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What's your favourite quote?

  • 10-11-2017 11:23pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭


    I see quotes posted all over Instagram every day , motivational ones , inspirational etc etc etc

    Is there a single one that stuck in your head ?

    From a historical figure , a celebrity or even something somebody you knew said.

    My favourite quite is a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh responding to Piglet.

    Piglet: some day we're going to die Pooh...

    Pooh : true. But every other day we won't.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 952 ✭✭✭s4uv3


    Piglet: What day is today Pooh?
    Pooh: It's Monday, Piglet.
    Piglet: Well fcuk.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    That Pooh lad is wise beyond his years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    It’s the fcukin catalyna winemixer


  • Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭paulpd


    "I missed Italia 90. I was in Italy at the time"

    Con Houlihan


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 93 ✭✭Tommy Ferguson


    Make it Happening - Tony Beets Gold Rush


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "I can't help that I have a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina!"

    - Mean Girls, 2004.

    also:

    "The true measure of a man is how he treats somebody who can do him absolutely no good"

    - attributed to Samuel Johnson, but could be anybody


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Candie wrote: »

    "The true measure of a man is how he treats somebody who can do him absolutely no good"

    - attributed to Samuel Johnson, but could be anybody

    Oh, I like that one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Two of my favourites

    'Please accept my resignation, I don't care to belong to a club that would have someone like me as a member'

    Groucho Marx

    'I spent all my money on booze, gambling and women. I wasted the rest of it'

    George Best


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is - Ricky Roma


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭dok_golf


    We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    "I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead." - Homer Simpson

    and

    "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women." - Conan the Barbarian


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Oh, I like that one!

    We all do. Cos it's Candie's.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    "Hell is other people" - Jean Paul Sartre.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    We all do. Cos it's Candie's.


    Aw! <3


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    Quote from a Yeats poem but it's stuck with me for many years;

    'And pluck til time and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    “Assumption is the mother of all fcuk ups”.....The bad guy in under seige


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Carl Sagan on The Pale Blue Dot
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

    We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there – on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

    The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
    [...] To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    The second mouse always get the cheese.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭DaithiMa


    "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" and "I can resist everything, except temptation" both Oscar Wilde.


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "I'm kind of a psychic, I've got a fifth sense. It's like I have ESPN or something. My breasts can always tell when it's going to rain...Well - they know when it is raining"

    - also Mean Girls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    Never argue with an idiot... They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    Have a cup of tea and a biscuit - my Granny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Orson Welles improvised classic from The Third Man
    After all it's not that awful. You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    People often say quotes are a bit silly and kind of empty but I love them. Most I take from favourite poems. Here are three of my current favourites :)

    "There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
    People so tired
    Mutilated either by love or no love

    People are just not good to each other"

    Charles Bukowski.


    "I keep remembering. I keep remembering.
    My heart has no pity on me"

    Henri Barbusse.


    "The past beats inside me like a second heart"

    John Banville.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    More of a dialogue I guess but from Trainspotting..

    Tommy: Useless mother****er, that's what she called me. I told her, I'm sorry, but these things happen. Let's put it behind us.

    Spud: That's fair enough.

    Tommy: Yes, but then she finds out I've bought a ticket for Iggy Pop the same night.

    Spud: Went ballistic?

    Tommy: Big time. Absolutely ****ing radge. 'It's me or Iggy Pop, time to decide.'

    Spud: So what's it going to be?

    Tommy: Well, I've paid for the ticket.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This is one I think of whenever I see people insisting that everyone is hateful and selfish and uncaring at heart:


    “We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are”
    ― Anaïs Nin


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Even a broken clock is right twice a day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭Rob Thomas


    I’ve two that have stuck with me.

    Life is mainly froth and bubble
    Two things stand like stone
    Kindness in another’s trouble
    Courage in your own

    Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done; because they want to do it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    The Winnie the Pooh one is good.

    I have to say, I ****ing hate seeing these on LinkedIn though. Some pretentious twat posts something like “employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers” and loads of pricks with an inflated sense of their own importance are on it acting as if it’s the most insightful, 100% true quote of all time. Nonsense.

    Or another one a few weeks ago I saw was by Malcolm X. “When you use ‘we’ instead of ‘I’, even ‘illness’ becomes ‘wellness’.” Now as catchy and clever as it is, it’s not really that insightful, it’s just a coincidence of spelling. People were acting as if Moses had just come down off the mountain with the tablets of stone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,618 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    “Hold my beer, watch this” has spawned so many good YouTube clips.

    “Trust the awesomeness” by skippy, from a series of books I’m listening to at the moment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    Jellon Lamb: (singing) Oh, Danny boy, the flies, the flies are crawling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

    Confucius


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "You only fail when you quit trying"

    - My dad, but he probably got it from someone else. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned'
    You can't bate a bit of auld William Congreve.
    Used only recently in the Dr.Foster tv series.
    Unfortunately, in my experience, rings true too.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    Too many favourites, so i'll give one by Ed from Youghal:
    Lecturer: the early bird gets the worm.
    Ed: but the early worm gets eaten...
    Class.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,063 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    If you think hiring a professional is expensive just wait until you hire an amateur




    The difference between you and those you envy is that you settled for less


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,618 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    My dad used to say something about people who constantly second guessed their actions or were stuck on events in history.

    “It’s hard to move forward when your always looking behind yourself”


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    All men are guilty of the good they did not do.
    Voltaire


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" - Socrates


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    A quote from my oul fella

    'Never walk first in a bog or second in a forest'


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭EPAndlee


    My favourite quotes come from Ron Swanson
    'When people get too chummy with me I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't really care about them'

    'There's only one thing I hate more than lying:skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk'


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭EPAndlee


    Edit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Brian Clough.."I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."

    And also from Mohammed Ali about Brian Clough..

    "There is some fella in London named some Brian -- Brian Clough. Some soccer player or something. I heard all the way in Indonesia that this fella talks too much. He says that there is another Muhammad Ali -- there is just one Muhammad Ali.

    "I'm the talker. Now Clough, I've had enough, stop it."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Winnie the Poo and one of his side kicks traveling in as storm....

    sidekick: what if one of these trees blows down and crushes us?
    Poo: what if it doesn't?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    No ones ever gotten out of their life alive yet.
    Or similarly - If your not living on the edge, your taking up too much room.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    EPAndlee wrote: »
    My favourite quotes come from Ron Swanson
    'When people get too chummy with me I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't really care about them'

    'There's only one thing I hate more than lying:skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk'
    "You're welcome...Lester" - April to Ron


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

    Usually attributed to Mark Twain but apparently it mightn’t have been him......either way, always loved it and in the age of Trump never more apt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

    H.L. Mencken — 'A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.'


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    'Work is the curse of the drinking classes'
    Attributed to Oscar Wilde I think.


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