Quotes

TomTom · 16-09-2003 9:33pm #1

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.

[merged with original Quotes thread]

Amz · 16-09-2003 10:39pm

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

Roller Toaster · 17-09-2003 7:47pm

"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 · 17-09-2003 8:56pm

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 · 30-09-2003 5:31pm

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 · 30-09-2003 5:34pm

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 · 01-10-2003 2:12pm

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 · 01-10-2003 2:23pm

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 · 01-10-2003 2:26pm

Thread stickied. Good luck

Roller Toaster · 01-10-2003 6:51pm

Number sent, good luck with the thread.

Sangre · 01-10-2003 6:59pm

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 · 01-10-2003 7:03pm

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 · 02-10-2003 3:41pm

(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 · 03-10-2003 9:40am

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

Author: Richard Bach

irishgeo · 04-10-2003 2:59pm

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

Author: Ernest Hemingway

irishgeo · 05-10-2003 11:21am

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

Author: H. L. Mencken

irishgeo · 06-10-2003 3:53pm

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 · 07-10-2003 10:26am

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

Author: Anonymous

Billy Turdhed · 07-10-2003 6:15pm

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 · 08-10-2003 9:41am

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 · 08-10-2003 9:53am

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

Gore Vidal

tbh · 08-10-2003 2:05pm

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 · 09-10-2003 8:16pm

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 · 10-10-2003 8:57am

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 · 11-10-2003 12:55pm

A quote for the Irish team today lads,

Good Luck

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Author: Josephus Daniels

irishgeo · 13-10-2003 1:50pm

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 · 14-10-2003 10:54am

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

irishgeo · 15-10-2003 10:13am

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

Author: Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Evil Phil · 15-10-2003 3:01pm

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

Heinrich Harrer

irishgeo · 16-10-2003 10:56am

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

Author: Earl Warren

Evil Phil · 17-10-2003 9:02am

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

irishgeo · 17-10-2003 4:27pm

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

--Franklin D. Roosevelt

irishgeo · 18-10-2003 12:30pm

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Author: Anna Jameson

Andor · 18-10-2003 2:04pm

Learn as if you were going to live forever, live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
-- Mahatma Ghandi

irishgeo · 19-10-2003 2:57pm

Theres too much blood in my alcohol system.

Author: Catherine Zandonella

Another hangover quote!

Evil Phil · 21-10-2003 9:44am

All saved from Titanic after collision.

New York Evening Sun, April 15 1912.

j0e9o · 26-10-2003 4:41am

dont live in the shadow of something because then its sure to be ahead

DeVore · 28-10-2003 10:26pm

(love this thread!)

"If at first an idea is not absurd , there is no hope for it." Albert Einstein.

DeV.

Evil Phil · 29-10-2003 3:46pm

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

Evil Phil · 30-10-2003 9:54am

Play for more than you can afford to lose, and you will learn the game.

W. Churchill

Ivan · 30-10-2003 10:10am

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

Evil Phil · 31-10-2003 9:25am

On the dangers of the Monte Carlo Rally - Some of the ravines are so deep that if you topple over, your clothes will be out of date by the time you hit the bottom.

Tony Pond

j0e9o · 08-11-2003 12:50am

any of you seen the film scum??
there was a really cool quote in it
"im the daddy now im the F**kin daddy"

twinQuins · 17-11-2003 10:26am

"You cannot escape the traps you spin you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power. And then you're trapped again. Trapped for eternity so you can never die!" - The Wheel Of Time (I forget which book exactly), Robert Jordan.

And

"Dead men should be quiet in their graves. But they never are" - The Wheel Of Time, also

embee · 17-11-2003 10:56am

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotle

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." - Noel Coward

Ivan · 18-11-2003 5:23am

Analogies are a lot like goldfish, they very often have absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Our very own, Ecksor.

dilemma · 18-11-2003 5:59am

i'm not sure who said this:
"i think therefore i'm single."

twinQuins · 18-11-2003 8:47am

"There are three events in a man's life. Birth, life and death. He is not aware of being born, he dies in pain and he forgets to live" - Jean de la Bruyere.

PunyHuman · 21-11-2003 1:17am

"Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action."

- John Muir, The Mountains of California, 1894

chunga_monster · 24-11-2003 10:45pm

You can lead a horticulture, but you cant make her think (Dorothy Parker)

Ivan · 09-12-2003 12:52pm

These are just a few quotes I've collected from various places. Chances are you've probably seen them before because you may have written them!

If you try to kill your self enough times, suddenly everyone begins to think your crazy.

Fear accompanies the possibility of death, calm sheperds the certainty.

He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a landmine or something.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

Ernest hemingway once wrote; "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for". I agree with the second part.

There is something to be said for silence; I just dont have the heart to say it.

It says alot about life when you have to torture yourself in order to stay healthy, popular and look good.

The greatest thing I've ever done for this world will be to leave it.

Nobody likes me because they think I'm paranoid.

The truth makes a liar of me.

The whole world is a cage when you are trapped in it alone.

You cant treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, cos if you do, you'll die alot of times.

As far as I know I'm not crazy.

Some things we cant admit, even to ourselves, because as soon as we do, We find we are no longer the person we thought we were.

Something is always happening, but people dont always see it or understand it, or accept it.

We're all a mess of contradictions even when we're dead.

The distance between genius and insanity is measured only in success.

Before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment you chop wood and carry water.

Don't worry about what people think; They don't do it very often.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Sarcasm knows no bounds.

He who asks is a fool for a minute, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Only the insane have the strength enough to prosper...only those who prosper can truly judge what is sane.

True friends stab you in the chest.

Blind Dates - Why not just stay at home and rip out your own fingernails.

In common with most of the human race - I know very little and think I know alot.

Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes it eats you.

If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem

Some times you have to kiss alot of frogs before you find your prince.

All I ask is for the chance to prove that money wont buy me happiness.

At the end of the day you are responible for your own happiness...

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

If you lend someone €20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Some days you are the bug; some days you are the windshield.

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it..

Never miss a good chance to shut the **** up.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.

You know what they say about politics. It's show business for ugly people.

Victory needs no explanation. Defeat allows none.

There are worse things than an honourable death but I bet its a short list.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; A fool because he has to say something.

Analogies are a lot like goldfish, they very often have absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe
you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

Light a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong

If you look at a forest all day long every day of the week you'll start to believe that there are a **** load of trees in the world.

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Everyone is crying out for peace,
no one is crying out for justice.
Everybody wants to go to heaven,
but nobody wants to die.

Its sad how a family can be torn apart by something as small as a pack of wild dogs.

A wise man who realises he is wise becomes a fool. A fool who realises he is a fool becomes a wise man.

A good -friend will bail you out of jail when you get arrested.
Your best friend will be standing beside you saying, "That was a mad laugh".

64kb of memory is more than anyone will ever need - Bill Gates

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

The universe is vast and we are so small. There is really only one thing we can ever control; Either we are good or we are evil.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is

People only see what they are prepared to see

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me

There are three events in a man's life. Birth, life and death. He is not aware of being born, he dies in pain and he forgets to live

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