Whats your favorite famous quote?

[CurtCold]

I personally like the one someone here was using .....

"If windows says I have performed an illegal operation, does that make me and accomplice?"

 

[palad]

See my sig.


(The second one.)


And to finishe it:

"And when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

 

[Radiohead]

Do T-shirts count?
If so then from a No Fear T-Shirt:
"Go Big or Go Home!"

If not then from Confucious:
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

 

[Quixfire]

One of my all time favorite quotes:

"It's not the force of the gale, but the set of your sail that determines your course" ? Joe Victor

 

[hungrypete]

"bobby fell off the dash!"

<several minutes on uncontrollable and ultimately painful laughter>

it was a ziplock bag of beef jerky marked with my dad's name 'bobby'.

you had to be there... and you had to be traaashed

edit: ops thought they were personal quotes....

let's go with:

"when a man lies, he murders some part of the world"
cliff burton

 

[Orsorum]

"The sorrows we choose ourselves bring the fiercest pain."
"War never killed a single criminal, but it has murdered an army of heroes."

"It is an ugly and comfortless world, but it is a world not without hope..."

"After all, man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down and pray."

 

[Chaotic42]

Fraser Tyler:


"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complaceny to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage."

 

[Lola]

i think it was George Burns who once said....
"I knew a guy who gave up smoking, drinking, rich food and sex. he was quite happy up til the day he killed himself"

 

[Graphicd00d]

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
--Thomas Jefferson

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
"Retail is for suckers." - RossMAN

Is being debt free also for suckers?

 

[lowtech1]

Below are some of my favourite quotes, in no particular order.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." - Martin Luther King

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

Few are those who can see with their own eyes and hear with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

 

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.

-Thomas Jefferson

 

[FoBoT]

don't play leapfrog with unicorns

 

[Evadman]

"It's that dawning moment of comprehension that I live for"
-- Calvin (Bill Watterson)

 

[mcveigh]

"It hurts to be stupid."
--US Army Capt ( I forget his name, it wirks fr so many things )

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
don't play leapfrog with unicorns

LOL!

 

[TwinkleToes77]

see below

 

[Pliablemoose]

"When it itches, I just scratch really hard & think happy thoughts." My 10 year old when she was 8.

 

[LOLyourFace]

Challenge to discover your limit, until then set no limit. -Me

Also see my sig. Now only if I can follow the sig. *sigh*

 

[fronic2]

"There are two things that are infinate, the universe and the depth of mans stupidity and I am not sure about the universe."
TextAlbert Einstein

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

 

[yobarman]

"why do i need to learn physics anyway?! It's not like I want to be a physician.." - me, 12th grade ap physics.

 

[heartsurgeon]

next to my sig below,

Hanlon's Razor - "no need to invoke malice when stupidity alone suffices"

 

[andrey]

Originally posted by: SHoddyCOmp
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown

I really like this, excellent quote!

 

[Garion]

One of my favorites..

There are very few problems which cannot be solved by an appropriate application of high explosives - Robert Heinlein

- G