What Quotes Are Your Favorite?

[Red]

"I cut it twice and it is still too short!"

I coined this as my companies motto "Company Name, if your not doing it twice, your doing it wrong" and "Company Name, we do things the hard way"

[Fishing Rhino]

When something goes wrong, it's just another turd in the toilet bowl of life.

[Bassn Blvd]

"That'll be the day" John Wayne

"Don't pis down my back and tell me it's rainin'" Clint Eastwood

"I'm sweatin like a ho in church" unknown

[craww]

When I started doing tower work years ago, we were often asked to do some pretty hairy things 300'+ off the ground. Whenever somebody whined, my old foreman's favorite line was "sometimes you just half to push your man button".

[scrutch]

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be considered a fool,

than to open it and remove all doubt." Translated from Proverbs 17:28

[Teh]

Hey, watch this!

[Teh]

Its not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who at the best knows in the end triumph, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Abbreviated version.

[slonezp]

Hey, watch this!

Which is always preceded with "Here, hold my beer"

[clayton86]

I'm not trying to make a religious post just a quote I like alot I'm not pushing nothing religious.

God grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

-Serenity prayer

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

as it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that He will make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with Him

Forever in the next.

Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Then I like my version of the brave heart saying I have this tattooed on my forearm

"death is certain, life is not" -me

My take on the whole William Wallace " every man dies but not Everyman lives" or some thing akin them lines from the movie.

[Mike L]

It's not what you know...it's who you know.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.

To live in the hearts of the ones we leave behind, is not to die

[scrutch]

The more I practice the luckier I get.

[retiredbosn]

If you want my sympathy look in the dictionary between sh_ _ and syphillis. Major Payne

All that needs to happen for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing (I don't remember who said it Winston Churchill maybe)

[clayton86]

If you want my sympathy look in the dictionary between sh_ _ and syphillis. Major Payne

All that needs to happen for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing (I don't remember who said it Winston Churchill maybe)

Endmond Burke said it I believe

[Long Mike]

I agree. Burke.

[clayton86]

Yeah I'm certain it's Burke it's been a long favorite of mine sense I seen the movie tears of the sun it's in the beginning of that movie. Im not sure if the first name is correct but the last is

[rdollar80]

"Five pounds of Flour makes a pretty big biscuit."

[rdollar80]

"If your not first your last." Ricky Bobby

[Blue Streak]

When the going gets tough

the tough get going.

[scrutch]

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero 

Translated: Seize the day, putting as little trust as possible in the future.

I think it can be originally credited to the Roman poet Horace.

[clayton86]

Every one has a plan till you get punched in the face -- Mike Tyson

[Jigfishn10]

"If you first don't succeed, never try again." ~ Homer Simpson

[Ima Bass Ninja]

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. -Billy Graham

[scrutch]

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. -Billy Graham

That reminds me of another one...

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

That reminds me of another one...

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

"spare the rod get the knife." My great grandmother, or Babushka, if you prefer to use her mother tongue.

And my new favorite, Bhagavad Gita: "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

[Lund Explorer]

"Anyone who says that onions are the only vegetable to make you cry never had to use a cob to wipe!" - Larry the Cable Guy

"I once had a date with a cougar. On second thought, with all those liver spots she was more like a leopard!" - Same demented source!