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11-30-2004, 04:23 PM
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Re: Favorite Quote
"I'd buy that for a dollar!" [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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11-30-2004, 04:39 PM
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Re: Favorite Quote
"The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made." Groucho Marx "My advice to you ... is to start drinking heavily" Pluto
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#45
11-30-2004, 05:00 PM
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Re: Favorite Quote
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No good deed goes unpunished." [/ QUOTE ] Oh yeah, that's always been a huge favorite of mine. I like it better even than the temptation line. But for some reason I always thought that line came from Gore Vidal. I guess I'm getting my witheringly acidic-witted gay bon vivant writers mixed up again. Sometimes it's hard to pull them apart.
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11-30-2004, 05:52 PM
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Re: Favorite Quote
The question to ask is not merely: 'am I paying attention?' but rather: 'what am I paying attention to'
-Socrates There are only 2 things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein When the only tool you own is a hammer; every problem begins to resemble a nail -Abraham Maslow Nothing happens unless first a dream -Carl Sandburg Pain only lasts a little while, but you can always put pizza in the refrigerator. -Metro Gymnastics Center Boys Team motto Remember it's 'Hi how are you', not 'How high are you?' -Uncle Edgster If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things -Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. -Arthur C. Clarke No matter how warm or soft your bed is, you still have to get out of it. -Grace Slick Sometimes the straightest path is through the mud -Dilbert Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear. -Mark Twain There is a fine line between being creative, and being a lunatic There is a fine line between being brave, and being stupid If our brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t. -Jon Evans God doesn't play dice. -Albert Einstein God not only plays dice, he sometime throws the dice where they cannot be seen. -Stephen Hawking It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional universe. I personally find it hard enough imagining a three-dimensional one. -Stephen Hawking Lose your dreams and you could lose your mind. -Mick Jagger in “Ruby Tuesday” Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me? -Albert Einstein It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great. -Tom Hanks in “A League Of Their Own” Hakuna Matata -Timon and Pumba The only difference between a hallucination and a vision is the number of people who see it. -Jon Evans Of all true word of tongue or pen the saddest are these “it might have been”. -J.G. Whittier Every time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against an injustice, he sends out a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current the can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -Robert Kennedy Women marry men, hoping to change them. They never do. Men marry women, hoping they'll never change. They always do. -Oscar Wilde Things should be made as simple as possible -- no simpler. -Albert Einstein I think I've discovered the secret to life...You just hang around until you get used to it. -Peanuts Silence isn’t always golden. Sometimes it’s yellow. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Albert Einstein 30 If at first you don’t succeed redefine success. -Robert Fulghum Religion is the opiate of the masses. -Karl Marx It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. -Albert Einstein He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. -Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -Albert Einstein There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. -Albert Einstein A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -Albert Einstein Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -Albert Einstein The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind -Sigmund Freud 40 Violence as a way of achieving justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. -Martin Luther King Jr. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Philpotts Wer ein Warum zu leben hat, erträgt fast jedes Wie. If we have our why, we can put up with almost any how. -Frederick Nietzche It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we CAN suppose. -J.B.S. Haldane It matters not how many fish are in the sea, if there is no bait on your hook. -Dial West I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -Stephen F Roberts Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -Vernon Law, baseball pitcher Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it and the frog generally dies as a result. -Elwyn Brooks White Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -Irving Caesar The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet. -Cicero Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. -James Russell Lowell 53 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details. -Albert Einstein The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. -Albert Einstein My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. -Albert Einstein How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot. -Albert Einstein I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. -Albert Einstein Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all of its flavor. -William Cowper Above all, try something! -FDR A drunk mans words are a sober mans thoughts. It is better to ask forgiveness than permission. -Jesuit saying The mission of life: Live; Love; Learn; Leave a Legacy. -Stephen D. Covey All easy problems have already been solved. