Favourite Quotations

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:32 PM

"A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"

Oscar wilde

This quote has stuck with me all my life and has been relevant in nearly every circumstance I have found myself in.

It has a fresh interpretation in every situation and as my experience and wisdom become deeper so I find more meaning and depth in this quote. It never ceases to educate.

Try emphasising different parts of it each time you read it back.

It is a good one to remember.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:35 PM

TWO FISH DID NOT MAKE A DINNER

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:39 PM

All it takes for evil to suceed is for a good man to do nothing.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:42 PM

ALL ELBOWS ARE EQUAL

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:48 PM

If Autumn is the Season of Mist and Mellow Fruitfulness , is Spring the season of Lust and Mad Licentiousness ??

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:50 PM

IF A TREE COULD WALK,WOULD IT GO FAR

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 05:44 PM

``True ignorance approaches the infinite more nearly than any amount of knowledge can.''
       Mac Wellman, playwright

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 06:09 PM

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES,FORREST GUMP

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: John O'L
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 06:17 PM

Ignorance provides its own justification.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,joseacsilva
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 06:17 PM

Although, not necessarily a famous quotation, this is a "poem" I wrote sometime ago:

JOE WROTE NOTES AND QUOTES(THE PROVERBS SONG)-G. JOE        

GATHERIN´ WORDS IS A TRICKY GAME
TRYIN´ TO MAKE ´EM SOUND JUST FINE
CHOOSING RHYMES TO FIT IN WELL
I`VE MADE THIS SIMPLE SONG OF MINE

TO BEGIN, FIRST THINGS FIRST
ROME WASN´T BUILT IN JUST ONE DAY
THE FIRST STEP IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST
BUT LOVE WILL FIND A WAY

TAKE YOUR TIME, HASTE MAKE WASTE
I´LL MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES
DON´T WANNA CRY OVER SPILLED MILK
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE

DON´T PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
WHAT THE HEART THINKS, THE MIND SPEAKS
IT TAKES ALL SORTS TO MAKE A WORLD
A MAN´S KNOWN BY THE COMPANY HE KEEPS

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS
WE MUST HOPE AGAINST HOPE
MANY LITTLE STROKES FELL GREAT OAKS

YOU KNOW , LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING
IF THERE´S A WILL, THERE´S A WAY
HE WHO TREADS SOFTLY GOES FAR
AND EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY

WE SHALL MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS
SOMETIMES IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE
YOU SHOULD DO GOOD FOR ITS OWN SAKE
AND LET BYGONES BE BYGONES

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
AND WHO GRASPS ALL, LOSES ALL
LESSONS SOON LEARNED, SOON FORGOTTEN
BUT UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL

EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE
MAKES A MAN HEALTHY,WEALTHY AND WISE
NO BEES NO HONEY, NO WORK NO MONEY
A CLOSED MOUTH GATHERS NO FLIES

IT´S BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
THE MORE HASTE , THE LESS SPEED
PATIENCE´S BITTER BUT ITS FRUIT´S SWEET
A FRIEND IN NEED ´S A FRIEND IN DEED

BETTER ALONE THAN IN BAD COMPANY
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER
SCRATCH MY BACK AND I´LL SCRATCH YOURS
ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER

LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
YOU REAP JUST WHAT YOU SOW
YOU WIN SOME , YOU LOSE SOME
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

GOODNESS IS BETTER THAN BEAUTY
DON´T LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH
MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK
BUT TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH

SOME PEOPLE SAY "SEEING IS BELIEVING"
SOME THAT OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND
YOU CAN´T TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER
KEEP THE LID ON, LOVE IS BLIND

THERE´S A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FLOCK
AND EVERY MAN HAS A PRICE
A ROTTEN APPLE SPOILS THE WHOLE BARREL
BUT HE WHO SINGS PRAYS TWICE

ALWAYS HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY
DO NOT BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW
A FRIEND TO ALL IS A FRIEND TO NONE
GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

