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« on: January 08, 2007, 10:05:59 AM »
I cannot believe there isn't a thread like this so here goes.....


"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is."
- Winston Churchill  


"Women don't forgive failure."
- Anton Chekhov

"Every failure is a step to success."
- William Whewell

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
- Don Marquis


"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints that a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."
- P.G. Wodehouse

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."
- Roy L. Smith

"Every man loves what he is good at."
- Thomas Shadwell


"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Whatever women do, they do best after dark."
- John V. Lindsay

"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."
- Nancy Astor

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
- Eric Hoffer


"Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands."
- Jayne Mansfield

"Faith which does not doubt is dead faith."
- Miguel de Unamuno


"Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
- Pete Seeger


"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Alexander Pope


"Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one."
- W.C. Fields

"Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses."
- Anthony Trollope


"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

:doh:  "Marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage."
- Thornton Wilder


"There is never enough time, unless you're serving it."
- Malcolm Forbes

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
- Calvin Coolidge


"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
- John Barrymore


"All fat women look the same; they all look 42."
- Margaret Atwood

"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells."
- Elizabeth Taylor


:bow:  "Happiness isn't a goal; it's a by-product."
- Eleanor Roosevelt


"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares."
- Elbert Hubbard

"There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums."
- Larry Flynt


"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse."
- Oliver Goldsmith

 :bow:   "A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."
- Bruce Lee


"A woman who has the divine gift of lechery will always make a superlative partner."
- Alex Comfort


"Success is about having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money."
- Johnny Cash


"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length."
- Robert Frost

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
- George Bernard Shaw


"If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you."
- Estee Lauder


"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
- Jerome K. Jerome

"There are two types of people in this world: good and bad. The good sleep better but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."
- Woody Allen


"Most women are not so young as they are painted."
- Sir Max Beerbohm


"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
- Gore Vidal


"To fill the hour - that is happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men are what their mothers made them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice."
- Brendan Behan

"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts."
- Serge Gainsbourg


"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is, I’ll get married again."
- Clint Eastwood


"Women would rather be right than reasonable."
- Ogden Nash
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"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."
- Rosalind Russell


"Great joys, like griefs, are silent."
- Shackerley Marmion

"I like a man who grins when he fights."
- Sir Winston Churchill


"Nothing endures but change."
- Heraclitus

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
- Alfred North Whitehead

"Things do not change; we change."
- Henry David Thoreau


"Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious."
- Oscar Wilde
:ROFL

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."
- Warren Beatty


"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
- George Burns

:bow:  "A true man hates no one."
- Napoleon Bonaparte


:thumbsup  "You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle


"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without the temptations."
- Walter Bagehot


"Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand."
- Benny Hill

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and he gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to."
- Bob Dylan

"A dinner lubricates business."
- Lord William Stowell

"There are only 2 ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
- Thomas Sowell


"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
- Mick Jagger


"My toughest fight was my first wife."
- Muhammad Ali
:ROFL

:bow: "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
- Henry J. Kaiser


"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
- Voltaire

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
- Albert Schweitzer


:thumbsup  "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
- Oscar Wilde


"Silence is the virtue of fools."
- Francis Bacon


"When everyone is wrong, everyone is right."
- Nivelle de la Chaussee

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
- Bill Gates


"Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention."
- Cornelia Otis Skinner

"Pioneering don't pay."
- Andrew Carnegie

"A truth which is clearly understood can no longer be written with sincerity."
- Marcel Proust


"Change before you have to."
- Jack Welch

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
- Warren Buffett


"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
- Aristotle Onassis


"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."
- Al Batt

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
- Isaac Asimov


"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
- Confucius


"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
- Bertolt Brecht


"If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster."
- Clint Eastwood :ROFL

"The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis


"Fish and visitors stink after three days."
- Benjamin Franklin


"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin."
- Ivan Turgenev


"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse."
- Groucho Marx
:ROFL

"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."
- Mick Jagger


"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
- Henry Ford


"One may learn wisdom even from one's enemies."
- Aristophanes


"God gave us a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at once." :ROFL
- Robin Williams


"It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way."
- Black Elk

"We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us."
- La Rochefoucauld


:bow: :bow:   "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln


"What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
- Ernest Hemingway


"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
- Herbert Sebastian Agar

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It needs a rough and thorny path."
- Michel de Montaigne

"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."
- Louis B. Nizer

"Better a noble lie than a miserable truth."
- Robertson Davies


"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger


"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
- Shakespeare

"Self-love is the greatest flatterer of all."
- La Rochefoucauld


"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
- Thomas Jefferson


"One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas, and you have to work through it all."
- V.S. Naipaul


"Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones."
- Oscar Wilde

"Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech."
- Oliver Herford

"Praising all alike is praising none."
- John Gay


:thumbsup  "No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep."
- Thomas Beecham


:bow: :bow: :bow:  "Better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln


"To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks."
- Walter Matthau

"People with vision usually do more harm than good."
- John Major


"Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible."
- Evan Esar


"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."
- Michel de Montaigne


"I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it."
- Winston Churchill


"Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs."
- Edgar Degas

"The man who is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
- Laurence J. Peter


"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
- V.S. Naipaul


"The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you."
- Mel Brooks

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley


"Rock and roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants."
- David Lee Roth

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
- Francis Bacon


"The gods help those who help themselves."
- Aesop


"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder."
- Thornton Wilder
:ROFL

"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all."
- Oscar Wilde

"The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
- Henrik Ibsen


"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way."
- W. Somerset Maguham

