Favorite Quotes

[ShapeShifter]

"Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!"

"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them,
Canon in front of them, Volleyed and thundered"

Often quoted from The Charge of the Light
Brigade

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[Lady Jane]

[ShapeShifter]

"You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now."

"It is a bird's imagination, not its wings, that determines how it can fly."

"Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!"

- Inspirational Quotes

[ShapeShifter]

Tribute to Doug Craig and a Van Dyke Parks Quote.

[floridaorange]

"Showing off is the fool's idea of Glory" - Bruce Lee

[murderspice]

Dont wrestle with pigs; it gets you dirty, and the pigs love it.

[3.0L]

"The frightened, the defeated, the coward and the knave run to the flanks … under the cover of slogans,
false formulas and appeals to passion—a welcome sight to an alert enemy. When the center weakens
piecemeal, disintegration and annihilation are only steps away, in a battle of arms or of political philosophies.
The clear-sighted and the courageous, fortunately, keep fighting in the middle of the war.”

- Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower, addressing the American Bar Association on Labor Day, 1949.

[murderspice]

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” Sartre

[Esteban]

And Rocky Raccoon checked into his room
only to find Gideon's Bible
Rocky had come equipped with a gun
to shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival, it seems, had broken his dreams
by stealing the girl of his fancy
Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil
but everyone knew her as Nancy

~Paul McCartney

[Lady Jane]

[ShapeShifter]

"I have slipped the surly bonds of earth"

"Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.'

- From High Flight

- John Gillespie Magee Jr

[Lady Jane]

[Esteban]

Let's all get up and dance to a song
that was a hit before your mother was born.
Though she was born a long, long time ago,
your mother should know, your mother should know.

~Paul McCartney

[ShapeShifter]

"You are capable of more than you know."

"Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.

"Aim high. Behave honorably."

"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom."

- E . O. Wilson

[Lady Jane]

[floridaorange]

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[3798j]

"Marriage means commitment, of course, so does insanity." - - - Unknown

[murderspice]

My new favorite after leaving the “want an ev” thread:

Si tous les dégoutés s'en vont, il n'y a que les dégoutants qui restent. (If all the disgusted leave, only the disgusting remain.)

[ShapeShifter]

"enjoy every sandwich."

- Warren Zevon (said this often on talk shows and during interviews before his death in 2003 from Mesothelioma)

[RockCrusher]

Originally Posted by murderspice

Dont wrestle with pigs; it gets you dirty, and the pigs love it.

A variation of the above: Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and irritates the pig.

[ShapeShifter]

Oliver Goldsmith

[Velvet Fog]

Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat - Sun Tzu