Quotable Quotes

[DiehardSearcher]

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true."

 

[DiehardSearcher]

Knowledge is power.
Power corrupts.
Corruption is a crime.
Crime doesn't pay.

 

[DiehardSearcher]

Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.

 

[DiehardSearcher]

If vegetarians eat vegetables, beware of humanitarians.

 

[DiehardSearcher]

Just beacause I have a short attention span doesn't mean I

 

[emnightingale]

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. -- Hedy Lamarr

 

[emnightingale]

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn." -Gloria Steinem

 

[Richard Sherwood]

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If you can buy your way out of a problem, you don't
have a problem.
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Harvey MacKay, "How To Swim With The Sharks Without Getting Eaten"

 

[Richard Sherwood]

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"We need a bigger boat..."
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Roy Scheider, in a scene that is emblazoned in all our minds for eternity.

 

[Richard Sherwood]

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"A few billion here, a few billion there, next thing you know you're
talking about serious money."
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Some politician whose name I can't remember, speaking at a congressional hearing.

 

[Richard Sherwood]

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"...but I didn't inhale."
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another politician I'm trying to forget.

 

[emnightingale]

"Eternal happiness for a dollar? I think I'd rather have the dollar."

-Homer Simpson

 

[emnightingale]

"The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of oneself."

-Jane Addams

 

[emnightingale]

"You better take care of me, Lord. If you don't, you're going to have me on your hands."

(As heard on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

 

[Iceman]

"Care for the small creatures and all else follows."
- sign at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo

 

[Iceman]

"A kind word is like a spring day."
- Russian proverb

 

[Iceman]

"A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for."
- Anonymous

 

[Heyjud]

"Even though we have only controlled the airport for a couple of days you can already see the American influence. Since we took over, three airlines have gone broke, the luggage has all been lost, and the pilots are all drunk already." —Jay Leno

 

[Iceman]

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
Jonathan Winters

 

[Iceman]

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

 

[Iceman]

"You get credit for what you finish, not what you start."
- Unknown

 

[Iceman]

Those who believe they can do something are probably right - and so are those who believe they
can't."
- Unknown

 

[Iceman]

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well
laugh about it now."
- Marie Osmond

 

[Iceman]

"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called
sure-thing-taking."
- Tim McMahon

 

[Iceman]

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width
and depth."
- Shira Tehrani

 

[Iceman]

"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give."
- P. D. James

 

[Iceman]

"You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry."
- W.C. Handy

 

[Iceman]

"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
- Tom Wilson

 

[Iceman]

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

 

[Iceman]

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
- George Shultz