Quote Thread

Post your favorite quote.


"It is 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 strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."


-Theodore Roosevelt

"your mom"

-your dad

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

-ez game

"Chuck us the king skins will you?"

Me.

"Put the kettle on."

Me.

"Do the clocks go back today?"

Me.

"What does this button do?"

Someone who suffers an ironic death.

"With the lights out, it's less dangerous."

Kurt Cobain.

"Hurry up in the bog."

My housemate.

"ongies gonna ong"

wuf

"Stop, it hurts"

baudib's Mom.

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Originally Posted by OngBonga

"What does this button do?"

Someone who suffers an ironic death.

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Pretty sure Caesar said this before he crossed the Rubicon.

Most of my favorite quotes are mathematical equations.


Here's one which meets the tenor of the OP, though,

"Without struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass

Here's one I accidentally said as a teenager:
"Everyone knows they could be better. It's the people who care about that that you stick by."
-MMM

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

Err'ybody want to be a bodybuilder, but aint nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights.
- Ronnie Colman? Arnold S? Idr

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"
- Sir Terry Pratchett

"I neither want to be a bodybuilder, nor do I need wages."

Me.

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Originally Posted by OngBonga

"I neither want to be a bodybuilder, nor do I need wages."

Me.

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sending your dole and benefits back then Ong?

"I don't know the difference between wages and income."

Keith.

I love how keith pops up out of nowhere every now and again just to slam ong.

i very nearly infracted BID for complaining about getting an infraction

“I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view because deep down you know you can’t win. It’s better to assert yourself and tell the person you are moving on without them and why, rather than leave a lasting impression of cowardness on your part in a person’s mind by avoiding them.”
― Shannon L. Alder

Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.

"Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining."

- Armageddon: The Musical

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

Love a man who'll bleed to make a point.




Ah man, I could sandman slim the shit outta this thread. None of that motivational crap.

"the left hand now knows what the right hand is doing."

GWB

Well if we're going there:

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

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Originally Posted by rong

Well if we're going there:

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

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I repeat this a few times a year to annoy my Yankee girlfriend.

"We talk about if for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right"

- football manager Brian Clough on dealing with players. Pretty much describes my approach to relationships.

"I'm not sure which is more difficult: getting Republicans to care or Democrats to think."

"It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write any more."

-Not Ong

"I'm so stupid I moved from New Zealand to a shitty little European country with no hills."

-Not Ong

The sooner you fall behind the more time you have to catch up.

"but but the weed, you can buy it in a shop. in a shop man"

- me four years ago

"Success and bitches? Fair play. But to be happy with nothing, well would you still be a smug twat if you had no job no money no bitches? I am."

- Ong

Honestly one of the greatest things I've read on this forum. And Ong of all people...

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

- legendary footballer and playboy George Best.

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
-Hub McCann

Secondhand Lions

Also:
I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am.

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EDIT: 'cause old pic with same quote wasn't working properly

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may be the best one ive ever seen.

A novice asked master Banzen: “What separates the monk from the master?”

Banzen replied: “Ten thousand mistakes!”

The novice, not understanding, sought to avoid all error. An abbot observed and brought the novice to Banzen for correction.

Banzen explained: “I have made ten thousand mistakes; Suku has made ten thousand mistakes; the patriarchs of Open Source have each made ten thousand mistakes.”

Asked the novice: “What of the old monk who labors in the cubicle next to mine? Surely he has made ten thousand mistakes.”

Banzen shook his head sadly. “Ten mistakes, a thousand times each.”

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Originally Posted by oskar

"Success and bitches? Fair play. But to be happy with nothing, well would you still be a smug twat if you had no job no money no bitches? I am."

- Ong

Honestly one of the greatest things I've read on this forum. And Ong of all people...

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"You must understand above all else that life is a game. Rather to play it well than to be a denier or a bungler."

"Millions long for immortality, who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."- Susan Ertz

"Immortality is for selfish morons who don't realise that population needs control."

-Me

If I were immortal, I'd feel morally obliged to kill a newborn child once every 50 years or so.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indominable will.