Quotes

TomTom

I've often searched the internet looking for interisting and cool quotes. Don't know why, i just like them.
Please post your favourite quotes or parts of speeches.
Please no family guy quotes and the like.



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Amz

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive"

Roller Toaster

"Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?"

"Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. - Genesis"

"I stand there the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains"

Gordon

Awww, Monty Burns has a great one.

[I may paraphrase]"Yes Smithers, I may have millions of dollars but I'd give it all up for more."

irishgeo

How about a quote of the day! i be willing to post it. anyone wanna help as i cant make it online everyday.

Roller Toaster

I'll help you irishgeo if you want, we can take it in turns or you can tell me when you can't do it and I'll fill in for you.

irishgeo

Thanks for the help. how am i goig to let you know that i cant make it online. I'll need you mobile numebr to text you. Pm me it.

irishgeo

Today's topic is Life:
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Author: Anonymous

If you have a quote you wish to see here please pm me it.

Praetorian

Thread stickied. Good luck

Roller Toaster

Number sent, good luck with the thread.

Sangre

A simpler and cheaper way would be to post the quote at a designated time say 2, if irishgeo hasnt posted by 2.30, you post or something.

Roller Toaster

Good idea Sangre. irishgeo, I'm usually home from school at around 4:30 so if you haven't posted by then then I will? Seems like an easier solution really.

Roller Toaster

(Irishgeo hasn't posted his at this moment and I left my phone at my friend's place so I'm going to post the new one up now, if you come on later geo I'll edit this out and save it for another time)

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." -Gandhi

irishgeo

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if youre alive, it isnt.

Author: Richard Bach

irishgeo

One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

irishgeo

On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Author: H. L. Mencken

irishgeo

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

irishgeo

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

Author: Anonymous

Billy Turdhed

All the honchos were sitting around the cabinet and Pres. Nixon was asking each of them their views... When he came to Gen Haig ,Supreme Commndr. Allied Forces he said "Alex what are we going to do about Cuba?

"Just gimme the word boss,I'll turn it into a car park!"


Like that one... has a bang to it ..and its true


O Wm. Turdhed

irishgeo

Dont knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldnt start a conversation if it didnt change once in a while.

Author: Kin Hubbard

Evil Phil

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

Gore Vidal

tbh

These two have been attributed to Peter Kay, I like 'em:

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said,
'Thyroid problem?'

and


When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike.
Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.

My Favourite quote is from Muhammad Ali - I can't think of the exact quote but the jist of it was:
"everything in life must be paid for. Everything has its price. Sometimes, you pay in advance. Sometimes, you pay during, and sometimes you pay after. Sometimes you don't even know what the price for something is when you buy it. But on your final day, all debts are settled".

Or words to that effect. Stay in School Kids!
Caimin

Roller Toaster

There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
--Anonymous



ps why were the threads merged? I preferred the original title, it fitted in better with the other sticky threads.

irishgeo

Since its hangover central here i thought a quote on beer would be nice,

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems.

Author: Homer Simpson

irishgeo

A quote for the Irish team today lads,

Good Luck


Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Author: Josephus Daniels

irishgeo

sorry about missing yesterday guys but here is today's quote.

Dont let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Author: Richard L. Evans

Evil Phil

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

irishgeo

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Author: Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Evil Phil

Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

Heinrich Harrer

irishgeo

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Author: Earl Warren

Evil Phil

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck...I have no time for such nonsense.

Napoleon