What's your favourite quote?

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.” Mark Twain

Tigger wrote:

.... This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.....

It makes me very happy that T Pratchett's character (Sam Vimes) has real world influence and will be remembered forever.

.....long live The Guarding Dark

"**** em'"

-John Rambo

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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

God looks at clean hands not full hands

The future lays before you like a blank sheet of snow, be careful how you thread on it as every mark will show

**** sticks

Quite true.

One good quote I like is from John Carpenter's The Thing.
Kurt Russell's character [MacReady] is cut from the guide line outside but some how manages to make it to the door despite it being a blizard. The others behind the door are unsure as to let him back in or let him freeze to death as they do not know if he is human or The Thing.

The character Windows says "What if we're wrong about him!?" (what if he is human and we are leaving him to his death) in which Keith Davids character replies with ".... then we're wrong ...."

You can live your life by that quote If you are unsure about someone or a situation, then don't put yourself out there to be bit in the ass. If you are wrong, you're wrong.

jaffusmax wrote: »

Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

Unless you're Frank Drebbin and they're doing Shakespeare in the Park.

“Use the force, Luke”

-Gandalf.

"I have the constitution of a concrete elephant".

"I want to be young and foolish. Then I want to be middle aged and rich. Then I want to get old and annoy people by pretending to be deaf".

E. Blackadder

"Stop saying that, Withnail. Of course he's the ****ing farmer".

- & I

arayess wrote: »

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" - betrand russell

I think Yeats put it more eloquently in his poem The Second Coming:

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Two of my favourite quotes are from Milton's Paradise Lost and are spoken by Satan:

"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven"

and

"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” ~ Anne Lamott

Without the bad times you won't realise how good the good times are

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"

Knowledge is power, France is bacon.

When any of my kids had a fall id always say to them When soldiers fall they stand tall.

Now they ask me why i use to say that and i told them, Soldiers are brave and in battle if they fall thats when their bravey shines through so they stand tall just like you should when you fall......be brave be strong stand tall. Probably sounds cheesy but it worked

There's one that sticks in my mind from when I was observing a "disagreement" on Usenet.

Poster A had claimed that poster B was accusing him of hypocrisy.

Poster B's retort: "I'm not accusing you of hypocrisy. I doubt that you have the intellectual wattage for anything as advanced as hypocrisy. My theory is simply that you're a fcuking idiot."

joe stodge wrote: »

"I SHALL RETURN".

terminator 2

"I'll be back."

- Douglas McArthur

No One Wants To Die.
Even People Who Want To Go To Heaven Don't Want To Die To Get There.
And Yet Death Is The Destination We All Share.
No One Has Ever Escaped It.
And That Is As It Should Be, Because Death Is Very Likely The Single Best Invention Of Life.
It Is Life's Change Agent.
It Clears Out The Old To Make Way For The New.

- Steve Jobs

My favourite Behan Quote . . . .

"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"When I have it I spend it. When I don't, I don't" -Charlie Mc, pre-bankruptcy.

“Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Mark Twan