Favorite quotes or sayings

Atrox Moris · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:23

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

Arthur Schopenhauer. I love his writings.

uknowist · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:24

One I like is in my sig, its by Hunter S Thompson i think

Mr.Clark · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:26

Semper Fudge - Homer Simpson

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof". -- Christopher Hitchens

Never put your tongue where you wouldn't put your toothbrush - Nanny Ogg

Nymins · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:26

"Get busy living, or get busy dying" - Good ol' Shawshank

Paul11 · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:30

don't criticize a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes

that way when you do criticize him, you are a mile away and you have his shoes

Marf · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:31

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - JD Salinger

Conrad11 · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:31

"Some men see things as they are and say why...I dream things that never were and say why not"

collisster · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:32

fail to prepare then prepare to fail

DON'T PANIC

where there's cadets, there's chaos

malef!c · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:34

"Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam" roughly translated to "I'll Either Find a Way or Make One"
Said by Hannibal (247-183 BC, not he of the A Team or he of the face eater variety

)

Kitchster_uk · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:35

In the end, old age and treachery will always outsmart youth and vigour.

Atrox Moris · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:36

collisster said:
DON'T PANIC

They don't like it up 'em!

malef!c · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:40

or another I seem to abide by lately:

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

Never forget that one people!!

Gog · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:48

Rorschach said:
This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'no.'

I can't wait till March

GeForce · 27 Nov 2008 at 19:50

Humanity spends way too much time making sure everyone's opinion is heard instead of making sure their opinion is worth hearing.

A ship in a harbour is a safe ship - but that's not what ships were built for.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Seek advice, not opinion, and be sure to know the difference.

HangTime · 27 Nov 2008 at 20:21

A ship in a harbour is a safe ship - but that's not what ships were built for.

Not heard that one before, I like it.
Here's one of mine:

"Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it"
--'Big' Ron Atkinson

Ricochet J · 27 Nov 2008 at 20:24

There's a famous saying:

"You think you know who your friends are."

sanaxe1 · 27 Nov 2008 at 20:28

Right lads , lets rock out with our ****s out. - My mate before a night out.

ThriceNightly · 27 Nov 2008 at 20:31

"keep it under the flannel"

overheard my late grandfather using this line one evening down at his local conservative club......raised a few chuckles from the old majors and regulars down there.

......always wondered the meaning

Indy500 · 27 Nov 2008 at 20:38

"If there were no god, it would be necessary to invent him." - Voltaire

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..." - Kahul Gibran

Masterdog · 27 Nov 2008 at 21:02

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. Either way, the thought is staggering."

This next isn't a pithy quote, but I was surprised to find myself choked on Remembrance Sunday, hearing this WW1 letter from a soldier in the trenches (the night before he died in the Battle of the Bulge):

But I do not want to die, not that I mind for myself. If I have to go I am ready, but the thought that I may never see you or our darling baby again turns my bowels to water. I cannot think of it with even a semblance of equanimity. It may well be that you only have to read these lines as ones of passing interest. On the other hand they may well be my last message to you. Know for all your life that I love you and baby with all my heart and soul; that you two sweet things were just all the world to me.