Thread: The best quotes ever

!!! Geranimo !!!!
[a shit scarred US Calvary soldier]

"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war."
George S. Patton

“You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.”
Ho Chi Minh

Originally Posted by ChookRaffle Jones

!!! Geranimo !!!!
[a shit scarred US Calvary soldier]

US Calvary ay?? hmmm, interesting

Originally Posted by palexxxx

Originally Posted by ChookRaffle Jones

!!! Geranimo !!!!
[a shit scarred US Calvary soldier]

US Calvary ay?? hmmm, interesting

oops (hee hee hee)
undo
undo
undo
Cavalry soldier]

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead. -- Henry V

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

Woody Allen

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

J. R. R. Tolkien
(The Fellowship of the Ring)

"In view of the kind of matter we work with, it will never be possible to avoid little laboratory explosions." - Sigmund Freud

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.

-Albert Einstein




At the center of your being you have the answer;You know who you are and you know what you want.
-Lao-tzu



Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
-Robert H. Schuller



You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
- Jerry West




Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde


You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
- Henry David Thoreau

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

- Charles Bixton






Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

• - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
–Freya Stark



If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
–Lao Tzu

Some more...

“I have discovered something interesting. You don’t find happiness. It finds you.”

~ Erma Bombeck


“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says:
He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
~ George Bernard Shaw


“The things you own end up owning you.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk


“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

~ Robert Louis Stevenson


“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful,
when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.”

~ Michael Pritchard


“You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.”

~ Medgar Evers


“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”

~ Tommy Smothers

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville - "Democracy in America" (1835

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
~ Thomas Edison




“The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned
generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes




“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
~ Mark Twain




“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale




“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
~ Frederick Douglass


"Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think"
~ Chinese Proverb


“The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
~ Sigmund Freud




“Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
~ Abraham Lincoln




“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”
~ Václav Havel




“To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.”
~ Margaret Bourke-White




“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?”
~ Epicurus


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world.
~ Buddha




“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.”
~ Native American Proverb


“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.”
~ Cree Native American Prophecy




“Sometimes it’s better to be nice than it is to be right”
~ Unknown




“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
~ Mark Twain


“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
~ Amantine A.L.Dupin also known as 'George Sand'


“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
~ Jack Welch



"Nothing External to you has any power over you."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




“Running away will never make you free.”
~ Kenny Loggins


“The visionary denies the truth to himself, the liar only to others.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche




“He is able who thinks he is able.”
~ Buddha




“Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that
so it goes on flying anyway.”
~ Mary Kay Ash



“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
~ Ambrose Bierce




"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
~ Napoleon


“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.”
~ Author of proverb unknown


“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
~ Aristotle




“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.”
~ Marianne Williamson


“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”
~ Robert Ingersoll




“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education
without common sense.”
~ Robert Green Ingersoll


“Respecting yourself means showing others what’s in your heart, respecting others means listening to what’s in theirs.”
~ Joan Bourque


“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”
~ Clarence Thomas


“When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.”
~ Native American Proverb


“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
~ Robert Frost


“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
—Joseph Stalin

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

Jayne Mansfield

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
—Joseph Stalin

I guess it's on life support nowadays given the latter two have been undermined by the corporate state. Only patriotism left now - must be time for another war.

He has more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
Winston Churchill of Ramsay MacDonald.

The pessimist complains about the wind.
The optimist expects it to change.
The realist adjusts the sails.

William A. Ward

^ you into satanism now DrBob?

"In America, we build stretches of fence along the Mexican border to prevent foreigners from coming in to take jobs. It takes a lot of audacity to demand that Israel stop building a fence whose purpose is to prevent foreigners from coming in to commit mass murder." - Charles Krauthammer

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Winston Churchill - You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.