgh!:

[Nippelspanner]

That is pretty impressive and motivating, to me at least. Nothing to add.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

*First read in the fantastic book: "Qubth ut Allah - The fist of God" by Frederik Forsyth

[Betonov]

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.




And anything else from Teddy Roosevelt

[Jimbuna]

The 26th POTUS and the one most childrens favourite toy 'Teddy Bear' was named after.

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

Winston Churchill

[Stealhead]

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."

Mark Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

Mark Twain

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

Teddy Roosevelt

[Sailor Steve]

I have a list of several hundred "favorites", and it grows by at least one per month. I change my sig every month, and it always comes from that list, so look at my sig for this month's quote.

Here's one I like that's too long to use as a sig:

"The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances."
-Harry Browne, 1996 Libertarian presidential candidate

And anything else from Teddy Roosevelt
Who absolutely hated being called "Teddy".

[Stealhead]

I have a list of several hundred "favorites", and it grows by at least one per month. I change my sig every month, and it always comes from that list, so look at my sig for this month's quote.

Here's one I like that's too long to use as a sig:

"The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances."
-Harry Browne, 1996 Libertarian presidential candidate


Who absolutely hated being called "Teddy".

He did say list your favorites so I say fire way Steve just don't list them all in one post.Just make sure that the grammar is impeccable.:D

[GT182]

From my grandfather.... "Wish in one hand and Poop in the other. And see what you get first."

[Stealhead]

From my grandfather.... "Wish in one hand and Poop in the other. And see what you get first."
:hmmm:

Poo hands?

[Jimbuna]

From my grandfather.... "Wish in one hand and Poop in the other. And see what you get first."

Dirty fingernails and thanks for the edit :up:

[Armistead]

"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair or beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."

Deadwood Al Swearengen

[Dammit_Carl!]

"No boom-boom with soul brother. Soul brother too beaucoup" - Vietnamese prostitute in Full Metal Jacket and something I've never, ever heard from anyone I've ever dated.

Hmmm...maybe its because I'm white or something?

:hmmm:

[Ducimus]

"No boom-boom with soul brother. Soul brother too beaucoup" - Vietnamese prostitute in Full Metal Jacket and something I've never, ever heard from anyone I've ever dated.


Yeah, and he ends up showing her and goes, "okay... okay".


Now i could think of a bunch of quotes, but only one comes to mind right now, and I have no idea who originally said it. Hell id be surprised if anyone knows where it came from, but I first heard it years and years ago, and have found myself repeating it often enough through the years since i first heard it.

"You can wish in one hand and crap* in the other; see which one fills up first".
- author unknown.



*crap, synonym for 4 letter explenative that starts with an S and ends with a T the forum mods don't like us to use.
** I've sometimes substituted "wish" for "Pray" when i thought it appropriate.

[yubba]

Lifes like a dog sled team,, if your not the lead dog the view never changes...:o Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone walked across your grave.

[Oberon]

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

M.K. Ghandi

[Feuer Frei!]

Favourite quote? In my sig:)

Although it was a toss-up between that and this one:
"Minds are like parachutes, they only operate when they are open".

[Sailor Steve]

"Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law."
-Edward Abbey

[Takeda Shingen]

A fearful man is always hearing things. -- Sophocles

[Stealhead]

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


In modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

[Madox58]

'We began as a bunch of kids, sleeping in an old abandoned beach house, eating sardines, cheese, and crackers, playing Wolfpack on a caseless Commodore 64 we got from a pawn shop, waiting for our big break."

Neal Stevens

(Am I a shameless suckup or what?)
:D

[Dowly]

"No, it didn't have to look like a complete pile of wank."
-User "SM" @AvPGalaxy, commenting on the appearance of the PredAlien in AVP:R

[HundertzehnGustav]

Never mind the fancy manuuvers - just go straight at them.

(or so)
nelson

[Nippelspanner]

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

M.K. Ghandi

Very good one, thanks!

[Jimbuna]

Yeah, and he ends up showing her and goes, "okay... okay".


Now i could think of a bunch of quotes, but only one comes to mind right now, and I have no idea who originally said it. Hell id be surprised if anyone knows where it came from, but I first heard it years and years ago, and have found myself repeating it often enough through the years since i first heard it.

