Whats your favorite famous quote?

[MacBaine]

"I have never met anybody who was actually offended by anything, only people who think others will be offended by it"

-Myself

 

[Isla]

Well, there are so many... but most are lines from a few movies that I can watch over and over again.

"What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!"

Bill Murray, Groundhog Day

"As you wish" was all he ever said to her.
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."


The Princess Bride

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: andrey
Here is one of my favs:

"Catch a fish for a man, and feed him for the day.
Teach a man how to fish, and feed him for life".

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle

 

[klah]

"Everyone must defend his position directly, by a legitimate proof that carries with it a transcendental deduction of the grounds upon which it is itself made to rest. Only when this has been done, are we in a position to decide how far its claims allow of rational justification. If an opponent relies on subjective grounds, it is an easy matter to refute him."

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: pookguy88
i heard this from my uncle:
"its not what you know, its who you know"

Then my aunt said:
"It's not who you know, it's who you blow"

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

My Famous Quote by Me:

No one knows your job better than someone who's never done it.

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: andrey
Here is one of my favs:

"Catch a fish for a man, and feed him for the day.
Teach a man how to fish, and feed him for life".

One of my favorites. i often ask people if they want to learn how to fish at work. "I won't do it for you, but I'll teach you to fish" is what I usually say." Then again, it's been my experience that you can best learn to ish by trial and error and/or reading books pertaining on how to fish.

 

[kherman]

"Who is the greater fool, the fool that leads or hte fool that follows?" - Yoda

 

[kherman]

"It's going to take as long as it's going to take, plus as long as it takes to get started."

Friend at school told me this one. It's fairly common.

 

[kherman]

From my old sig:
"With friends like reporters, who needs terrorists?"

 

[Adrian Tung]

"To err is human. To cover it up is weasel." - Scott Adams


atwl

 

[Zedtom]

I know this quotation sounds really old fashioned, but anyone who has been through a breakup or divorce can relate to its truth.

"Heaven hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned"

William Congrave, (1620-1729)

 

[GasX]

"Then we shall fight in the shade"

Spartan response to being told that King Xerxes had so many archers that the sky darkened when they loosed their arrows.
Battle of Thermopylae - 480 B.C.

 

[KeyserSoze]

I know you said no Movie Quotes, but I got one that I LOVE!!!


Check out the sig, it's from Fight Club. Now, I'm not trying to equate some line from a Hollywood Movie to something that a famous historian said or anything, but I do think it's deep.



KeyserSoze

 

[SoylentGreen]

In soviet.................... bah

 

[Parrotheader]

Being a history major I have a hard time knowing where to begin with this subject. Churchill was always one of my favorites though. Not just for his prepared speaches (the "Finest Hour" quote is still a great one.) But this conversational quote is still probably my favorite of his. It was the one that supposedly occurred between Winston and Lady Astor at a casual social gathering. Both of them couldn't stand one another:

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

Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain is also great for TONS of quotes, many humorous, many quite thought-provoking, although a lot of them have been butchered or misattributed to him over the years:

-The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

-I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

 

[Nohr]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
- Olaf Stapledon

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat
- Lewis Carrol

 

[Zenmervolt]

Churchill: Nancy, you're ugly.
Lady Astor: Winston, you're drunk.
Churchill: But in the morning, I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.

Between two friends of mine:
Stan: I fell asleep at the wheel on the turnpike and hit a divider.
Scott: Oh my God! You fell asleep at the wheel!? Did you die?
Stan: Yes, I died. That's how I'm here now telling you about it.

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of Freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine

"There's man all over for you. Blaming on his boots the faults of his feet." - Samuel Beckett (from 'Waiting for Godot', yes I've read the play)

ZV

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: andrey
Here is one of my favs:

"Catch a fish for a man, and feed him for the day.
Teach a man how to fish, and feed him for life".

In Soviet Russia the fish teaches you.

 

[Zebo]

"Admit to nothing, deny everything and counter accuse" Secret GOP doc #666 rev 2

 

[KC5AV]

Give a man a fish, and he will be fed for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will spend his days sitting in a boat drinking beer from daylight to dark.

 

[wolf papa]

Harlan Ellison (on being told that 90% of science fiction was crap) "90% of EVERYTHING is crap"

Brooke Shields (on smoking) " Smoking kills. And if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life"

and "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . ."
Killed in battle during US Civil War.
~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864

 

[Rob9874]

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Thoreau

 

[ChefJoe]

"That's obvious." JFK's last words.

A response to the Texas governor's wife's comment, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you."

You can google it if you don't believe me.

 

[RossMAN]

"Retail is for suckers." - RossMAN