Favorite Quotes

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:35 pm

"It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying."

-Somebody or another

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:43 pm

Another of my favorites:

"Oh, I never look under the hood."

E. B. White

Henke · Post by **Henke** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:45 pm

"Cowards die many times before they pass away.
Braves only once taste death"
--- Juan Manuel Fangio (legendary F1 driver)

I have lots of others, better ones, but I don't remember them now.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:07 pm

"I do not know what the weapons of World War III will be, but the weapons of World War IV will be sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein (as accurate as my memory)

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:45 pm

"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other
languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through
their pockets for loose grammar."
-Author Unknown

"I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed.
So I said, 'Get off me, you two!' "
-Emo Phillips

Buckeye67 · Post by **Buckeye67** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:42 pm

My current favorite is this from George Bernard Shaw (I believe):

"Youth is wasted on the young"

Richard Katz · Post by **Richard Katz** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:05 pm

Here's one that I have always like from the film, "Restoration".

Misfortune may leave behind
unlooked for blessings.

The stars that once confused me
seem now to light a path that is clear,
that, I have, in truth been traveling
for all these years.

Where I met what came
and left behind my sorrows,
and I am traveling still.

Robert Merivel

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:51 pm

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." -- G.B. Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra.

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

"But that was in another country, and besides the wench is dead." Christopher Marlowe. (I don't remember a damn thing about the play, but that line stuck.)

"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure." -- Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

"Don't waste time with old cliches." -- Batman

"Quit fiddling around here and go read my bodhran joke in the whistle forum." -- gonzo

lilymaid · Post by **lilymaid** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:59 pm

Sojourner Truth wrote:If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these [oppressed slave] women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

She was just a deathly cool lady, wasn't she?

One I have very much tried to live by is:

"Beauty and grace will be performed whether or not we will sense them, the least we can do is try to be there."
-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

BillChin · Post by **BillChin** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:11 am

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

Looking that one up brings another:
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Another one about walking the walk, instead of talking the talk:
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” - Goethe

One site says this famous quote may not be from Goethe, and is a poorly translated version of:
Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
lasst mich auch endlich Taten sehn!
Enough words have been exchanged;
now at last let me see some deeds! (Goethe, Faust I)

And finally, some of my personal favorites:
"Nothing we do is hard, we make it hard."
"I don't have to 'fix' all the problems in my life in the next five minutes, it took me X number of years to get where I am, it may take some time to get out. I can do it one step at a time."
- yours truly

BillChin · Post by **BillChin** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:19 am

Here are some more good ones all from Einstein:

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

We can´t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.

CHCBrown · Post by **CHCBrown** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:03 am

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, nobody wants to die"
-Anon

"Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die
standing. "

-Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:14 am

"People can't handle prosperity."
- My Dad

And altering CHC's above, when I talk about Berkeley types who have figured out how to impose the perfect progressive society (based on a lot of taxation and regulation) on the rest of America, and those with the opinions are living under special financial arrangements, like parent's money, trust funds, grants and nut money (SSI) but expecting full rights and privileges, I like to say:

"Everybody wants to come to the party, but nobody wants to buy the beer."

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:56 am

"Here's some advice for you: don't do it."

--Attributed to Irish flute player, orator and piper Kevin Henry regarding someone's question about taking up pipering

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:22 am

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." --Viktor E. Frankl , M.D., Ph.D.