The Quotes Thread

Share any and all quotes here, I'll start it off :D !

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman

[RHGLazyAzz]

Where will you spend eternity? In smoking or non smokig?

-sign in local church yard-

hought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[RHGLazyAzz]

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
--Brendan Behan--

Controversy Creates Cash

Eric Bischoff

[RHGLazyAzz]

Controversy creates a$$holes


Chavo Guerrero on Bischoff and Controversy Creates Cash

"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of
spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons
of the Earth."
--Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce

[RHGLazyAzz]

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?


J. Paul Getty

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
De Profundis.

[RHGLazyAzz]

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.


Edward W. Howe

“There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.”
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
A Churchill Reader, edited by Colin Coote - British prime minister, WW2, orator, writer, Nobel Prize, literature 1953.

Mark Twain - “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

Then they say they don't know any Shakespeare,lol!

Henry David Thoreau - “Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”

Sorry to hear that :( . She must've been very special...

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, can not keep it from themselves.” Proverb

Very true :) !

“It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.”
- Roy Broadbent Fuller (1912-1991)
English author and lawyer.

[MarkB]

"Everybody Dance Now"

Bob Sinclair :P

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

[MarkB]

America F**k Yeah

Team America

“Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak; they show what he is.”

Thomas à Kempis

[Cinchino]

MVP entrance

-Clock Ticking-

“Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.”
- Saint Basil the Great (329-379)
Greek patriarch, preserved church from Arianism, founder of monasticism.

Henry David Thoreau - “Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”

[Crazy_Batista]

"sorry if I´m not scared of somebody, whose biggest move is to pump up his rbk´s"

Triple H to John Cena

Gorilla Monsoon commenting on Nick Volkoff's singing: "If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!"

[kong]

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx

[Oldschool]

Steven Wright - “The judge asked, 'What do you plead?' I said, 'Insanity, your honor. Who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?'”

[kong]

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies
and death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey

[Oldschool]

“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.”
- Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)
American writer & marine bilogist.

[kong]

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
-- Carl Sagan

[Oldschool]

Mark Twain - “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

[The Brahama Bull]

I shall return - General Douglas Macthur

[Oldschool]

Jennifer Edwards - “The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Go ahead make my day - Dirty Harry

[Oldschool]

Mark Twain - “To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

[The Brahama Bull]

We will not pull out - Goerge W Bush

[Oldschool]

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
- Phyllis Diller
American comedian

[The Brahama Bull]

One small step for man One giant step for mankind - Neil Armstrong

[kong]

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very
important part of your life,"
--Brooke Shields, during an interview to become
Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.

[The Brahama Bull]

All the worlds a stage and the peolpe merely actors - Shakespere

[kong]

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"
--Winston Bennett,
University of Kentucky basketball forward.

[Oldschool]

Dr. Samuel Johnson - “What is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.”

[The Brahama Bull]

A man got to know his limations - Dirty Harry

[Oldschool]

“I am still learning.”
- Michelangelo

[kong]

"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their
heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

[The Brahama Bull]

Have a nice day - Mick Foley

[Oldschool]

“It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.”
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
US Protestant theologian & critic.

[The Brahama Bull]

You will rest in piece - The Undertaker

[kong]

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has
come.
Victor Hugo

[The Brahama Bull]

Bullcookies - Sherman potter

[kong]

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
--Thomas La Mance

[The Brahama Bull]

We will defend our isle on the land and on the sea - Sir Winston Churchill

[kong]

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come
from overseas."
--Keppel Enderbery

[The Brahama Bull]

Its all good - C-J

[Oldschool]

“Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.”
- Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - author.

[The Brahama Bull]

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli

[Oldschool]

Eleanor Roosevelt - “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

[The Brahama Bull]

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
Dave Barry

[kong]

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

[The Brahama Bull]

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies
and death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey

[Oldschool]

Proverb - “One kind word can warm three winter months.”

[kong]

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,"
--A congressional candidate in Texas.

