Your Favourite Quotes

Originally posted by Tinkleflower
From the great man himself, Albert Einstein

Good luck with it!

Hehe Well, I gathered that. I was actually looking more for a website or something that actually displays that quote and attributes it to Alby-E so I can link to it in the debate.

Thanks for the wish for luck!

EDIT: Nevermind, found it.

[edit on 7-12-2005 by junglejake]

www.quotationspage.com...

That should do for ya'......JJ

... arriving this morning, from my favorite compiler of jokes and quotes, who holds down an IT director role that seems to mostly involve compiling jokes and quotes...


I once had a rose named after me and I was
very flattered. But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue . .
"No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good ... spit it out!!
~ Unknown


Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest
woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited
by her sister . . and now wish to withdraw that statement.
~Mark Twain

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good
beginning and a good ending; and to have the
two as close together as possible. ~George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea ... Visit people only once a year.

~Victor Borge ( Yup, Good idea )

Be careful about reading health books. You may
die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain

What would men be without women?
Scarce, sir . mighty scarce. ~Mark Twain

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll
become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become
a philosopher. ~Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

~Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every
now and then she stops to breathe. ~Jimmy Durante

I have never hated a man enough to give his
diamonds back. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
~Alex Levine

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
~Mark Twain

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery,
people would stop dying. ~Ed Furgol

Money can't buy you happiness . but it does bring
you a more pleasant form of misery. ~Spike Milligan

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

~Henny Youngman

I am opposed to millionaires....... but it would be
dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was 'shut up'

~Joe Namath

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little
later in life. ~Herbert Henry Asquith

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon.
Then it's time for my nap. ~Bob Hope

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it
had to work its way through Congress. ~Will Rogers

Don't worry about avoiding temptation . As you
grow older, it will avoid you. ~Winston Churchill

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty..... But
everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or
spread out. ~Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step,
he's too old to go anywhere. ~Billy Crystal

Read my sig. Or just click it. Its all good

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Its better to be hated for who you are then be loved for who your not." I fotget who said it but its good.

"Sir, you're drunk!"

"Yes, Madam, I am. But in the morning, I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

-- Lady Astor and Winston Churchill

i love that saying.
go churchill

oni x x

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

"Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot."

Stanley: War? Who are we at war with?
Gabriel: Anyone who impinges on America's freedom. Terrorist states, Stanley. Someone must bring their war to them. They bomb a church, we bomb 10. They hijack a plane, we take out an airport. They execute American tourist, we tactically nuke an entire city. Our job is to make terrorism so horrific that is becomes unthinkable to attack Americans.

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."

Some say: "Love is Blind."

I say: "Love is blind, but only if you are in love with what blinds you."

- me

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out ~ it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

~ Robert Service






[edit on 13-8-2005 by maybeangels]

I got a new one!

"You know what they say. There's no I in team. But there is an I in pie. More speifically there is an I in meatpie, team is the anagram of meat..."-Shaun from Shaun of the Dead. Shaun of the Dead is THE best movie in existence.

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
- J. Willard Marriott.

"I wear this funny mask, because you can't handle me."

They say school is practice for the future, and that practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect so why practice?
~forgot who said it, but I like it

Also: Dad always tells me "I know every trick in your book. I WROTE the book." ............ There IS no book.

The best flowers always grow from cow sh*t.

[edit on 8/14/05 by psychochick]

[edit on 8/14/05 by psychochick]

Lysergic ~ Just curious, what's your sig line mean? Latin, right?

psycho chick ~ Don't think those were flowers.

~ If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?

~ Pink Floyd

Hmmm, here is the most famous lines from Boondock Saints.

"Shepards we shall be, for thee my lord for thee, power hath decended forth from thy hand, thy feet shall swiflty carry out thy command, so we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teaming with souls shall it ever be..." The last part is in Latin which I can't spell

Political Quotes
"Eat babies!!!" Republicans
"Kill Kill Kill!!!!!" Republicans.
"F*** You!" Dick Cheney to someone who wasn't owned by Haliburton.
"F*** the troops we want the money." Republican Senator who refused to sign the bill that would give money to buy armor for the troops. 39 senators said no, 38 were republican, the dem was from hawaii which only has 12 letters and was unable to spell yes.(I kid you not, except for the last part about the unable to spell yes part, I don't know why he voted against it)

You see things; and you say,'Why?' But I dream of things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw
"Clearly Tassadar has failed us. You must not."
-Starcraft
"If I cannot move heaven
I can raise hell."
I think the last one was from a Greek or Roman...Homer?......

[edit on 8/14/2005 by Lifeadventurer]

"Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security."
~ Ben Franklin ...

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

~Thomas Szasz