Your favorite quotes

[wyldathart]

I thought a thread with our favorite sayings and quotes would be nice Here is mine!

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt - Paris, France 1910

[Ancienne Alliance]

There are tons of quotes I love ... so I will probably be posting some of them once in a while...

To start, I would like to mention the one in my signature :

"They're a real bonny folk, the French nation."

Alan Breck Stewart
Catriona
R.L. Stevenson


Best,


Robert

[budd4766]

A few of my favorites, not all that profound, but they struck a chord with me, so I keep 'em:

The wind of heaven is that which blows through a horse's ears. - Arabian Proverb

What's between a man and his kilt is between a man and his kilt. - unknown

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive - Jimmy Engleman

If a man don't like fast horses, good dogs, and pretty women, he just ain't worth shootin'. - Stuart Hamblin

When the Almighty saddled the wind and bridled the lightning, He called it a horse. - Unknown

"Gimme some sugar, baby!" - Bruce Campbell

[Kerr the Walker]

I've got pages and pages of quotes that I think are pretty great, but I would have to say my all time favorite is the second one in my sig.

"Don't ever get yourself caught cross-ways in a ditch with them there elephant people."

Said by my paternal grandfather. These were in fact his last words. Whenever I tell people about this quote, there is invariably several seconds of confusion until the individual asks "what does it mean?" The standard family response: "No idea. Grampa didn't stick around long enough to explain."

We all suspect he's looking down on us with a grin on his face thinking to himself: "HA! Figure THAT one out!"

[tooltruckguy]

This is probably my favorite quote. It's from Captain Richard Files of the schooner Victory Chimes.

"There's nothing quite so frightening as ignorance in action".

[macwilkin]

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
-- Edmund Burke

"Need reinforcements for rescue. Send six tanks or one piper."
--Canadian Army officer, Italian Campaign 1944

More to follow...

T.

[Weasel Mender]

"Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than a sage amidst his books, for to you nations and thier armies are things mighty and enduring; to him there are but toys of the moment to be thrown down with wave of his finger"

Sun Tzu

[macwilkin]

"Freedom and whisky gang together -- take aff your dram!"
-- Robert Burns

"When Scotland forgets [Robert] Burns, then history will forget Scotland."
-- J.S. Blackie

"The ox is slow, but the earth is patient."

T.

[LANCER1562]

Among my favorites:
"There is none so blind as he who will not see, none so deaf as he who will not hear and none so dumb as he who will not think". Unknown

"There is no problem so large it cannot be made smaller by sharing it". Unknown

"Those who think they know everthing are annoying as h*** to those of who do". My maternal grandfather (probably borrowed from someone else).

[McMurdo]

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!
Robert Burns

It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that.
Robert Burns

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill


If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you. If you still think you are strong enough to beat the game alone, that is your affair. But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you. It never fails if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when getting another drink.

Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!
Dr. Bob Smith

Those are just a few that I like, there are others.