Famous Quotes

[Abalone]

Getting bored here, thought I'd play around in the net and found this.

Roses are red, Violets are blue. I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
~ Oscar Levant


Got any famous quotes to share ?

"Round up the usual suspects"

[pearl]

" No matter where you go, there you are".

Unknown

[Flush Release]

Only a fool argues with a idiot!

[Chromaflage]

We spend the first three years of our childrens' lives teaching them to walk and talk. We spend the next 15 years teaching them to sit down and shut up.

--unknown

[First Light Bite]

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
--Doug Larson

[First Light Bite]

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
--Steven Wright 1955

[First Light Bite]

"Of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy." ---William Sherwood Fox

[First Light Bite]

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
Henry David Thoreau

[Catching Nemo]

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
Benjamin Franklin


"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
Muhammad Ali


"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain


"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
Dan Quayle


"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American."
George W. Bush


"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas"
George W. Bush


"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
John F. Kennedy


"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."

"A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?"

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."

Robert A. Heinlein

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.
John F. Kennedy

[Fish-n-Fever]

"This year will go down in history.For the first time,a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer,our police more efficient,and the world will follow our lead into the future!" Adolph Hitler,1935

Ron

[Herring Impaired]

"Never offer unsolicited advice, wise men don't need it, and a fool won't heed it"

[RvW]

"Roses are red, violets are purple"
"sugar is sweet, and so is maple syruple" ???



"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher



"You can observe a lot by just watching."
Yogi Berra's Law


"Time is the only thing that keeps everything from happening at once"

[judyfish99]

"I am so hungry, I can eat the Southbound end of a Northbound Cow"

"If it has Tires or Test****s, it means Trouble"

both by my late mother :grin:judyfish99

[Spinhead]

[partisan comment]

"It ain't over 'til it's over." Yogi, again!

[RvW]

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes"



"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other"


"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."


If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.


~Jack Handy.
SNL 1991- 2003
R.I.P.

[BuKuBass]

"Roses are red, violets are purple"
"sugar is sweet, and so is maple syruple"

"Dang Me" by Roger Miller

"We all end up in the same place, but each of us gets there in his own way" Tolstoy

[BuKuBass]

" No matter where you go, there you are".

is from the film "The Amazing Adventures of Buckaroo Banzia Across the Eighth Dimension"


"Do not mistake comfort for civilization" Dean Inge

"Money won't change you but Time will take you on" James Brown

"A man of wisdom delights in water" Confuscious

[Silver Hilton]

Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.

- Mark Twain

[RvW]

"Dang Me" by Roger Miller

I probobly would have grown old and died without ever remembering where I'd heard that.

Had to DL the song and hear it for old times sake.

My dad sang a line or two now and then when I was quite young.

[Chromaflage]

A not-so-famous quote by a man who was a huge influence in my life - my grandfather:

"As you travel the highway of life, if you don't like the scenery, perhaps you are looking out the wrong window."
--Lafe E. Kinnaman

ORS

[Spinhead]

One quote from each of my parents...

"He wouldn't say 's#!t' if he had a mouthful."...My dear demure mother.

(when asked, "What'cha doin', Dad?") "Playin' tiddlywinks with manhole covers!"...My father.

[Ken Drifter]

"Ifish therefore I am"

[judyfish99]

Still another one from the family:

Me: "Dad, How come the family has a German surname when we are suppose to be Irish?"

Dad: "Because someone stupid in our family way back got mixed up with some horsethieves"

Yep, One of the Original Northwest Steelheaders is still ornery... :grin:judyfish99

[FallRiverGuy]

A closed mind is impervious to reason.

[Okie]

Once I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken

[CATCH AND EAT]

"I smoked it but I did'nt inhale" Bill Clinton

"I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski" Guess who?

"We start bombing in 5 minutes". Ronald Reagan

"Stupid is as stupid does". Mrs. Gump

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get". Forrest Gump

"Go ahead, make my day". Clint Eastwood

[Abalone]

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

[id. painter]

"If your not a democrat at age 20 you have no heart. If your not republican buy the time you are 40 , you have no brain." Winston Churchhill

[STGRule]

TBA

[TheRogue]

"It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear"

Norm, from Cheers.

[El-Kabong]

WOMAN: Well, how did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing] ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[Lured In]

"Better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." - attributed to my father, although likely from someone else.

"Man this fishing/hunting is terrible! Want to give it 30 more minutes?" - Repeated thousands of times each year.

"Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo." - Fletch

"I have a map of the USA, its actual size. One mile equals one mile. Its a pain(edit) to fold." - Steven Wright

"First learn to use this (pointing at his head), then learn to use this (lifting a sword)" - Uncle Argyle to a young William Wallace - Braveheart

[Fish-n-Fever]

Life isn't like a bowl of cherries
It's more like a jar of jalapenos
what you do today,
might burn your [behind] tomorrow!

Ron

[Birdnest]

"If your not a democrat at age 20 you have no heart. If your not republican buy the time you are 40 , you have no brain." Winston Churchhill

I like it.

Saw this one on a bumper sticker before the election

"Vote republican...it's easier than thinking"

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--." General John Sedgwick

Sedgwick was a corps commander in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. At the battle of the Wilderness, while inspecting his troops, he approached a parapet and peered out over the surrounding countryside. His officers and men urged him to take cover from small arms fire, but Sedgwick scoffed at their concerns, "What! What men! This will never do, dodging from single bullets!" As the general spoke his last words, he was shot in the head by a Confederate sharpshooter.

[Degner]

What is best in life?

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

-the governor of California.

[I Fred]

It's not what you say,it's how you say it....... Dear Old Dad

[crabbait]

And sometimes it is what you say.

Can the republican/democrat stuff guys. Quit trying to get something started (inflame).

[STGRule]

Sorry.... I'll edit mine out.

[1pump]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
-Joey Ramone

[Silver Hilton]

Winston Churchill was once taken to task for changing his position on an issue by another member of Parliament. "Sir," he thundered, "when I realise that my previous understanding of the facts was incorrect, I change my position. What do you do?"

[skybuster]

"You can't grow old and be a sissy" The Chief.

[reelbigfish72]

"Workingmen of all countries, unite!" Karl Marx

[pearl]

"The fishing was so good, I thought it was yesterday".

Dave Engerbretson

[lost_sailor]

Memorable quotes from "The Princess Bride"

"I am not left-handed either!"

[Birdnest]

Just because I can't, doesn't mean I won't.

Me

[Tanner]

A new fly rod won't change your whole life, just the part that really matters.

G. Loomis

[ampersat]

"The fishing was so good, I thought it was yesterday".

Now that's good comedy!

[scoutfish]

Thats funnier than a rubber train wreck!

My 3 cents

[fishnwHim]

" I make myself rich, by making my wants few " Henry David Thoreau

and from my Grandfather " When you follow the admonitions found in this Holy book it will guide you through all of lifes sorrows and joys "

[DAB]

1. That's dumber than a bucket of hair.
BY "Al Snyder"

2.That's dumber than a well rope.
BY Lee Carpenter my step Dad


DAB

[pearl]

There is no use in walking five miles to fish when you can be just as unsuccessful near home.

Mark Twain

Since Phil Layer decided to hijack this quote by making it into a partisan slam then I removed it

[Keeper]

Feet are like pets, happiest when they are going somewhere :grin:

Gert Boyle...Columbia Sportswear ad

Okay, not famous, but it might be soon

[Phil Layer]

"He's got his thumb up his rear end and his mind in Arkansas."

You sure she wasn't talking about Clinton?

[StinkyH]

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
-- Henry S. Haskins

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers

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

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- George S. Patton

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

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
-- Mario Puzo, 'The Godfather'

StinkyH

[judyfish99]

These are not exactly "famous", but have seen them..

"M" is for "Mom", not "Maid".

Remember, changing the toilet paper roll does not cause brain damage!

Life is a parking lot, but I married the speed bump. (I can relate to that one!)

Life is not a bowl of cherries. Instead it is like a jar of jalapenos...what you eat today may burn your a** tomorrow.

:grin:judyfish99

"He's got his thumb up his rear end and his mind in Arkansas."

You sure she wasn't talking about Clinton?


"I smoked it but I did'nt inhale" Bill Clinton

"I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski" Guess who?

Four years later and you guys are still obsessed with Clinton .....sad Get over it!!!!
Well I guess it's understandable since Clinton's smirking successor has never said anything remotely quotable