Great Quotes

[bambam]

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert Kennedy

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

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[hodirty]

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[eaglerico]

Perception is reality
Conquer adversity and greatness will follow.

 

[oldshacker]

I have these on my work-bench. For some reason I don't think my wife fully understands them.
"pipe smoking is properly an intellectual exercise."

-Christopher Morley, 1916
"The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins."

-Ben Jonson

 

[cezario]

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." ( Winston S. Churchill )

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I am loving some of these quotes. Thanks all, for keeping this thread going

 

[cezario]

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." ( Theodore Roosevelt )

 

[crazypipe]

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

 

[jbbaldwin]

Marching bands are just homeless orchestras.
-Tim Siedell (aka Bad Banana)

 

[Perique]

I've spent the past several days trying to figure out what my favorite quote of all time is. I have volumes of great quotes, as mentioned earlier. Many are profound. And long. I think, however, that the best are the most succinct, where the most insight into the human condition is crammed into the fewest words.
Just can't narrow it down to one. Therefore I present two:
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." - Vince Lombardi
"You don't know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out." - Warren Buffet

 

[acme]

Those that cannot reason are animals.

Those that may not reason are slaves.

Those that will not reason are a waste of time.
anthony

 

[deleon]

Do No Harm, But Don't take any Shit.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

A couple by Davy Crockett...
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
You may all go to Hell. And I will go to Texas. (I love that one )

 

[crazypipe]

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

 

[cezario]

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see". ( Winston S. Churchill )

 

[acme]

For Teddy,

I have seen quotes, and people's attitudes which reflect the quote, but I think that there are more possibilities.

To wit:

Some people can look at a situation and make good choices.

Some people can watch others mess up and learn from their errors.

But, there are always some who can only learn by going ahead and peeing on the electric fence.
anthony

 

[freakiefrog]

"Some men see things as they are and wonder why? I dream things that never were and ask why not?"
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Abraham Lincoln

 

[crazypipe]

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

 

[crazypipe]

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

 

[cezario]

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." ( Winston S. Churchill )