What's your favorite quotation?
Discussion
"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle." - Bob Hope
"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
-- Plato
"If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life." --Tommy Lasorda
If you do it you’ll regret it, if you don’t do it you’ll regret it, either way your going to regret it, you might as well just do it
"If you learn from your mistakes, then why ain't I a genius ?!"
Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth. --George Burns
"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
-- Plato
"If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life." --Tommy Lasorda
If you do it you’ll regret it, if you don’t do it you’ll regret it, either way your going to regret it, you might as well just do it
"If you learn from your mistakes, then why ain't I a genius ?!"
Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth. --George Burns
"Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
"Until you spread your wings you'll have no idea how far you can fly."
"What the mind can concieve and believe, it can achieve."
"The depth of a soul is not measured by what appears on the surface, but what lies in the heart."
"It is not the mountain we conquer
but ourselves." ~ Sir Edmond Hilary
"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." ~ Orison Swett Marden
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
"Until you spread your wings you'll have no idea how far you can fly."
"What the mind can concieve and believe, it can achieve."
"The depth of a soul is not measured by what appears on the surface, but what lies in the heart."
"It is not the mountain we conquer
but ourselves." ~ Sir Edmond Hilary
"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." ~ Orison Swett Marden
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Lump in the throat emotion comes from Laurence Binyon's
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn/At the going down of the sun, and in the morning/We will remember them"
For theatrical 'damn, I wish I'd said that' it has to be Ronald Reagan, at the Brandenburg Gate
"Mr Gorbechev, throw open this gate! Mr Gorbechev, tear down this wall!"
Pertinant to these times of omnipotent Government, I rather like Juvenal's
"Quis custodiat ipsos custodes"
As a guide for life, however, nothing beats Rudyard Kipling's
"....If you can fill the unforgiving minute/With sixty seconds worth of distance run..."
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn/At the going down of the sun, and in the morning/We will remember them"
For theatrical 'damn, I wish I'd said that' it has to be Ronald Reagan, at the Brandenburg Gate
"Mr Gorbechev, throw open this gate! Mr Gorbechev, tear down this wall!"
Pertinant to these times of omnipotent Government, I rather like Juvenal's
"Quis custodiat ipsos custodes"
As a guide for life, however, nothing beats Rudyard Kipling's
"....If you can fill the unforgiving minute/With sixty seconds worth of distance run..."
Fatboy said:
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" My mate Joe Lees.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" anon
"I'm not getting married again - I'm just going to find a woman I don't like and buy her a house" Steven Segal
Also:
Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
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