MERGED: FAVORITE SAYING/QUOTE THREAD

Two from Mark Twain:

You can raise a dog from a pup and he will not bite you. And that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

The graveyard is full of indispensable people.

 

Smoke em if you get em!

 

"Birds of a feather, flock together"

Sorry, but thats the only thing that comes to my mind right now.

 

"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you suck forever."

"That which is excellent is new forever."

"Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."

"In order to lead the orchestra, one must turn their back on the crowd."

 

I've come here to kick a$$ and chew bubble gum and i'm all out of
bubble gum.

 

Ahem!
"I'm handing out lollipops and a$$ whoopin's. And I'm all out of lollipops!"

 

When I graduated from 5th grade, my Dad passed this wisdom on to me, courtesy of the great Tom Lehrer:

"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

 

Nothing is often a good thing to do
and always a good thing to say.


Will Durant

 

"You can define the moment or the moment can define you"- Tin Cup

"We have a pool and a pond....a pond will be better for you!"- Caddyshack

"Your so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!"- Full Metal Jacket

"Retreat??? Hell we just got here!" some famous Marine General

"My park is just like Disney World. Yes but when the Pirates of the Carribean breaks down the ride does not eat you!" -Jurassic Park

 

you got me on that one who said it?

 

Mary Poppins. From the movie "Hopped up on da smack"
I'm not sure who said it first, but it has been repeated many times.

 

this quote comes from the really bad 1988 John Carpenter film "They Live" starring Rowdy Roddy Piper.

i assume the lollipop variation was coined in homage.

though i was hoping we could keep the thread to less fluffy quotes - more substantial, thoughtful, perhaps enlightening stuff.

doody.

 

anybody that says that money is the root of all evil hasn't got any" GG

 

220 221 whatever it takes........

 

Max Von Snydo in "Needful Things" playing the part of Lucifer:

"Kill them, kill them all. It's God's mess let him sort if out!" (Along that vein)

A little sacreligious, but funny.

Mark

 

There has never been a man on his death bed who wished he spent more time at the office.

 

Here's a line from late Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas that is often quoted at commencements. "No man on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'" How does he know that? I'll bet someone on their deathbed said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office in my twenties and thirties, I would have had a much better life." gurgle--dead. I'm sure that happens. And it's quite possible that some former Enron or Arthur Anderson executive will use his last breath to say, "I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison."

- Al Franken

For some reason, commencement speakers, almost all of whom have been selected because of their notable achievements, love to warn about the fraudulence of success. This spring countless graduates of other universities have been told "It's lonely at the top." It's not. Believe me. It's much, much lonelier at the bottom.

Here's another soothing but useless bromide. "Every time one door closes, another door opens." That's not true. And very often when one door closes, another does open: A trap-door leading directly to that lonely place at the bottom.

And no doubt on some campus somewhere proud parents who never made more than twelve thousand dollars a year had to listen to Donald Trump tell them that failure is a better teacher than success.

- Al Franken

 

"sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

"today i did nothing, and it was absolutely everything i thought it would be." - Peter Gibbons, "Office Space"

"any form of liberation, if rigidly adhered to, becomes it's own enslavement." - i ferget

"if you're gonna send someone to save the werld, next time pick someone who likes it the way it is." - Vin Diesel, "xXx"

"you can only wander alone, with 2 you're always going somewhere" - the chick in "Vertigo"

"There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion." - Jeffrey Goines, "12 Monkeys"

"my name is Ash, and i am a slave." - Ash, "Evil Dead III"

 

"Remember...100 years from now...all new people." - unknown

"Either we will find a way, or make one." - Hannibal

"My desire is to know the mind of God. The rest are details." - Einstein

 

Recently in light of the Iraq War I found the Special Ops T-Shirts I see around stating:

"Forgiveness is God's Job, it's my job to arrange the visit!"

 

Pretty sure that's one of Gen. Schwartzkof's (sp?) quotes.

 

OK guys...it's cold in the Texas panhandle, Santa hasn't arrived, and I'm thinking of new post topics to clog up bandwidth.

What is the wisest saying you ever heard, excluding those with a religious conotation?

My grandad always told me:

"If you're going to be a bear, you might as well be a GRIZZLY."

 

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer

 

"Ive forgotten more than you will ever know" - Mr. Kling, my Latin teacher last year.

"Carpe Diem"- Quintis Horatius Flaccus

 

"We make a living by what we get,we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill


And....I couldnt resist....

"Families is where our nation finds hope; where wings take dream"

George W. Bush