Favorite Quotes
- Thread starter Cruiser
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grandmaster
Let the build Re-begin
- Location
- St. George, Utah
"I know you believe you understand what you think i said, but im not sure you realize, that what you heard is not what i meant"
Utahcryogenics
Formerly "Beerman"
- Location
- Murray
"I almost made a mistake once.... but I was mistaken"
Unknown
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
"Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one." - Richard Dawkins
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish."
Those are my fav
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
"Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one." - Richard Dawkins
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish."
Those are my fav
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Here is some stuff I pulled from Walden, and a good Einstein quote to finish off.
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." H. D. Thoreau
"Yet, not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them (baskets), and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them." HDT
"...this spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet." HDT
"..Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost......Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons....I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and i have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.....Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me;...if I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about" HDT
"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God" - Albert Einstein
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." H. D. Thoreau
"Yet, not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them (baskets), and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them." HDT
"...this spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet." HDT
"..Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost......Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons....I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and i have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.....Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me;...if I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about" HDT
"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God" - Albert Einstein
Dominic
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Salt Lake City
“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
My mother raised ugly kids not stupid ones.
Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
Confront your enemy with the tip of your sword to his face.
--Miyamoto Musashi
Kierkegaard is escaping me for the moment. Argh.
There is no try, only do.
-- Yoda
--Miyamoto Musashi
Kierkegaard is escaping me for the moment. Argh.
There is no try, only do.
-- Yoda
Kiel
Formerly WJ ZUK
Carla was the pom queen- the movie the rock right?
yep
Devel
Just an Outlaw....
- Location
- North Salt Lake
"In the absense of Light, Darkness Prevails"
lostsamurai
FnZuKiN24/7
- Location
- enoch,UT
"There goes the only man i know that has to squat down to sh*t in a dump truck"
me (about a former employee at 7' 1" tall)
me (about a former employee at 7' 1" tall)
"Veni, vidi, vici"
- Julius Caesar
This is the full text of the message delivered to the Roman senate describing his recent victory over Pharnaces II of Pontus in the Battle of Zela in Zile, a town of Tokat city in contemporary Turkey.
It was given in the midst of a civil war, when the Senate wanted him removed from power.
Traditionally, reports of military conquests took days.
The man had guts.
- Julius Caesar
This is the full text of the message delivered to the Roman senate describing his recent victory over Pharnaces II of Pontus in the Battle of Zela in Zile, a town of Tokat city in contemporary Turkey.
It was given in the midst of a civil war, when the Senate wanted him removed from power.
Traditionally, reports of military conquests took days.
The man had guts.
I have been collecting quotes since I was a kid and here are some of my favorites.
"No one ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- Attributed to General George Patton Jr.
(from "A Genius for War" by Carlo d'Este)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George Patton Jr.
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
- General George Patton Jr.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- General George Patton Jr.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton Jr.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- General George Patton Jr.
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr.
"We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head."
-Dennis Miller
"Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time."
-Dennis Miller
"A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error."
-Dennis Miller
"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. "
-Dennis Miller"
"Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese."
-Dennis Miller
"And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their brekfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee."
-Dennis Miller
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Philip K. Dick
"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."
--H. E. Martz
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
--George Bernard Shaw
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
-Jean Cocteau
“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”--Mark Twain
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
--Robert X. Cringely
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."--Mark Twain
"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
--George Carlin
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
--Will Rogers
"No one ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- Attributed to General George Patton Jr.
(from "A Genius for War" by Carlo d'Este)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George Patton Jr.
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
- General George Patton Jr.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- General George Patton Jr.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton Jr.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- General George Patton Jr.
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr.
"We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head."
-Dennis Miller
"Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time."
-Dennis Miller
"A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error."
-Dennis Miller
"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. "
-Dennis Miller"
"Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese."
-Dennis Miller
"And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their brekfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee."
-Dennis Miller
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Philip K. Dick
"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."
--H. E. Martz
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
--George Bernard Shaw
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
-Jean Cocteau
“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”--Mark Twain
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
--Robert X. Cringely
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."--Mark Twain
"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
--George Carlin
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
--Will Rogers