Greatest Quotes you've ever seen/heard/read/written?

[BronxJohnny]

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles" by Willa Cather.

"The tongue like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood" Buddha

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” Mark Twain

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes."
Mark Twain

"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

"In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore is integrity and high purpose."Dwight D Eisenhower

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain

"The present is now, the future not guaranteed but a pleasent memory is forever."psssssttt- thats mine

[ToiletCrusher]

"In your darkest hour, you look to those around you for light" - my father

[biozombie]

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. "
-H. L. Mencken

"Life aint nothin but bitches and money."
-Eazy E

[Ricky24]

"Fuck you, and fuck Michael jackson."
John Tuturro to a black in DO THE RIGHT THING

[Gvac]

"The purpose of a net is to catch fish. Once they are caught, the net is forgotten. The purpose of a trap is to catch a rabbit. Once it is caught, the trap is forgotten. Where is the man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to."

- Chuang Tzu

[MacVittie]

"Life is frittered away by details. Simplify, simplify." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I'd rather be a good liver than have a good liver" - unknown

"Fuck the state penn, fuck hoes at Penn State" - Biggie

[ToiletCrusher]

"Fuck you, and fuck Michael jackson."
John Tuturro to a black in DO THE RIGHT THING


POTD!

[west milly Tom]

Send an instant karma to me, initial it with love and care.

Don't know why but this one always stick to me.

[BlackSpider]

"Church is like Prison, If you're good, you don't have to go..."

- Smitty (a carpenter I worked with)

[RoseBlood]

One of my all time favorite quotes is at the very end of this post. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1379049&postcount=18)

[BlackSpider]

"a fool knows everything, but his own ignorance"
I don't know the origin, but I heard it from a Laborer named Bay...

[west milly Tom]

Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

"I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference."-- Jack Kerouac

i kept this at my desk to help calm me. One, it didn't calm me. And, two, my bosses weren't keen on it.

I suppose life is easier when you're a phenomenal writer and a dexedrine addict and not worried about a mortgage.

[BlackSpider]

One of my favorites from Bob Dylan - "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose..."

[epo]

"Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

Hunter S. Thompson, Age 15.

[Friday]

"Grieve not,
nor speak of me with tears
but laugh and talk of me
as if I were beside you...
I loved you so...
'twas Heaven here with you"

Isla Paschal Richardson

[RoseBlood]

"a fool knows everything, but his own ignorance"
I don't know the origin, but I heard it from a Laborer named Bay...

I actually misread that as "..a Labrador named Bay..." :laugh:

[ecobag2]

If one has left but a hobnail boot, then kick. - I forget where this comes from ...

I read it in a book of quotes we owned as a child. It was called notable quoteables.

I couldn't understand why you'd want a book of quotes, I didn't know what a hobnail boot was and I didn't understand the signifigance of never quitting. It's served me well over the years and was the first thing I thought on reading this thread.

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear - Ben Franklin

[BlackSpider]

I actually misread that as "..a Labrador named Bay..." :laugh:

what's even funnier, I call them Labradors...

[MC Pee Pants]

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
Ludwig van Beethoven

I think this is true only for some people. Alot of music touches me way deeper than anything i've read or gotten from talking to someone.

[Hottub]

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
In giving freedom, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln.

Think about it, brothers and sisters.

[Sarge]

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

-Teddy Roosevelt

[sr71blackbird]

"A little nonsence now and then
Is relished by the wisest men"
Willie Wonka

[west milly Tom]

"Church is like Prison, If you're good, you don't have to go..."

- Smitty (a carpenter I worked with)



I work with a Smitty, he's much less profound.

[sr71blackbird]

"The tree of liberty needs to be watered periodically with the blood of patriots
"
(I believe Thomas Jefferson)

[sr71blackbird]

"He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well
Is not so apt to make the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollars"

My pennysaver

[Slumbag]

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
-Bruce Lee

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.-Chuck Palahniuk

If consequences dictate my course of action, then it doesn't matter what's right. It's only wrong if you get caught. If consesequences dictate my course of action, I should play God and shoot you myself-MJK

[Coach]

Beer is proof God loves us, and wants us to be happy
-Ben Franklin

[Judge Smails]

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat ... ah-ha-ha-ha. OK, Pookie, do the honors.

[Dude!]

Abraham Lincoln.

Think about it, brothers and sisters.


good for you on that one
here is my favorite from his 2nd inaugural

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether'.

Abe Lincoln...200 years old in 8 days

[sevenxbjt]

You show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a loser. Vince Lombardi
Once you're in over your head, the water doesn't get any deeper. My Dad
Tonight is ladies night, you just might qualify. Paul Newman in Hud
Only a piano player in a New Orleans whore house carries a pearl handled pistol. George S Patton

[weekapaugjz]

"you can want in one hand and shit in the other." my chicks dad

[hedges]

oh yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

Bukowski

[led37zep]

"No son...lets walk down and fuck them all"

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I'm not sure this counts but it says it all and what brings is to work everyday. Hope you agree:


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[Gvac]

Don't shit big with a small ass - my uncle

[skyscraper]

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

[mendyweiss]

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him

Wittgenstein

[Gvac]

To the frog living at the bottom of the well, the sky is very small indeed.

[DOHO@HOME]

"Well done is better then well said"
"Those who say it can't be done shouldn't inturupt the ones doing it"
"I'm going to be cremated, there is enough shit in the ground"

[disneyspy]

abe lincoln-"People are as happy as they make their mind up to be"

[Gvac]

"It's not what you look like when you're doing what you're doing; it's what you're doing when you're doing what it looks like you're doing. Express yourself." - Charles Wright.

