Favorite Quotes

[taprater]

We've all heard some kind of funny or smarty quote whether it be from a song, a movie, a book, or a friend who's had a few drinks. Lets throw some of our favorites out here to share and spread.

My personal favorite: That which does not kill me better run really fast. :a41:

[theperfectstorm]

"I may be an idiot sir, but one thing I am not is an idiot."

--Peter Griffin


"To the Hinden-Peter!!!"

--same

[airplanedoc]

I can think of several just from "Full Metal Jacket"

[blackfoot]

If you have any poo, fling it now.

[David in Boston]

Saw this quote on the tee-shirt of a woman biker,
"Am I self-centered or is it just me"!

[WhosYerBob]

Could be worse. Could be raining.

[blackfoot]

Look like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[Swampfox]

Just about anything spoken by Creed Bratton on The Office.

You don't go by monopoly, man! That game is *nuts*! You don't just pick up "Get out of jail free" cards! Those things cost thousands!- Creed Bratton

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago. -Creed Bratton

The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive. Like I did when I was a homeless man. - Creed Bratton

[firstfloorfront]

Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life - Terry Pratchett

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual - Terry Pratchett

Peter

[bradyarz]

if there's a fork in the road, take it.
-yogi berra

[Sullybob]

I can think of several just from "Full Metal Jacket"

Not from FMJ but from the man himself.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
R. Lee Ermey

[blackfoot]

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin

[JPM]

"One of us is an idiot and it's not you."
Larry to Moe.

[paulboeck]

Excuse my 'language'.

"Why don't you make like a tree and get the f**k outta here" - I forget the source.

"Destiny is a fickle b**ch" - Benjamin Linus

[blackfoot]

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

[Swampfox]

Before I do anything I ask myself “Would an idiot do that?” And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.

-Dwight Shrute

[PhileasFog]

From my favorite Woody Allen film, "Love and Death",

"And yea though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil. In fact...now that I think of it...I shall RUN, through the valley of death. That way you get through a lot quicker."

Also from the same film as Boris (Allen) amid other Russian soldiers (they're going against Napolean) are looking at the dead on a battle field,
A soldier mutters, "God is testing us."
Allen, "Testing us? Why doesn't he give us a written?"

[dklaiman]

Sent to me by a friend. It's from this weeks The Bachelor:

"You're not gonna find the true one if you don't allow yourself to feel different feelings for multiple women. Go with it" -Brad Lomak (the bachelor), attempting to explain why he's making out with all of the women on the show. Now, it's not gentlemanly, but I wonder why I never thought of something like this when I was single.

[Zephyr]

Excuse my 'language'.

"Why don't you make like a tree and get the f**k outta here" - I forget the source.

Think that is the barman in "The Boondock Saints"

My all time favorite from "Full Metal Jacket":

-How tall are you, private?
-Sir, five-foot-nine, sir.
-Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked shit that high.

[GDCarrington]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Dr. Seuss

[rockviper]

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
- Anonymous?

[michael.scheller]

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. Albert Einstein

[docfitch]

Written on the side of The Crab Cooker in Newport Beach, CA:

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

And, always remember ... no matter where you go, there you are!

[Scott0079]

Whatever hits the fan will not be distributed evenly.

[shm]

I love quotes - great thread to pick up some new ones :001_smile


You are middle aged when you are old enough to know what not to do, and young enough to still do it.

Never in the field of human conflict, was so much owed, by so many, to so few. Winston Churchill

The difference between Mademoiselle and Madame, is still Monsieur.

"You only got one life, and you choose if its gonna be chicken-shit or chicken-salad" From the movie: Cousins

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." From the movie: City Slickers

"Dying ain’t much of a living…boy." From the movie: The Outlaw Josey Wales

[dpm802]

The difference between Mademoiselle and Madame, is still Monsieur.A mistress is halfway between a mister and a mattress.

[Scott0079]

I have kleptomania...but occasionally I take something for it.

[shm]

A mistress is halfway between a mister and a mattress.

:lol::lol: :thumbup: :lol::lol:

[tbress]

There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that do not.

[GDCarrington]

If a first you don't suck seed, keep on sucking 'til you do suck seed!

Jerome Horwitz

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[GDCarrington]

"Every time you think you weaken the nation."

Moses Horwitz

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[GDCarrington]

Incidentally, do barbecues have pits?

Joe Besser

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bf/Bessergood.jpg/220px-Bessergood.jpg

[GDCarrington]

Hold hands, you love birds!

Emil Sitka

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/Emilorbit.jpg/220px-Emilorbit.jpg

[GDCarrington]

Out of the frying pan into the fire.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

[hifigeezer]

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again, Who's Next

[rockviper]

When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.

(attributed to various sources)

[LuckyR]

"Just win, baby!"

Al Davis

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/27/raiders.jpg

[slugg77]

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

[HoosierTrooper]

Since baseball season (go Reds!) is right around the corner one of my favorites:

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."-Yogi Berra

[dpm802]

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."-Yogi Berra"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." -Thomas Edison

[GDCarrington]

"We looked for a job one day last year... there isn't any!"

Jerome Horwitz

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kqMkqih9gj8/Sv8rvwpvxaI/AAAAAAAAALA/4d8aaPLYdE8/s320/Curly+Howard.jpg

[Sir Sartana]

Why do we cry at a funeral and rejoice at a birth? Because we are not the person involved!" - Mark Twain ...

[GDCarrington]

"My uncle made a fortune in corn... at $10 a gallon."

Samuel Horwitz

http://www.a-1video.com/Stooges-Malice-ShempCU.jpg

[Sir Sartana]

You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra

[GDCarrington]

"Will the lady with the lucky number come and get me please?"

Louis Feinberg

http://www.threestooges.net/albums/portraits/Larry_Fine_Doughboy.jpg

[DaveNJ74]

" A friend is someone who will help you move... a REAL friend os someone who will help you move a body "

- An old college buddy told me that and I have no idea where he got that from.

[shm]

" A friend is someone who will help you move... a REAL friend os someone who will help you move a body "

- An old college buddy told me that and I have no idea where he got that from.

:lol::lol::lol:

I'm positive it's original from Chicago or New York.

Makes me think of Godfather and The Whole Nine Yards :biggrin1:

[DaveNJ74]

:lol::lol::lol:

I'm positive it's original from Chicago or New York.

Makes me think of Godfather and The Whole Nine Yards :biggrin1:

Yeah I think it is also, I dont remember this from any movie that I ever saw.

[JBagKY]

"I calculated the odds of this succeeding against the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid… and I went ahead anyway."-Crow (MST3K:The Movie)

[tebbiebear]

I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

and

One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

both from Abe Simpson

[GDCarrington]

"For duty and humanity!"

Moses Horowitz, Louis Feinberg & Jerome Horowitz

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Stooges_dizzy_doctors.jpg

[GDCarrington]

"A guy wants to know what to do for inflammation." "Why call us? Tell him to dial Inflammation!"

Moses Horowitz & Jerome Horowitz

[Sir Sartana]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.


Winston Churchill

[GDCarrington]

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

[Sir Sartana]

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra

[GDCarrington]

"I want to thank you all for making this day necessary."
Yogi Berra

[GDCarrington]

"It gets late early out here"

Yogi Berra

[Rimshot]

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
~ Benjamin Franklin


"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
~ Zen proverb

[GDCarrington]

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.
Italian Proverb

[Boriasm]

"Who is on first" -Abbott and Costello

"A friend is someone you can call to bail you out of jail, a best friend is sitting right there next to you saying, 'Man, that was f***ing nuts!'" - Unknown

"Take it easy, and if its easy, take it twice." - Unknown (my parting words to everyone)

"You can't process me with a normal brain!" + "They picked a fight with a warlock!" + "I've exposed people to magic!" + "I'm a total frickin' rockstar from Mars!" - All courtesy of the unbalanced mind of Charlie Sheen

[GDCarrington]

He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
English Proverb

[pal]

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. - Twain attributed this to B. Disraeli

[Sir Sartana]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

[pal]

The fox is the finder and the stink lies behind her.:blushing:

[GDCarrington]

Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.
Russian Proverb

[Sir Sartana]

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

George Carlin

[probesport]

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. - Hunter S. Thompson

[Sir Sartana]

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright

[Rimshot]

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

~ Albert Einstein

[GDCarrington]

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.
[1640 G. Herbert Outlandish Proverbs no. 343]

[Sir Sartana]

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra

[GDCarrington]

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Holy Bible - Proverbs 16:18

[Sir Sartana]

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

[BladeDE40]

"Winning"

- Charlie Sheen

[GDCarrington]

Children should be seen and not heard.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

[GDCarrington]

Luck has a slender anchorage.
English Proverb

[touchdowntodd]

i got no patience, and i hate waiting..

[Sir Sartana]

Life is great, without it you'd be dead.

[shm]

i got no patience, and i hate waiting..

