Favorite Quotes

Also, Johannes fac totum, used in Elizabethan English, has since fallen out of favor. Famous for being used as an insult against Shakespeare by his contemporary Robert Greene. Shakespeare was an actor before becoming a playwright, and Greene considered him an upstart and a Johnny do-it-all, not a true writer.

*click click* pistol pressed to forehead

You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me? - Wyatt Earp

George Santayana:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Slim Pickens:

Ditto.

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die” - Amelia Josephine Burr

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” - Confucius

“It’s the real deal Neal, it ain’t no wack-o-tack!” - Some old 70s movie. I don’t remember it’s name, actors or anything, only this phrase… it simply stuck :slight_smile:

“And millions of small slimy things crawled on and on and on… and so did I” - Unknown. A signature I read a long time ago.

Its over 9000!!!

’Scuse me while I whip dis out…

I’m afraid the fault dear Tain, is not in our stars but in ourselves, something I learned from Dr Bashir

“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.”
― Zorba the Greek

“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
― Zorba the Greek

" I travel light . "

Prot , from the movie K-PAX

i have yet to watch that movie

You should . It is a philosophically interesting movie , and Kevin Spacey is , as always , great .

“I have the key in my hand, all I have to find is the lock”

whats that from?
I think its the opposite in real life, you have the lock and have to find the key

“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” — G. K. Chesterton

another one:

there are 2 kinds of people in the world:

#1. walks into a room and says “here I am!”

#2. walks into a room and says “ah, there you are.”

...mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent...

--Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments, p. 170


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

-Albert Einstein


It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.

-Albert Einstein



The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

-Albert Einstein


“Buzzards gotta eat. Same as worms.”

-Josey Wales


The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

-Abraham Lincoln


Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

-Abraham Lincoln


“Guns are no more responsible for killing people than the spoon is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.”

-Unknown


"Failing to prepare...is preparing to fail."

-My Dad


Lastly, my sig line.


Motorcycles have put me in touch with wonderful people,
as a result of that, I have an elevated idea about how good everybody in the world is.
-Ted Simon

For Lehman bros.

“Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank”
“Give a man a bank and he can rob the world”