Nice Quotes

namuras

If you had a quote what would your's be?





"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-Walter Lippman
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
-Kahlil Gibran, "Between Reality and Fantasy"
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
-Alexander Hamilton
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
-Albert Camus
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He is able who thinks he is able."
-Buddha
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
-Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
-Naguib, Mahfouz
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
-Jean Paul
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
-Socrates
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
-Les Brown
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
-Anatole France
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."
-Harold Taylor
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain
"If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it."
-William Arthur Ward
"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."
-Sloan Wilson
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
-Henry David Thoreau
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
-Orison Swett Marden
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
-Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language

"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
-George Orwell
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Anon.

"The best proof of love is trust."
-Joyce Brothers

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
-Willa Cather

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton

"Where there is love there is life."
-Mahatma Gandhi

tman

do you mean pick one from the list, or make one up ourselves???

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton

too true:)
plus, his middle name is my nephews name

scojones

I forget the way this goes and who said it, but i saw it on the wall of that pub accross from beamish and crawford during the summer.

"Work is curse of the drinking class".

catspring

i can't remember who first said it/or is famous for saying it, but i like the expression
"it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
my dad told me that years and years ago

PH01

"It's bad luck to be superstitious"
by Me.

Meaul'fella used to say this, went he was alive, in response to anyone saying "there's no smoke without fire", that "...you can get a lot of smoke from wet or damp turf". A great one.

waffles

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
Ronald Reagan (1911 - ), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981

Mossy Monk

heard this one this morning

"it's cold enough to freeze the bollocks off a snowman"

made me lol at the time

waffles

my balls are like ice cubes and my piss is like a slush puppy

Mick L

"War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left"

Don't know where I heard it though.

Robbo

Originally posted by sjones
I forget the way this goes and who said it, but i saw it on the wall of that pub accross from beamish and crawford during the summer.

"Work is curse of the drinking class".

That would be ascribed to Oscar Wilde.

Johnny_the_fox

"A woman is only a woman, but a cigar is a smoke"

lunacyfoundme

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - (Dean Martin)

ChumpStain

"A mistake is only a mistake when you haven't learned from it"
I don't know who said it but ever since I heard it, it sort of stuck with me.

Devious

"im so hungry i could eat the snatch out of a low flying sparrow"

A phrase oft spouted by one of my friends. I think its the subtlety that appeals to me......

Capt'n Midnight

Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol..
I'd rather a bottle in front of me than a fronal lobatomy.

Níl aon thoin tínn na do thoin thinn feín.. (SP)

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Tea always tastes better when someone else makes it.

passive

"there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" -Hamlet, Shakespeare

twirly sponge

You chain my hands and shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison, but you shall not enslave my thinking because it is free ~ Kahlil Gibran

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you nor know your true worth ~ Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom is not words; wisdom is meaning within words ~ Kahlil Gibran

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people ~ Victor Borge

We can do no great things, only small things with great love ~ Mother Teresa

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted ~ Einstein

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you ~ Winnie the Pooh

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost ~ Charles
Caleb Colton

We are all of us stars and we all deserve to twinkle ~ Marilyn Monroe

steviem

"Keep you feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars"

Casey Kasem
He of America's Top 10 fame

stormkeeper

I actually made a few quotes myself, though they may already be existing ones (but I don't think so), either that, or they're influenced by existing ones. Any way...

It's better to speak little and say much, than to speak much and say little.

Those great questions; Who, What, Why, Where, When and their derivatives are always simple to ask, but not always that simple to answer...

Normality is for those who want to brand diversity of individuals with an insufficient label...


Then this final one, which is in my sig, which I made (I'm such a modest bastard ):

"Plans can be very important, for without a plan of strategy, there is no way to account for any variables in battle." - Lt. Commander James Miller, XO, USS Vortex



I like this one so much, though I dunno if the person who quoted it is the original author (who happens to be our almighty leader ), but stilll..

