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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:12 pm

Share your favorite quotes Wink

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi

This one is probably most inspiring for me and really fits my pacifist nature. Save for lads, burn 'em all Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

Doing what we do, we have made several that I like to apply to life also.

"They don't make things i can't do"

"I can't never did sh1t"

"They don't make things big enough to scare me"

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

From a cheesy-ish poem by Edgar Guest:

Quote:

I have to live with myself, and so,
I want to be fit for myself to know;
I want to be able as days go by,
Always to look myself straight in the eye;

The whole poem: http://sofinesjoyfulmoments.com/quotes/myself.htm

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:48 pm

I'll burn that bridge behind me when I come to it.

Or something.

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:51 pm

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. (possibly misheard)

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:49 pm

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:33 pm

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:30 pm

Favourite quote: "Ignore the propaganda, focus on what you see."
J. Michael Strachinsky

Favourite metaquote: "Whatever happened to Ovid? He's John Bartlet's Ibid."
Frank Herbert.

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:57 pm

"I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma."
-- The Wizard of Oz, to the Scarecrow

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:39 am

Will Rogers has been one of my favorites:

Quote:

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Quote:

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Quote:

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Quote:

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Quote:

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Quote:

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:48 am

Quote:

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated

- Gandhi

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:56 am

Quote:

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”

― Frank Zappa

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:57 am

"Better to be pissed off than pissed on." -- one of mr bo's advisors

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

^^^That was a favorite of my beloved uncle and my sons namesake. Very Happy

"Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything. "

- Mark Twain

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 582

May you live in interesting times
-Chinese proverb/curse

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission
-Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:57 am

Is it going to kill me? No, then I will give it a try.

And so far that worked out good for me, still alive and a lot of been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Not so good for health, but I haven't reached my expiration date yet.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:36 am

"Does anyone really know what time it is" -Chicago

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:30 am

'Eagles may soar high, but Weasel's don't get sucked into jet engines'

(Must quote this to one of my lads) Wink

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:43 am

Cheating is bad. Richard Basehart is good. -Gypsy

Remember, when you cheat, you make an EAT Out of C and H -Crow

This week's film is Skydivers. It's kinda like Manos, without the lucid plot. -TV's Frank

Dr. Forrester -Joel, do you remember the theme to this week's invention exchange?
Joel -Action Figures?
Dr. Forrester -No, it's action figures!!

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:25 am

It was my love to truth that made me a liar. - Tomas Klus.

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:01 am

"If you must choose between two evils, always pick the one you've never tried before."

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"A perfect child? Of course! We have one right here - he's under the coffee table. Ralph, stand up! Play the violin!" - The oh so quotable Frank Zappa

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:35 am

Quote:

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:48 am

Ooooooohh Mortal,
you had to start this thread. Well if you didn't someone else may have.

I get too involved with quotes. I know so many.
I will restrain myself and add only one. One that i consider pertinent to our "hobby".

Quote:

Choosing the path of least resistance is what makes both rivers and men crooked.

I don't know who said it, Maybe Hill Napoleon.

I am now strapping my hands to the chair arm rests.

Cheers

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

"When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was."

-Mitch Hedberg

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:10 pm

"It wasn't me."

Got me out of a load trouble that.