Quotations thread

[Keith_Beef]

Never trust a man who doesn't wear a belt.

Never trust a skinny butcher.


Keith.

 

[qweeg500]

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail (Atilla the Hun)

Nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth (Benny Hill)

Matt

 

[Roving Rich]

):
I like that cheap pun.
And i trusted my skinny butcher, he was a prisoner of war and worked on THE bridge on the river quai. He never recovered from the starvation and remained gaunt and wiry for the rest of his days
Rich

 

[TheViking]

I'd render it as "Dare to know".

See, the thing is that it is translated to danish from latin (which is difficult directly to do) and then I translated it from danish to english, so.... :biggthump (and I did it right :biggthump )

Searched a little on the net and it can mean both... The 2 sentences are quiet the same, just in a shorter and longer version.

 

[Womble]

Tomtom: "yes... i see where you are coming from... but they are compleat oposites, the "no fear" slogans suggest winning is the only worth while outcome... but Banksy suggests that even if you win its not that great anyhow"

Totally agree, and Banksy's is a good quote. The rat race is not there to be won, it's there (I think) to be rejected, or at least avoided if at all possible.

<returns to work at his central London desk - daydreaming of the coming weekend...>

 

[tomtom]

Tomtom: "yes... i see where you are coming from... but they are compleat oposites, the "no fear" slogans suggest winning is the only worth while outcome... but Banksy suggests that even if you win its not that great anyhow"

Totally agree, and Banksy's is a good quote. The rat race is not there to be won, it's there (I think) to be rejected, or at least avoided if at all possible.

<returns to work at his central London desk - daydreaming of the coming weekend...>

oh right.. my misunderstanding

 

[BAHDog]

I prefer the absences and the big empties, where the wind ricochets from sand grain to mountain. I prefer the crystalline dryness and an unadulterated sky strewn from horizon to horizon with stars. I prefer the raw edges and the unfinished hems of the desert landscape... Desert is where I want to be when there are no more questions to ask." - Ann -Haymond Zwinger
The Mysterious Lands

 

[SquirrelBoy]

"Who Dares Wins"

SAS or Del Boy (delete as oppro) ):

 

[Raz]

“you can be so open minded that your brain falls out of your head”

 

[Raz]

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." --John Ruskin

 

[Raz]

This is fun!!

"Ahh, Beer, the cause, and solution to all our problems"

 

[Raz]

A currently relevent one:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "
--John Stewart Mill—

 

[Raz]

And to finish:

“Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. If you practice crap, you will become a Crapmaster."

"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity...
Lick it once, and you suck forever."

I've had a wonderful evening... but this wasn't it."

 

[hobbitboy]

"The pen is mightier than the sowrd, but you need keep a sword close by in case the pen fails"

:roll:

 

[Simon]

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~ Jung

 

[Simon]

and another

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. ~ Jung

 

[SquirrelBoy]

" Who`s more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him " - Obi Wan Kenobi

" Try not. Do or Do not. There is no try " - Yoda

" We make a living by what we get. But make a life by what we give " - Winston Churchill

 

[MartiniDave]

"Eunachs are not born, they are created" - Char Walla "It ain't half hot mum!"

 

[TheViking]

''Sapere Aude''

Or "Dare to think for yourself"...... :biggthump

 

[RovingArcher]

As the two men stood looking into the chest of a great bear, one turns to the other and says, how are we going to out run him? The other looks at his companion and replies, "I only need to out run you".