Favourite quote

red menace

Mine at the moment is Al Capone:

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun

martyoo

you reap what you sow.

Celly Smunt

"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."-george orwell

not my favourite quote but the first one that came to mind

Colonel Sanders

The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with your average voter - Winston Churchill

Ardennes1944

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother

encyclopedia

"Its nice to be important but its more important to be nice" the great philosopher...

Scooter

IrishKev

"... and Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, i'll tell ye a little story. I was in Times' Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a newstand and I said 'I suppose ye wouldn't have the Kerryman would ye?' To which the Egyptian behind the counter turned to me and he said 'do you want the North Kerry edition or the South Kerry edition?' He had both. So I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet..."
-Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh

cml387

"Game over man,it's game over!"

Turtyturd

'What the f*ck did I do?' - Jimmy McNulty

markesmith

We make our decisions, then our decisions turn around and make us - PW Barton (or someone)

PFL

"What we do in life echoes an eternity"

red menace

Ernie Kovacs:

"Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done."

hondasam

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

red menace

One from Harry Truman:

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

strokemyclover

Mine is "What's your favourite quote?"

It features quite a lot in After Hours

Setun

"Where is the mind located when identity is as much bound up in an avatar as it is in the material body?" - Roy Ascott, a fine writer on technology and culture.

Seaneh

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." - C. S. Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." - C. S. Lewis

cml387

"who wants a kick in the head' Facekicker
"SKRRK! SKRRK SKRRK!" Trent aka Padraiggg
"Yore ma" unattributed

Setun

cml387 wrote: »

"who wants a kick in the head' Facekicker
"SKRRK! SKRRK SKRRK!" Trent aka Padraiggg
"Yore ma" unattributed

How'd you manage to get the first one wrong, considering the username is facekicker. :rolleyes:

Kimono-Girl

I have a million favorite quotations

Top 3 would be....

"I am me, take me or leave me"

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." George Eliot

"Get mad, then get over it" Colin Powell

cml387

Daddio wrote: »

How'd you manage to get the first one wrong, considering the username is facekicker. :rolleyes:

Artistic license

Orando Broom

'Put down that sausage'

Benjamin Disraeli to Victor Hugo

Scuid Mhór

'but boys will be boys and girls have those eyes that'll cut you to ribbons some times.'

barbarians

Experience is simply the name we give our past mistakes.
Oscar Wilde.

itac

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be....

Gotta love Douglas Adams...

Jaafa

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.

Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.

Jules (Pulp Fiction....oh and the bible originally)

Turtyturd

Scuid Mhór wrote: »

'but boys will be boys and girls have those eyes that'll cut you to ribbons some times.'

'And all you can do is just wait by the moon and bleed if it's what she says you oughta do'

hondasam

“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”

Aldebaran

"A ship in port is safe... but that is not what ships are made for"

J2D2

"experience is hard teacher, it gives the test first and the lesson after"

Son Of A Vidic

Hard to pick one, but these are some of my favourites

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)


"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Ulysses Gaze

Two from Reagan:

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."


"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

Wompa1

"Like a midget at a urinal I knew I'd have to stay on my toes" - Frank Drebin

ingalway

This too shall pass

Dots1982

Virtue is its own reward.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

OutlawPete

There was a quote my English teacher had framed when I were at school I always liked, just can't seem to remember it fully.

It was more or less saying that it is far easier to teach a simple man with an open mind a complex idea, than an intelligent man with a closed mind a simple one.

Ring any bells with anyone?

My name is URL

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts"

FoxT

" The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today, is that the foolish are cocksure, whilst the intelligent are full of doubt"

- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Things haven't changed much, have they?

cml387

"It is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle, than it is for a camel to."
Rowan Atkinson.

JonB

This isn't my favourite one. But a nice one I seen recently about music.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

Dinner

Scuid Mhór wrote: »

'but boys will be boys and girls have those eyes that'll cut you to ribbons some times.'

Turtyturd wrote: »

'And all you can do is just wait by the moon and bleed if it's what she says you oughta do'

Spot the Gaslight fans

And in a similar vein

'And if all was well and your heart could find the words, would we be for better baby, would we be for worse'

But a non Gaslight one..

'It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.'

Saganist

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

-- John Lennon

Nemanja91

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."

DualFrontDiscs

OutlawPete wrote: »

There was a quote my English teacher had framed when I were at school I always liked, just can't seem to remember it fully.

It was more or less saying that it is far easier to teach a simple man with an open mind a complex idea, than an intelligent man with a closed mind a simple one.

Ring any bells with anyone?

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him”

Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within you, 1897

That it?

(Thanks Dirk)

Paco Rodriguez

Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.

OutlawPete

DualFrontDiscs wrote: »

That it?

It is indeed.

Haven't seen that in twenty years or more, cheers

dxhound2005

Common sense is one of the least common things in the world. Along with common courtesy and common knowledge.

who what when

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt



TLDR version fcuk the begrudgers and critics

gernon

Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible ****... me.

Bricktop

bryaner

Never waste a good hard on..

Jack Nicholson

rockmongrel

"Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope."
Tuli Kupferberg