OT - Great quotes that have meaning to you...

[joe_collector]

"I'd kill you all for a dollar.. and give change" - Me

[joe_collector]

"Man who go to bed with itchy butt, wake up with stinky finger."

 

Old Chinese Proverb

[OldGuy]

“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” ~ Harlan Ellison

 

Along those lines.......

 

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Albert Einstein

[OldGuy]

"Way more." - JC

[DrWatson]

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." ~ Mae West

[topofthetotem]

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

 

-Albert Einstein

[goldust40]

That newbie thread reminded me of another line from the Wilde one...

 

"Only a fool doesn't judge by first impressions".

[DrWatson]

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~ Len Wein

[action1kid]

Any woman that is so beautiful that she can get any man that she wants can never appreciate any man that she gets.

 

Goes for the guys too

[HOTFLIPS]

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

[Mr. Zipper]

Speaking on his salary:

 

"Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste." - Tug McGraw

[lizards2]

"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

 

 

 

Michael Jordan

 

 

 

Words to live by. You can't "win" if you aren't out there trying.

[topofthetotem]

A very fitting quote for the boards by Nietzsche

 

"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

[Mr. Zipper]

On a serious note, I have found comfort in FDR's "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

[Transplant]

"Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist." Emerson

[shadroch]

"Neca eos omes... dues suos agnoset" Pope Innocent III

 

 

"If you don't catch the ball,you catch the bus" Yogi

 

 

 

[davidpg]

Spare the rod and kick the shrubbery around.

 

-The Tick

 

...and a slightly more serious one:

 

"You're only young once, but you're immature forever."

[chromium]

These have always been pretty important to me throughout my life

 

The Golden Rule :"Do not do onto others that which you would not have them do onto you"

 

And "don't get mad, get even" D-Day in Animal House

 

 

[ashrael]

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"

-- The Usual Suspects

[143ksk]

"Life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly a mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains." --Robinson Jeffers