MERGED: FAVORITE SAYING/QUOTE THREAD

Hooked on phonix dun good four Dubya.

 

My Personal Favourites from Al Capone

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."

"I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War."

"I don't even know what street Canada is on."

"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."

 

If it's gonna be it's up to me.

If it was easy everyone would do it.

You can lead a horse to water but he won't go in without a snorkel.

 

That boy couldn't get laid in a women's prison with a fistful of pardons

Yo momma's so fat, she broke her leg and gravy poured out

 

"It is better to enter a turn slow and exit fast, than to enter a turn fast and exit dead."

"If the car feels like it is on rails, you are probably driving too slow."

"Helmets are meant to be used once-when your head is in it. If you drop it or bang it against something, it has now been used."


-Ross Bentley

 

"Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them" - Ben Franklin


This was my senior quote in high school

 

Speak softly and carry a big stick! - Theodore Roosevelt

Mine.

DL

 

Great men are like meteors, which shine and consume themselves to enlighten the earth.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.


- All quotes are from Napoleon I

Vive l' Empeurer! (Empire Good)

To hell with Chirac! (Socialism Bad)

 

Mine was:

"Don't jump without a parachute genius. " TrJnMn

The funny part was that I went to a private Christian school and few understood the fact that TrJMn was the Trojan Man.

My new fav.

I am nobody
Nobody is perfect
Therefore, I am perfect.

 

Along the same lines and although not elightening, encouraging or thought provoking, I still like it.

A friend of mine uttered this in a bar one night while facing a drunk who was full of "liquid courage"...

"There's noting but opportunity and air between us...(deep inhale)...there goes the air mother ****er"

Don't know where he got it from or whether he made it up or not, but it had me rolling on the floor!

 

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." Socrates

 

"Time's fun when you're having flies." - Kermit the frog.

 

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is a good thing..."

"That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger..."

"Luck is opportunity taken advantage of..."

"If I knew then, what I know now..."

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence..."

"It tastes just jello...now finish up..."

 

"have you ever seen an animal feel sorry for itself? a bird will fall frozen dead from a bow, without ever having felt sorry for itself"

vince

 

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Seest thou a Man diligent in his Calling, he shall stand before Kings, he shall not stand before mean Men.”
Solomon

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Muriel Strode

“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really time, but the will that is lacking.”
Sir John Lubbock

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”
Nathaniel Brandon

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
John Wanamaker

“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or do, but what we are.”
Stephen R. Covey

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle

 

“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
Margaret Meade

“What you teach your children is what you really believe in.”
Cathy Warner Weatherford

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don’t try.”
Beverly Sills

“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more things you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.”
Ethel Barrymore

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, do not turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.”
Michael Jordan

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Zig Ziglar

 

THE BOTTOM LINE
"Face it, nobody owes you a living. What you achieve or fail to achieve in your lifetime is directly related to what you do or fail to do.
No one chooses his parents or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome, but that, too, is relative to each individual.
Nothing is carved in stone. You can change anything in your life, if you want to badly enough. Excuses are for losers.
Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life's challenges head on, knowing there are no guarantees, and they give it all they've got!
And never think it's too early or too late to begin. Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. Take control of your life. Dare to dream and take risks ... compete.
If you are not willing to work for your goals, do not expect others to. Believe in yourself! And you will succeed at what you endeavor to accomplish."

-Unknow

 

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things."
Plato

"A Realist is an Idealist who knows nothing of himself."
Novalis

"Freedom...is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self."
Iris Murdoch

"You never learn from success. Success you take as the natural order of things."
David Ivor Young

"If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success."
Mark McCormack

"True influence over another comes not from a moment's eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes."
Thornton Wilder

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
Ray Bradbury