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Favourite quotes?


Daniel
Posts: 8565
Posted: 14.11.2006 at 03.49
Okay I'm a quote nerd. Well not really. I just love them. I don't recite them while dribbling on myself and wearing glasses. So you can relax.

So what are your favourite quotes?

Here are few that I think are gems;

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Churchill

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. - see the great man above.

About the French: "What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than against the Nazis?" - Dennis Miller

You look like you're ready for bed! - Prince Philip to the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional robes

Ren
Posts: 726
Posted: 14.11.2006 at 16.35
how about;

the more you know, the more you know you dont know (anon)

unforgiveness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die (anon)

(Ok, maybe, just maybe, the fact that they are all by anonymous people MIGHT be because I don't know who said them !!)

"I cant listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland" (Woody Allan)


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S.Mc.C.
Posts: 434
Posted: 15.11.2006 at 05.35
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." - Macbeth (V, v, 19)

SoHo
Posts: 707
Posted: 17.11.2006 at 20.13
Never under estimate the power of denial.

Post Last Updated:18.05.2007 at 19.27


Allan
Posts: 5683
Posted: 20.11.2006 at 22.09
"Success is a matter of luck, just ask any failure"

SoHo
Posts: 707
Posted: 25.11.2006 at 03.32
'how you climb up the mountain is just as important as how you get down. and, so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one gigantic test followed by one gigantic lesson. in the end it all comes down to one word. Grace! it's how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light'. Philosophy.

kaz
Posts: 568
Posted: 26.11.2006 at 02.53
"Dancers are the athletes of God." ~Albert Einstein
"You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat" ~anonymous

i luv quotes too

c0rrupt
Posts: 30
Posted: 27.11.2006 at 18.58
My alltime fav, and somewhat of a life motto:

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Also: He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt; for he has been given a large brain when only a spinal cord would suffice... AE

Another good one and very true... in my case anyway ;o) :

Life's greatest tragedy is that sucess always occurs in private and failure in full view.

The point of war is not to die for your counrty... it's to make the other poor bastard die for his! Gen. Patton

Daniel
Posts: 8565
Posted: 16.01.2007 at 04.44
Awesome quotes Toby.

Thought of the. Look around a group of people and you'll see a certain dynamic. Look for the rear end. If you can't see him, it's you.

c0rrupt
Posts: 30
Posted: 16.01.2007 at 14.38
Haha... great one Dan, so true! I may have found myself in that in that dynamic before ;o)

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