So many quotes .. so little time

[Pilar]

Many of my favorites are of course not printable. But here's a few that are food for thought.

Your favorites?

"Never mistake motion for action"

"You really aught to read more books .. you know those things that resemble blocks of wood and that open on one edge"

Ernest Hemingway

"Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there"

Michael Imperioli

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

-Stephen King - Roland from "The Gunslinger"

Where did they teach you to talk like this? At some Panama City sailor-wanna-<unprintable> bar, or is this getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else . . . we're all stocked up here.

Jack Nicholsen 'As good as it gets'.





Shot fired

"You, sir, will either die of the pox or on the gallows."

Lord Sandwich to John Wilkes

Retort

"That depends, my lord, upon whether I embrace your mistress or your principles."

Wilkes to Lord Sandwich:

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

- Robert Heinlein

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

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

H.L.Mencken

"No one is useless -- one can always serve as a bad example."

Anonymous

[SOL]

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second, when you sit on a red hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Einstein

[Cool Texan]

Well you see honey, my right Nipple was getting rubbed today and I had to find something to put over it so Raymond put a Nipple Pastie on my nipple for me

--Burnsfactor, 2007

[Irish Pennant]

The definition of stress is the mind overcoming the hearts desire to choke the living snot out of someone who deserves it.


Fish On!!!!!!!!.........Freak'n sealions

[RvW]

“Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt. Idealists regard everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.”

"Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd."

Robert Anton Wilson.

RIP 1/11/07

Hail Discordia!




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[StinkyH]

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
-- Jonathan Kozol

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't.

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Once the game is over.. the pawn and the king go back in the same box.

Life is like a grindstone - whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.

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I read once where a father put a quote in each of his kid's sack lunches each day and then they'd talk about them that evening. Cool idea.

[StinkyH]

Originally Posted by SOL

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second, when you sit on a red hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Einstein

lol - that's great.

[C-lice]

"No set of beliefs has proven too flawed to become creed."
--Bertrand Russell

"Reality conforms to the certainty we superimpose upon it."
--George Berkley

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
--Bud Wilkinson

"Your best is good enough."
--Bill Cowher

"There are two kinds of men in this world. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig."
--Clint Eastwood

"The old man urinated."
--Ernest Hemingway

"If you don't start drinkin', I'm gonna leave."
--George Thorogood

"We loved with a love that was more than a love, did me and my Annabel Lee."
--Edgar Allan Poe

"Religion is what a man does with his solitude."
--G.E. Trueblood

"I cannot spare the man. He fights."
--Abraham Lincoln

[RogueFishr]

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot
be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein

"Those who dominate nature and seek to possess it will never succeed, For nature is a living system, so sacred that those who use it profanely will surely loose it; And to lose nature is to lose ourselves."
Tao 29


" We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box."




"Sometimes it seems the least important part of fishing is fishing."
Roderick Haig Brown


What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?


Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas A. Edison


"God, thank you for all that you have given me, and thank you for all that you have taken away, and God - thank you for all that I have left! Amen"

[Jennie@ifish]

Here's my fav:

"Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!"

And... I can remember it, word for word!

Jen

[Just_learning]

"First of all, that question is bull**** if everyone had a million dollars, there would be no janitors because nobody would WANT to clean up ****."


-Peter from the movie "Office Space"

[xtratoy]

" What, Me worry ? "

Alfred E. Newman

MAD Magazine

[taggbro]

The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!

[PIR8 Hook]

"There is nothing like a sucking chest wound to take the fight out of a dangerous jerk!"

"I'd reather be tried by 12 than burried by 6."

"You'll have to pardon me. I'm new to these parts but is everyone here as ugly as you three?"
Matthew Quigly

"Ships are safest in harbors, but that's not what ships are made for."

"Could be worse. It could be raining"
Igor from Young Frankinstein

" Red- Right- Returning"
My Dad when running the channel in Garibaldi

[Tagster]

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

You see, dear, there is no one left to ask them a single troublesome question. Such as: Where have you been and where are you going and is it worth it.

Travis McGee - John D Macdonald

[GoRunVT]

Here are some of my favorites

"There's some light in the world," "We are powerful when we work together as one." Bono from U2

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve."
- John Miller
"Try to be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Gandhi
Smell the flower while you can
-David Wojnarowicz

[Rainman]

Here's a few of my favorites:

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

[reelbigfish72]

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
Karl Marx

[Just_learning]

"do you think God will ever forgive us for all that we have done?"

"Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, if I live, I will kill you. If I die, you're forgiven. Such is the rule of HONOR."


"I hope they serve beer in hell" - Tucker Max

Lakes, rivers, streams, all are water and travel to the same destination. So it is the same with religion. - Muhammed Ali

"I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." - Yasser Arafat

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest
thing I know.
- Ernest Hemmingway

[retiredgal]

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it sure can ruin today's happiness.

The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.

Live, love, laugh today, for tomorrow may not come?

Unknown authors.

[Pilar]

"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn"

Jim Morrison

"The killer awoke at dawn, he put his grundens on
He took a gaff from the ancient gallery and he
walked on down the dock and he
came to a boat..."

Mr. Fisherman

[bajadan2000]

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Schweitzer

[CATCH AND EAT]

"it's shrinkage....I was in the pool"! George Castanza

"Todays youth are growing up with the belief that work is a four letter word". Hillary Clinton

"Strategery" Will Farrell saturday night live Celebrity Jeapordy

[johndeeregreen]

We deal in lead my friend-----Steve McQueen-- The Magnificent Seven

[Jacks or Better]

"You're gonna need a bigger boat" - from Jaws.

[danger]

And your own ears will hear a word behind you saying: "This is the way. Walk in it, YOU people," in case YOU people should go to the right or in case YOU should go to the left.

Isaiah 30:21

Muhamed Ali was wrong...

[Just_learning]

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows"
-Robert Green Ingersoll

nice try though. open minds open doors.

[Keeper]

Do or do not, there is no try...Yoda

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy...Ben Franklin

Feet are like pets, happiest when they are going somewhere.

Fish and visitors stink after three days...Ben Franklin

Tell me, I forget. Teach me, I understand. Involve me, I learn...Ben Franklin

Today's the day...Mel Fisher

The animals need hunters as much as the hunters need animals... Sitting Bull

[buckhunter]

What danger said..... BH

[Hell-B]

Mission Accomplished