Favourite quotes

[Kiltie]

I wondered what people's favourite quotes might be.

Here are some of mine.

• Abraham Lincoln "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

• Abraham Lincoln "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

• W. Edwards Deming "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."

I heard this one yesterday but I'm not sure who it's attributed to ...

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made."

Edited by Kiltie on Sunday 2nd August 22:45

[mattdaniels]

Read on here yesterday in a typical PH handbags exchange:

Something along the lines of, "you're not <an expert in whatever>"

Reply: "I'm not a gynecologist either but I know a when I see one"

[Blib]

One that could be utilised on almost every PH thread.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

William Paley.

[Joratk]

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
"A dog can't make this journey alone; but maybe a wolf can."
"What the mind of man can conceive and believe; it can achieve."

etc, etc. Sucker for a good quote

[richarda0109]

I have a few

Rodney Crowell - Ignorance is the Enemy

William Horman - Manners maketh man

Kipling - I KEEP six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Rgds
Richard

[grumbledoak]

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right." -- Henry Ford

[vx220]

Not exact, but something about it being impossible to be over-educated or over-dressed... Oscars Wilde, I think?
Sometimes underneath someone writes "or over-fed..."

[Davey S2]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

[Blib]

Davey S2 said:

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

That's well worth remembering.

[Chilli]

From the legend himself.....

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”

George W Bush.

[ofcorsa]

Always loved this Samuel Beckett Quote

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better"

[daytona365]

"All I know is that I know nothing".........So that's what he went to school for ?....... What I'm trying to figure out is this: if he knew NOTHING, how did he KNOW that he knew nothing?

[Miguel Alvarez]

"If you can't hear you must feel"

[Impasse]

"st happens." Predator.

[vx220]

"Never ever, anything ever"

[djfaulkner]

Not a quote, but....AskHole - Someone that asks a question, then ignores the advice/answer

Arguing with an engineer is like bathing a pig in mud, sooner or later you realise they like it and give up.

[PorkInsider]

If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.

[geeks]

"People deserve what the settle for"

"Only two things are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not entirely sure on the former!"

[Anonymous Bodge]

I don't know what I want, but I want it now.

Sir Henry Rawlinson

[nigelpugh7]

" Losers whine about doing their best, winners go home and f**k the prom queen! " Sean Connery in the film " The Rock"