Favorate Quitoes?!?!?!

steveinaz

My favorite, compliments Eleanor Roosevelt:

"No one can make you feel bad about yourself, without your permission."

Skynut

"Keep you nose clean"
"Don't pick you nose"
My Mom

Pablo

Woody's (from Cheers) advise from his father before he came to the big city:

"Don't talk when you can listen, Don't Trust a man that won't look you in the eyes, and Don't put venture capital into a start up business without a detailed analytical fiduciary prospectus."

ESavinon

All these quitoes are making me queasy .

Skynut

"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice". Rush

steveinaz

General George Patton:
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"

Uknown:
"Don't sweat the petty stuff, just pet the sweaty stuff.."

George Patton:
"Never tell someone how to do something. Tell them what to do, and let them surprise you with their ingenuity."

George Patton:
"I am a soldier. I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight."

Mine:
"A bad decision is better than indecision, anyday."

My Dad:
"it's all fun and games till somebody loses a damn eye..." (love you dad)

janmike

"Even the most insane calculations are rational: the annihilation of five million people is preferable to that of ten million. twenty million. and so on." - Herbert Marcuse


"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" - Vince Lombardi

audiobliss

Here's the chorus from Randy Travis' Don't Ever Sell Your Saddle:

Don't ever sell your saddle
Never owe another man
Watch where you spit on a windy day
Don't use words you don't understand
Find the Lord before you need Him
And never lose your pride
Don't ever sell your saddle
'Cause life's a long, long ride

limashaynut

"The Institute will be heard from today"

Gen. Stonewall Jackson speaking to the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute before the Battle of Chancellorsville



For the record...this is NOT about slavery, I abhor it! I enjoy the history of the civil war, and I am strong supporter of State's rights...but INDIVIDUAL rights above all!

Frank Z

Heard this a long time ago from a family friend. She was talking about her husband admiring other women.

You can whet your appetite in town, but you gotta come home to eat.

shack

Sir Winston Churchill has some very good quotes (especially for a politician)...

- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

- There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

- However beautiful the stategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

- I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

- Golf is a game who's aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

And my favorite.....

- He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

shack

And let's not forget Will Rogers....

- Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

- Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

- Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

- Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

- An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

- The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.

- Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.

- Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

- If you want to be successful, know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.

- It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

BIZILL

monkey see. monkey do.

MrBuhl

How about:

"Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance"
(Unknown)

"the mountain will always be there, the trick... is for you to be there too"
(Don Whillans - Mountaineer)

"Measure twice, cut once"
(Unknown but always from my Dad)

"it is better to be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt"
(Unknown)

(paraphrazed)
"you are drunk Sir Winston, disgustingly drunk"
"yes madam, I am drunk. However you are ugly and disgustingly fat, and tomorrow, I Sir Winston Churchill, shall be sober"
(Winston Churchill)

"There are no unimportant steps"
(Marty Hooey - Mountaineer)

audiobliss

The problem with doing something right the first time is that no one appreciates how difficult it was.
-someone on the forum has/had this in their sig

jdhdiggs

Thomas Edison wrote:

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

That's my favorite TE quote. Very appropriate in any time period. Polkies might like the last one.... More from TE:

Thomas Edison wrote:

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it....
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident.... Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking all day from one laboratory table to another. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves....
Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work....
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.....
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing....
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless....

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose...

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

The dove is my emblem.... I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it.... I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill...

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge....

Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value....

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me....

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music....

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises that the listeners do not perceive.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best...."

bobman1235

MrBuhl wrote:

"it is better to be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt"
(Unknown)

FYI, it's by Abraham Lincoln, and actually goes : "'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

bikezappa

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
Cathy Ladman

bikezappa

The price of Wisdom is Youth.
Jack London

Skynut

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Unknown

candyliquor35m

"There's no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact, it's all dark" the last words on the Dark Side of the Moon cd.

ntculenuff

"only when those around you are different, will you truly belong"
me