Favorite Sayings

[joeybigO]

One of my faves comes from one thing I said at work, where I can't give orders only suggestions, because I'm head of Quality Control.

My suggestions are like this: I would suggest you take your pants down before you take a dump.

Sometimes they use that against me, sometimes against them.

 

[replicant]

Some of them are right in my signature, some others are :

"The Only time you can have too much fuel is if you are on fire"

"You start with an empty bag of experience and a full bag of luck. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck"

"Good Judgement comes from experience, unfortunately, experience comes from bad judgement."

"Three things in aviation do you no good. Altitude above you, runway behind you, and a half a second ago."

"People will choose belief over the exercise of good judgement." ~Seneca

"There is nothing new under the sun" ~ Cicero

"I have Sworn Upon the altar of God eternal hostility to any form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Jefferson

 

[Belisarius]

Some of them are right in my signature, some others are...

Great selection. Love the Seneca.

 

[RocketMan_Len]

One of my personal favourites is one I came across recently...

"Imagination is the key to the future... without it none exists, with it all things are possible."

I have GOT to do a Google search for 'Ida Tarbell'... :search::facts:

 

[Artlav]

It's better to spend a year thinking, then work for five minutes at the right moment, rather than spend your whole life working like hell, then regret about lost opportunities for all eternity.

 

[fort]

" If you find that education is expensive, test/try ignorance ! "

 

[Mission_CDR]

This one comes from Mythbusters
"When in doubt, use C4" lol

 

[Kveldulf]

"No man lacks everything,
although his health be bad:
one in his sons is happy,
one in abundant wealth,
one in his good works."

Sixty-ninth verse (strophe, or whatever you call it) of the Havamal, translated from Old Norse by Benjamin Thorpe.

 

[Apollo 11]

"UFO's prove nothing about intelligent life in the universe, but how rare it is on Earth".

"Get 'er done!"

 

[eveningsky339]

"There is nothing new under the sun" ~ Cicero

Interesting, I believe Solomon says the same thing in Ecclesiastes. :speakcool:

Some favorites of mine...

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. --Native American Proverb

An angry man is not fit to pray. --Yiddish Proverb

...for, in abundance of wisdom [is] abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain. --Ecclesiastes 1:18

 

[spcefrk]

I'm partial to:

"In order to get what we've got, Anita, we have, in effect, traded these people out of what was the most important thing on earth to them — the feeling of being needed and useful, the foundation of self-respect."
-Kurt Vonnegut in "Player Piano" (On Automation)

"But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.'"
-Kurt Vonnegut in "Mother Night"

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
-Kurt Vonnegut in "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater"

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too."
-Kurt Vonnegut in "Mother Night"

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear"
-George Orwell

"Man must rise above the Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
-Socrates

 

[Zatnikitelman]

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"-Benjamin Franklin (please take note mr. bush)

"Whenever in life you find yourself behind those you look up to, never forget that their best might not be your best"-ME! (yes, I just came up with it)

 

[Andy44]

"Better to keep quiet and let people wonder if you are stupid than to open your mouth and confirm the fact."

"She seemed like a nice girl until her mouth opened and her personality fell out."

"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."

 

[Rocketeer]

Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level then beat you up with experience.

Getting old may be the pits, but it beats the alternative.

 

[Urwumpe]

I know nothing! Nothing!

 

[replicant]

I know nothing! Nothing!

:rofl:Who could forget Sgt. Schultz?

 

[doggie015]

"If we do not have our dreams...What do we have?" The Astronaut Farmer, I can never remember the name...:fool:

 

[James.Denholm]

Some of you might know what this is in reference too:

2 + 2 = 5

But when it comes to sayings, my favourite is:

"There is more than one way to skin a cat."

And having just learnt loops in VB.NET, how true that is.

 

[Belisarius]

1984, ask us a hard one.