Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.

- Doris M. Smith

 

[Foreigner]

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

 

[Foreigner]

Select quotes of Muhammad Ali:

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

 

[Foreigner]

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Golda Meir

 

[Foreigner]

Some John Wayne quotes:


"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddam_ sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."

"If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."

"Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."

"Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much."

"A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him."

 

[Foreigner]

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.


- Henry Kissinger

 

[amaroo]

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde

 

[Foreigner]

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

- Michelangelo

 

[Foreigner]

"Your best teacher is your last mistake."

- Ralph Nader

 

[Foreigner]

"The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'."

- Alfred Brendel

 

[amaroo]

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

 

[Foreigner]

Harry S Truman said: "If you can't convince them, confuse them."

 

[Foreigner]

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

- Albert Einstein

 

[Foreigner]

"Always laugh when you can. It's cheap medicine."

- Lord Byron

 

[Major]

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin..'

- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
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[Foreigner]

"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key"

- The Eagles (from Already Gone)

 

[Major]

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[amaroo]

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

 

[Major]

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..

- W. C. Fields

 

[TonyHancock]

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."

One of the many wonderful quotations from the magnificent PG Wodehouse.