what is your favorite quote

In the last 6 months, since my employers have decided to "help out" in my department, 3 of my best employees left for other jobs.

These guys are just the money behind the business and have very little in the way of a clue as to what is actually going on.

I've been in the business for almost 30 years and I have taught them everything that they know, but they still insist on trying to do things their way.

I have sent out 10 resumes in the last 2 weeks alone.

I see an iceberg dead ahead and I'm jumping ship.

 

What you seem to forget is that these employers need to justify their position.

As an ex-boss i can hold my hand on my heart and say i have never made a mistake (dodges lightning strike)http://bestsmileys.com/weather/3.gif

 

We lost our number 1 guy because he said that he could no longer work for complete idiots.

These are the co-owners of the company and when they decided to take over running things, chaos soon followed.

I guy with over 20 years in the business came to work for us on a Monday and Wednesday morning, told us that it was not for him.
We sat down and had a long talk and he asked if there was any way that I could keep the owners out of the way, that he would love to stay.

These guys are salesmen and know enough about the product to talk you into it, but have absolutely no idea how it works, or what it takes to repair it.

I know that someone else has been there before.

I'm going to drop this rant and release this thread so that it can resume it's intended course.

 

all those who wander are not lost

when you're dumb, you gotta be tough:-D

 

prob one that comes to mind quite frequently in school is

"what fools these mortals be"

and one that comes to mind if i have someone do somthing that i want them to do without saying a word is

"o how the puppets dance for the puppeteer(SP)"

 

Now and then good things fail, so as better things can take there place

 

"What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!”

-Joe Strummer

 

I've got numerous favorite quotes.

#1 is: "I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde

 

Two memorable quotes I have used of recent.

Please, no pandiculation here?

Not everyone gets to be an Astronaut, someone HAS to make the french fries..

- Heard listening to Neil Boortz

 

Saw a funny one on another forum I go to.

"Scooby Doo is waaaaaayyyy more cerebral than Whale Wars." sjohnny

:-D

 

Nice thread! here is mine:

"Never argue with a fool lest some passerby be confused as to who is the fool" :-D

 

"If at first you don't succeed . . . destroy any evidence that you ever even tried." -- Phyliss Diller (I think . . . ).

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

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." -- Robert Frost

 

I heard a great one the other day something like this

"You know what they say about Tinseltown,underneath all that light and glitz there's some real tinsel."

 

. . . Nor is all that glitters gold

 

hey spad what does your sig mean?

"verba volant, scripta manent" -- Caio Titus

and as for not all that glitters being gold i think smash mouth would have to disagree

"all that glitters is gold and only shooting stars break the mold" - smashmouth

 

I like this one as well, not sure who said it first.

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience." :-D

 

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981

 

Old one and one that comes to mind- may have been mentioned already..
"Youth ages, immaturity is out grown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered.....But stupid, lasts forever."

 

All that glisters

 

speaking of fools, I seem to remember it as an old Arabic saying,

"It is better to be thought the fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

One that has been recently running though my head a lot is a paraphrase from a movie,

"Don't you think if I had raised my hand to him, he would be wearing my rage?"

 

I love this one from Jim Carrey in Me, Myself & Irene:

[Softball Player throws cig butt on ground]
Hank Evans: Hey ringworm...
[Softball Player looks around]
Hank Evans: Yeah I'm talking to you, you toxic waste of life. You gonna pick that butt up, or do I have to glue it to the end of my shoe and stick it in your big fat pimply a-hole?
Softball Player: Hey buddy, chill out. It's just a cigarette.
Hank Evans: Oh yeah? Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess. Let's dance.

 

:-D I like this one from Me myself and Irene "You wanna start me up ? Just open the choke and pull the chord!"

 

I was referring to the poem from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" not the Shakespeare reference from "The Merchant of Venice." Your post "all those who wander are not lost . . ." made me think of it. :

From the Lord of the Rings:

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

Great trilogy - the movies were good, but the books 1000 times better!

"Glitter" is the modern version of "glister", which dates from the 14th century.

lol - not heard that quote from smashmouth. My sig means "words fly away, writings remain" . . . seemed appropriate for a forum :-D

 

lol ya it does sound apropiate and the quote is from the song all star

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b13NWy1OoIc

check the vid lol

 

Cool - I like that song, and I have heard it before . . . but I forgot about that line. Thanks for the vid link, because a few of the lyrics I couldn't make out before.

. . . and a nod to tonyhale - I looked up that passage in Shakespeare and I did indeed more exactly quote it then Tolkien's version. The phrase "Not all those who wander are lost" is all Tolkien, however, from what I have been able to find out. It apparantly is commonly attributed to Shakespeare along with the "gold" quote.

I have too much time on my hands, don't I . . .

 

lol its summer so most of us should have time on our hands lol

and i figured the vid link would be a good idea and dont feel bad i never used to know the lyrics until one day i got bored and googled them

lol i just watched the vid apperently i still dont know the lyrics that well lol

 

prob one i love hearing parents say is

"do as i say not as i did"

in other words their a hypocrite lol

 

The similarities between parents and politicians are striking :-D

 

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

 

so true

 

"Princess Bongella? Ace Rimmer...They'll be plenty of time for explanations later...and hopefully...some sex."

Ace Rimmer - what a guy!

 

What a guy:cool

 

"Youth is wasted on the young, not the young at heart"

 

"That government is best which govern least." :cool

 

Honestly don't know, but I doubt it was one of W's 'strategery' phrases. :-D

Google says: "That government is best which governs least"

An aphorism sometimes attributed to either Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Paine, "That government is best which governs least", actually was first found in this essay.[4] Thoreau was paraphrasing the motto of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review: "The best government is that which governs least."[5]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)