phrases I like

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

 

*points at signature*

 

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

/Bruce Lee.

 

I am not young enough to know everything - Oscar Wilde

 

I will also copy Dyamond and submit my signature as one of my favorite quotes.

 

I think I must need one for looking up what your signature means! :foolish

 

...For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

---William Blake, Songs of Innocence
(The Divine Image)


Cruelty has a Human Heart,
and Jealousy a Human Face,
Terror the Human Form Divine,
and Secrecy the Human Dress.

The Human Dress is forged Iron,
The Human Form a fiery Forge,
The Human Face a Furnace seal'd,
The Human Heart its hungry Gorge.

---William Blake, Songs of Experience
(A Divine Image)

 

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

 

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

 

True,dat!...

There are too many people, and too few human beings. ~Robert Zend

 

It ain't the size of the dog in the fight that matters, rather the size of the fight in the dog...

 

Not at all. That quote applies primarily to anyone who has no need to look it up, because they understand it anyway.

 

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this

 

So how is one to expand their knowledge and perhaps wisdom if they don't seek answers to that they don't know?

 

By actually finding them?

 

I try, I really do, but I keep getting eaten or captured or chopped up into little pieces :banghead
:-D

 

The Doctor (Doctor Who tv show)

 

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

---Lazarus Long

 

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching...

---William Purkey

 

I must come from a more base background than most of you. Your quotes are all so philosophical. Me, not so much.

"People mean well, but sometimes you just have to, you know, pepper spray people in the eyes." - Paul Thorn

 

:-D

I know exactly what you mean!

 

"War... war never changes, since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors discovered the killing power of rock and bone... blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God... to Justice... to simple... psychotic rage."

Fallout Intro.

We spent years teaching our children not to talk or accept gifts from strangers. No one thought to warn them of the monsters who live next door.

Heard it on Criminal Minds (TV Show), Don't know who said it.

"It's not about how hard you can hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward"

Rocky Balboa.

 

Always loved this one...

 

or we have:

or:

 

Wise mouse nests in cats ear
not sure where it came from!!

 

One I like.

T Jefferson.

 

Along the same line:

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway.

 

There is no peace, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.

The Code of the Sith.

 

Inspired by this thread:

The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. -- Achilles in the movie Troy

 

Thanks for the laugh cipher.

It's too late for me.

 

For me as well...

 

I heard this today LOL

Homebrew is like farts.............. you don't mind your own roflmao

 

People who live in glass houses should not take off their clothes.

 

That is very dependent on what the aesthetics the person has and what gender they are :-D

 

Lets put it this way, i am 65 and not in good physical shape you would not want to see me naked.:-D

 

Hi Bill does this apply - Don't know what it is but it needs pressing

 

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - H.L. Mencken.

 

Some people just need a slap... in the face... with a chair

 

this is my headline on my MySpace profile. (lol myspace)

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --Sir Winston Churchill

 

There is a blackboard full of quotes in the men’s toilet of the Ship Inn Bowness-on-Windermere, as I scanned them, one quote stood out from the rest

“Don’t know what your laughing at – the jokes in your hand”

 

Speaking of Winston Churchhill:

"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon."

"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law."

and my personal favorite funny WC quote:

Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”

 

"You can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest, it's the honest ones you have to watch"

"That's even more than less than unhelpful"

Jack Sparrow :-D

 

"May it be when darkness falls your heart will be true . . . "



From "The Lord of the Rings" by J R R Tolkien

 

Hiram Maxim's friend, to him just before he invented the Maxim gun, now known as th machine gun.

 

Phrases I don't like


"in my personal opinion....."

--oh, your "personal" opinion, which is different from, "in my opinion"????

and


"I (like sex)(insert anything)----IF YOU ASK ME--
-point is they give an opinion, then end the sentence with, IF YOU ASK ME

which is just a way of someone telling their opinion, but in a prolix manner

I never had these hate of words,till I developed double vision and dysarthria. Those aliments make reading harder than it needs to be, hence hating lots of reading that has no point as well as listening to people, who have no trouble speaking, using so many words to say so little.

 

three words that are overused even though there is never a need for them
obviously
of course
personally

and the meaning of the words cliche and platitude




I like the word platitude

 

Nice!

What about using the phrase,"who knows"

what's 4x3? who knows
who knows(I don't know, but if I act like no one knows, it's ok)