The "Quote" thread.

[Kielan]

"It's not the speed that kills you, it's the sudden stops." Unknown.

Jeremy Clarkson.

[Scorpion]

"It's not the speed that kills you, it's the sudden stops." Unknown.

[Chaz!]

"When You Do Things Right, People Won't Be Sure You've Done Anything At All" God to Bender Bending Rodriguez

"A Million People Can Call The Mountains A Fiction, But It Need Not Trouble You As You Stand Atop Them."
XKCD

"The Greatest Pleasure In Life Is Doing What People Say You Cannot Do.” Walter Bagehot

"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred" Soichiro Honda

[M.Burroughs]

I have a list of favorite quotes I've slowly been compiling.

Here are some.

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” — Salvador Dali

“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.” — Slovenian proverb

“There are two rules for success,” says Raymond Smullyan. “Rule number one: Never tell all you know.”

“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.” — Charles Lamb

“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.” — Cicero

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” — Samuel Butler

“Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.” — W.H. Auden

“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
“Adults are only obsolete children.” — Dr. Seuss

“Just so-so in center field.” -– New York Daily News on the debut of Willie Mays, 1951

“I’m sorry, Mr Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language.” — San Francisco Examiner, rejecting a submission by Rudyard Kipling, 1889

“It will be gone by June.” — Variety, writing off rock ‘n’ roll, 1955

“It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.” — Thomas Edison, 1895

On his deathbed Stan Laurel said, “I wish I were skiing.” His nurse said, “Oh, Mr. Laurel, do you ski?” Laurel replied, “No, but I’d rather be skiing than doing what I’m doing.”

“Life is tough. It’s even tougher if you’re stupid.” — John Wayne

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use being a damned fool about it.” — W.C. Fields

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” — Albert Einstein

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams

“When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things: One part of me wants to take her home, be real nice and treat her right; the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick.” — Serial killer Edmund Kemper

“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up.” — Muhammad Ali

“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” — Astronomer Fred Hoyle

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” — Napoleon

“When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.” — Raymond Chandler

“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” — Al Capone

“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.”*- Hector Berlioz

“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.” — Orville Wright

“Absence destroys small passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers, and kindles fires.”

[jasonklee]

“That’s the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.” — Chuck Palahniuk

[KarlSpackler]

"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."

-Carl Spackler

[Works]

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”
Orson Welles

"He who sits on the red hot stove, shall surely rise."
Reverend Banks at the Richard Pryor Roast

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

[Kielan]

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-Stephen Hocking

[KarlSpackler]

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-Stephen Hocking

[J. Evins]

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." — Louisa May Alcott

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." — Buddha

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." — Eleanor Roosevelt

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl

[bmac9269]

"straight cash homie" randy moss

[Lukey]

agreed

[iBronzit]

Must admit I like your two additions.

[digitalauthor]

Fantastic thread. I'm a huge fan of quotes. I snagged some of these from my fb page.

"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never make it out alive." - Van Wilder

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” - James D. Miles

"Do not let the world around you, squeeze you into it's mold." Romans 12:2

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." - Holden Caulfield

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

"These four walls and concrete floor are where I can find happiness holding a wrench and can be at ease from the world. . ." - Me

"People who believe everything they hear in the news are as stupid as the people the news is about." - Me

[Okin]

"The good we do: Never remembered.
The Bad: Never forgotten."

I got that on my bike helmet