Favorite quotes? Let's hear em!

MauiRob

MauiRob

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I never used to pay much attention to them, but the last few months they have meant a great deal to me. They serve as sign posts, or maybe traffic cones, that keep me on the path.

So if you'd be so kind to share your favorite quotes here I'd much appreciate it:) I'm shooting for positive ones, but heck if you've got funny or weird or downright disturbing ones feel free to throw them into the mix!

Here's one I found recently:

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy"

Ralph H. Blum

Not to mention the one in blue in my sig line--I try and remember that as many times a day as I can--makes one hellava difference in how my days turn out!
 
"I pinch", from the Honda Element commercial.

"I shall fight you all to the death!", Sir Didymous from Labyrinth.

"No thanks, I make my own", Fry from Futurama when asked if he'd like some hair gel.

Frank
 
Thanks SFK:)

I meant to add:

"The longest journey a person can make is from the head to the heart"

Raymond Reitze
 
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."
Yoda

"Deservin's got nothin to do with it."
Clint in Eastwood in "Unforgiven"

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might."
Ecclesiates

Tom
 
"I have Alzheimers, but I don't care, at least I don't have Alzheimers"
"I'll have a tuna fish sandwich, and a pina colada for my Dolphin!" (Zippy the Pinhead)
"There's only two things keeping you from doing that, fear and common sense!" (Me)
 
Churchill when accused of being drunk by a female reporter.
"Sir you are Drunk"
"And you madam are ugly but in the morning I shall be sober"
 
Every morning I wake up and try to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
 
"coincidence" is a word used by fools to shield themselves from recognition of the invisible world that so often intersected and altered our visible universe.
------------------- Sir John Babcock

INRI = Isis Naturae Regina Ineffabilis
------------------- Lola Levine


"Yoni Soit qui mal y penis"
------------------- Lola Levine


"The male is Space and the female is Time, but of course the Universe is bisexual"
------------------- Giacomo Celine


"This is indeed a Great Wall."
-------------------- Richard Nixon at the Great Wall of China


"Only the madman is absolutely sure."
-------------------- William Butler Yeats


"We have to belive in our free will: we have no choice in the matter."
-------------------- Albert Einstein


"What is inside the box is known:
What is outside the box is unkonwn:
Who made the box?"
----------------------James Joyce

I am going back to playing Perfect Dark Zero on the xbox.

Will bother y'all later.
 
Thanks very much! There are some great ones in there:)

Bill: you've got a bunch that I'm going to copy down and refer to

"coincidence" is a word used by fools to shield themselves from recognition of the invisible world that so often intersected and altered our visible universe.
------------------- Sir John Babcock
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This one in particular is extremely relevant to me--and of course it is NOT by "coincidence" that it is so;)

Every morning I wake up and try to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
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That's great! Is that your own creation?
 
"Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel." Old Bedouin proverb.

"There is no such thing as a simple change." Me.
 
Great thread Rob! Not my best, but one that has seemed to resonate with some aspects of my life:

"Life is like a s&^t sandwich. The more bread you have, the less s&^t you eat."

Another one I heard growing up, that is a bit harsh I guess:

"A man only says that he did the best he could when he has failed."

And finally, one that I use at work constantly:

"A failure to properly plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

N.
 
"Life is too short to carry an ugly knife." Calvin Coolidge
 
"A man's gotta know his limitations" Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood)
"Improvise, adapt and overcome" GSgt Highway (Clint Eastwood)
"One thing aim high" Secret Sevice Agent Frank Horrigan to SS snipers. In the Line of Fire
"Walk softly and carry a big stick" Teddy Roosevelt
"Back home we call him the miracle worker" Dr. McCoy refering to Scotty in (ST IV )
"I hate mummy's" Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) The Mummy Returns

James
 
My crazy coach in high school used to keep a bunch of Lombardie quotes posted all over the locker room. One that i read everyday (not because i found it that profound, but because it was hanging right over the water fountain) was

"Perfection is not obtainable. But if you chase perfection, you will catch excellence."

One from my father reflecting on the ins and outs of running a business:
"Son, it's always something...an it's never good."

One from me to my young employees that like to piss and moan when i have them do something unpleasant around the office:
"Com'on, it'll be good for ya. It'll make a man out of ya...and not in that weird prison sort of way."

Jake
 
From Los Alamos National Laboratory:

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."


Added Factoid: Los Alamos has the highest percapita number of churches and suicides in the United States.
 
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."

And since you are a breath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

(Kahlil Gibran)
 
“My father taught me that there are two types of people in the world - those who "do" and those who take credit. He told me to stick with the former category, as there was far less competition”.... Mohatma Gandhi

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

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."... Sir Winston Churchill

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." ... Groucho Marx
 
You can't stop the birds from flying overhead, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers!
Rubber baby buggy bumpers!
Rubber baby buggy bumpers!
THERE!
----------------------- Arnold Swarzenegger in "The Last Action Hero"


“The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping ... and showing his shortcomings.”
------------------------ David Niven regarding a naked man who "streaked" the Academy Awards


Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
------------------------- Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"


"Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out after it!"
-------------------------- My Mother, Mary Marsh (probably stole it from somewhere)
 
bilestoad said:
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." ... Groucho Marx
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"____________________________________________!"
-------------------------------- Harpo Marx, (often quoted)
 
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