Favorite Quotes

*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”

My version, That which does not kill you may not be finished.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing at a profit.

Nobody ever got rich without screwing their mates.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating good taste.