Favourite quotes?

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  1. <DreamCatcher>

    <DreamCatcher> Registered Member

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    Just wondering if anyone has any cool quotes?



    Here are some i like;

    It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Coffee isn't my cup of tea.
    ~ Samuel Goldwyn

    Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
    ~ Groucho Marx

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
    ~ Mark Twain
     
  2. thebigdintx

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    "Even a bad day off is better than a good day at work."
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  3. ~*Nat*~

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    I've got a zillion...but here's one:

    "Fear is Temporary,
    Regret is Forever"


    (unknown)
     
  4. big ed

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  6. eyes-open

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    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - you're probably not in full possession of the facts.....
     
  7. big ed

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  8. Firecat

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    "It's my way or the...hell it's my way!"

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  9. ~*Nat*~

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    Here's some more good quotes:

    "We're going to launch that nuke and ride it all the way into history." (Metal Gear Solid)
    "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future...conquers the past." (Command & Control)
    "You have been doomed since you lost the ability to love." (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Alucard speaking to Dracula).
     
  11. Detox

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    "if you're gonna die, die with your boots on!" (Iron Maiden)

    And several old favorites from the great Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson...

    "Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!" (when he heard the line was being pushed back at Bull Run)

    "You may be whatever you resolve to be" (from his diary/journal)

    and his last words...

    "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees..."


    and one from Thomas Paine that has always rung true with me

    "If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that
    my child may have peace."

    and, of course.. the one in my sig among many others.
     
  12. beetlejuice

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    "If you don't like the weather in Kansas, just wait 15 minutes".-unknown

    "Lions, and Tigers, and Bears-Oh My!!"-Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
     
  13. Pieter_Arntz

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    When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
    ~ Abraham Maslow ~

    Wherever I lay my hat that's my home.
    ~ Paul Young ~

    And it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
    ~ Metallica ~
     
  14. iceni60

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    i've got some Latin stuff i was going to use in a sig, i do use a couple in another forum, not here though :rolleyes: :D

    Braccae tuae aperiuntur - Your fly is open

    Cum homine de cane debeo congredi - Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog

    Da mihi sis cerevisiam dilutam - I'll have a light beer

    Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo - I'll have a pizza with everything on it

    Difficile est saturam non scribere - It is hard not to write satire.

    Fac ut vivas - Get a life

    Isso fede - This stinks

    Latine loqui coactus sum - I have this compulsion to speak Latin

    Lege et lacrima - Read it and weep

    Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi - Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog

    Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum! - Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

    Ne feceris ut rideam - Don't make me laugh

    Noli me vocate. Ego te vocabo - Don't call me. I'll call you

    Obesa cantavit - The fat lady has sung

    Omnes lagani pistrinae gelate male sapiunt - All frozen pizzas taste lousy

    Pone ubi sol non lucet! - Put it where the sun don't shine!

    Prehende uxorem meam, sis! - Take my wife, please!

    Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - Anything said in Latin sounds profound

    Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert - Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn

    Rident stolidi verba Latina - Fools laugh at the Latin language.

    Sit vis nobiscum - May the Force be with you

    Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire - I came, I saw, I want to go home

    Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt - I have jerks like you for breakfast

    Vescere bracis meis - Eat my shorts

    Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? - Seen any good movies lately?

    Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit - A wise man does not urinate against the wind

    Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit = To boldly go where no man has gone before.

    Macdonaldus Senex fundum habuit. E-I-E-I-O. Et in hot fundo nonnullas boves domesticas habuitt. E-I-E-O. Cum moo moo hic, et cum moo moo ibi. Hic una moo, ibi una moo, ubique una moo moo. acdonaldus Senex fundum habuit. E-I-E-I-O = Old MacDonald had a farm. And on this farm he had some cows. EM-I-E-I-O. With a moo here, and a moo moo here. Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo. Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O.

    Laborare non amo = I do not like to work.
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    ostatem obscuri lateris nescitis= You do not know the power of the dark side.

    Semper ubi ubi in caput tuum = Always wear underwear on your head.

    Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua= The only good language is a dead language.

    Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure = I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
     
  15. ~*Nat*~

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    iceni...is there a forum where you can use ALLLLL of these cool quotes at the same time in your sig. ??!!

    I'd like to join.
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    You have just killed me!

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  16. FanJ

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    Lots and lots of quotes, too many to name.

    This one in Dutch:

    "Men doet wat men kan en zodoende blijft er heel wat liggen."
    (Ollie B.Bommel ;))
    (impossible to translate, at least for me)

    And more closely (I mean, with respect to this and other boards):

    Many quotes that many of you all have in your sigs.
    Too much again to name them all.

    The one in the sig of Corrine:
    Sassy Girl: "Surely as the sun rises in the morning, it sets at night."

    The one in the sig of LWM:
    "Behind every Blue Pixel is a Pink Pixel whose love makes him strive to be a better... err, Pixel."

    The ones in the sigs from Gracie and Janie at DSLR.

    The Susan thread :D

    And ..... almost everything Blaze has posted on this board :D
     
  17. FanJ

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    OK, one from Blazey (hey buddy, I hope you don't mind ;) ).

    Not a single quote but a little story (I love this one :D :D :cool: ):
    Blazey's entrance at Subratam's board:
    http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showtopic=404

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    a door starts with a knock then foot steps scamper alway.

    this time around foot steps run up to the door and a more faster and eager knocking thump thump

    algain foot steps now begin to stomp off

    a runing thrashing threw bushs and front lawn slash garden sound is heard a repeditly knocking sound begins louder and louder then a kick thump at the botttom of the door echos all threw cyber forum

    a stomping off is heard with curseing mutered

    now a straight run towards door is heard a full swish sound is heard as if a full blowen sprint stops at the door

    no knocking sound is herd then all of the sudden a huge BANNNGGGGGGG And choping sound is heard

    and axe goes threw the door sending picesof wood flying everywhere

    a hUge hole is made

    a head is seen peeking thew the huge gapeing hole

    http://forums.subratam.org/html/emoticons/laugh.gif heres BLAZEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
     
  18. new girl

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    I have a few favorites quotes I would like to share:

    All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle

    I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
    Aristotle

    He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson


    ;)
     
  19. Bubba

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    Don't eat the yellow snow....~Frank Zappa~ :cool:
     
  20. ronjor

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    "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
    E E Cummings

    "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
    George Santayana

    "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
    Aesop
     
  21. zapjb

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  22. Longboard

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    A few heavies and a few favourites:

    Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.

    To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage: Confucius

    "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams)

    "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (Douglas Adams)

    "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." (Douglas Adams)

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'" (Isaac Asimov)

    "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)[/COLOR]

    "I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." (James Brown)

    Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
    -F. Nietzche


    The best surfer in the water is the one having the most fun: Longboard :D

    Regards
     
  23. FanJ

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    in German:
    "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen".

    translated in English:
    Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
     
  24. iceni60

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    i'm not sure. i did see a forum once where everyone used about the same amount of smilies per post as BB :eek: i was going to show BB but when i went back all the smilies has gone o_O then they came back again - they kept on disappearing :oops: maybe you can join that forum :doubt: :D
     
  25. <DreamCatcher>

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    here are some more thought provoking quotes i really like>

    The measure of a person's knowledge is the actions they take. (Saint Francis of Assisi)

    A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. – Grace Pulpit

    I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.

    Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. - Albert Schweitzer Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1952
     
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