What's your favorite quotation?

[Pinkie15]

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

Bruce McLaren

[dartissimus]

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

[dartissimus]

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.

[RATATTAK]

Please don't blow my candle out in an attempt to make yours burn brighter

[DickyC]

My favourite quotations from guvnors of oil and gas projects over the years:

Is it wrong or is it different?

Are you saying it's not your end of the ship that's sinking?

You're talking to me now.

[andy_s]

Blib said:

Hardly a week goes by without me being reminded of this, by C.S.Lewis.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."

Or indeed Tocqueville:

"After having thus taken each individual one by one into its powerful hands, and having molded him as it pleases, the sovereign power extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated, minute, and uniform rules, which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot break through to go beyond the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces action, but it constantly opposes your acting; it does not destroy, it prevents birth; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupifies, and finally it reduces each nation to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

[ArmaghMan]

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Particularly apt at present given the Brexit mess.

[WestyCarl]

Not a quote by someone famous but;

"God gave man a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to run both at the same time...."

[Stuart70]

DSLiverpool said:

There’s no I in team but there is an M and a E

Love that.

But no U

[dartissimus]

Rumours of my death have been greatly exagerated

[TorqueDirty]

PatHeald said:

T



Beauty is only skin deep, ugliness goes right down to the bone.

I like Saki's (H.H Munro's) take on this quote

"I always say beauty is only sin deep"

Another of his that frequently comes to mind when I'm browsing on Pistonheads:-

"I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate"

TD

[GIYess]

"My momma always said that life is like a box of chocloates. You just never know what your gonna get." (Forrest Gump)
"Stupid is as stupid does"

"Its good but its not right" Roy Walker

[jet_noise]

"Flash! I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth"

"Within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return"
Al Gore 22-01-2006

"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."
Andrew S Tanenbaum

"The man who makes other guitarists wish they'd taken up golf."
John Peel introducing Robin Trower, Reading festival 1975

[Blib]

GIYess said:

"My momma always said that life is like a box of chocloates. You just never know what your gonna get." (Forrest Gump)

I've never liked that one. Every box of chocolates has a leaflet that tells you exactly what you're going to get.

Carry on.

[Vincecj]

"You can't fight incompetence"

[Man-At-Arms]

Why stand, when you can sit.
Why sit, when you can lie.
Why lie, when you can sleep.

[funinhounslow]

GIYess said:

"My momma always said that life is like a box of chocloates. You just never know what your gonna get." (Forrest Gump)

"Life is like a box of chocolates. The top layer's already gone, and someone's nicked the orange creams from the bottom layer" Bob, The Likely Lads Film

And Terry from the same film: "Are you alright Bob? I'd offer you a beer but I've only got six cans"

[stevesingo]

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

Often credited to Douglas Bader, but he stole it from Harry Day, the Royal Flying Corps First World War fighter ace.

It so describes the jobs worths I deal with daily. "Sorry the policy doesn't allow that". "If there wasn't a policy, what would be the right thing to do?" is often my response!

[Mort7]

Man-At-Arms said:

Why stand, when you can sit.
Why sit, when you can lie.
Why lie, when you can be a politician and be paid for it and get expenses too.

FTFY

[davhill]

funinhounslow said:

"Life is like a box of chocolates. The top layer's already gone, and someone's nicked the orange creams from the bottom layer" Bob, The Likely Lads Film

And Terry from the same film: "Are you alright Bob? I'd offer you a beer but I've only got six cans"

My fave one from this film was this one.

Bob, Terry, Thelma and Terry's gf Helga were in the caravan playing cards and Terry went outside for a pee.

Listening to the sound effect, Thelma said, "It's the first time I've known what he's had in his hand all night."

Good one today by SNP guy Wishart concerning T. May.

"The PM fell on her sword and missed."