"When a guy removes smoking, drinking, gambling and chasing women from his life, there's a whole lot of time to do other neat stuff."
- Tom Morey


"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote


"The future is purchased by the present."
- Samuel Johnson

"Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue."
- La Rochefoucauld


"What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!"
- Adam Ferrara  :ROFL

"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
- J. Paul Getty


"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
- Eric Hoffer


:vibrator:  "The major civilising force in the world is not religion, it's sex."
- Hugh Hefner


"There's no such thing as a free lunch."
- Milton Friedman


"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person."
- John Travolta


"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."
- William Hazlitt

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to hold your nose at a friendly level."
- Max L. Forman

"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
- Bob Brown


"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler

"Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up."
- Orson Welles
:ROFL

"Kill the other guy before he kills you."
- Jack Dempsey

"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought."
- Sir Arthur Helps


"Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom."
- Abe Burrows

:thumbsup  "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
- Benjamin Franklin


"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
- Mignon McLaughlin


"Great eaters and great sleepers are not capable of doing anything great."
- Henri IV


"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."
- Kin Hubbard

"Refusal of praise reveals a desire to be praised twice over."
- La Rochefoucauld

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle


"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."
- Woody Allen


"Brevity is the soul of wit."
- Shakespeare


"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy


"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam."
- Johnny Carson
:ROFL

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of other persons."
- Mark Twain


"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
- P.G. Wodehouse


"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
- Errol Flynn

"In Russia, if a male athlete loses, he becomes a female athlete."
- Yakov Smirnoff  :ROFL


"The present is the funeral of the past, and man the living sepulchre of his life."
- John Clare

"Men have charisma; women have vital statistics."
- Julie Burchill


"Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50."
- Edgar Degas

:bow:  "The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little."
- Dr. Samuel Johnson


"By the work one knows the workman."
- Jean de la Fontaine

"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


:thumbsup  "Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him."
- Marlene Dietrich


"Taste is created from a thousand distastes."
- Paul Valery

"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier."
- H.L. Mencken


"Conceit is the finest armor a man can wear."
- Jerome K. Jerome

"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
- Oscar Wilde

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."
- Aristotle



That's all I've to offer for now; I'd appreciate it if you guys take time to read  through, pick your favourite ones, post any new quotes you might come across so all my work here isn't wasted and the thread be kept alive.

Offline LaJon

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« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2007, 11:09:49 AM »
"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 them better.  The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt

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« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2007, 12:48:24 PM »
"I'm afraid stupidity was inadvertently released under the BSD license, making it freely available to all"
- Unknown source

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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2007, 02:30:38 PM »
“A woman is an occasional pleasure, but a cigar is always a smoke.”- Groucho Marx

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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2007, 02:54:18 PM »
I made up my own quotes, but not positive if they are 'inspiring'...

"Perfection is implausible,
but getting there is possible"
-SacredCultivator

"We all wish to grow up fast,
But when we do, it doesn't last,
Because now we want to return to the past"
  -SacredCultivator
   
  “There is someone out there that will be your soulmate,
And people say all you have to do is wait,
But just waiting isn't good enough of a rate”
  -SacredCultivator
   
  “Perfection does not exist,
But it is something we all cannot resist,
Yet we strive to get near what seems impossible,
With the help of another to make best from within,
And here is where I shall step in.”
  -SacredCultivator
   
  I have a lot more but I know those definitely aren’t inspiring…
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2007, 05:22:10 AM »
"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

-Noam Chomsky:)

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« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2007, 08:14:36 AM »
These are all words of wisdom from the one and only Bruce Lee:

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
     
“using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation.”

"Simplicity is the key to brilliance"

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”


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« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2007, 08:59:51 AM »
Quote from: SacredCultivator;281127
I made up my own quotes, but not positive if they are 'inspiring'...

"Perfection is implausible,
but getting there is possible"
-SacredCultivato..........

nice quotes there, and most of them rhymes !!! :ROFL

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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2007, 01:11:21 AM »
Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2007, 03:40:06 AM »
"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
- Theodore Roosevelt

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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2007, 03:45:18 AM »
It is better to earn the trust and respect of one of your children, than to gain notoriety and adulation of the masses.

- Denis Waitley

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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2007, 12:17:30 PM »
Here's a couple favorites of mine

"Be the change you want to see" - Gandhi

"No one can make you feel inferior without you consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt

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« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2007, 10:24:01 PM »
Some words of wisdom from Jack Burton in "Big Trouble in Little China":

This is Jack Burton and the porkchop express, and I'm talking to whoever's listening out there.  Like I told my last wife, I says "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see, besides that it's all on the reflexes".

You just listen to the old porkchop express and take his advice on a dark and stormy night, alright?  When some wild-eyed, eight foot tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against a bar room wall, he looks you crooked in the eye, and he asks you if you've paid your dues?  Well you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye and you remember what old Jack Burton always says at a time like that.  Have you paid your dues Jack?  Yes sir, the check is in the mail.

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« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2007, 05:07:45 AM »
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov

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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2007, 08:16:18 AM »
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”- John A. Shedd

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« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2007, 01:42:06 PM »
You are what you think you are.

"You already have an asshole. You don't need another one in your life." - Greg Behrendt

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« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2007, 10:57:11 PM »
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, — it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

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« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2007, 11:43:58 PM »
The probablility of someone watching you is proportionate to the stupidity of your action. -- Quoted by Harlan Ellision, attributed to anonymous.

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« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2007, 01:34:36 AM »
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? - Joshua after playing out all the possible outcomes of "Global Thermonuclear War".

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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2007, 01:36:23 AM »
wise man say... never pay full price for late delivered pizza


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