"You can wish in one hand and crap* in the other; see which one fills up first".
- author unknown.



*crap, synonym for 4 letter explenative that starts with an S and ends with a T the forum mods don't like us to use.
** I've sometimes substituted "wish" for "Pray" when i thought it appropriate.

GT182 #8 :)

[Catfish]

"Freedom begins between the ears."


"When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about."


"God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore."


"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners." [... and secret services] (added by me )

Edward Abbey


"He who does not know history is doomed to repeat it."
Someone's BS.

"No one has ever learned from history."
Me.

[Armistead]

“It is well that war is so terrible, we should grow too fond of it.”
Lee to Longstreet at Fredericksburg.

[Dammit_Carl!]

"If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em." - me

"Destiny's powerful hand has made the bed of my future, and it's up to me to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero. To right wrongs, and to pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evildoers everywhere. And you don't fight destiny. No sir. And, you don't eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all... scratchy." - the Tick

"Oh, that's just, uh – Boom, baby, boom! I'm the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight!" - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight

[Jimbuna]

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte

[Sonarman]

'We began as a bunch of kids, sleeping in an old abandoned beach house, eating sardines, cheese, and crackers, playing Wolfpack on a caseless Commodore 64 we got from a pawn shop, waiting for our big break."

Neal Stevens

(Am I a shameless suckup or what?)
:D

Actually "Wolfpack" ie the Novalogic game was never actually released on the C64 it made it's appearance on the Amiga!!!:haha:

There was a budget arcade/strategy game called "Wulfpack" (http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/wulfpack) on the C64 but I'm not sure it was ever released outside the UK.

[Dowly]

You really want to know what I want? You really want to know the truth? I
want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see
the Centauri stretch forth their hand again, and command the stars! I-I want
a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power. I want to stop running through my
life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to– to look back, or to look
forward. I want us to be what we used to BE! I want…I want it all back, the
way that it was!
- Londo Mollari (Babylon 5)

[kiwi_2005]

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. unkown

and one other: Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?

[Sailor Steve]

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

[reignofdeath]

Hmm I like that one quite a bit:up:

[Jimbuna]

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand

[Randomizer]

On the bias inherent in any discussion:
I know that history will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
On politics in general:
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell in Animal Farm
On creationism and religion:
The great thing about science is that it works whether you believe in it or not.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Sailor Steve]

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-Bertrand Russell

[Gerald]

There are two things that are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. However, I'm not quite sure the former.

-Albert Einstein

[Armistead]

"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Baltasar Gracian


If you want the best common sense qoutes, read Gracian.

[Jimbuna]

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

[Dowly]

"You have now gone deeper into the tunnel.
And you have reached a place where you should never have come.
Down here radiation is everywhere.
You do not know it, but something is happening to your body right now.
It is beyond your senses.
You feel nothing.
You smell nothing.
An invisible light is shining right through you.
It is the last glow of my civilization, that harvested the powers of the universe."

From "Into Eternity" documentary, spoken to someone in the far future who,
out of curiousity or otherwise might have found and entered the "Onkalo" nuclear waste repository.

[Platapus]

So hard to pick one favourite.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt


And here is one that seems to become more appropriate these days

These are dangerous times. When we are afraid, we want to be protected

Since we can not protect ourselves against such horrors as mass murder by bombers, we are tempted to run to the government.

A government that is always willing to trade the promise of security in exchange for our freedom, which left as always the question:

How much freedom are we willing to relinquish for such a bald promise? -- Gerry Spence

One could do a find/replace and make this up to date. :yep:

[Platapus]

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

and probably 99% of the shots you make. But at least people won't laugh at you when you don't make the shots you don't take. :D

[Jimbuna]

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

[Simmy]

"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War"

by George Santayana - 1922
Many think it was Plato but no one can find that he ever said it.

[Jimbuna]

"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War"

by George Santayana - 1922
Many think it was Plato but no one can find that he ever said it.

Whoever it was....a great quote.

