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

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

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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

"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

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.

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

Stan Laurel (Brats)

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

“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

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

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

“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

Five favorite Twain quotes
 

“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.”

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

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

John Quincy Adams