Quotable Quotes

[JohnK]

Don't try to change history.

- Anonymous

 

[Major]

I think I posted this a few years ago but it deserves another go

 

[Major]

BASIC FLYING RULES.

'Try to stay in the middle

of the air.

Do not go near the edges of it.

The edges of the air can be

recognized by the appearance

of ground, buildings, sea, and

trees.

It is much more difficult to fly

There”

- W.W.II Undergraduate
Pilot Training Sign

 

[Hvr]

Tradition:
Peer pressure from dead people.

 

[drron]

“The fiercest fanatics are often selfish people who were forced, by innate shortcomings or external circumstances, to lose faith in their own selves. They separate the excellent instrument of their selfishness from their ineffectual selves and attach it to the service of some holy cause.”​

— Eric Hoffer, The True Believer​

 

[RooFlyer]

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Freud.

 

[drron]

"Everything government touches turns to cough." – Ringo Starr

 

[nainatnia]

Friday is my second favourite F word. Food is my first.

- Anonymous

 

[Major]

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
- Thomas Sowell

 

[drron]

"Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake." -- W. C. Fields

 

[Buzzard]

"It's better to burn out than to fade away"
Neil Young

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

"It's better to burn out than to fade away"
Neil Young

Yes.
Neil also asserted that:
“It's better to burn out than it is to rust”.

However he provides no guidance regarding the comparative merits of Fading Away & Rusting…

 

[drron]

A sad quote.

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you are happy. - Heath Ledger

 

[TheRealTMA]

A sad quote.

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you are happy. - Heath Ledger

Statistically, six out of seven Dwarfs were not happy.

 

[drron]

 

[Hvr]

Statistically, six out of seven Dwarfs were not happy.

That's mean.

 

[drron]

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
- Pablo Picasso

 

[Hvr]

"Lord, let it rain brains"; "Or bricks, it doesn't matter as long as you hit"

From the German: "Herr lass es Hirn regnen" with the optional addition "Oder Steine, hauptsache du triffst"

 

[Hvr]

"Like a fart in a mitten". Newfoundlander phrase meaning that the truth will get out no matter how hard you try to hide it will be let out sometime.

 

[Hvr]

Lan lu shang mo shi niao duo, 懒驴上磨屎尿多.

To put it roughly, the donkey avoids work by pooing and peeing.

I've worked with a few donkeys in my time.