Quotes & Sayings...

[gamzultovah]

I’ve always found there to be great truth and power in pithy quotes and sayings. What are some of your favorites? Allow me to start the conversation:

“ He who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking.” ~ Michel de Montaigne

 

[autumnfog]

 

[captainsousie]

Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
-unknown

 

[olkofri]

You can't soar with the eagles by hanging around with turkeys.
—Riff Raff the cat.

 

[wyfbane]

The sun shines even on a dog's ass sometimes.

We shape our dwellings, and afterward our dwellings shape us.
~Winston Churchill

We like it dark. Dark for Dark business
~Dwarves from The Hobbit

An Appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile... hoping it will eat him last
~Winston Churchill

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Are you crazy? Is that your problem?
~Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China)

It's a TRAP!
~Admiral Ackbar (Return of the Jedi)

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
~Rudyard Kipling

My Heart is heavy with the things I don't understand.
~Rudyard Kipling

It is better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
~Lord Alfred Tennyson

You're not slingin' my ass in one of those crummy places!
~Swifty on being threatened with a reformatory (Six Pack, 1982)

 

[Mr.Mike]

"Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining"

 

[peregrinus]

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.”
Dr. Seuss

 

[philobeddoe]

“So it goes.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

 

[gamzultovah]

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

I had to look this one up. A very wise man.

 

[buzkirk]

The early bird may catch the worm, but it's the 2nd mouse that gets the cheese ! unknown

 

[gamzultovah]

The Ten Cannot’s
William J.H. Boetcker

• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
• You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
• You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
• You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
• You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

 

[Mr.Mike]

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.”
Dr. Seuss

Oh the places you'll go. One of my favorite books. A no nonsense guide on how to get shit done.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

"Want" in one hand, and "shit" in the other; see which one fills up the fastest. ~My Dad

 

[gamzultovah]

"Want" in one hand, and "shit" in the other; see which one fills up the fastest. ~My Dad

My uncle used to tell me that all the time.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

On being frugal, my great grandfather used to say “if you take care of the cents, the dollars will take care of themselves.”

 

[ncpipesmoke]

"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day." ~Mickey Rooney

 

[gerryp]

"Want" in one hand, and "shit" in the other; see which one fills up the fastest. ~My Dad

Mother likes that one.

 

[tbradsim1]

Grandfathers saying, You can make me eat shit, just don’t tell me it’s butter!

 

[olkofri]

"Shades of grey? Grey is not a colour, it is a blurring of another. Grey is indecision. Grey is either white that has been blemished, or black trying to be more appealing by pretending to be less ominous."

 

[mso489]

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Louis L'Amour