[EliSnow]

"Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,'" but not in those words.
Woody Allen

"Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 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 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." The Third Man

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people mad and been widely regarded as a bad idea." Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

[midwestjeff]

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him

Wittgenstein

QFTT
(quoted for truth table)





C'mon, who doesn't love a good philosoper joke?

[skyscraper]

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him

Wittgenstein

"If Wittgenstein could talk, we could not understand him."- a lion

[Drunky McBetidont]

i have this up on the wall in my classroom.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle

[mendyweiss]

"If Wittgenstein could talk, we could not understand him."- a lion

Yes, This made me laugh !!!:thumbup:

[skyscraper]

"Ninety percent of baseball is half-mental."
"If people don't want to come to the games, no one can stop them."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
- all by the great Yogi Berra

[drjoek]

"Some folks would be happy
just to have one dream come true
but everything you gather
is just more that you can lose"
Robert Hunter

[skyscraper]

"On the west coast, people love baseball the way they love their children.
In the midwest, people love baseball the way they love their spouse.
On the east coast, people love baseball the way they love their God."
-unknown

[midwestjeff]

Learning music is more about learning what you thought you understood but didn't.

Music is so entirely simple in such a complex way, its understanding needs to be courted rather than pursued.

It takes a lot of work to make a heavy thought slight enough for song.

Regardless of odds, taking part in the creation of something that has even a miniscule chance to endure
seems more inviting than undertaking some venture that can't or shouldn't.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Not a quote, but it brings a tear to my eye whenever I tell someone to "go pound salt!"

Thanks dad you were the GREATEST.

[drjoek]

Not a quote, but it brings a tear to my eye whenever I tell someone to "go pound salt!"

Thanks dad you were the GREATEST.

I always had it as pound sand but salt sounds even better!

[santino]

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted
-John Lennon

[Badinia]

William Burroughs, asked why he took heroin:

"So I can shave."

Ronnie B, on expectations, disappointment, and life in general:

"Fuck it!"

[denko]

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - MLK

[denko]

I died on May 10, 1979; at 11:10 p.m. to be exact. Two shots killed me. The first, which left me critically wounded, was fired by Guy Lafleur. The one that wiped me out came from the stick of Yvon Lambert. Had I survived these attacks I have no doubt that I would still be coach of the Boston Bruins today and, quite likely, governor of Massachusetts. - don cherry


last one... "the world will miss his music, but i'll miss my brother" - jimmy vaughan on his late brother stevie ray. i'm not sure why i love this quote so much. i think its because it humanizes an almost mythical being (to me anyway).

[skyscraper]

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

[hammersavage]

Do something you love and you never work a day in your life.

[BlackSpider]

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

[redbri]

“Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

Robert Kennedy

[SKANE]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

[hedges]

"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience...We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to to comprehend its grave implications...In the councils of government, we must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1/17/1961

[SKANE]

"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Despite what certain radio hosts may think, this is one of the most beautiful speeches ever given.

[britneypablo]

<font color="deeppink">Creativity is undetected plagiarism. - Stravinsky

[jauble]

Get that finger out of your ear. You don't know where that finger's been. - Rex Kramer

[sailor]

"The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. " Ty Cobb, 1925

[ecobag2]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

It's not getting any smarter out there.

- Zappa

[ecobag2]

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

This must have been the inspiration for Ron's outro on inauguration day.

[FUNKMAN]

"In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a man allowed his eight-year-old daughter to
take the wheel of his car, and an accident ensued that damaged seven
other cars and injured six people. Which once again proves my theory--
women can't drive."

Norm MacDonald

[Slumbag]

Tell a joke or be a joke-Ronnie B.

[ecobag2]

Nobody wants advice - only corroboration. - from the Winter of Our Discontent.

This has stuck with me since sophmore year of high school.

I never find it proven wrong.

Never.

Whattya think - good one right?

[hedges]

"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

[hedges]

Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu

"There is no crime greater than having too many desires."

[jauble]

Trust no-one who wears pants. - jlehane3

[meanmrbill]

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[CofyCrakCocaine]

AIDS!!

Jim Norton

[Coach]

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
-John W. Gardner

[meanmrbill]

Nobody wants advice - only corroboration. - from the Winter of Our Discontent.

This has stuck with me since sophmore year of high school.

I never find it proven wrong.

Never.

Whattya think - good one right?

So good that I just pulled it off of my bookshelf to read.

[led37zep]

"No son, lets walk down and fuck them all"

[barjockey]

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him.
Johnathon Swift

[PatFromMoonachie]

"..We've all got it coming, Kid." - Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven"

[EliSnow]

I was going to post a portion of the below as a quote, but there are several parts of this poem that are recognizable quotes. I've seen it quoted in comics, television shows, movies, etc. So I'm posting the whole thing.

The Second Coming by WB Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[IWOWedGregBrady]

I fart on a record, that shit sound good
~ Riza, Wu Tang (I believe)

[TonyStark]

I fart on a record, that shit sound good
~ Riza, Wu Tang (I believe)
* RZA
http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/11/29_rza_lgl.jpg

[TripleSkeet]

These are a few from some friends of mine that I found to be great quotes...

"If God doesn't like me, that's his loss." - Robbie Hollywood

"If it were raining pussies, I'd get hit with a prick." - Matt Stecher

[ecobag2]

So good that I just pulled it off of my bookshelf to read.

I was failing at injecting some irony.

Enjoy the book though... if you haven't read Cannery Row from him I'd suggest that too. He's an awful man that Steinbeck and you'd never know it from what you're assigned in high school.