Quotes & Sayings...

[Sweet Home Alabama]

"Suivez la riviere et vous gagnerez la mer" Follow the river and you will gain the sea.

That’s excellent advice if lost in the woods.

 

[Jeff 11B]

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

 

[mso489]

From Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," when the dowager reprimands the young man on having lost both his parents:

The quote in the play is spoken by Lady Bracknell, “'To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

 

[RookieGuy]

If a Journeyman can only figure out all the reasons why he can’t do something, let an apprentice try it. He’s too dumb to know what won’t work and it just might!

-My Grandfather

I've read things very similar. I forgot who or context, or even the exact quote. But the gist stuck with me. It was something along the lines of without the proper training, he didn't know you couldn't do that. So he did it.

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"Half a truth is often a great lie."
-B. Franklin

 

[scottboland26]

My favorite quote (frasi mondo) is:
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
(George Sand)

 

[RookieGuy]

"An army marches on its stomach." - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"That which begins in anger ends in shame."
-B. Franklin

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"Do all that you can and that is all that you can do."
-Me : )

 

[olkofri]

"Professionals are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs."

 

[sablebrush52]

"An army marches on its stomach." - Napoleon Bonaparte

That must have a lot of fat Frenchmen.

 

[RookieGuy]

That must have a lot of fat Frenchmen.

They were hiding and trying to retreat.

 

[Kapnosis1988]

Mens agitat molem. The mind drives the matter or Mind over Matter.

-Virgil

 

[Servant King]

"Losers always whine about 'their best.' Winners go home and f**k the prom queen!" - John P. Mason, Sean Connery's character in The Rock (1996).

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[jguss]

"That which begins in anger ends in shame."
-B. Franklin

“That which ends in shame winds up on YouTube.”
-B. Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack: Online Edition

 

[Aomalley27]

“I have come to chew bubblegum, and kick a$$. And, I’m all out of bubblegum.”-
-George Nada; They Live

 

[Aomalley27]

“Excuses are like A-holes; everyone’s got one, and they all stink.”- Unknown

 

[johnnyreb]

About family:

"Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers."

 

[johnnyreb]

The unknown:

"Some places just got that dark look about 'em."

 

[Kapnosis1988]

"If in doubt, do not."
-B. Franklin