What is/are your favorite quotes?

[Notredame11211]

I love finding and reading new quotes, so I thought I would ask and see which ones other like. Here is my favorite:

“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks”- Inuit proverb, and some others:

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." -Plato

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” -Plato

"Do not look to the ground for your next step;greatness lies with those who look to the horizon." -Norwegian Proverb

[swkieran]

i like the Inuit proverb:), winston churchill was also a master at witty quotes.

Winston Churchill Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill




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[chris grace]

Life is like a card game,you should play with what you were dealt,not what you think you should have been dealt.

I can't remember who said it,It may have been me!

[Martin]

It's nice to be important, but it's far more important to be nice. :)

Martin

[Ben Casey]

Swift and Sure LOL

[happybonzo]

Caesar si viveret ad remum dareris - English translation: If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar

Don't take any lip off him Chef, make him have seconds

You're on very thin ice my pedigree chums and I shall be waiting underneath it for you when it cracks

Not quite in the same vein
I am a Taliban warrior
Blimey what a life
I have a Russian rifle
Three boyfriends and a wife

and my present tag line

[Roadkillphil]

We're gonna need a bigger boat..... Martin Brody

[Notredame11211]

i like the Inuit proverb:)

Thank You!:)

[luresalive]

My favourite quote is from that great alchemist Paracelsus.. "He who wishes to study from the book of nature must walk with his feet upon it's leaves"

I also really like.. "you reap what you sow" !

[Silverback]

My signature line

'Its only a bit of wind and rain it never made anyone pregnant' - insert RSM of choice
'Those who can..do Those who can do more...volunteer'

and finally

'If its not a Border Collie then its JUST a dog'

[Thumbcrusher]

If a man says something and there are no women about, is he still wrong?

strangely similar to my signature line!!

[fenris]

Every man wants to be the hero his dog thinks he is

[Metal mug]

"Time for a brew up." - Me. :D

[mike 01302]

"oh daddy i love you" my daughter grace aged 3 right after i fixed her plastic tea pot lol best on i can think of

[Aaron Rushton]

can't believe nobodies done this one yet:
"he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

+ my sig

[comanighttrain]

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - col Sanders

"When the game is over the king and the pawn return to the same place" - italian proverb

"it is curious that physical courage is so common yet moral courage is so rare" -kinda- mark twain

and finally a poem....

"First they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me."

[RobbC]

Thats a fantastic poem there Comanighttrain, i first heard that in my history class. Cant remember the name of the guy who wrote it, onlythat he was a priest.

I have a few
'We're gona need a bigger boat' no intro needed i hope ;) Edit- just noticed Phil had already posted this, oh well;) -Edit

'Take only memories, leave only footprints' - Ray Mears- not sure if its been mentioned already

'If you keep one eye on the past your blindin one eye, but if yoforget the pst you are blind in bothof your eyes' - Russian proverb, and before anyone says or thinks it i didnt get it from the Ray Mears Belarus episode.:)

Robb

[bigstan]

"what the f**k was that?" ......................the mayor of Hiroshima.

[comanighttrain]

Thats a fantastic poem there Comanighttrain, i first heard that in my history class. Cant remember the name of the guy who wrote it, onlythat he was a priest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6

[Bob W]

It's not the cough that carries you off,

It's the coffin they carry you off in!


My Dad, when I was a kid!! It's gonna be my sig'.

[ANDYRAF]

There is a comedian in Canada I used to watch called Red Green, he has many pithy sayings but my favourite is "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."


Andy

[kINGPIN]

Anything from the film 'Snatch'. "If I throw a dog a bone, I don't wanna know what it tastes like".

[Bushwhacker]

"Never look at your mum when she's eating a banana."

[kINGPIN]

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ughhh I can't believe you made me think of that.

[Metal mug]

You don't need to be a murderous psychopath to live in the woods but it helps. :D

[jbrown14]

Red Green, classic quote. :D

Every time I see the title of this thread, I keep coming back to one quote in my mind. It's not funny, witty, pithy or well-known. You would never hear it in a movie, but it's something that I think a lot of the younger generation that I know could learn from.

It's a lesson on being humble and being able to take correction when needed (which was a lot for me in my younger days.) Sometimes you just have to be humble enough to suck it up and admit you were wrong about something, learn a lesson, and move on.

"In a soft heart, even the lightest touch will leave an impression."

[treefrog]

W.C. Fields once said...'I like children; I just couldn't eat a whole one'.

[happybonzo]

Ged orf moy land

[Martin]

"It's nice to be important but it's much more important to be nice."

[mark]

A wise man once said let's get the f##k out of here

[Fletching]

"One of my chickens was ill so I bricked it. That's a technical term." - Dave Spikey

"conjunctivitis.com - that's a site for sore eyes" - Tim Vine

[Saxon]

"Pain is just weakness leaving the body...Now, on yer feet "....( favourite saying of a certain PTI with no brain :D )

[Ben Casey]

No Pain no gain :D

[udamiano]

Same as my sig

Life in not made up by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away

[comanighttrain]

The only limits you have are the ones you set for yourself.

[Al21]

The only limits you have are the ones you set for yourself.

Very similar to the above, and I can't remember where I first heard it:

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"For evil to flourish, you only need good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"There is no greater boor than a knife boor." - Ray Mears

Al

[Silverback]

"Tracer works both ways"

"The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire, is incoming friendly fire"

"Friendly Fire - isnt"

[happybonzo]

"Tracer works both ways"

"The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire, is incoming friendly fire"

"Friendly Fire - isnt"

Here's a few more http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_humor_murphys_laws_of_combat.asp

and, fo course, my own signature :)

[Humakt]

There's three for me:

'Never do today what you put off until tomorrow.'

'It's easier to apologise than get permission.'

'Adventure, excitement - a Jedi craves not these things.'

[paul standley]

"Don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff...

Paul

[Peaks]

"As the shepherd said to the collie.....Lets get the flock out of here"

[Bigmikejenkins]

"I feel like a tank in Tiananmen Square, I could murder a chinese" is one of my favourites, plus "I was seeing this bird, she was so ugly she had a face like melted lego."

I'll leave now.

[Kernowek Scouser]

The best line Shakespeare didn't write "Infamy! Infamy, they've all got it in for me!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6BJJe9JV_A)

[Silverback]

"I have a border collie, anything else is just a dog"

[JEEP]

Matt. 4:19

[Izzy]

I'll fish for you if your there, but mostly it's just for me and the family. :)

[Silverback]

cant believe I forgot this one

‘Hear all, see all, say now't, eyt' all, drink all and pay now't, and if tha ever does ow't for now't mak sure tha does it for thissen.’

the other version of the above is

‘Hear all, see all, say now't, tak' all, keep all, gi now't, and if tha ever does ow't for now't do it for thysen.’

another one I heard often growing up was

'god gave tha two ears, two eyes, and one gob. So tha can look, and lissen twice as much as tha talk'

[Silverback]

heres another one......

Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell.........something fishy going on perhaps ?

[GalaxyRider]

'Time spent in reconnaisannce is rarely wasted' Napoleon

[JEEP]

heres another one......

Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell.........something fishy going on perhaps ?

Fishy indeed...

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