Fav Quotes

[Sandpiper3]

Thought i'd make up this thread as I found the quote for Jules-

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.
- Upanishads

No idea who ipanishads is though...

Here are a few of mine;


It’s not the critic that counts, not
the man who points out how the strong
man stumbled or whether the doer of
deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who
is actually in the arena ... who
strives valiantly, who errs, and
often comes up short ... who, if at
best in the end, knows the triumph
of higher treatment and high
achievement. And who at worst,
if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly so that his soul shall never be
with those cold and timid ones who
know neither victory or defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt



Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates




"The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those
strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is
true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
~ Maurice Maeterlinck

[chemboy2]

The ones that have been in front of my eyes everyday at work for the past 10 years:

"Happiness exists when the things we believe in are consistent with the things we do." - Anonymous

"Do well, do better, do best." - William Langland

"Be willing to be responsible for your actions and reactions." - Anonymous

Of course, there is always the one in my sig:

"The future is no place for your better days." - Dave Matthews

[JEFF4i]

Hmmm, nerdy quotes?

"I am looking for a great warrior."
"War does not make one great."

Real quotes...

"A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?"

Robert A. Heinlein


There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perfection, but as the sustained upleaping of a Fountain, the pillar of a Glorious Flame. For, after all, we cannot go beyond the ancient image of Heraclitus, the "Ever-living Flame, kindled in due measure and in the like measure extinguished." That translucent and mysterious Flame shines undyingly before our eyes, never for two moments the same, and always miraculously incalculable, an ever-flowing stream of fire. The world is moving, men tell us, to this, to that, to the other. Do not believe them! Men have never known what the world is moving to. Who foresaw--to say nothing of older and vaster events--the Crucifixion? What Greek or Roman in his most fantastic moments prefigured our thirteenth century? What Christian foresaw the Renaissance? Who ever really expected the French Revolution? We cannot be too bold, for we are ever at the incipient point of some new manifestation far more overwhelming than all our dreams. No one can foresee the next aspect of the Fountain of Life. And all the time the Pillar of that Flame is burning at exactly the same height it has always been burning at! The World is everlasting Novelty, everlasting Monotony. It is just which aspect you prefer. You will always be right.

-I'll get it later

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud—and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word.
But in the night of Death
Hope sees a star and listening
Love can hear the rustling of a wing.

-Robert G. Ingersoll

[5iron]

"Im taking a shower with the flippers"... from me

[limpalong]

Treat your children with respect and dignity. They will be the ones who choose your nursing home.

A bad day on the course beats any day... good or bad... at work.

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and prove them correct.

And, the two words we in the States will be saying soon... "Madam President!"

[Slingblade61]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

...............

[5iron]

I still like mine lol. Not saying these arent good though !

[Clugnut]

"Throw it at his head or his balls, he won't miss it then."


my old man.

[lamebums]

George: "...So, I reached into the blow hole, felt around, and pulled out the obstruction!"
Kramer: "Is that a Titleist?"
(George nods)
Kramer: "Well, a hole in one, eh?"

:laugh:

"It doesn't matter what I hit. If I got more expensive clubs, I would still hack. I would just hit further into the woods."

- my old man when I told him he needed to update his 1983 Wilson Aggressor irons

[LeftyHoges]

"Throw it at his head or his balls, he won't miss it then."


my old man.

Actually Phil Jackson (Chicago Bulls coach) told this to Michael Jordan after he became peeved that Bill Cartwright couldn't catch any passes MJ threw to him. Solid advice. Tell your old man that great minds certainly think alike.

I know that any object coming for my head, and definately balls, would be caught. Or I'd do another part of my body grievous harm to avoid those two areas getting hurt.

[Eracer]

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

"The universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it is stranger than you can imagine."

"Everybody knows this is nowhere."

[DouginGA]

...were we to love none who had imperfections, this would be a desert for our love. All we can do is to make the best of our friends; love and cherish what is good in them

Jefferson I believe

[Clugnut]

Actually Phil Jackson (Chicago Bulls coach) told this to Michael Jordan after he became peeved that Bill Cartwright couldn't catch any passes MJ threw to him. Solid advice. Tell your old man that great minds certainly think alike.

I know that any object coming for my head, and definately balls, would be caught. Or I'd do another part of my body grievous harm to avoid those two areas getting hurt.

Ha! Never heard that. It certainly works on the jobsite.

[azgreg]

"Never raise you hand to a child.........It leaves your groin unprotected".

From mthe movie Hudson Hawk: "I'm going to torture so long, you will think it's a career".

[BStone]

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, Glory and Danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go over to meet it."
-Thucydides

"Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-Abraham Lincoln