"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -Raoul Duke
What are your favourite non-biblical quotes?
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Can't recall who said it, but those are some realest words ever
"Every failure brings you one step closer to success."
"Everything you have can be taken away from you, except what you learn."
"An investment in knowledge pays the most interest." - Benjamin Franklin
"Great things don't sell easy."
"Every failure brings you one step closer to success."
"Everything you have can be taken away from you, except what you learn."
"An investment in knowledge pays the most interest." - Benjamin Franklin
"Great things don't sell easy."
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius
One of my most frequently used quotes come from a guy who used to own a bunch of car dealerships in Maine. He'd grown his business very rapidly in the hot economy of the late 80's and when the recession hit in '89/'90, he lost everything. He was interviewed by one of the NPR stations up there and was asked "You've lost everything. What will you do now?" and he said:
"I did it once and I'll do it again. Nobody sucked the brains out of my head. All I lost was money."
I love that. "Nobody sucked the brains out of my head." He was no poet, but he had a firm grip on reality.
"I did it once and I'll do it again. Nobody sucked the brains out of my head. All I lost was money."
I love that. "Nobody sucked the brains out of my head." He was no poet, but he had a firm grip on reality.
The question is did he learn how to save anything?
(Use your crazy Grandpa Simpson Voice while saying this one)
"The Metric System is the tool of the Devil! My car gets 40 Rods to the Hogs Head and that's the ways I likes it!"
-Grandpa Simpson
"Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli"
-Peter Clemenza (Richard Castellano), The Godfather
"The Metric System is the tool of the Devil! My car gets 40 Rods to the Hogs Head and that's the ways I likes it!"
-Grandpa Simpson
"Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli"
-Peter Clemenza (Richard Castellano), The Godfather
Wee bits of Burns.
A man's a man for all that.
The best laid schemes o' mice and men, gang aft agley.
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
To a Louse:
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
And from Scots Wha Hae:
By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die!
A man's a man for all that.
The best laid schemes o' mice and men, gang aft agley.
Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
To a Louse:
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
And from Scots Wha Hae:
By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die!
What about amnesia? I know one case; the poor guy forgot all his knowledge of French after a car accident.
Mine is "the shortest road to hell is paved with good intentions."
If they take amnesia, you remember all you learned!
Was he French?
Nope, a man from England.
Hey! I remembered! It happened after eating frogs!
(Joking)
Hey! I remembered! It happened after eating frogs!
(Joking)
The one in my signature. For those of us on Tapatalk:
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G.K. Chesterton
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G.K. Chesterton
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Mine is "the shortest road to hell is paved with good intentions."[/QUOTE]
"The road to hell is paved with the tombstones of those who didn't play out their trumps."
--Rev. Lawrence Waddy, my ex-father-in-law
Mine is "the shortest road to hell is paved with good intentions."[/QUOTE]
"The road to hell is paved with the tombstones of those who didn't play out their trumps."
--Rev. Lawrence Waddy, my ex-father-in-law
What promoters of vegetarianism maybe don't realize, is that much of the world already is living a vegetarian lifestyle, and they ain't too [freaking] happy about it. -Anthony Bourdain-
Here's a quote of my own I'm very fond of:
"Reality is fact-based, perception isn't."
"Reality is fact-based, perception isn't."
"Damn the Americans! Why don't they tyrannize us more?"
-Manuel Quezon, Filipino insurrectionist fighter, exasperated that American administration was so benign he was having trouble recruiting followers.
-Manuel Quezon, Filipino insurrectionist fighter, exasperated that American administration was so benign he was having trouble recruiting followers.
"The road to hell is paved with the tombstones of those who didn't play out their trumps."
--Rev. Lawrence Waddy, my ex-father-in-law[/QUOTE]
Hey, I like that!
Whenever locals ***** Americans at whatever I always say that with the Russians or Chinese in charge everything would be better.
They shut up instantly.
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean
-James Dean
