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Bubba
01-12-2016, 12:14 PM
OK, so what are your favourite quotes you've ever heard... from anyone. Off the top of my head I like...


Life is what happens while your busy making other plans - John Lennon

I don't care to belong to any club that would have me as a member - Groucho Marx

I have nothing to declare except my genius - Oscar Wilde at New York Customs

Lady Nancy Astor:
"Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill:
"Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

Shorty
01-12-2016, 06:47 PM
"Everything you like is turdish." - my sister, and also everyone else in my life

Omni-Odin
01-12-2016, 08:05 PM
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke (his short in stature rival so they say)

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way" - Napoleon Hill


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Midgar Mist
01-13-2016, 12:23 AM
(Rubs hands together with glee)
"The media perpetuates itself" John Lennon, in his last interview
"There are lies, damned lies and statistics" Mark Twain

Bri
01-13-2016, 01:18 AM
• "Get comfortable with being uncomfortable" ~ Jillian Michaels

• " I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not"~ Kurt Cobain

• "A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions" ~ Confucius

• "The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall" ~ Bob Marley

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it's limits" ~ Albert Einstein

• "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision" ~ Helen Keller

• "If it looks good, eat it"~ Andrew Zimmerm

Labella
01-13-2016, 03:34 AM
He offered her the world, she said she had her own.
Monique Duval

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Mark Twain

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Mahatma Gandhi

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein

Shiny
01-13-2016, 08:21 AM
"Everything you like is turdish." - my sister, and also everyone else in my life

Not true. I liked that one thing you liked. Everything else is trout.

Old Manus
01-13-2016, 10:04 AM
"I H8 U SUPER DELETE!"
~ ffbabe

SammieBabe
01-13-2016, 01:22 PM
"Bitches get things done." - Tina Fey