I like that one :thumbup:

- fits me well :blushing:

[maxman]

"...if we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything"
- Peter Marshall

[TnutsShave]

"Stupid like a fox" -- Homer Simspon

This next one requires a bit of backstory. We were teeing off on a par 5. Scott is a righty. He takes a mighty lash at this poor golf ball and cranks it about 280 yards...at approximately a 70 degree angle off of where he was aimed (the middle of the fairway). It travels across two other holes on the course to land in some poor saps backyard.

To the remainder of the speechless foursome, he turns, straight-faced, and says, "That one got away from me a bit".

I'm still trying to work out the physics.

[GDCarrington]

'If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.' --Johnny Carson

[bassmanlarry]

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving may not be your forte.

[Sir Sartana]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

George Carlin

[GDCarrington]

Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.
Hebrew Proverb

[GDCarrington]

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Chinese Proverb

[pal]

Here is an old saying used when someone can't control their happiness. "She was smiling like an ass eating briars."

[GDCarrington]

Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.
French Proverb

[GDCarrington]

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
French Proverb

[probesport]

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. - Gordon Gecko

[csmorris]

And a dark one...

"Welcome to the worst nightmare of all… reality."
Pinhead - Hellraiser

[Mo5-O]

Promise yourself to be so strong nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

[GDCarrington]

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.
German Proverb

[Mo5-O]

The crows seemed to be calling my name thought Caw.

Jack Handy

[GDCarrington]

This one is all too true!

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish Proverb

[probesport]

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[Mo5-O]

+1

[binowatch]

Advice is just advice-always welcome, never mandatory.

[Confilo]

The only reason people get lost in thought, is because it is unfamiliar territory

[rajagra]

“Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure.” Robert McNamara (US Secretary of State for Defence during the Vietnam War.)

I see this rule being broken every day.

[Walker]

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, and enemy to none--Ben Franklin

Don't wear false faces simply for social graces

Put on your boots before your mouth gets loose

As fun as Gossip is to hear, always lend it a cautious ear-- all by James Henry

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust--George Washington

Don't find fault, find a remedy--Henry Ford


Those are just a few of my motivational quotes i keep in my journal.

[GDCarrington]

No man limps because another is hurt.
Danish Proverb

[probesport]

No man limps because another is hurt.
Danish Proverb

http://dailyirabu.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/tomax-xamot1.jpg

I hope somebody gets that.....

[Thomas849]

"The very existence of the flamethrower says that someone, somewhere was like "you know, I really want to set those people on fire. But they're so far away!""- George Carlin

"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws"- Jim Morrison

[Mycon]

"Do you like Erasmic?"
"No, I like all of 'er"
:lol:

[Mo5-O]

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

[GDCarrington]

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
Indian Proverb

[dklaiman]

I read this one yesterday:

"If your wife is having fun and you're not, you're still having way more fun than if you're having fun and she isn't."

Red Green

[DaveAri]

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

Frank Sinatra

[badwolfbay]

http://dailyirabu.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/tomax-xamot1.jpg

I hope somebody gets that.....

"My brotha is in trouble..." Tomax

"When you walk around this world telling everyone you're number 1, the only way you get to stay number 1 is to be number 1." - Ric Flair after his Royal Rumble win 1992

[GDCarrington]

To be the man, you've got to beat the man! Woooo!
Ric Flair

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[GDCarrington]

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
Chinese Proverb

[auk1124]

Peter: Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.'
Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios.

- Family Guy

[GDCarrington]

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
French Proverb

[GDCarrington]

A forest is in an acorn.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

[shm]

The first night in the gallows is the worst.

[GDCarrington]

May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.
Irish Proverb

[shm]

This one seems fitting for this forum (can't remember where I got it from)

Women don't grow beard because they can't keep quiet while they are shaven.

[GDCarrington]

this one seems fitting for this forum (can't remember where i got it from)

women don't grow beard because they can't keep quiet while they are shaven.

+100 Too funny! :lol::lol::lol:

[GDCarrington]

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
Danish Proverb

[GDCarrington]

If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
Japanese Proverb

[shm]

Some love a beautiful woman, others love soup.

Russian

[Tons]

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Theodore Roosevelt

[GDCarrington]

One cannot shoe a running horse.
Dutch Proverb

[shm]

Theoretically men and women should be able to understand each other. And theoretically you can catch eels with a lasso.

[Bertilak]

Someone just sent me this whole batch in a single email. Not all are *my* favorites, but each could be *somebody's* favorite.


It 's not whether you win or
lose, but how you place the blame.

You are not drunk
if you can lie on the floor
without holding on.

We have enough youth.
How about a fountain of "smart"?

The original point and click interface
was a Smith & Wesson.

A fool and his money
can throw one heck of a party.

