Some of my Favorite Quotes

Posted By: Uncle Bob
Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2011, at 3:07 p.m.

"There are hundreds of people in the movie business who don't know anything about it - three more won't make any difference..."
--Moe Howard

Bill Murray was once asked what advice he had for those who wanted to be rich and famous. He replied, "Try rich first and see if that doesn't just about cover it."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws."
--Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it."
--Steven Wright

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome."
--Isaac Asimov

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
--Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"Friends may come and go; but enemies accumulate."
--Thomas Jones

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything; and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"In science one tries to tell people; in such a way as to be understood by everyone; something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry; its the exact opposite."
--Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
--Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
--H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei 1633

"Death is a continuation of my life, without me."
--French philosopher Jean-Paul Satre

"People say, You must have been the class clown. And I say, No, I wasn't. But I sat next to the class clown, and I studied him."

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
–-Vince Lombardi

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
–-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."

"Thought for today: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra than on Alzheimer's research.
This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with either of them."

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
--Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."
--Steven Wright (1955 - )

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important."
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
--Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

"An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening."
--Marlon Brando (1924-2004)

"I think it would be a good idea." When asked what he thought of Western civilization. --Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"A poem is never finished only abandoned."
--Paul Valery (1871-1945)

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
--Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Wagners music is better than it sounds."
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The average person thinks he isn't."
--Father Larry Lorenzoni

"I'm not a member of any organized political party; I'm a Democrat!"
--Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
--Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."
--Gallagher

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
--Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
--Mae West (1892-1980)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
--Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"If you are going through hell keep going."
--Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
--Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

"What do you take me for an idiot?"
--General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) when a journalist asked him if he was happy

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife youll be happy; if not; youll become a philosopher."
--Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"I have often regretted my speech never my silence."
--Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
--George Eliot (1819-1880)

"Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids."
--Bill Cosby

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
--Dr. Milton Friedman

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
--Douglas Adams

"The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is

generally interrupted by someone doing it."
--Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but

a pessimist forgets to laugh.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it

made."
--Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-Walt Disney

"Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing

over the years been complaining?"
--George Wallace

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
--Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

"All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific."
--Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin (1939- )

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll

like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical

health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
--Johnny Carson (1925-2005)

"There's gonna be two dates on your tombstone, all your friends'll read 'em, but all

that's gonna matter is the little dash between 'em."
--Kevin Welch

"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find

themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
--Eric Hoffer

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always

to try just one more time."
--Thomas Edison

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked

for me."
--Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005)

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where

thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005)

"If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
--Will Rogers

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
--Author Unknown

That's enough for now - hope you liked some of them!

Regards,
Uncle Bob

Messages In This Thread

Some of my Favorite Quotes
Uncle Bob -- Tuesday, 15 March 2011, at 3:07 p.m.

Thank you! Love these Quotes too
Ginger Edwards -- Tuesday, 15 March 2011, at 4:20 p.m.

 

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