Your Favourite quotes.

Time to start this off again. Been ages since we had a column on quotes.

Here goes (from Forest Gump).

"I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best you can, with what God gave you."

My Momma always said: "You got to put the past behind you before you can move on".

"Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?"
"I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, Sir."

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get."

Bazza

 

"Pray to God, but row away from the rocks." Hunter S Thompson
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An old one from when Autograph books were all the rage.

"Be calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath"

Baz

 

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. - Richard M. Nixon

roflmaoroflmaoroflmao

 

Einstein had a good quote.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s258/evilfantasy69/einsteinshow.php.jpg

 

intellegent minds talk about ideas. average minds talk about events. simple minds talk about other people.

that quote i like alot

 

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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

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"If people act like sheep, it's probably sacrilegious not to shear them."
- fictional Mexican bandit Calero

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places. I have since an early age abjured the use of meat. And the time will come when we look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
- Leonardo da Vinci

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know when it will be too late."
- dunno

 

Great, I also like this very much...
My quote is: The impossible is often the untried - don't know the author

 

If space and time are relative, how come they never came to my birthday party ?
(Alexei Sayle)

 

when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth! my fave sherlock holmes quote.

 

Somehow, this is a good continuation of my favourite quote!

 

Re: Your Favorite quotes.

do unto others as you would others to do unto you (author?)

other version.

do unto others but do it first

 

Re: Your Favorite quotes.

Jesus. Matthew 7.12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Laws and the Prophets. (NIV)

Luke 6.31 Do to others as you would have them do to you. (NIV)

 

Re: Your Favorite quotes.

These are wise words of many ages...

 

Re: Your Favorite quotes.

Who needs Google when we have MGs a veritable fountain of knowledge

 

'I'll be back.' - Terminator

'Big airports have those machines that X-ray the contents of your luggage. The Burbank Airport doesn't have those.' - Jeff Dunham, Arguing with Myself.

'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.' - Unknown.
Alternatively:
'When life gives you lemons, try and find some Vodka.' - Unknown.

'When talking to tech support, the best course of action is usually to follow all suggestions, then ask for a supervisor.' - Me.

 

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings...

As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

— The Dhammapada (Think this is the Gandhari edition, not sure of the original)

 

We are living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Liked that one a bit too much
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Burning_Monkey/New_ink.jpg

Much like a mansion on faulty foundations, perfect reasoning based on wrong assumptions can't help but fail. (paraphrased from God knows who)

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

Even a dog's *** is hit by the sun once in a while.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

I have so many...

 

Awesome, awesomer, and awesomest
Can't believe I didn't think of the last one!

 

It is better to remain silent and be thought the fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

 

Did not see all yours when posted mine, I especially like this one, Think I'll ware it

 

I have seen that attributed to several different sources. I am never sure who said it, so I never attribute it to any one.

I like it so much that it's part of my sig on an other forum board.

 

I thought it was Mark Twain so looked it up before posting, doesn't necessarily mean it's correct though.

 

"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."- JFK

Hmmmm...did someone forget to tell G.Dub that?

 

He must have missed that day in his Petty Dictator 101 class.

 

My God this is hard keeping my mouth shut :***

 

some times you just have to tee it high and let it fly

 

I have dozens of favourite quotes, from the humorous and trivial, to the profound and moving. Here's a few that came to mind, recentlty.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg:

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~ Harry S Truman:

He only profits from praise who values criticism. ~ Heinrich Heine:

Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain:

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (probably erroneously):

Bessy Stanly's points to success :

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

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...And if all that's too 'heavy', the the last word belongs to Bill Cosby:

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

 

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?

Yiddish Proverb

 

Great responses, folks. Hate the term guys. Guys is ridiculously too PC for me.

Two more from me. Don't know the authors.

"The Americans spent one million dollars inventing a pen that would write in space, the Russians used a pencil".

"Be warned, the light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train".

Bazza

 

There was a really good reason for that actually.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Always hated that quote, even though it's intent is correct. Goes back to my quote about great ideas based off of bad assumptions.

 

Thanks for the really good explanation, B_M. :cool It makes good reading. Bazza

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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi

 

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

I wish I knew who said it.

 

Never attribute to malice when stupidity will suffice.

I don't remember who came up with this, but it is words to live by. True much more than not.

 

Love your quotes! One of my favorites is in my sig.

 

"As John Howard accurately noted when he went to thank the Austrian troops there last year..."

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

"I heard somebody say, 'Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas."

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/bush-mandela/

“We’ve got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7fo98SzCGo&mode=related&search=bush


roflmao

--I win!

Who thinks IQ tests should be mandatory for presidency?

 

roflmao

 

"We know what's good for you and we're going to have it imposed on you" Can't remember where it comes from


Yes I know my enemies
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams. - Rage Against the Machine

Every conversation is monitored for key words. Here, give me your phone, I'll show you. Hello! Mail bomb. Assassination. Fertilizer. Same-sex marriages. Patagonia. Nader for President. - Myron Reducto

People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." "Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?" - Bill Hicks

Leader: ...And the one over there in the dress is Oyo.
Oyo: It's a robe, you bastard.

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain. - Bene Gesserit Chant

Glamour Nana, like a nana that was a bit saucy in the fifties. - Vince Noir

:wave

 

About Life.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. it goes on"

(Robert Frost)

 

Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.
Proverbs 21:19 (NIV).

 

"Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue". by Roger C. Anderson

 

"It's not a beer-gut it's a fuel tank for a sex machine."

I found that on Pyzam.com

 

From David Letterman, on the Late Show, when talking with Richard Gere.

"They don't give these shows to chimps."

From Homer S.

"Me lose brain, oh oh."
"You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel."

Bazza

 

A few of my favorites:

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, "Thank God, I'm still alive." But, of course, those who died - their lives will never be the same again." - Barbara Boxer, Senator

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, "Whoa, I'm way too high!" - Bruce Baum

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. - Dave Barry

 

My two favorites in bold. And the one in my sig that fits my overclocking hobby so well.


Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~Buddha
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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
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Freedom is only a hallucination,
That waits at the edge of the places you go when you dream. ~ ??????
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You will know my soul by the faces I wear, and my trials from the scars which line them.
You will know my heart by the tears which are there, and my dreams from the masks which hide them. ~ ??????
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane? ~ Garland Greene (con air)

 

I believe there is something in that for all of us

 

I like this one:

Only when you let down all of your defenses do you become truely invulnerable.

(favorite quote of a malware helper???)