The Quotations Thread

[DelicateSound]

We've had pretty much every other novelty thread, so why not this. My theory is that a lot of us quote each other in our signatures. We must like quoting. So quote!

If there is a quote that you think should be shared with the board, post it below

Can be from Sun Tzu to Jay Leno. MA related or not. Philosophic or funny.

Come on guys, you all must have a favorite quote?





:)


I'll start the ball rolling:



"He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened"

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"

"He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know"

Lau Tzu - The Way of Lau Tzu.

[Archangel]

Rocky 3



Announcer: Your prediction for the fight

Clubber Lang: PAIN!!!!!!

[Liokault]

OK my quote.

"foxes are evil...kill them all" By a sheep framer and weekend hunt guy.

[DelicateSound]

I was hoping for examples of classic Chinese philosophy.

I get Rocky 3 and a psychotic farmer.

"Take the rough with the smooth" might apply here.....

[Liokault]

Im not a farmer. I work in a factory and live in a (small) city. I also quite like foxes but i can see not reason to stop guys with dogs ripping them apart.

For some reason I think fox hunting is ok but badger baiters should be shot.


And just for you I am now going to go and think about a quote for you.....a real one.

[Liokault]

Ok I got one.

My teacher uses this all the time when asks what do I do if he tryes this move ect.


just hit him

or he ofton answers

just don't let them

[respectmankind]

'sometimes i just want to abandon the persuit of nobility, to become a hypocrit. dwelling inside my emotions, and because i will still have my wisdom i will be different than the rest, and when confronted my justification will be "take me down if wish".'

[guohuen]

"If size were all, the tiger would not fear the scorpian."-Confucious
"Suppose I was an idiot, and suppose I was a member of congess. Ah, but I repeat myself!"-Mark Twain

[guohuen]

And let's not forget, " I've never met a man I didn't like."-Will Rogers

[joedoe]

"... Don't look at the finger. If you look at the finger, you will miss all the heavenry grory... " Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon

[Shadow Dragon]

One quote often hearding MA Schools.

"practice, practice and more practice and after that even more practice".

Peace.

[Xebsball]

I would never let a woman kick my ass, if she tried anything i'd be like:
Hey! You kick your ***** ass back in the kitchen! And make some pie!!
Hey woman! You shut your mouth and make babys!!
Hey! You gotta do my landry!!
Hey! Listen! Missy! Why don't you go knit me a sweater before i slap you in the face!!
Hey! Why dont you stop dressing me up like a mailman and making me dance for you while you going smoke crack in your bedroom and have sex with some guy i dont even know on my dads bed!

Eric Cartman

[Chang Style Novice]

rap wisdom:

"When I get mad I put it down on a pad
Give you something that you never had!"
- Chuck D

"No bogus hocus pocus
I bring back the focus
To skills, if you notice
My position is lotus."
- KRS1

[tri2bmt]

Xebsball, that was great.

How about something from the A Team (The greatest show ever!)
"You better know, or you're gonna know pain!!"

[Radhnoti]

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;
---Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. Memorial Edition 16:45, Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.

[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
---James Madison,The Federalist Papers, No. 46

"We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the
first step is necessarily -- given the political realities --
going to be very modest. Our ultimate goal -- total control
of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time.
... The first problem is to slow down the increasing number
of handguns being produced.... The second problem is to get
handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the
possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition --
except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards,
licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors --
totally illegal."

-- Nelson T. (Pete) Shields, founder of Handgun Control,
Inc., New Yorker Magazine, July 26, 1976

[Silumkid]

"Well, well, well...if it isn't fat, stinking, billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou stinking bottle of chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles...if you have any yarbles, you enunich jelly, thou!" - Alexander DeLarge

"Open your eyes, Meatwad. I wanna horrify you into a coma!" - Master Shake

"The pain I will inflict on you will be so horrible that anyone who witnesses it will have nightmares about it for the rest of their natural lives." - Silumkid

"That's not our baby! That's a Mr. Potato Head!" - Dad

[rubthebuddha]

"there is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
-aldous huxley

"double negatives -- now there's a big no no!"
-my old classic greek professor (said accidentally :))

"cornbread! ain't nuttin wrong with that!"
-chris rock

[Okami]

Best advice I ever received:

If you can't wipe it off, don't touch it.

