Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.


- William Arthur Ward (1921 – 1994)

 

[mono88]

Continuing the Churchill theme: (allegedly) Lady Astor to Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea," to which he responded, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

Another quip attributed to Churchill about Clement Atlee: "he is a modest (humble) man with much to be modest (humble) about."
Not sure who this reflects more poorly on, but Churchill certainly was not humble.

 

[Major]

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Unknown

 

[anat0l]

"Perfection is many little things done correctly."

- Marco Pierre White

 

[Flashback]

"Perfection is many little things done correctly."

- Marco Pierre White

Having met his son, that quote takes an interesting meaning.

 

[Foreigner]

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."

- James Baldwin, The Paris Review

 

[Bundy Bear]

Random ones from the internet,

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up.

Don't cry over the past, its gone. Don't stress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Just live in the present and make the most of it.

"There is a cost involved when you live your own truth. But there is a greater price to pay when you suppress it." ~Denise Janssen

Never make the same mistake twice, there are so many new ones. Try a different one each day.

Try being informed instead of just opinionated.

If you try change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Our world is like a boomerang. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we throw love, love comes back. If we throw negativity, negativity comes back; if we throw positivity, positivity comes back.

"If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."

I might have to update my signature with one of these.

 

[anat0l]

"Where is the sauce?!"

- Manu Fieldel

 

[TheEmu]

Random ones from the internet,
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up.
I might have to update my signature with one of these.

Good choice.

 

[anat0l]

"Strategy can compensate for talent, but talent cannot compensate for strategy."

- Marco Pierre White

 

[Pollywaffle]

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up.

This is speaking VOLUMES to me.

 

[anat0l]

"The passengers had become a part of the team. On the lower deck a passenger's phone rang. Before it could be answered, every passenger within earshot yelled, 'TURN THAT PHONE OFF!'"

- Richard de Crespigny, QF32, Chapter 25 (Round (Phase) 11)

 

[Foreigner]

"A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."

- Proverbs 17:22

 

[Foreigner]

[h=1]"Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others."

- Goethe[/h]

 

[Foreigner]

Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret.

- Anon

 

[Skyring]

"Breaking wind in a lift is wrong on so many levels." - Barney Frank

 

[Skyring]

"Put not thy faith in platitudes." - Skyring

 

[Foreigner]

"One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."

MALALA YOUSAFZAI, who was shot by the Taliban last year after speaking out in favor of girls' education in Pakistan.

 

[Foreigner]

"[FONT=&quot]Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication[/FONT]."

Leonardo da Vinci

 

[Warks]

"Bugger Bognor"
King George V.