Good Quotes

[ZOLLAR]

dartissimus said:

I couldn't find a thread on here for quotes, the possibilities are endless.
Here's my starter, not seen it before:

Hockey is a sport for white men.
Basketball is a sport for black men.
Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods

"You can be a king or street sweeper but sooner or later you dance with the reaper" - Death (Bill & Ted)

[mart73]

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson

[andy_s]

Nanook said:

andy_s said:

"Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow"

Get it right!

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"

Emerson

[GadgeS3C]

Steve H said:

"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."

Douglas Bader.

One of my favourites.

Also "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right".

Henry Ford.

Edited by GadgeS3C on Wednesday 19th September 12:39

[P5BNij]

''Gentemen, you're all s'' - Ian McShane as Teddy Bass in 'Sexy Beast'.

[Dr Jekyll]

"Give a man a fish and he'll demand Tartare sauce and French fries, and some politician who wants his vote will declare those things to be among his basic rights"
Thomas Sowell

[Gargamel]

" Good things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
--Abraham Lincoln

[singlecoil]

mart73 said:

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson

"No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy" - Clausewitz.

[Doofus]

Just because you're useful doesn't mean you're important.

[Doofus]

The Meaning Of Life:

Maybe you're just here to serve as a warning to others.

[PositronicRay]

Dr Jekyll said:

"Give a man a fish and he'll demand Tartare sauce and French fries, and some politician who wants his vote will declare those things to be among his basic rights"
Thomas Sowell

Thanks, just been reading some others of his.

"Most problems do not get solved. They get superseded by other concerns."

and

"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money".

and

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today. "

[Ranger 6]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt.

Credited to various depending on where you look, including Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain

[Pinkie15]

Okay, a "play" on if a job's worth doing it's worth doing well, but Sir Bruce McLaren (and this is a car forum afterall) put it so much better (and poignantly):

If doing something is so worthwhile, then to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy


Don't know where it came from, but always liked: All generalisations are false

[GadgeS3C]

Like the Thomas Sowell ones. Will look him up.

Couple more:

"88.2% of statistics are made up.on the spot", Vic Reeves.

And they great Colin Chapman "Simplify, then add lightness".

[dartissimus]

Don't believe a word you hear, and only half of what you see.

[PositronicRay]

GadgeS3C said:

Like the Thomas Cowell ones. Will look him up.

Couple more:

"88.2% of statistics are made up.on the spot", Vic Reeves.

And they great Colin Chapman "Simplify, then add lightness".

Your unlikely to get anything profound from him, you want Sowell.

[StevieBee]

A camel is a horse drawn by committee

[br d]

An optimist is somebody who knows the world is a sad place.
A pessimist is somebody who discovers it anew each day.

[Frenchda]

Sometimes
I want a quiet life
other times
I want to go
a little bit fking Gatsby


Atticus Finch

[crofty1984]

Apparently, upon first meeting a friend of a friend at a festival, the first words or of my mouth were "I believe I have just out-ed his hat". I have no recollection of this, but apparently that's how he remembers me.