FOR MANY , PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE´S DIVINE
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND YOUR EARS OPEN
TRY TO WALK THE CHALK LINE

NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS
LET THE CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION
ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE


YOU NEVER MISS THE WATER
UNTILL THE WELL RUNS DRY
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO
UNTILL YOU REALLY TRY

FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS
TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
IT TAKES TWO TO BEGIN A FIGHT

THEY SAY ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME
AND WHEN IN ROME , DO AS ROMANS DO
ENJOY EVERY MOMENT ´CAUSE LIFE´S SHORT
DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU LIKE ´EM TO DO UNTO YOU

WHO DOES LEND LOSES MONEY AND FRIEND
BUT YOU CAN´T TAKE IT WITH YOU WHEN YOU DIE
THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM
ASK NO QUESTION AND HEAR NO LIES

MANY OLD HABITS DIE HARD
BUT IT´S NEVER TOO LATE TOO LEARN
SOMETHINGS IN LIFE COME EASY AND GO EASY
A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED

SOMETIMES WE CHOOSE THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS
AND BAD NEWS OFTEN TRAVEL FAST
WE CAN LET IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER
HE WHO LAUGHS LAST, LAUGHS BEST

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
BUT TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY
FAITH CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS
FOR SURE CRIME DON´T PAY

PREVENTION IS THE BEST CURE
AN APPLE A DAY , KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
A MAN FORWARNED IS FORARMED
THERE ARE ONLY 24 HOURS IN A DAY

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE
NO USE ROBBIN´ PETER TO PAY PAUL
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP
I´M A HARD ROW TO ROE


AN IDLE BRAIN´S THE DEVIL´S WORKSHOP
SO YOU FIRST THINK, THAN YOU SPEAK
ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS
NOT ALWAYS WE CAN TURN THE OTHER CHEEK

SPEAK ONLY WHEN SPOKEN TO
BUT SILENT GIVES CONSENT
DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
IT´S NEVER TOO LATE TO REPENT

TO WHOM THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END
REMEMBER, YOU CAN´T HAVE THEM ALL
AND DEAD MEN HAVE NO FRIENDS

GIVEN AN INCH SOME´LL TAKE A MILE
REMEMBER ,CHARITY MUST BEGIN AT HOME
LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU,
WEEP AND YOU WILL WEEP ALONE

IF MIGHT IS REALLY RIGHT
ONLY TIME WILL TELL
YOU CAN´T PLEASE EVERYONE
ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Joe

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 04:21 AM

"it is not to him who can inflict the most, but to him who can endure the most, that ultmate victory is assured"
Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:42 AM

"I talk to the trees - that's why they put me away." Spike Milligan

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,Doctor Quelch
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:55 AM

"What the hell was that??"
The Mayor of Nagasaki

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:59 AM

Mark Twain is accredited to have said something very close to this.
"When I was sixteen my father was ignorant but by the time I was twenty-one I was amazed at how much he had learned"

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 11:31 AM

"Assholes get elected, cause, assholes get to vote" [ Timbuk 3 ]

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GLoux
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 11:40 AM

"We'll burn that bridge when we get to it."

-David Farber

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Kaleea
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 12:06 PM

When I was a teenager growing up in the Bible belt, I had heard so many preachers quoting from the Bible using the " . . . " technique, that I began to tell people what is still my favorite Bible quotation, " and Judas went out and hanged himself . . . go and do thou likewise."

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Beer
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 06:40 PM

No matter what the age, an asshole's looks never change.
(me) Beer

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 08:46 PM

"What this country needs, is men with real two-fisted guts on their shoulders"
       (I really hate to admit who first said that...)

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: The Walrus
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 08:53 PM

Nappies(daipers) and Politicians both need changing regularly, and for much the same reason (Anon*)

W


*Unless someone out there has an attribution

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: John O'L
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:33 PM

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

- Ambrose Bierce

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: bobad
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 09:46 PM

Thomas Marshall - "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."


