Quotes

Mick L

There's no I in team but there's a me if you look hard enough.

If you're going to criticise someone walk a mile in their shoes first....
....that way when you criticise them you're a mile away and you have their shoes

chunga_monster

True friends stab you in the front (Oscar Wilde)

I wasnt kissing it, I was trying to bite it off (Neil Kinnock, commenting on Margeret Thatchers moustache when he kissed her in greeting)

PunyHuman

I gotta get more money than you got/
So what if some motherfu(ker gets shot?

- Ice-T, "New Jack Hustler," O.G Original Gangster, 1990/91

PunyHuman

Well look at that, I posted twice by mistake

- Me, 19 December, 2am, stuck at work

gucci

any fool can grab a tiger by the balls but it takes a hero to keep on holding

"George Stark" in Stephen Kings the dark half

Vader

The opinions of others are like the play things of infants

Ivan

Some more, to bring us up to date.

Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the opposite.

I care that you may pass on your genetic material to some girl too drunk to scream

Its only after we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything.

Look for something long enough and you'll find it; Look for something without understanding and it

will find you.

Its funny how almost being eaten by a tiger can put things into perspective.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet

How can anyone but themselves have control over their state of consciousness?

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk

Options will cost you, but a lack of them will cost you even more.

When the finger points to the sky only a fool looks at the finger.

Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.

War does not show who is right… but who is left.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful,
natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

You know that look women get when they want sex?
. . .Me neither.

Programming is like sex. One mistake and your supporting it for life

The very fear that makes you want to die, is just the same as what keeps you alive

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday

Even the threat of power has power.

There are no stupid questions, but there are alot of inquisitive idiots.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation

Never carry daring & recklessness in the same pocket.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're

going to feel all day.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Ivan

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist is afraid that it is.

At first there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light!' Then there was still nothing. But you could see it.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

The beatings shall continue until morale improves.

Ivan

Does anybody post on this thread anymore?

Ivan

Maybe this thread should be changed to Quote of the Month? :eek:

Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the earth.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Seek not the favour of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them

Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

banquo

Broadcasting across the island is mainly the province of Radio Telefis Eireann or RTE, which stands for Reception Terrible Everywhere.

Put not your trust in Kings and Princes; three-of-a-kind will take them both. - General Robert C. Schenck

The U.S Supreme Court - doing the most important kind of nothing. - P.J. O' Rourke (one of our own!)

Ivan

To a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

Maybe fun is just fragments of existence with better packaging.

Sometimes you find things that are more important to you than the things you think are important. Or maybe thats just getting older.

Right and Wrong are only opinions.

I would be nothing other than I am.

Time makes all things possible. I can wait.

There is a thin line between being a hero and being a memory.

Lately the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labour.

In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is.

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I have to admit, I'm begining to steal quite alot of quotes from peoples boards signatures.

Good, good, keep them coming

munkeehaven

life is a long process of getting tired=beckett

Dancing duck

I'm big into quotes once they're not Shakespeare's.

'' Exaggeration is the key to life, obsession is the key to medication, and the thing in my pocket is the key to my door ''

Frankie Smith

unsex me now!

Ms. Brome to Room 12, 2004.

Shoolaboola

hmmmm my fave quote..."im not bigheaded im just better than everyone else"
and "the river will never run dry because it will always be fed by the mountains which will always live in boredom" (see kurt cobain's journals)

Ivan

The Innuit language has a word that roughly translates as "to like, but not to the extent where you would go on a seal-hunting trip with". If you spend cold winters in a small igloo with a bunch of people you develop precise terms for human relationships.

If I advance, follow me; if I retreat, kill me; if I die, avenge me.

Light and dark cannot exist without one another. Light without dark, they define one another. The balance is your cause.

One may not be able to triumph over evil, but one need not remain silent in its presence

The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

Even a stopped clock, gives the right time, twice aday.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The decision doesn't have to be logical; it was unanimous.

If you dont know where you are going, every road will take you there.

The day we can say there's anywhere that has no sign of human stupidity, we'll be pointing towards somewhere with no humans.

omnicorp

I'm all in for a bit of a laugh, but when it comes to putting pins on the floor, I really must put my foot down.

Ivan

The majority of the stupid are invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

Eagles may soar - but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Life ends in death and every day dies in sleep.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity... or laziness.

I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In Morse Code.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves

Drakar

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

toiletduck

absolute power corrupts absolutely, which is a problem if your powerless.

Talliesin

"Eventually everything gets attributed to Benjamin Franklin" - Benjamin Franklin (not really)

DeVore

I love quotes, I've got loads of them around the place somewhere

My favourites are mostly from Einstein but include:

"And Alexander wept for there were no more worlds for him to conquer."

"When will Vienna be pulling into this train?" -- Einstein

"Ozzymandias, King of kings, look on his works ye mighty and despair".

"I'm not mad, I'm sane in a crazy world" -- Me

"That, is yet another example, of something." Einstein

"Because Physics is easy, and Biology is hard" -- Einstein again, after he was asked why there had been so many breakthroughs in Physics and relatively so few in Biology during his life time.

More as I think of them...
DeV.

Crucifix

DeVore wrote:

"Ozzymandias, King of kings, look on his works ye mighty and despair"

I love that poem.

"Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair!"

"Every moment is golden for he who recognises it as so"

Frankie Smith

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." - M. Friedman

Voltaire's philosophy. "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend until death your right to say it."

Dulce Bellum Inexpertis - War is sweet to those who know nothing of it" - Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1511 AD....

There once was a man called an t-Uachtaráin2
who lived in Áras an Uachtaráin,
He was fond of his nookie,
he had a go at the cookie,
And there is the couch that he f-uchtaráin

Myles na gCopaleen about Douglas Hyde

haircut100

I'm so broke I can't even pay attention - Jimi

Crania

The diference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little bit extra

Crania

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to meet it

Gone West

oscar wilde - one of my favorites!

Work is the curse of the drinking classes

Crania

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking

Crania

Mistakes are the portals of discovery

Crania

The price of greatness is responsibility

Crania

All things are difficult before they are easy

Crania

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly

Crania

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left

Crania

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

Crania

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

Crania

You cannot build a reputation on things you are going to do

Crania

No man is rich enough to buy back his past

Crania

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat

Crania

Success is always temporary

Crania

The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and tomorrow

Crania

The only thing acheived the without efort is failure

Crania

A great pleasure of life is doing what other people say you cannot do

Crania

The best way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket

ecksor

I'm not sure it's really necessary to keep the quotes to one per post.

Crania

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed

Crania

Getting something done is an accomplishment,
Getting someting done right is an achievement

Crania

Well done is better than well said

Crania

If better is possible, good is not enough