Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

One of the best movie lines:

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

- Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in his last words to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind.

 

[Foreigner]

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others, and if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

- The Dalai Lama

 

[Foreigner]

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

- George Best

 

[Foreigner]

"Don't just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything."

- George Carlin

 

[Foreigner]

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

- Lady Dorothy Nevill, British writer

 

[Bundy Bear]

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”—Steve Jobs

 

[codash1099]

Oops - a repeat.

 

[Foreigner]

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

- James Michener

 

[Bundy Bear]

A random one from Facebook.

Everything happens for a reason. But sometimes the reason is that you're stupid and you make bad decisions.:idea:

One from wiki, and someone quoted it to me in an email last year.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, I might make this my next AFF signature.

 

[oz_mark]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

AKA Hanlon's Razor.

 

[kelvedon]

I used to be conceited,-but now i'm perfect!

 

[kelvedon]

I'm not a complete idiot,-- just some parts are missing

 

[Foreigner]

[h=3]"The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."

- Yves Saint Laurent[/h]

 

[Foreigner]

"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose

- Margaret Thatcher

 

[Foreigner]

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile"

- Roger Staubach

 

[Foreigner]

"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."

- Anon.

 

[Foreigner]

"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Bundy Bear]

It is the little things that can make a difference.



The tag line, I made a difference to that one.

 

[yo yo ma]

Experience is what you get when you don't get the result you were after

 

[Major]

'The most terrifying words
In the English language are:
I'm from the government
and I'm here to help.'
-Ronald Reagan