[Sailor Steve]

“It's a universal law – intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Or, to put it in simpler terms:

“Education doesn't make you smarter.”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

[Tchocky]

A couple from Flann O'Brien

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at a crossroads.

No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard seat with a very sad expression on his face, listening to the drone of bluebottle squadrons carrying out a raid on the yellow cheese sandwich.

[Jimbuna]

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Lao-Tze

[soopaman2]

You can't pour syrup on (feces) and call it pancakes.

Even if Dennis Rodman is a great friend to the feces.
:D

[Jimbuna]

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

[kiwi_2005]

Eventually everybody has to die, except Elvis" Dave Barry

[Stealhead]

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.



Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Both by Aristotle.

[Jimbuna]

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]

Stealhead's second Aristotle quote put me in mind of an old favorite:

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

[Platapus]

"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 a democracy, 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. 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." Hermie Goering.

[Jimbuna]

“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.”


Dan Quayle

[Sailor Steve]

I just stumbled on this.

“Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.”
-William Bennett

[Platapus]

At any one time, 2/3rds of the world is awake and some of them are up to no good -- attributed to a Marine General Officer.

[Platapus]

“When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” - Sergeant Leonard Matlovich

[Jimbuna]

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson

[geetrue]

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

Now that is funny and true at the same time :haha:

This is why I love subsim and read Jimbuna's post

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I met a man one time, a very rich man, that I was trying to sell a very expensive boat to ...

when he asked me a question that I didn't have the answer to.

So I said, "To be honest with you I don't know the answer"

He, being a rich old Texan said,

"Son, never say "to be honest with you" for it means that sometimes
you are not" ... old rich Texan

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

"On the outside I was straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to become a crook. Tim Robbin in The Shawshank Redemption.

"Some say that his tears are adhesive, and if he caught fire he would burn for a thousand days, all we know is he's called THE STIG!" Jeremy Clarkson introducing the The Stig on Top Gear.

"Data, Data, Data, I cannot make bricks without clay." Sherlock Holmes in The Mystery of the Copper Beeches.

"Now thats the first thing you've said right." "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!" Abbott and Costello in The Naughty Nineties. If you havn't seen the clip you should watch it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M

[Dowly]

The 'Ladder' speech from Lord Baelish in the end of s03e06 of Game of Trones was awesome.

*** CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES AND SPOILERS ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2sAai3WV2I

Love it.

[bertieck476]

"You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead"

Stan Laurel (Brats)

[WernherVonTrapp]

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[donna52522]

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

Pope Paul VI

[Platapus]

"I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job." - Marion Robert Morrison

[Jimbuna]

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

[Herr-Berbunch]

Manners are used to include people, etiquette is used to exclude people.

Finally found it, I'd put it in Steve's Observations On Life thread that rapidly turned into a quote thread.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=200450

[Sailor Steve]

Yeah, that turned into a disaster.

Anyway...

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[WernherVonTrapp]

"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."
-Mary McLeod Bethune

[Jimbuna]

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

[gago]

"Happines only real when shared"
- Chris McCandles aka. Alexander Supertramp

Seen in the movie Into the Wild. A must see!

[Armistead]

I asked my dog "what is the secret to life?" He barked, took a dump, then ate it.

[WernherVonTrapp]

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
-Helen Keller

[Platapus]

"I've found that evil usually triumphs...unless good is very, very careful" - Dr. Leonard McCoy.

[u crank]

“Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.”

Alvin Plantinga

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

[WernherVonTrapp]

"A man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
-James Truslow Adams

[Jimbuna]

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

[ExFishermanBob]

Apropos of nothing at all, other than a pleasant evening sinking allied shipping and drinking Frascati, what are your favourite sayings, quotes?

One of mine would be (translation from Gaidhlig):

No knowledge have the men of the land, of how the men of the sea live. (naturally "men" = "adult human")

[Dread Knot]

"Only a fool fights in a burning house."

--Captain Kang

http://i1.tribune.com.pk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/586358-RIP-1375629368-748-640x480.jpg

[TarJak]

Sláinte!

[Tchocky]

Sláinte!


:up:


"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

[Platapus]

To be wise, observe for observation is the source of all wisdom.

[Admiral Halsey]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis


"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years" - Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles.