Franklin Pierce Adams - "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: mrdux
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 02:04 AM

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

                                — Mark Twain


       "The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

                                – Frank Lloyd Wright

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: John O'L
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:48 AM

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Today's Cryptoquote. (Aren't I clever?)

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: clueless don
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 08:32 AM

This has always been a favorite of mine. I saw it attributed to someone named Artemus Ward:

It's not the things we don't know that hurt us;
It's the things we do know that aren't so.

Don

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 01:08 PM

All from Dick Cavett :

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: oggie
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 01:24 PM

'You've only so many good fights in you, so don't waste them' My grandad when I was about 10 and steamed up over something.

According to family legend his father's dying words were '..and if you b*****rs drink anything but the best bitter, I'll come back and haunt you!'

all the best

oggie

PS I know they're not really quotations but I like them

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: The Walrus
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 08:44 PM

"The truth is out there - The lies are in your head"

Terry Pratchett (from his book "Hogfather")

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: John O'L
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 08:59 PM

This is my diary and my drug. Covering all things with the utter fluidity of smoke, transforming as the night does. All matter must be fused this way through the lens of my vice, or the rust of living will slow down my rhythm to a sob.

Anais Nin
Nearer the Moon

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,bill
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:21 PM

" Aside from that, how'd you like the play Mrs Lincoln?"

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Rowan
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 02:31 AM

Another from Anon.
It doesn't matter who you vote for, it's always a politician who gets in.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: patriot1314
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 04:55 PM

If it's got tits or tyres, it'll give you trouble!

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: weerover
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 05:08 PM

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" ("Uncle Joe" Stalin)

How many people with power still believe it?

wr.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 05:22 PM

"Never express yourself more clearly than you think."

                         Nihls Bohr

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

                      African proverb

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Bert
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 07:09 PM

Things that don't alter, remain as they are.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: chrisgl
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 07:22 PM

Liz has just reminded me of hers:

"History repeats itself.
Has to;
No one listens"

- Steve Turner (poet)


chris :-)

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,Dr. Quelch
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 01:09 PM

Related by Bob Davenport.
"If s--- was gold the poor would be born without arseholes"

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Mudjack
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 12:21 PM

Billy Joe Shaver " Remember!if you don't love Jesus, GO TO HELL"
Mudjack

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 12:41 PM

JP Donleavy "it's the rich wot eats the prunes and the poor wot gets the shits" I think.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 11:26 PM

Keep your eye on the ball,
your ear to the ground,
your shoulder to the wheel,
and your nose to the grindstone.
Now. Try to work in that position.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: jeffp
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 03:59 PM

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,old git
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 04:36 PM

"Live for the moment..life is not a dress rehearsal...it's the real thing"
not sure of the origin but a good friend said it to me a long time ago..and I've lived by it ever since.

another friend said "Growing old is inevitable,growing up is optional"

and my real philosophy of life "You come into this world with nothing. If you leave it in debt , you've made a profit!"

geoff

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 06:48 PM

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: ositojuanito
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 05:26 AM

'The love that dare not speak its name'

Lord Alfred Douglas

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Fliss
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 04:35 PM

B*g*er Bogner... said to be the last words of George V.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: John O'L
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 08:45 PM

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted all else follows"

Winston Smith (in George Orwell's 1984)

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: DADGBE
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 04:54 PM

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."

--From The Merchant of Venice

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Midchuck
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 08:55 PM

Appropriate for the times: Possibly my favorite line from the entire Deadwood TV series (at least the two seasons I've seen):

Wolcott, in episode 22:

"I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness. But I am not a government official. "

Peter.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: ositojuanito
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 12:07 PM

'someday I may be hung as a thief' Bob Dylan (think about it)

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Greg B
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 05:47 PM

If you want to make love to a woman very badly, you probably will.
    -- Yours truly