Great Quotes

[crazypipe]

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”

 

[layinpipe]

"You sound like you're from London."
"It's okay, I'm a limo driver!"
"I remember when I had my first beer."
"I need to lay off the peyote."

 

[brian64]

“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” – Dresden James

 

[crazypipe]

“It is not what you do for your children,

but what you have taught them

to do for themselves that will make them

successful human beings.”
~ Ann Landers

 

[brian64]

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” – Martin Luther King

 

[ithelouniverse]

All GREAT ones so far gents!
"A man lives as long as he lives, and not a minute more" - SM Stirling.
"God grant you one wish, to turn back time " - Claudio Sanchez
"I damn all gentleman who's only worth is their fathers name and the sweat of a working man" - Steve Earle
"Phone sex is now group sex, cuz there's Feds on your telephone" - Raymond "boots" Riley

 

[layinpipe]

"Get out of my dreams, Get into my car" -Billy Ocean

 

[crazypipe]

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

 

[thehappypiper]

I don't know if this one has been posted but even as a strong supporter of Scottish Independence I find it exremely useful.
"Any man who considers himself a Patriot is either a thug or ignorant of history"
I can't remember who this is attributed to, but I like it a lot. No nation is free of it's atrocities, not one of us can pretend otherwise. As a proud Scot I have to admit that if the balance of power between England and Scotland had been reversed, we would no doubt have committed many of the same crimes as were committed against us. And as the Shock Troops of The British Empire, we have killed many innocents on orders. So on what basis do I consider myself a Patriot? I hope that there is still much good in my culture and much beauty also and I would like to see it increase, having learned from the terrible mistakes of the past. Patriotism is like belief in God; potentially uplifting but more often merely a pretense and justification for whatever one had decided to do anyway.
Also
"The difference between fact and opinion is still largely a matter of debate"

 

[foggymountain]

"It's not what goes into your mouth that pollutes you."--Jesus

 

[virginiacob]

"Be strictly honorable in every act, and be not ashamed to do right. Acknowledge right to be your aim and strive to reach it." -- Robert E. Lee

 

[foggymountain]

"Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what's for lunch."--Orson Welles

 

[fearsclave]

"An imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan implemented next week."
-George S. Patton.

 

[sfsteves]

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation

myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep,

and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

 

[werebear]

Never lie, cheat, or steal, but if must then lie with the one you love, cheat death, and steal a kiss. I don't know where that one came from, but its great.

Semper fidelis -USMC

.....if the Army and the Navy ever look on Heaven's scene, they will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines. -Marine's Hymn Sorry, USMC fan.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. -Robert Jordan

 

[brian64]

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." -- Mark Twain

 

[derfatdutchman]

America will never be destroyed from the outside.

If we falter and lose our freedoms, it is because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln

 

[goldsm]

You will get what you gave. --- unknown.

 

[brian64]

I'm always reminded of this quote around 11/22:
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason." -- Sir John Harrington

 

[warren]

My father said, "Your good name is the only thing you take with you when you die."