Your Favorite Quotes

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

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

Originally Posted by Edmund Burke

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

Originally Posted by Betonov

And anything else from Teddy Roosevelt

Who absolutely hated being called "Teddy".

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by 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


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.

[GT182]

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

[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

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by Dread Knot

"Only a fool fights in a burning house."

--Captain Kang

Hey, I resemble that remark!

"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

[TarJak]

Sláinte!

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Sláinte!

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