Favorite quotes

[Dr_Zoidberg]

Anyone have any favorite words of wisdom or amusement?

"Holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot rock with the intent of throwing it at your enemy - you are the one who gets burned."

Buddha.


Casting Director: Have you ever been on TV before?
Bender: Once, when I took those hostages.
Calculon: I saw that! You were good. Let's hear you audition.

From Futurama episode 'Bender should not be allowed on TV'

[BlackArrow]

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

Winston Churchill

[Jeffro]

my friend said this one to a girl the other night at a bar.

"if you think i'm ok looking right now, wait till you had a couple more drinks baby!" lol

also i like:

"if we are god's dream, what happens when god wakes up?"

and:

"a drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts"

[thedeadlyassassin]

Simple, best qoute of 2007.


THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!

[Trooper110]

"Who Dares, Wins" - SAS motto.

"The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." - Ferdinand Magellan

[BigTwinky]

Simple, best qoute of 2007.

THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!

When the hell would you use this quote?


I heard the following one a few days ago
"You cannot shake hands with a fist"

I have more, but need to dig.

[Thrashdragon]

"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever."

[Minerva]

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
Johann von Goethe

Ah, the one I have in my signature.

[BigTwinky]

A few more of my faves



?Do or do not... there is no try.?
- Yoda

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. "
- Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. "
- Ganghi

[WalkinTarget]

My sig .... so, do I need new ones, or am I OK as it is ?

[linemanstud]

"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever."

That was in the Replacements, right? I loved that movie

heres one:

"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

[Dr_Zoidberg]

heres one:

"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

I love that.

Another Buddha quote:-
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Confucius:-
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

[-Bar]

"Many men work hard their entire lives, but accomplish absolutely nothing." -My GrandFather

[Dead_And_Gone]

When Insults Had Class:

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

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
---- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
-- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-- Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-- Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."
-- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second ... if there is one."
-- Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
-- Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
-- John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-- Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
-- Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
-- Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy."
-- Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
-- Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
-- Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
-- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
-- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-- Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
-- Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather
than llumination."
-- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-- Billy Wilder

[Trooper110]

"Nuts" - General Anthony C. McAuliffe, 101st Airborne, Battle of Bastogne, 1944, response to German surrender demand.