I have three:
“There is no knowledge that is not power” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are no dumb questions” - Carl Sagan
“Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves” - Carl Sagan
“We’re all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”- Oscar Wilde( I think). “Just do it”- Mine ( Yes, until Nike stole it, bastards).
" I can rest when I’m dead", “The universe unfolds as it should and we must embrace the know and unknown”- Both Mine, Yr’lly.
Tellin’ a man to get lost and makin’ him do it are two entirely different propositions.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
“I wish to remain an enigma.”
The Great Santini
My dad said this to me one time years back when a friend of mine blew his brains out.
“IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT IN THIS WORLD WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN MAKE IT IN THE NEXT”
regardless of your faith this works
think about it
“Don’t tell people how to do something. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their ingenuity.” - General George Patton
“Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” - George Santayana
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth” - Albert Einstein
Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck it up and be nice. -Ani Difranco
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers
The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
-Edmund Burke
“All inductive arguments in the last resort reduce themselves to the following form: ‘If this is true, that is true: now that is true, therefore this is true.’ This argument is, of course, formally fallacious. Suppose I were to say: ‘If bread is a stone and stones are nourishing, then this bread will nourish me; now this bread does nourish me; therefore it is a stone, and stones are nourishing.’ If I were to advance such an argument, I should certainly be thought foolish, yet it would not be fundamentally different from the argument upon which all scientific laws are based.”
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy; Oxford University Press, 1998.
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” - George Best
All time favorite:
Over time, the fake friends and fair weather women will fall to the wayside. With whos left, you can go to war with. They’ve got your back. Hang onto these folks tight.
“I got my pride and that’s all I need”
-Soulfly: Bleed
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized”
-Buddhist Saying
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.” - Thomas Neill
" ‘Divorce’, from the latin word meaning to rip out a mans wallet through his genitals"
Robin Williams
(not exact wording I think, but you get the picture)
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Aw, Dad, you’ve done a lot of great things, but you’re a very old man, and old people are useless.
Bart, a woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you’d step over your own mother just to get one!
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!
I’m having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
Son, this is the only time I’m ever gonna say this. It is not okay to lose
Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
What’s the point of going out, we’re just going to end up back here anyway?
When I look at the smiles on all the children’s faces. Just know they’re about to jab me with something
Yes, honey … Just squeeze your rage up into a bitter little ball and release it at an appropriate time, like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.
Lisa, remember me as I am - filled with murderous rage.
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is ‘never try’
The only guys who were Hawaiian shirts are gay guys and big fat party animals.
Hey, if you dont like it, go to Russia!
Genius of Homer Simpson[/quote]
You forgot one.
Alcohol: the cause of - and solution to - all of life’s problems.
Eric9 posted it earlier… but here’s the complete quote.
“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.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
The Greatest American Since George Washington
“Madam; I may be drunk, but tommorrow I shall be sober. You, however, will always be ugly.”
- Winston Churchill.
“Sir, you will either die by the gallows or from a revolting disease.” (Gladstone)
“That depends, sir, on whether I embrace your policies of your mistress.”
(Disreali) - House of Commons debate.