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“Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic he fights his fate, ofter desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.”
-H. L. Mencken
My all-time favorite quote:
He was talking about getting a Masters and Doctorate Degree....Quote:
Ernie Pyle-
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
The ******** Infantry
Our beloved Bierut discussing the tragedies of lifeQuote:
A Friend of Mine-
"No one said it was gonna be easy! If it was, everyone would do it..that's who you know who really wants it."
Just some good ones I like:Quote:
Bierut-
All us men suffer in equal parts, it's our lot in life, and no man goes without a broken heart or a lost love. Like holding your dog as he takes his last breath and dies in your arms, it's a rite of passage. Unavoidable. And honestly, I can't imagine life without that depth of feeling.-Bierut
Bierut's Post
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Cullen Hightower-
"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."
And two random ones:Quote:
Robert McNamara-
And the conventional wisdom is: don't make the same mistake twice. Learn from your mistakes. And we all do. Maybe we make the mistake three times, but hopefully not four or five.
Quote:
"Trying is just a easy way of saying you didn't do it"
Quote:
"Due to the presence of fools wise people stand out"
I distrust camels.
-Ronald ReaganQuote:
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
~Voltaire
That is beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Winter
BUTTSCRATCHA! BUTTSCRATCHA HERE!
"Not even time to finish my cake?"
"No. There is no more time, even for cake. For you, the cake is over. You have reached the end of cake."
One with some personal meaning...
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have them.
And a funny one...
Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”
Refer to the sig
The cake is a lie....Quote:
Originally Posted by Monk
That is one of my favourite's too. Thanks for the reminder Decker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Decker
My favourite is what should be the epitaph to the Backroom:
'After reading this thread, I must say my posts managed to convince me' - TuffStuff.
"An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away"
-George Clinton/Eddie Hazel
Yeah... it's one of those rarities that someone will say every-know-and-again. And yeah np...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregoshi
The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you - Max Payne
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-Warman8
"It's Not The People you fire who make you miserable, it's the people who you don't fire that do."
- (Can't remember).
Edit: Just noticed it said favorite quote, as in a single quote. Out of those I posted this is my favorite one.Quote:
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience
- Otto Von Bismark
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....
Major General John Sedgwicks' last words.
But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only a minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water. - Nikolai Gogol
Excuse me, do these effectively hide my thunder? - Tobias Fünke
Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist. - Tobias Fünke
Don't leave your uncle teabag hanging. - Tobias Fünke
Please don't call yourself that. - George Michael Bluth
"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"
Scaramouche
"But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant." --St. Paul
Ajax
Ancient wisdom is modern nonsense.
This quote is stuck inside my head; but I am not sure where I first read it. Could be anywhere, really.
That made me laugh out loud! ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
I like this one...
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
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There's no dying honourably. You can live honourably but when you die you rot... or something like that. From "House" the series.
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"But Aqua man, you can't marry a woman without gills... you're from two different worlds!"
Comic Book Guy
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word.
Al Capone.
Aside from the one in my sig, one of my other favorite Org quotes comes courtesy of Big John:
"Shakespeare and jazz = not good. Under any circumstances. Dissenters will be ostracized." :laugh4:
As for more well-known quotes, one of my favorites -- those not already mentioned here, anyway -- is from Robert E. Lee (apologies if I don't get it quite right):
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it."
'it's not that i want to kill you, i just don't want you to be alive' - Stewie - Family Guy