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde 67 A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. -Bertrand Russel I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? -Ayn Rand Insanity is doing something over and over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein When you dance with the devil the devil doesn’t change. The devil changes you. -8MM Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce Boards don’t hit back. -Bruce Lee The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Allan K. Chalmers An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. -Nicholas Murray Butler The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." -Isaac Asimov 78 Hoka-hey! -An Sioux-Indian war cry meaning "Today is a good day to die!” 100 years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important, in the life of a child. -Forest Witcraft Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -Jean de La Bruyere There is a constant struggle, between people, to invent better and better foolproof products, and the universe, to produce better and better fools. So far, the universe is winning. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. -Stephen Hawking Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde All great truths begin as blasphemies. -George Bernard Shaw God is Dead. And we have killed him. -Frederick Nietzche I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -Oscar Wilde Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. -Oscar Wilde The distance between insanity and genius, is measured only by success. -Elliot Carver (Tomorrow never dies) 91 Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. -G B Shaw A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him. -William Shakespeare Macbeth Act 2 Scene 3 Just do it. -Nike Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons. -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?’ -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle Common sense isn’t. -Voltaire If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. -Seneca Everybody wants to be somebody. Nobody wants to grow. -Goethe Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and the world laughs at you. Rob P, age 8 102 Try not. Do, or do not. There is not try. -Yoda It is better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to open it, and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln Homer's search for a soulmate has yielded a lighthouse keepin' robot! -Homer Simpson The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Chinese proverb Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow. -Bob Dylan Great minds discuss ideas. Small minds discuss people. -Admiral Hyman Rickover, USN Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain The man saying it cannot be done should not interrupt the man who is doing it. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -Jonathan Swift In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished. If you can’t convince ‘em, confuse ‘em. -Harry Truman 115 If growin’ up means it would be, beneath my dignity to climb a tree I’ll never grow up never grow up never grow up! Not me! -Peter Pan I don’t wanna wear a tie, and a serious expression, in the middle of July -Peter Pan The successful man knows something of everything. -Frank Gilbreth A closed mouth gathers no feet True love is, the greatest thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT, mutton lettuce and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. -Miracle Max No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. -Voltaire Fast decisions are unsafe decisions. -Sophocles Love is the wisdom of the fool, and the folly of the wise. -Samuel Johnson If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what were getting. -Stephen Covey If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully. -Thomas Fuller Docendo discimus - We learn by teaching You gotta know when to hold ‘em. Know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away, Know when to run. -Kenny Rogers ‘The Gambler’ Faith is nothing without action. -Pat Maloney You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it for himself. -Galileo Galeli Every hand’s a winner, and every hand’s a loser. -Kenny Rogers ‘The Gambler’ 130 Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." -Dame Edith Sitwell Are you crying? There's no crying in baseball! Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit and that's when my parents drove 400 miles down from Michigan to watch me play the game. And did I cry? No. You know why? CUZ THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!!!! -Tom Hanks in ‘A league of our own’ Better hazard once then always be in fear. -Thomas Fuller If everybody minded their own business, -said the Duchess in a hoarse growl-, the world would go round a deal faster than it does" -Lewis Carrol Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. -Judith Martin In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. -Erwin Schrodinger (the cat guy) "Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil's appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom ... Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism... She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets." -Martin Luther, Erlangen Edition v. 16, pp. 142-148
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#48
11-30-2004, 06:24 PM
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Re: Favorite Quote
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[ QUOTE ] My advice to you ... is to start drinking heavily" Pluto [/ QUOTE ] Bluto! Bluto Blutarsky! Heretic! [/ QUOTE ] Correction... "Bluto" sorry, man don't get your panty's in a bunch.
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#49
11-30-2004, 06:43 PM
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Re: Favorite Quote
"If I have achieved greatness, if I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." - Newton
"The Notorious BIG said it best: 'Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a wicked jump-shot.' Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker."-Boiler Room "I hit it again because that shot was a defining moment, and when a defining moment comes along, you define the moment... or the moment defines you." -"Tin Cup" "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that" -George Carlin
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#50
11-30-2004, 07:35 PM
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Re: Favorite Quote
"I believe in making the world a better place for our children, but not for our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex." -- Jack Handey
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