[The Brahama Bull]

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
--Brendan Behan--

[Oldschool]

Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

[The Brahama Bull]

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
-- Carl Sagankong

[Oldschool]

“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited 'til he could do so well that no one could find fault with it.”
- Unknown

[The Brahama Bull]

He who controls the sky controls the war - Hermen Garing

[Oldschool]

Jack Handey - “You know what the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to a flea? Getting caught inside of a watch. You dont even care do you.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
George Ade

[kong]

Two Groups
===========

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
those who do the work and those that take the credit. He told
me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition
there.
~Indira Gandhi~

[The Brahama Bull]

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

[kong]

If only men could be induced to laugh more they might hate less,
and find more serenity here on earth.
~Malcolm Muggeridge~

[The Brahama Bull]

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor

[Oldschool]

Unknown - “Wisdom is a life that knows it is living.”

[The Brahama Bull]

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner

[kong]

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you
yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful
folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."
--Marion Howard

[The Brahama Bull]

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Lily Toml

[Oldschool]

Mark Twain - “Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

[kong]

Unknown
The average person's idea of a good sermon
is one that goes over his head
and hits a neighbor.

[The Brahama Bull]

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

[Oldschool]

Marilyn Monroe - “It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

[The Brahama Bull]

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker

[Oldschool]

Earl Wilson - “Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.”

[The Brahama Bull]

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

[kong]

You're getting old when "getting lucky" means you find your car in the
parking lot.

unknown

[The Brahama Bull]

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel

[Oldschool]

Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out!
- Don Muraco after Backlund announced he wouldn't wrestle the Iron Sheik due to injuries

[The Brahama Bull]

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

[Oldschool]

“Being on the tightrope is living. Everything else is just waiting.”
- Karl Wallenda

[The Brahama Bull]

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
Jane Wagner

[Oldschool]

“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
- Unknown

[kong]

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect.
There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it.
There is someone who would miss you if you were gone.
There is a place that you alone can fill."

Jacob M. Braude

[Oldschool]

Prophet Muhammad - “Whoever loveth to meet God, God loveth to meet him.”

[The Brahama Bull]

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger

[Oldschool]

Jack Handey - “If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.”

[The Brahama Bull]

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

[kong]

Horse sense is the thing a horse has
that keeps it from betting on people.

~W.C. Fields~

[Oldschool]

Henry David Thoreau - “Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.”

[kong]

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

[The Brahama Bull]

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark Twain

[Oldschool]

“It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.”
- Neal A. Maxwell (1926-2004)
US religious leader, executive vice president University of Utah, 4 honorary doctorates.

[kong]

As I was praying early one morning God spoke this:
"Ego has a voracious appetite,
the more you feed it,
the hungrier it gets.
~Pastor Nathaniel Bronner Jr.~

[The Brahama Bull]

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Saki

[Oldschool]

Unknown - “A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.”

[The Brahama Bull]

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

[kong]

Any intelligent 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.
-- E. F. Schumacher

[The Brahama Bull]

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

[kong]

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

[The Brahama Bull]

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer

[Oldschool]

“There is only one way by which the nations can be brought into unity and into peace and into brotherhood. This is not through guns, nor might, nor force, but through the power of God and the love of our fellowmen that is in the hearts of this people.”
- Melvin J. Ballard (1973-1939)
American religious leader.

[The Brahama Bull]

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
Bill Hoest

[Oldschool]

Guatama Buddha - “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

[The Brahama Bull]

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
Joe Martin

[Oldschool]

“The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.”
- Dr. Bryan Miller, DC
From New York Times, February 23, 1983 - with his wife, Dr. Light Miller, ND, co-authors, teach aromatherapy, Ayurveda, herbology, & tantra.

[The Brahama Bull]

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus

[kong]

Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[The Brahama Bull]

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus

[Oldschool]

“His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.”
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Second Series. The Courtin' - American romantic poet, critic, editor, diplomat.

[The Brahama Bull]

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

[kong]

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen point six,
result happiness.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

[The Brahama Bull]

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely

[Oldschool]

“A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.”
- Proverb

[kong]

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

[Oldschool]

“The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American poet

[kong]

Conversation would be vastly improved
by the constant use of four simple words:
" I do not know."
André Maurois

[Oldschool]

"Nothing remains a dream if it's changed to be a goal"

[kong]

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard

[The Brahama Bull]

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins

[Oldschool]

“There is more real need for the pioneering spirit today than ever before.”
- Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956)
Thomas J. Watson in Men–Minutes–Money, a Collection of Excerpts from Talks .. - Founder, chairman & president of IBM.

[The Brahama Bull]

Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen

[Oldschool]

“Just living is not enough ... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
Danish, poet, novelist & writer of fairy tales.

[kong]

from the odd couple
Oscar (to Felix): "You leave me little notes on my pillow. I told you a hundred-and-sixty-eight times I can't .. stand .. little notes on my pillow! 'We are all out of Corn Flakes. -F.U.' It took me three hours to figure out that 'F.U.' was Felix Ungar!"

[Oldschool]

“God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.”
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Wisdom of Gibran - Syrian “Lebanese” symbolist poet, writer, painter, resident in US from c.1910.

[kong]

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Proverbs 23:7

[The Brahama Bull]

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan

[kong]

Boxing is just show business with blood.
-- Frank Bruno

[The Brahama Bull]

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

[Oldschool]

Oscar Wilde - “I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”

[The Brahama Bull]

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

[kong]

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and
persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations.
Khalil Gibran

[The Brahama Bull]

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

[kong]

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who
receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninger

[The Brahama Bull]

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Nicholas Chamfor

[kong]

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit
like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
Bob Inglis , 1995

[The Brahama Bull]

The road to a friend's house is never long."
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-Danish proverb

[Oldschool]

“Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
American associate justice, Supreme Court.

[The Brahama Bull]

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rick Cook

[Oldschool]

“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120)
Greek essayist & biographer, important writer of the early Roman period.

[The Brahama Bull]

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[kong]

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Donald R. Perry Marquis

[The Brahama Bull]

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson

[Oldschool]

Eleanor Roosevelt - “Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?”

[The Brahama Bull]

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

[Oldschool]

“There can never be surprises in logic.”
- Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956 - Austrian engineer & influential philosopher, took focus to language from epistemology.

[The Brahama Bull]

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

[Oldschool]

“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American statesman and philosopher - Remark, Independence Day, 1776.

[The Brahama Bull]

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
David Russell

[Oldschool]

Jack Handey - “If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.”

[The Brahama Bull]

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
William Feather

[Oldschool]

“I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.”
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens US writer, humorist, lecturer, river pilot.

[The Brahama Bull]

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard

[Oldschool]

“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.”
- Woody Allen (1935-)
US comedian, actor, film director, born Allen Stewart Konigberg.

[The Brahama Bull]

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

[Oldschool]

Proverb - “To talk goodness is not good ... Only to do it is.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa

[Oldschool]

“Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.”
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British prime minister, WW2, orator, writer, Nobel Prize, literature 1953.

[The Brahama Bull]

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben

[Oldschool]

Dalai Lama - “I love friends, I want more friends. I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.”

[The Brahama Bull]

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen

[kong]

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
-- Robert Byrne

[The Brahama Bull]

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw

[Oldschool]

“When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.”
- Royden G. Derrick (1915-)
Ensign, November 1984, p. 63., American religious leader.

[The Brahama Bull]

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill

[Oldschool]

“One foot isn't enough to walk with.”
- Proverb
Ancient Egyptian Proverb. From the temples and tombs of Luxor and Karnak.

[The Brahama Bull]

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Steven Wright

[Oldschool]

Dalai Lama - “A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.”

[kong]

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans,
finding our failures were successes.
~Amos Bronson Alcott~

[Oldschool]

“I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts.”
- Lawrence Gould

[kong]

If only men could be induced to laugh more they might hate less,
and find more serenity here on earth.
~Malcolm Muggeridge~

[Oldschool]

Stewart E. White - “Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.”

[The Brahama Bull]

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle

[Oldschool]

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
- George P. Burnham

[TheWrestlingNerd]

"cows go moo"
TheWrestlingNerd

[Oldschool]

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller - “Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.”

[The Brahama Bull]

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.
Will Rogers

[Oldschool]

“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness — great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
- Jim Rohn
Tape of meeting in Sacramento, CA, with Rich DeVos, Jay Van Andel & many others, c. 1979-1980. Tape was recorded privately and is in the public domain - US entrepreneur, philosopher, motivational speaker, sales trainer, author of 17 books & programs.

[The Brahama Bull]

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
David Letterman

[kong]

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
unknown

[The Brahama Bull]

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Joseph Baretti

[Oldschool]

Jimi Hendrix - “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

[The Brahama Bull]

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

[Oldschool]

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens US writer, humorist, lecturer, river pilot.

[The Brahama Bull]

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan

[Oldschool]

Proverb - “Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller

[Oldschool]

Guatama Buddha - “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

[The Brahama Bull]

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
G. K. Chesterton

[Oldschool]

Unknown - “Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe

[Oldschool]

“'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds,”
- Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
A Visit from St. Nicholas - American author, best known for ‘Twas the Night before Christmas.

[The Brahama Bull]

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

[kong]

Boxing is just show business with blood.
-- Frank Bruno

[The Brahama Bull]

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle

[Oldschool]

Steven Wright - “I went to the fights, and a hockey game broke out.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra

[Oldschool]

Marilyn Monroe - “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

[The Brahama Bull]

A Man Has To Know His Limitations

Dirty Harry

[Oldschool]

“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.”
- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
English Novelist and Poet

[The Brahama Bull]

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
Margaret Mitchell

[Oldschool]

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1979)
American clergyman, pastor of Riverside Church, NYC.

[The Brahama Bull]

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
Herbert Rappaport

[Oldschool]

Prophet Muhammad - “He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne

[Oldschool]

“The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.”
- Richard David Bach (1936-)
US author; wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions and others.

[The Brahama Bull]

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Granville Hicks

[Oldschool]

“Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist, and Scientist

[The Brahama Bull]

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang

[Oldschool]

Mark Twain - “I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”

[The Brahama Bull]

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Sir William Preece

[Oldschool]

Never spend hours importing emails into an email system you haven't figured out how to work yet...


Me

[The Brahama Bull]

I just have to do this quote because of it being Christmas

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight

Santa Claus

[Oldschool]

Another good one :)

Thomas Tusser - “At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Oregano is the spice of life.
Henry J. Tillman

[Oldschool]

William Shakespeare - “At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.”

[The Brahama Bull]

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

[Oldschool]

“The slothful man is a burden to himself, his hours hang heavy on his head; he loitereth about, and knoweth not what he would do.”
- Akhenaton (1375 BC-?)
Egyptian King and Monotheist

[The Brahama Bull]

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Hagar the Horrible

[Oldschool]

Unknown - “In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.”

[The Brahama Bull]

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
Unknown

[Oldschool]

Jack Handey - “I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
Thomas Neill

[Oldschool]

Kahlil Gibran - “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
Solomon Short

[Oldschool]

Oscar Wilde - “To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller

[Oldschool]

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein - “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

[The Brahama Bull]

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
Charles Peters

[Oldschool]

“Hard work never killed anybody but why take the chance?”
- Edgar Bergen (1903-1978)
US ventriloquist with wooden figure, Charlie McCarthy, popular on TV.

[The Brahama Bull]

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

[Oldschool]

Jack Handey - “Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, 'Think again, bat man.'”

[The Brahama Bull]

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker

[Oldschool]

William Scarborough - “He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.”

[The Brahama Bull]

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

[Oldschool]

“Youth is a disease from which we all recover.”
- Dorothy Fulheim

[The Brahama Bull]

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain

[Oldschool]

Proverb - “A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

[The Brahama Bull]

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead

[Oldschool]

Thomas J. Watson - “Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?”

[The Brahama Bull]

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
Mo Udall

[Oldschool]

Steven Willson - “You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.”

[The Brahama Bull]

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey