Quotable Quotes

[Iceman]

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

 

[Iceman]

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)

 

[Iceman]

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make
them stop.
G. Weilacher

 

[Iceman]

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

 

[Iceman]

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
Richard Lewis

 

[Iceman]

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create,
is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
-Bette Davis

 

[Iceman]

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a
department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple (1928 - )

 

[Iceman]

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you
make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

 

[Iceman]

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright (1955 - )

 

[Richard Sherwood]

Bumper sticker on the back of a pickup truck with a nice looking cowgirl in the cab:

I'M ARMED, AND I'VE GOT PMS.
ANY QUESTIONS?!!!!

 

[Richard Sherwood]

The author Gore Vidal, after being punched at a cocktail party by the author Norman Mailer, who didn't appreciate Vidal's caustic tongue:

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"As usual, words failed him."
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[Iceman]

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy
for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

 

[Iceman]

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
George Ade (1866 - 1944)

 

[Iceman]

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news
in it or not.
Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

 

[fire&ice]

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On 3/29/2003 8:18:52 AM Iceman wrote:

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Also, Steven Wright........

"It's a small world; but, I wouldn't want to paint it."

 

[fire&ice]

"Don't kick someone's butt today whose *ss you may need to kiss tomorrow."

Iceman as quoted from DT

I don't know if this is yours orginally. I quote this one quite often.

 

[Richard Sherwood]

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"But I've got so much to do..."
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Thomas Edison, on his deathbed.

 

[Richard Sherwood]

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"Has your lifestyle changed any? No? Then forget about it."
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Spoken to me by a seasoned dealer after sympathetically listening to my tale of woe about being ripped off by a conman...

 

[Iceman]

“There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing
something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept
no excuses; only results.”
-Kenneth Blanchard

 

[Iceman]

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."
- Unknown

 

[Iceman]

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
- Josh Billings

 

[Iceman]

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has
usually been governed by prostitutes."
---Mark Twain

 

[Iceman]

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."
--- General George S. Patton

 

[Iceman]

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."
---- Marge Simpson

 

[Iceman]

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
--- Regis Philbin

 

[Iceman]

"It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it"
- Seneca

 

[Iceman]

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Henry Allen

 

[Iceman]

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

 

[DiehardSearcher]

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
-- Anonymous

I have been annoyed on many many occasions.

 

[DiehardSearcher]

"5 out of 2 people are dyslexic. Dyslexics of the world: untie!"

No deep thoughts here, but I like.