Whats your favourite quote?

Quite insightful I thought seen as though he said it not long after WWII.

Anybody want to share some of their favourites?

 

"Three can keep a secret, if two are dead" And I always added, "and none are women!" but I always got a jab in the ribs when I added that.

Original quote told to me by my dad in 1950 something.

 

*jabs Gensuknives in the ribs with long stick*

 

Too many good ones to have just one favorite, including the one in my sig, but one I like a lot lately, although I don't know the original author:

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

 

I think it's childish and many will agree but "2's a company, 3's a crowd" has stuck with me for a lifetime and it does fit in many instances.
Like GT, there are too many to mention.
My favourtie one right now is "Just try and stay positive, optimism is the key to success"

 

"Do or do not... There is no try."
Master Yoda

Hey this is a geek website after all

 

Some I like.

" Beware the light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary" and
"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole".

Bazza

 

I never said do what I do, I said do what I say
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Geoge Clooney in From Dusk Till Dawn.

It has always stuck with me.

Or this one:

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

 

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. Matthew Henry

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill

 

mine is in my siggy. which is why I put it there.

 

Also another from my grandpa which I remembered is quite clever -
(if you get something wrong, say this!)

You are quite right, and I am quite wrong, as you usually are.

 

LMAO Bigbazza

Thought I might lower the tone a bit

"I was so poor growing up ... if I wasn't a boy ...I'd have nothing to play with. "

 

I thought I'd keep the tone lowered but remain on-topic to MGs


Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. Arthur C. Clarke

 

Not exactly one that I get to use in conversation very often, but one I used as a sig quote for a long time:

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliot

And one to keep with the lighter ones:

"If God had entended for us to drink beer, he would have given us mouths"
--Thomas Jefferson (though I have heard it attributed to several different sources).

 

"What's your major malfunction, soldier"....

Or something to that effect!!

Roger

 

I used to be indecisive.....but now i'm not so sure.

My glorious Prime Minister, Tony Blair has come out with a couple of peaches over the years.

"I don't make predictions. I never have and I never will"
"One reason I changed the Labour Party is so that we can remain true to our principles."

 

A guy with an Environmental Consulting firm gave me a business card that had the quote below on the back. I still have it, really like it.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein

Steve

 

Pop always said this thought it was a bit strange but it makes you think!

I used to be behind before but now I'm first at last!

 

"It's like a finger, pointing up to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger, or you'll miss all that heavenly glory" -Bruce Lee

"Be like water, my friend" -Bruce Lee

"Know thine enemy" -Sun Zsu, or Lao Szu...I can never remember which.

"If you're never tested, you'll never define your charecter" -Henry Rollins, Black Flag


-Steve

 

"Go ahead, make my day", by Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry!

 

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
- Cecil

 

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad.Thats my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln

 

I like that one!



-Steve

 

People are strange. maybe it was jim morrison

 

A couple of my all-time favorites, both from Robert Heinlein: