PScopers favorite quotes!

[Mara]

oh and one more!

'whats yours is mine and what's mine is mine.'

i don't know where it came from but it's a F&I mantra as well...haha.

 

[bookworm21]

I like jaysonsmoms: "People are like slinkies....."don't remember the rest.

 

[movie zombie]

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices," Voltaire, 1767

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --Martin Luther King Jr.
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --James Madison

to quote just a few......

movie zombie

 

[Gemklctr]

"Some people attempt to fool us by walking upright."

 

[Shay37]

Here''s one from my Daddy. I think that it is an original. If not, I do not know who else to credit.


Well, if you can''t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh#t.

shay

 

[Shay37]

Another one from Daddy...he was lots of fun growing up.

One of these days, little missy, that alligator mouth is going to overload your tweety bird a$$.

shay

 

[Blenheim]

Not inspirational, but I love it:

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."

I''ve seen it attributed to both Renyi and Erdos, so I''m not sure who said it originally. But it manages to sum up my lifestyle perfectly!

 

[widget]

I love the quotes Movie Zombie found!

Here are a couple...

"Just because you''re paranoid, it doesn''t mean they''re not out to get you..."

And recently from Richard Hughes regarding colored gemstones:

"When it comes to color, get out your revolver and shoot the loupe.."

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[littlelysser]

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Love that one...not sure who is the author.

 

[midgirl]

Mara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What''s yours is mine and what''s mine is mine!

LOVE IT!

 

[Logan Sapphire]

My father-in-law used to say this (not sure if it''s original or not): You can sh*t in one hand and wish in the other, and see which one gets filled up first.

 

[widget]

What''s yours is mine and what''s mine is mine!

My ex-husband used to say this ALL THE TIME. The problem was...I thought he was just kidding!

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[Madam Bijoux]

"Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

-Tennessee Williams, from 'A Streetcar Named Desire'


"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'The Great Gatsby'

 

[movie zombie]

Widget, each of those quotes used to be my signature at one time or another. pricescope is the only place i can stick to one....people complain when i don''t put something new as a tag at the end of my [yahoo] e-mail that i send. currently it reads:

"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one''s country, not to its
institutions or its office-holders." --Mark Twain

 

[bar01]

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” Oscar Wilde


http://en.thinkexist.com/

 

[E B]

Date: 3/15/2006 11:40:16 AM
Author: movie zombie
Widget, each of those quotes used to be my signature at one time or another. pricescope is the only place i can stick to one....people complain when i don''t put something new as a tag at the end of my [yahoo] e-mail that i send. currently it reads:

''My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one''s country, not to its
institutions or its office-holders.'' --Mark Twain

MZ, I love that one.

 

[zdrastvootya]

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

I think it''s an Arab proverb.

Z.

 

[koko]

"Never trouble another for what you can do yourself." --Thomas Jefferson

"The camel shits and the caravan moves on." - Dr. Drew Pinski

"It''s best to follow the Japanese way of not showing everything you own." - Stanley Barrows

"I almost think that these canvases will tell you what I cannot say in words." - Vincent Van Gogh

"All my possessions for a moment of time." - Elizabeth I

"Yellow is capable of charming God." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one." - Sam Rayburn

"You can go to heaven if you want...I''ll stay here." - Mark Twain

 

[koko]

Oh, and how could I forget dear old dad??

"When you''re dumb you''ve got to be tough."

"Pretty is as pretty does."

"It''s not the dead you have to fear, it''s the living" (for those afraid of ghosts)

"A hard head totes a sore ass"

"That''s just God moving His furniture." (For those afraid of thunder)

 

[glaucomflecken]

“Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.”

"She who dies with the most shoes, wins"

"Heaven doesnt want me and hell is afraid I will take over"

"Save the Earth, it''s the only planet with Chocolate"

" A Waist Is A Terrible Thing To Mind"

" I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn''t looking good, either."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." (have found this to be inspirational at times)

But my favorite is what my MOH said during her toast to us at our wedding--

"May you always have love in your life and life in your love."

 

[klavigne]

Some of my all time favorites, they hang on my wall in my office.

I always knew one day I''d look back at the times I cried and laugh, but I never knew that one day I''d look back at all the times I laughed and cry.
-Unknown 14 century writer

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney J. Harris

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Love is friendship set on fire."
- Jeremy Taylor

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
- Thomas Sowell

 

[sevens one]

Date: 3/15/2006 2:10:21 AM
Author: ForteKitty

For everyone who has ever had an evaluation - or given one, just remember, it could have been worse.

These are actual quotes taken from Federal Government employee performance evaluations:

1. ''Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and has started to dig.''

2. ''I would not allow this employee to breed.''

3. ''This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definite won''t be.''

4. ''Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.''

5. ''When she opens her mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet.''

6. ''The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead''

7. ''This young lady has delusions of adequacy.''

8. ''He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.''

9. ''This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.''

10. ''This employee should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better.''

11. ''Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together.''

12. ''A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.''

13. ''He doesn''t have ulcers, but he''s a carrier.''

14. ''I would like to go hunting with him sometime.''

15. ''He''s been working with glue too much.''

16. ''He would argue with a signpost.''

17. ''He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room.''

18. ''When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.''

19. ''If you see two people talking and one looks bored, he''s the other''


20. ''A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.''

21. ''A prime candidate for natural de-selection.''

22. ''Donated his brain to science before he was done using it.''

23. ''Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn''t coming.''

24. ''He''s got two brains cells, one is lost and the other is out looking for it.''

25. ''If he were any more stupid, he''d have to be watered twice a week.''

26. ''If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you''d get change.''

27. ''If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.''

29. ''One neuron short of a synapse.''

30. ''Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.''

31. ''Takes him 2 hours to watch ''60-minutes''.''

32. ''This person is a total pain in the j-as-per ''

OMG FK!!! DH were lauging so hard, we cried!

 

[ChargerGrrl]

Two of my faves come from the movie Steel Magnolias:

If you don''t have anything nice to say about someone then come sit by me.

The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.

(they may not be 100% accurate, but you get the point!)

 

[f0rbidden]

my fave quote is this:

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[jcrow]

sorry if someone already posted any of these...
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we are the choices we have made. - meryl streep

the most sensitive part of a woman''s body? her ring finger. -lee michael''s print ad

art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. -magdalena abakanowicz

you can''t steal second with your foot on first. - book title by burke hedges

just because there''s dessert on the table doesn''t mean that it won''t give you a stomach ache later. - unkown about cheating

our minds sometimes sees what our hearts wish were true. - in dan brown''s angels & demons

learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. - mignon mclaughlin

sorrow has its reward. it never leaves us where it found us. - mary engelbreit

trust what you feel, not what you think you ought to feel. - johnathan cainer

the turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt. - max lerner

the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were when we created them. -albert einstein

life is for most of us a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn''t expected. - martha lupton

a starving artist will always be cooler than a well-fed accountant. - unkown

creative work changes when it''s received by an audience, and that in turn changes you. you could say that art creates the artist. -unkown

the chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - samuel jackson

the measure of a man''s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - thomas babington macauley

may today be the day that you love each other the least. - wedding toast by michael bloomberg