what is your favorite quote

i came up with this well bored sitting at a desk

"school is like jail without the soup" - red death68

dont drop the soup lol

 

Right, that might burn.

 

"What can I learn from this week
that will keep next week
from essentially being a repeat of the same?"

From the book "First things First"

and "Nil Carborundum Desperandum"
dodgy Latin for "Don't let the bastards grind you down."

Bazza

 

lol i miss typed the quote (thats sad)

it was sapossed to say

"school is like jail without the soap" - red death68

dont drop the "soap"

 

"Causa timendi est nescire."

-Cicero

"Ignorance is the cause of fear."


And, bazza, the word you are looking for is idiom. Also loosely known as euphemism.

 

Thanks, the mekanic. "Dodgy" was the only word I could think of. Bazza

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Sometimes I love sounding like a nerd, even though I'm a GEEK!!!!! :-D

 

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

 

:hyper
Don't tell me I can't for I will just because I can!
When ever my other half would mess up because he didn't think it through his grandpa would say "You thought like a lit."

 

Good one LauraR ! Langendoen

 

there is always the TRUTH. and the truth is whatever you can get everyone to believe.

tommy smothers

 

almost forgot .

caesar: et tu brute?
brutus; and I quote: no man, I ain't et nothin

brother dave gardner

 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

and for Mekanic
Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui - Beware what you say, when, and to whom

Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert - Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn

 

Nice! Spent 3 years in Latin, all I came out of it with was some stupid sayings!! :-D

 

And, did everyone miss the preposition/proposition genitive/AHEM! crack?!?!

I guess I think too much...

 

"life does not come from anywhere or go anywhere.it just goes around with all other lives. it is part of a great wheel." - rose from legend of dragoon game

 

In the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost.

As a young kid i used to serve mass in latin

 

Don't know ---- Mongo only pawn in game of life. ~~~ Mongo -- Blazing Saddles

 

Thanks Bill, I thought it was right, from a movie.

 

"I want to Know the Mind of God" Stephen Hawking (astrophysicist)

 

Yeah, I was an altar boy too. Mom cantored and sang in the choir, and you know how Moms can be, guilt is like a six shooter when the wooden spoon doesn't work anymore. :-D Between her, and a friend's mother, they had us on the altar until we graduated high school. Setting and example they said. I guess a little service to "God" didn't hurt my morals any...


"On the first and last pages of life, the same words have different significations."


"A woman brushed a dewdrop from a rose. "A diamond shall replace it," said the woman. "It cannot," sobbed the parched flower.

 

"how do you kill that which has no life?" - the asian dude on the world of warcraft episode of south park.

its incredibly deep. really puts our lives in perspective, doesnt it?

 

when in doubt, grenade it out.

 

If it breaks, make it stronger. If it doesn't, TRY HARDER!

:tas

 

"if it aint broke fix it till it is"

and this is from a freind of mine

"If you were to die right now, where would you go? Think about it."

"Questioning God? He made the brain cells you think with."

 

never mind, I would put this thread off topic

 

go ahead and say it distractions are good in small portions

 

Nope, it would push this thread into 'Hot Topics' where it doesn't belong.

 

ok you got me wondering plz pm me the comment

 

got a new one thought of it waiting for a web page to load (talk about random thoughts) (the spelling needs work)

"what is sanity but sociatys way of stifulling creativity and advance" - red death68

 

I agree with you, if they are rich they are eccentric and if poor are 'nutz'. A spellchecker would be good here.

 

lol i said the spelling needs work rofl

 

"That thing weighs 600 lbs. That's like having a Whole American Sitting on the tailgate." - Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear)

 

It can be quite hard to read some of your posts Red Death :banghead

Here install Firefox if you don't use it already.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_3_d2248.html

Then install this English dictionary

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3497

I'll take the initiative and offer help,usually doing this backfires :-D

 

rofl lol i may not be able to "spel god n stuf" but i have a bigger vocabulary

and im switching computers in a few days then ill do the dictionary thing

 

http://rlv.zcache.com/hooked_on_phonics_joke_bumper_sticker-p128284086582077834trl0_400.jpg

 

nice

 

"The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when they sleep in dust."

 

An expert is just some one from out of town, in a nice suit, with a fancy briefcase.

 

roflmao

I wonder who came up with that one :booger

 

My favorite quote is ; What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. And where does one find these great quotes? Any help I am just dumb I guess

 

half of our quotes come from exp,heard throughout our lives or we made up like all of mine for the most part

 

"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"

not sure if that was posted yet...

 

i got this one from Phantom's signature so all credit to him

 

My sig ATM,about no one in particular I came up with it the other night,I like it for its mind bending effect.

 

i got this from a t-shirt i own it says

silence is golden duct tape is silver

 

Heard this last night on TV, quoted by a driven man.

It's not enough that I should succeed. Everybody else must fail.

~Attilla the Hun. (supposedly)

 

"Why don't you get a toupee with some brains in it?"

From either Moe to Curly in The Three Stooges, or Chris to any of us here at the space center :-D