"You never hear a well fed man talk of food." - Devore



Then there's all the other quotes I have:

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never know peril. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

If ignorant of both your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. - Anonymous

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts. - Anonymous

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences. - Anonymous

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever - Anonymous

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. - Janet Long

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.- Robin Williams

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. - Robert Heinlein

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. - Wally 'Famous' Amos

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. - Unknown

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. - Saadi

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz



Then you just have the random IRC quotage:

*Jadz|working goes back to working and letting you boys chat... <KooGooShii> sex sex sex cars cars cars <KooGooShii> ^_^ <Kennett> ^_^ <Terran> ^_^

<Cygnis> ...Whoa... Bad conversation to be jumping into <Kennett> lol, why? <Cygnis> I come back and all the sudden we're talking about strip clubs

<Shooter> hmmm... If I can make it 33 more minutes... I get another 2 points! <Tempus> lol <Kennett> hehe *Shooter (power@65.124.105.Purple-IRC-41956) Quit (Connection reset by peer) <--- He didn't make it

<DrThresh> stop doing that <KeneWolf> doing what? <DrThresh> You queried me at the same time I queried you <KeneWolf> lol, i'm psychic ;P ...or is that psycho? <DrThresh> prolly both, can't tell from this point :P

stormkeeper

For the record, I use a random quote (from the above, and more) on my IRC, so I get a random quote a quite, just for variety

Tusky

"Hunger is the best sauce" !

ShriekingSheet

Spike Milligan insisted that when he died his epitaph would be

"I told you I was ill!"

it really is his epitaph aparently!

funny ba$tard!

Okie

Originally posted by Devious
"im so hungry i could eat the snatch out of a low flying sparrow"

A phrase oft spouted by one of my friends. I think its the subtlety that appeals to me......

I like that one A bit like "I'm so hungry I'd eat a small scabby child out through the back of an electric chair"

Not really a quote but I like it!

Big Chief

have a whole list saved on the computer aswell, some inspirational, others funny.. anyway -

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important. - Milo Bloom

Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead. - Scottish Proverb

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway - Unknown

Live your own life, for you will die your own death - Unknown

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one - Andre Gide

If you never get your heart broken, you'll never learn to love - Unknown

Ahhh the clitoris, nature's rubix cube - Unknown

You're not free in life until you are free of wanting others approval. - Unknown

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on - Robert Frost

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter - E. E. Cummings

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures - Joseph Addison

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it - Moliere

. . .if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin - Ivan Turgenev

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try - Beverly Sills

It is never too late to be what you might have been - George Eliot
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going - Earl Nightingale

Dont Postpone Joy - Unknown

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin - Grace Hansen

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? - Frank J. Giblin II

I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. - Anne Baxter

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. - Mignon McLaughlin

The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now. - Robert Ingersoll

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron
Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?" - Richard Carlson Ph.D.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao-Tzu

You’ve got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It’s called perseverance. - Lee J. Iacocca

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Unknown

The Sweeper

"Do you know what 'sorry' means? Do you? Sorry means 'I wont do it again'."

-as roared at me by my mother when I was about seven, and had come in from playing in the puddles for the tenth time in three days, muddy up to the armpits with my runners soaked.

I have to say my definition of 'sorry' is based on that.

I also like "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

And if I were ever one for poetry, it would be ee cummings:

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

Peace

Originally posted by Mick L
"War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left"

Don't know where I heard it though.

Operation Flashpoint.....it was one of the that came up when you're dead.

Mick L

Ah yes, Operation Flashpoint.......good game that.

stormkeeper

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
"Do you know what 'sorry' means? Do you? Sorry means 'I wont do it again'."

-as roared at me by my mother when I was about seven, and had come in from playing in the puddles for the tenth time in three days, muddy up to the armpits with my runners soaked.

I have to say my definition of 'sorry' is based on that.
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My mums definition is that too, so I guess that's mine too....

Peace

Originally posted by Mick L
Ah yes, Operation Flashpoint.......good game that.

Get back on topic.

Lord Nikon

This is more like a quote song than anything else, brought to you by the master Baz Luhrmann...

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own..

Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.

Mick L

Originally posted by Peace
Get back on topic.

Here's a quote

"Chill"

by me