[scotty1]

I really like the one in my signature. Told it to my girlfriend and she likes it too. Can't think of anything else at the mo.

Oh yeah, got this in a fortune cookie:

Walk on sunny side, other side wet.

I love things like that....

Radnohti, you on some kind of crusade or something?:)

[oldwolf]

See the happy moron
He doesn't give a damm
I wish I was a moron,
My God! perhaps I am.

be intimate with the enemy

[HongKongPhooey]

Depend on the rabbits foot if you must, but remember, it didn't work for the rabbit.

[Kristoffer]

win some lose some... lol aaaah can't come up with anyting right now :D
hmmm...


"We were so amazed of the touch of God, so amazed that we forgot to ask... what finger?"

aint that beautiful?

[Bolt]

Stole these from my own board, which of course, I swiped from somewhre else first :

"Practice will never make you perfect...only perfect practice will make you perfect!"


"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice there is."

"A distraction is only a distraction if you pay attention to it."

"It's not the bite of the snake that does the damage. It's the poison that is left behind..."


'Nuf for now.

[Grays Anatomy]

"Machines don't fight wars. Humans fight wars. You must get into the mind of humans. That's where the battles are won."
- Col. John R. Boyd, USAF

"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincend arum"
- unknown

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"
- Edgar Allen Poe


Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb -

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs."
- Unknown -

[DelicateSound]

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Sir Francis Bacon

To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The best ideas are common property.
Seneca (4 BC - 65), Epistles

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
Woody Allen

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

pain is just weakness leaving the body.

[guohuen]

"Beware of the military industrial complex."-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Let's hang together or surely we will all hang seperately."-Benjaman Franklin
Quoted by George Bernard Shaw after seeing a production of Hamlet in N.Y.C. "Now we can finally put to rest the question of who really wrote the works of William Skakespeare. Wether it was the man, William Shakespeare or Sir Francis Bacon. All we have to do is exume the bodies and see which one has rolled over.":p

[ReverendTim]

"Know yourself and be set free."
--My buddy Danny Klawitter, the only card-carrying Communist Methodist minister I ever met. He might have been quoting someone himself.

"I should punch myself several times a day"
--Henry Rollins

--
Rev. Tim

[strangecaptain]

"A two-week binge starts with but a single beer." Arliss Henry

"Follow your nose." Dr. Ron Smith

[Qi dup]

"If it bleeds we can kill it." Predator

"Luke, at that speen do you think we'll be able to pull out in time?" Star Wars

Killin' is my business ladies, and business is good!" Major Payne

[Ky-Fi]

"Winston, if you were my husband I would put poison in your drink."

"Madame, if I were your husband, I would gladly drink it."

--Winston Churchill at a party

[joedoe]

Lady: "Sir, you are drunk"

Churchill: "Madam, I may be drunk but you are ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober"


(The wording may not be correct, but that was the gist of it )
:D

[HongKongPhooey]

To err is human, isn't it divine. :- Mae West

To eat or not to eat? What a silly question. Certianly 'tis nobler to cleaneth thy plate to maketh room for more. :- Garfield

[Repulsive Monkey]

"Invest in loss" by Cheng Man-ching here is my favourite and has endless benefit in taking heed to it.

[JWTAYLOR]

"There is no success or failure that is neccessarily final. It can always get better, it can always get worse."-Taylor family Motto.

"NEVER TRUST, VERIFY."-my professional motto.

Read my signature, then, read it again.

"There is no knowlege that is not power."-Lau Tzu?-I love that one.

"Speed is good, but acuracy if final"-Wyatt Erp.

"People do what they want, and they spend time with the people they love."-my mom, explaining the intricacies of human relashionships

"Do not be fooled. God will not be mocked. A man shall reap what he sows." -the most frieghtening verse in the Bible.


JWT

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i killed jesus just to see him bleed on his pompous throne.

- deicide

[HongKongPhooey]

do or do not, there is no try - If you don't know who said this then ..... welll... you got no force.

[GeneChing]

We have a bunch of quotes arranged by Chinese astrological sign - Here's a link to the horse (since that's this year) and from there you can find the rest - http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/resources/horo_horse.html

[PQS]

the year 1986
the place USA
England v Argentina football world cup
by 50 million english
HANDBALL!!!!!!