When blondes have more fun do they know it?

Learn from your parents' mistakes ...
USE BIRTH CONTROL

Money isn't everything,
but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

Don't Drink and Drive
You might hit a bump and spill something.

We are born naked, wet and hungry.
Then things get worse.

Ninety-nine percent of all lawyers
give the rest of them a bad name.

Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers
so we can identify their corporate sponsors.

P.S. That bit about lying on the floor? It seems I *have* been drunk!

[shm]

Television have opened many doors - mostly to the refrigerator.

[GDCarrington]

Beware of a silent dog and still water.
German Proverb

[shm]

Women don't need money; They don't smoke, they don't drink and they are women themselves.

[mdevine]

I am currently reading Blindsight by Peter Watts. One of the main characters opines on life;
"We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends."
Perhaps a bit fatalistic, but spot on.

[blackfoot]

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times." - Rita Rudner

[shm]

A prune is a plum with life experience.

[profsaffel]

"If His Grace is an ocean were all sinking."

-David Crowder

[DunEdinRanger]

Here are some, overheard during the last week.

"I need to leave now so I can put some pants on."

"Humanities classes are like women in society. They both need to learn their place."

[GDCarrington]

All conversations are basically about one of two things. That's right! Either it's about yes or it's about no!
Ben Sidran from the song "Listen to That Fool Talk."

[smokejumper]

"I told you I was sick"
On the headstone of Spike Milligan

[GDCarrington]

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham Maslow

[shm]

A man with one clock knows what time it is.
A man with two clocks is never sure.

French proverb

[GDCarrington]

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx

[jasonled75]

"Sheesh Edith would ya stiffle huh?" Archie Bunker

and

"Don't make me sic the meathead on ya" Archie Bunker

[GDCarrington]

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
~Humphrey Bogart

[GDCarrington]

I am too old to care, and too young to quit!
GDCarrington

[shm]

Old enough to know it's wrong, young enough to do it anyway.

[Shave Cave Dweller]

Leave the gun, bring the canoli - The Godfather

A Politician divides mankind into 2 classes: Tools and Enemies - Nietzsche

The sleep of Reason produces Monsters - Goya

[GDCarrington]

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus

[GDCarrington]

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

[GDCarrington]

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert

[JCinPA]

"Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid."
Damon Runyon

[GDCarrington]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

[Allison's Anarchy]

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. – Edward Abbey

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. -George S. Patton

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - George S. Patton

[GDCarrington]

He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell

[shm]

Women are strange. Either they are thinking of nothing - or else they are thinking of something else.
Alexandre Dumas

[GDCarrington]

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller

[shm]

When women no longer know what to do, they undress, and that is probably the best they can do.
Samuel Beckett

[GDCarrington]

"What reason weaves, by passion is undone."
Alexander Pope

[Linyx]

"The condition becomes extreme in the US where the Protestant work ethic dominates, the view that labor is the purpose of life rather than just the means of paying for it." - Fred Reed

"If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall." - Bill Earle

[GDCarrington]

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

[shm]

Decent women is like the leaning tower of Pisa; they tilt but they don't fall over.
Ralph Boller

[GDCarrington]

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African proverb

[Kenno]

Your about as useless as a glass eye in a key hole. matty to kenno after kenno can't take a fish off a hook.

[shm]

My wife is still just as beautiful. It just takes longer now.
Charlie Chaplin

[GDCarrington]

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

[GDCarrington]

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson

[shm]

The big question, which I don't see myself able to answer despite thirty years of research of the female psyche is this: What is basically a womans wishes and needs?
Sigmund Freud

[Walker]

For out of the ground we are taking for the dust we are.

And to the dust we shall return

( Book of Eli quote from the Bible before we kills everybody in the bar)

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit-- Vince Lombardi

[GDCarrington]

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

[shm]

When Eve ate the apple from the tree of wisdom she reached for a fig leaf. When a woman starts to think, her first thoughts is a new dress.
Heinrich Heine

[JoshuaNY]

Float like a Cadillac, sting like a Beemer - Lightning Mcqueen

[GDCarrington]

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertfros163221.html)

[oscarbowman]

More more years ago than I care to remember I was in hospital for an extended stay. After weeks of boredom my father, who meant well (bless his cotton socks), brought me in a copy of "The Oxford Book of Quotations." Thinking this might cheer me up I decided to randomly open it up and point.

Capt. Scott at the Antarctic............"Great God! This is an awful place."

Yeap that really cheered me up!

[GDCarrington]

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Gen. George S. Patton

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgespa144995.html)

[GDCarrington]

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe