Favorite Quotes

“There is more than one way to skin a cat.”

‘There’s no such word as “Can’t”. ’

via my dad.

Both maxims have served me well.

“Change is the only constant.” Heraclitus

“PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan”

What an incredible Cinderella story, this unknown comes outta no where to lead the pack, at Augusta. He's on his final hole, he's about 455 yards away - he's gonna hit about a two-iron I think. Oh he got all of that one! The crowd is standing on its feet here, the normally reserved Augusta crowd - going wild - for this young Cinderella, he's come outta no where, he's got about 350 yards left, he's gonna hit about a five-iron, don't you think? He's got a beautiful backswing - that's - Oh he got all of that one! He's gotta be pleased with that, the crowd is just on its feet here, uh - He's the Cinderella boy, uh - tears in his eyes I guess as he lines up this last shot, he's got about 195 yards left, he's got about a - its looks like he's got about an eight-iron. This crowd has gone deathly silent, the Cinderella story, outta no where, a former greenskeeper now - about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac - It's in the Hole ! IT"S IN THE HOLE !!

Carl Spackler ( Bill Murray ) Caddyshack 1980

It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Judge Smails Caddyshack

“Don’t it always seem to go…that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

"like my daddy always use to say.............."

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Some Days You Phock the Bear, some days the Bear Phocks You.
Me.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupry

"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."
- Homer

"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."

Demography is Destiny. -Anon

Nice thread resurrection, currently Bort trending

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves
George Bernard Shaw

If I’m walking into a shit storm I wanna know which way the wind’s blowing.” - Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) Spy Game
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My version of an old quote.
Why do it today when you can do it tomorrow.
If you do it today and enjoy it you can do it again tomorrow. :slight_smile:

“Always look on the bright side of life”
in Life of Brian.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.

John Ruskin.

“Superstition proclaimed as truth, will always conquer truth, ridiculed as superstition.” - John Frederick Lange (a.k.a. John Norman), 1971

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” - Joseph Conrad, 1911

“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that’s where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won’t do if they don’t know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.” - Terry Pratchett, 1990

“And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” - King James Bible, Revelation 6.6, 1611

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon” - Konrad Adenauer (derived from a quote of Greek philosophist Aesop)

… and most of all… nuu, this is a family oriented site, I cannot quote Charles Bukowski, here!! chuckles Well, let’s try this one, instead:

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” - Mark Twain

Otto von Bismarck.

From memory so may not be word perfect.

"Laws and sausages are both good things, but nobody should have to watch the production of either."

I was feeling down and out the other day when the good lord spoke to me. Smile and be happy, things could be worse. So I smiled and was happy and things did get worse. :stuck_out_tongue:

Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right.

— Robert Hunter, Scarlet Begonias

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

― Charles Bukowski