"Of all the machines mankind has ever made the steam engine was the only one to ever have a soul." - Me.

[fireftr18]

"Only a fool fights in a burning house."

--Captain Kang



Hey, I resemble that remark! :D

"Who's the bigger fool? The fool or the one that follows him?" Obi-Wan Kenobe

[Herr-Berbunch]

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

Mike Leigh (from Naked)

[antikristuseke]

Semper in merda sumus
altitudo solum variat

Should roughly translate to we are always in ****, only the depth varies.
And there is a Estonian phrase to go with it

Kui oled kaelani sitas, ära lase pead norgu

Which would be if you are up to your neck in ****, don't let your head drop

[Sailor Steve]

"The search function is your friend."
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=202505&highlight=favorite+quotes
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=88631&highlight=favorite+quotes

[u1950]

:up:


"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx +1 :up:

[Rockstar]

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

http://thumbs.anyclip.com/taixbWCqG/tmb_244_480.jpg

[u crank]

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

-Maya Angelou

[Ducimus]

"Complacency kills."
- Me :O:

[Jimbuna]

"The search function is your friend."
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=202505&highlight=favorite+quotes
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=88631&highlight=favorite+quotes

Like the man said...merged.

[Rockstar]

"Don’t let the fear of taking the time to the use the search function stand in the way of starting a new topic. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

“Know the true value of time; use the search function before starting a new topic and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time, a man of intellect uses the search function before starting a new topic.”

[u crank]

"Don’t let the fear of taking the time to the use the search function stand in the way of starting a new topic. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

“Know the true value of time; use the search function before starting a new topic and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time, a man of intellect uses the search function before starting a new topic.”

:har:

Can I quote you on that?:O:

[Rockstar]

They're not really mine. I just made a few changes to some already famous and not so famous quotes. I was thinking of something more sarcastic towards moderators for merging the thread, in jest mind you. Like when they got on some for using asterisks :) But I figured I ought to support the cause this time.

[Jimbuna]

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I wanted a second opinion. He said "Okay, your ugly too."

Rodney Dangerfield

[Platapus]

What is an opinion worth? Well when you put in your two cents, people will only give you a penny for your thoughts. :D

[Jimbuna]

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Alex]

On politics in general:
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell in Animal Farm
Antisemite ! :stare:

:haha:

“It's a universal law – intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
I like.
And this author definitely is an interesting one.

Well, other than that :

[Tribesman]

Favourite quote....
Nazis, what a bunch of braindead losers.

[Gabroma]

My favourite is "Run Silent, Run deep!"

[Jimbuna]

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

[TarJak]

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Ich bin ein Berliner - JFK

Also los, Augen zu, und hinein! - General Fritz Bayerlein ("OK, let's go! Shut your eyes and go in!")

[Jimbuna]

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

[Platapus]

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Crikey, these are good words for everyone to learn.:yep:

It should be engraved on congress. Literally... on their foreheads. So that when they are having their tantrums, they will be forced to read these words.

If we can't get this wisdom through their heads, perhaps the best we can do is get this wisdom on their heads.

[Platapus]

Since all the cool kids are quoting JFK...

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

[Jimbuna]

Crikey, these are good words for everyone to learn.:yep:

It should be engraved on congress. Literally... on their foreheads. So that when they are having their tantrums, they will be forced to read these words.

If we can't get this wisdom through their heads, perhaps the best we can do is get this wisdom on their heads.

Something similar should also be hung above the entrance to Parliament.

[Tribesman]

Something similar should also be hung above the entrance to Parliament.
Politicians heads?

[Bilge_Rat]

"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."

-JFK.

[Platapus]

Here is a good un

Superbus est, qui loquitur in prouerbiis Latinis.


Translation: Snobby is he who quotes Latin proverb :D

[Jimbuna]

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

[fireftr18]

Politicians heads?

Yes, by all means!

:k_rofl:

On second thought, let's not, it would make a big mess.

[Armistead]

I would rather have an enemy that tells me he hates me to my face rather than have a friend that talks behind my back.

[Jimbuna]

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

[Tribesman]

Before you criticise someone walk a mile in their shoes, that way you put a good distance between you and you have their shoes.

[Jimbuna]

Someone owes me a sum of money....I was spot on the mark.

Me

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
Mark Twain

"Do you know that in the Navy one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?!" Captain John "Lucky Jack" Aubrey from the book, The Fortune of War

[Red October1984]

Favorite Bible Quote

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." - Psalm 23:4

And I think Sun Tzu has some great ones. My favorite is probably this one:

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

Although, I like these too:

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"

"A leader leads by example, not by force"

“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”

"Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength."

I've not yet read The Art of War but I've read excerpts and tons of quotes. I want to read the whole thing sometime. :yeah:

[TarJak]

If bacon grew on trees I'd be a vegetarian. Homer Simpson

[Jimbuna]

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

Albert Einstein

[Tango589]

Honi soit que mal-y-pence

Do unto others before they do it to you.

[Jimbuna]

Spectemur Agendo

Once the motto of Dishforth Police Training Centre and a few others.

[ExFishermanBob]

Firstly, my apologies for not searching (I blame the Frascati). In apology, I offer this from Stan and Ollie (currently serving in my torpedo-room as far as I can tell):-


Ollie: "Why did you get a veterinarean ?"
Stan: "Well I didn't think his religion would make any difference."

[Jimbuna]

I make that number three in recent times.

Interesting times ahead then.

[Platapus]

Then there is the Platapus family motto (starting with my generation that is)

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us. :D

[Bilge_Rat]

"I just missed your heart!":

-Hanna

[Jimbuna]

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

[Jimbuna]

Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle

[STEED]

You don't lay the table you set the table, you lay women.

A French mature woman ringing in to a talk radio station last night talking about quotes. Made me laugh. :har:

[Jimbuna]

Avoir une araignée au plafond http://imgcash1.imageshack.us/img87/9238/artistsmileywp8.gif

[STEED]

Avoir une araignée au plafond http://imgcash1.imageshack.us/img87/9238/artistsmileywp8.gif


Have a spider on the ceiling..Well thats what my translator said.

[Jimbuna]

Have a spider on the ceiling..Well thats what my translator said.

Correct :yeah:

Having a spider on the ceiling means the same as the American expression, 'you have a screw loose'.

[STEED]

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike, you just go in every day and do it really half-assed - that's the American way"..

Homer Simpson.




Here is the proof..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vbI-P6mFbg

[Jimbuna]

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Neil Armstrong

[Tribesman]

Its a small step for man or a big step for a dwarf.

[Jimbuna]

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland

[Platapus]

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland

Try to be like a duck

Calm and cool on the surface

Paddling like hell underneath.

[Tango589]

The problem with most relationships is communication. Too much communication.

Homer Simpson.

[fireftr18]

Where do murderers go? Who's to doom when the judge himself is taken before the bar?

Captain Ahab

[Armistead]

Do whatever floats your boat as long as it doesn't sink mine.

[Sailor Steve]

"Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.”
― Edward Abbey

[Tango589]

Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King!

The Riot Act

(repealed 18 July 1973)

[Jimbuna]

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

[Sailor Steve]

Good one!

That's what I said when I saw The Fellowship of the Ring: "I have one word for Mr. Jackson - 'intermission'!"

[Jimbuna]

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

[u crank]

Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa
Our Love’s A-gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah”

Rock-a-day Johnny

[Jimbuna]

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

[TarJak]

If it feels good do it, if it feels bad do it again.

[Jimbuna]

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

[Sailor Steve]

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
― John Adams, letter to Jonathan Jackson, October 2, 1780

[Jimbuna]

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

[Armistead]

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

[Jimbuna]

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

[U505995]

"If you shake it more than three times you're playing with it."
-unknown

[Jimbuna]

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Platapus]

Women are like fine wines

They need to be kept restrained on a rack in an underground special room. :D

[Sailor Steve]

"See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of the taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs."
― Dave Barry

[Platapus]

"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future."

[Jimbuna]

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

[Platapus]

"Modern women. They have been like that throughout the ages."

[Jimbuna]

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Francis

[Platapus]

"All of you of Earth are idiots!"

[Jimbuna]

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton

[Penguin]

A brilliant site, where the author draws cartoons to great quotes: http://zenpencils.com/archives/

[Sailor Steve]

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton
*ahem* That would be Alexander Hamilton the British journalist, who said it in 1978, not Alexander Hamilton the American Founding Father, who never said it at all. :sunny:

[Bubblehead1980]

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."-Winston Churchhill

[Jimbuna]

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

C. S. Lewis

[soopaman2]

" I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

Douglas McArthur

A kinda famous (old fart) guy.:D

[Jimbuna]

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

[Sailor Steve]

"The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances."
― Harry Browne, 1996 Libertarian presidential candidate

[Jimbuna]

[/URL]

The only source of knowledge is experience.


Albert Einstein
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[TarJak]

It's my thread and I'll derail it if I want to. - TarJak 2013

[Jimbuna]

Thirteen point infraction and ten days in the brig.

Jimbuna 2013

[Platapus]

"These are dangerous times. When we are afraid, we want to
be protected, and since we cannot protect ourselves against such
horrors as mass murder by bombers, we are tempted to run to
the government, a government that is always willing to trade the
promise of protection for our freedom, which left, as always,
the question: How much freedom are we willing to relinquish for
such a bald promise?" Gerry Spence

[Sailor Steve]

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom thy consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
― Aristotle

[Jimbuna]

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

[Sailor Steve]

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
― Albert Einstein, My First Impressions of the U.S.A., 1921

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”

Mark Twain

[Jimbuna]

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

[Sailor Steve]

"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.”
― Margot Fonteyn

[Tango589]

Outside of a dog, a book is a mans' best friend. Inside if a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

[Tango589]

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute, he who doesn't ask is a fool forever.

or

It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Who knows what to think?

[Jimbuna]

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

Abraham Lincoln

[Sailor Steve]

“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
―Tryon Edwards

[Tango589]

“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
―Tryon Edwards

I'm definately in the second part of your quote. My wife says I'll never suffer a mid-life crisis as I'm never going to leave adolescence!:rock:

[Jimbuna]

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

I guess that really is your favorite. :O:

[Tango589]

Man who catch fly with chopsticks has too much spare time on hands.

Almost Confucius

[Jimbuna]

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

[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

[Jimbuna]

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton

[Sailor Steve]

Another "favorite", I see. :O:

[Jimbuna]

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

[Sailor Steve]

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Nicola Abbagnano

[Platapus]

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future Jeron Criswell King

all you of Earth are idiots. Eros.

[TarJak]

Do you realise that Bob Menzies now knows what really happened to Harold Holt? - Russell Guy

[TarJak]

Sir Humphrey: Open government, Prime Minister. Freedom of information. We should always tell the press freely and frankly anything that they could easily find out some other way.

[Jimbuna]

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

[Sailor Steve]

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
― Edward Abbey

[Jimbuna]

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

Winston Churchill

[raymond6751]

Eye or an eye...good one.

I've got two, but anonymous unless my late mother counts- as she taught me these two:

"I see", said the blind man as he ran into the lamp post. "You're a liar", said the dummy.

and

The trouble with history is that it takes so long.

[TarJak]

Sir Humphrey: Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't, they can't certainly know that although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would!

[Aktungbby]

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.Nicola Abbagnano
In war everything is simple; but sometimes the simple thing becomes difficult...Von Clausewitz ON WAR
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.Mark Twain
"Truth is a handmaiden, accompanied by a bodyguard of lies." Winston Spencer Churchill
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.Winston Churchill
"You did'nt have to teach a Yank how to throw a grenade." British drill sergeant on new (baseball bred)allies.

[Jimbuna]

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

[Jimbuna]

I received a letter from my local council, telling me that, on collection day, wheelie bins must be positioned as close as possible to the path but not overlapping, otherwise I could be fined.

I wrote back asking if, when emptied, my bins could be positioned nowhere near to where I left them, preferably either slap bang in the middle of my driveway or two doors down. And, give them their due, they followed my instructions to the letter.

[TarJak]

Nice quote Jim ;)

[Sailor Steve]

"All forms of government are pernicious, including good government."
― Edward Abbey

[Aktungbby]

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.Winston Churchill
If Hitler invaded hell, I would at least give a warm reference to the devil in the House of Commons!- Winston Churchill on allying with repulsve 'Uncle Joe' Stalin after the German invasion of Russia.:up: (Naturally one of My favorite quotes of the first Sea Lord!)
"All forms of government are pernicious, including good government."― Edward Abbey
"All government is bad; the trick is to live where it is least worst":up:

[Oberon]

"All government is bad; the trick is to live where it is least worst":up:

"Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power."

[Aktungbby]

"Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power."
"Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven!" Beelzebub... Milton's Paradise Lost (Formerly: Bessor, im Hölle zu herrischen, als im Himmel zu diernen!):yep:

[Oberon]

"Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven!" Beelzebub... Milton's Paradise Lost (Formerly: Bessor, im Hölle zu herrischen, als im Himmel zu diernen!):yep:

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

[TarJak]

Heaven is a place, a place where nothing ever happens. - David Byrne

[Jimbuna]

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

[Aktungbby]

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
(With uncredited apologia to Wilde!)

[TarJak]

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning' and each of us is unique. - David Byrne

[Jimbuna]

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

[Platapus]

Then, not all quotes are good ones

"...you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect"
-Edwin Meese, Attorney General of the United States 1985-88

(facepalm)

[Sailor Steve]

“If we wish to examine a problem and have no other authority to whom we can turn, then we must put our intelligence to the test.”
― Dante Alighieri, De Vulgari Eloquintia, I, IX, 1-4

[Jimbuna]

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

[Sailor Steve]

“Experience is that wonderful faculty that lets us recognize our mistakes when we make them again.”
– Anonymous

[Jimbuna]

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Jimbuna]

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen

[Sailor Steve]

“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

[August]

One that I recently discovered:

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan

[Jimbuna]

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

[Sailor Steve]

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
―Aristotle

[Jimbuna]

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

[Aktungbby]

"Yes! O Lordy, I am killed!" unknown(slightly wounded) 5th Virginian. "Well" I said, ' if you are really killed, why in the devil don't you stop hallooing?...' He is still alive today, but he never forgave me!"- Pvt John Opie -5th Virginia Inf. at First Bull Run...the Great Skedaddle:D

[Sailor Steve]

"If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
― Aristotle

[Jimbuna]

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

[Sailor Steve]

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
― Ambrose Bierce

[Jimbuna]

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

[Sailor Steve]

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
― Josh Billings

[Jimbuna]

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

[Aktungbby]

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the braincells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope which is what I do, and that enables me to laugh at life's realities." --Dr. Seuss

[Sailor Steve]

"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth."
― Sultan Bin Salman al-Saud, of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after having been on the International Space Station

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
- Pulibius Syrus

If you must break the law, do it to seize power, in all other cases observe it.
- Gaius Julius Caesar

The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something
- Aristotle

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

[Jimbuna]

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

[Admiral Halsey]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis


(Yeah it's a big quote but it's a good one.)

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

6. If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.

113. If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.

101. Odd objects attract fire – never lurk behind one.

126. The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small. (or “on order”)

107. Whenever you drop your equipment in a fire-fight, your ammo and grenades always fall the farthest away, and your canteen always lands at your feet.

89. Body count Math –> 3 guerrillas plus 1 probable plus 2 pigs equals 37 enemies killed in action.

80. The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don’t know what they want, but they know for certain what they don’t want.

131. Any ship can be a minesweeper . . . . once.

135. The more stupid the leader is, the more important missions he is ordered to carry out.

70. Whenever you have plenty of ammo, you never miss. Whenever you are low on ammo, you can’t hit the broad side of a barn.

[Aktungbby]

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin

"En vino veritas!" - old roman swiller...and Val Kilmer as Doc' Holliday in Tombstone

[Jimbuna]

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Billy Wilder

[Sailor Steve]

"As we get older, time seems to go by faster. This is not, as some seem to think, because with more years behind us they seem to compress in our memory. It is, rather, because once you get over the hill you pick up speed going down the other side."
― Don Bradfield, my dad

[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

[Tango589]

We are a grandmother.

Margaret Thatcher

[Jimbuna]

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher