Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life."

- Jimi Hendrix

 

[TonyHancock]

"Why strive for perfection when mediocrity will get you a pass mark?"

More my motto than a quote. *

* Posted as I spend 15 mins learning a few jargon words to get me through two days of technical bollox.

 

[munitalP]

"I fail to see things from your point of view. It's not that I disagree, it's just I can't get my head that far up my own cough..."



munitalP on resigning from his last job.

 

[drron]

A few from Bertrand Russell-

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education

[SIZE=-1]If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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[Foreigner]

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

- Salvador Dali

 

[Foreigner]

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

- Tony Robbins

 

[amaroo]

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[TD="width: 516, colspan: 2"]"When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it".
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[TD="width: 258"]The Duke of Wellington -after Waterloo
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[amaroo]

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[TD="width: 516, colspan: 2"]"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
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[TD="width: 258"]Attributed to the Commander of the Japanese Submarine Force.
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[trooper]

The British Army always manages to fight its battles uphill, at night, and at the junction of two or more maps.

Attributed to Montgomery IIRC....

It is not a soldiers job to die for his country, it's a soldiers job to make some other poor dumb cough die for HIS country...

George S Patton Jr.

 

[anat0l]

In vino veritas

- Pliny the Elder

 

[trooper]

And repeated by Val Kilmer in the movie Tombstone... the best on screen Doc Holliday yet seen IMO.....by a long shot.

 

[Rox]

"A bore is someone, who, upon being asked how they are, proceeds to tell you"

My mother ( I' m sure quoting someone else)

 

[Rox]

He who hesitates is squashed

(Me in Sydney traffic)

 

[Sprucegoose]

In vino veritas

- Pliny the Elder

Hey I thought that was Wolf Blass!!

 

[Foreigner]

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

- Mark Twain

 

[Foreigner]

“Excellence is achieved by the mastery

of fundamentals.”

- Vince Lombardi

 

[JohnM]

Facebook encourages the creation of mythical people: idealised, engaging, busy, attractive people always short on time, long on options and (for some) persistently on the hunt. - Mark Regnerus & Jeremy Uecker.

 

[Foreigner]

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."

― Chinua Achebe

 

[Foreigner]

"Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't."


― Thomas S. Monson

 

[codash1099]

"Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't."


― Thomas S. Monson

Thomas S. Monson was (is) full of it!