Coatroom Quoteroom: Favorite sayings
 

I'll start....here is something my uncle always used to say to me when I got hurt:

"Pain is temporary...either it stops or you do."

Re: Coatroom Quoteroom: Favorite sayings
 

"Life is hard . . . and then you die!"

- I'll have a more hopeful one later. :D

"Old enough to know better, young enough to do it again." ;)

"If it don't fit, get a bigger hammer." :cool:

Some personal favourites from the fortune program -

Cold : When the politicians keep their hands in their own pockets.

Malpractice : The reason surgeons wear masks.

People usually get what's coming to them... unless it's been mailed.

Greets,
Nova

I find this appropriate to our shared travels.
 

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

"Whereever you go, there you are!" -- Buckaroo Bonzai

"Better to enter a corner slowly, and come out fast, than to enter fast, and come out dead!" -- Sterling Moss

"I'd rather die trying than die not having tried" -- Unknown

"Walk softly and carry a big stick" -- Teddy Roosevelt?

"Walk softly and stick 'em with a big carrier" -- Political cartoon during the Reagan era

"The wages of sin are death, but after they take out taxes, it's just kind of a "tired all over" feeling" -- Pauia Poundstone [before the troubles...]

-rob.

Re: I find this appropriate to our shared travels.
 

Right On! I love this one!


"Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid" -- John Wayne (?)

A few favorites
 

1) No good deed goes unpunished (My wife uses this one a lot)

2) Never miss a good opportunity to keep your mouth shut. (Something like that was posted by Merv, I think)

3) "I drank what?" -Socrates (from Real Genius)

4) If it doesn't go, force it. If it breaks, it needed to be replaced anyway.

5) I'd rather be lucky than good.

Two more favorites...
 

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac


Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
-- Mark Twain

Forgot this one:

"Specialization is knowing more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing, while Generalization is knowing less and less about more and more until you know nothing about everything."

I grew up with truck drivers. Consequently, all the sayings I know are just filthy. I'll try to relay a couple of the tamer ones:

"Life's a bitch, then you die." (With all due respect to Phil.)

"It's raining so hard, it's like a cow pissing on a flat rock!" (One of my favorites.)

Andy

"Life's a bitch, then you die." (With all due respect to Phil.)

Hey, I thought of that myself. You mean someone else thought of that, too? :)

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"When angry, count to 10. When very angry, swear!"
- Mark Twain

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself"
----Mark Twain

"Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut."

"Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance."

"Never follow good whiskey with water, unless you're out of good whiskey."

"Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement."

"Always drink upstream from the herd."

"Generally speaking, fancy titles and nightshirts are a waste of time."

from "Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On! A Cowboy's Guide To Life", Texas Bix Bender, 1992

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

10 points if you can remember where you've heard that before...

On a clear disk, you can seek forever.

Favorite College Sayings
 

"Aren't you supposed to be in class?"

"Yeah...Wanna shoot some pool?"

"Oh to be a cow."

"Life Sucks, I'm going to bed."

"If anyone ever says that they hate war more than I do, they better have
a knife." -- Jack Handey, In Humor/Dark Humor



"You can't step into the same river twice." -- Heraclitus c.540 - c.480 BC

"You can't even step into the same river once!" -- mervTormel - c.1960 - ? AD

Here are some great movie quotes i got from a friends plan:

"Every time I start thinking about getting off this rock, our starfleet
gets destroyed."

"Talk is cheap, but guns cost money."

Blam, Blam, Blam. Click, click. "Stop Police!"

"We would have believed it was an accidental shooting if he hadn't changed
magazines.... TWICE!"

"...and grenades are also useful for digging foxholes, removing unwanted
shrubbery, unclogging drains...."

"Death is the only acceptable form of amnesty."

"Of course we like him best, we met him first."

"As far as I'm concerned, anybody slower than me is rearguard."

"A live friend is worth a hundred dead enemies."

"Don't worry, by the time we get there I'll have it figured out."

"Seeing as I'm right, and you disagree, you must be wrong."

"Captain, the Sea Cucumber has capsized .....but the fire's out."

"I did not ask for, did not receive, and will not pay for item 21 'Tax'
on your invoice."

"The truth shall bind and beat you."

"Even now on the eve of election day, the campaign battle is undecided.
But inside sources say Generalissimo Puerco's forces have a strong lead
holding 26 of the 31 registered ballot stations."

"Today is election day and we encourage all citizens to vote NO with the
weapon of thier choice."

"We are pleased to announce that Generalissimo Puerco, alias Johnathan
Sunshine, alias Ronald Reasonable, alias None Of The Above, has won the
election by a unanimous vote."

"In a surprise move to show that he too is making sacrifices, his excellency
El Puerco has blown up his presidential palace."

"This is not a coup, Parliment still makes all the decisions. We're just
here to make sure they make the right ones."

"Today's forecast calls for heavy contact along the northern outskirts,
strong probes throughout the neutral zone, and scattered artillery
barrages throughout the evening."

"Today's travel report ...Small arms fire along Route 6 with bursts of
heavy machine gun fire. Blast shields are required above 3000 feet."

"A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, you get what you give, Now
Die, Die, Die!!"

"We've got you surrounded, so you'd better give up ....okay?"

"You are now free men. Free to swear fealty to me."

"Inconsistency is the key to flexibility."

"Megalomania is it's own reward."

"That's not a jury of my peers, they're all common citizens!"

"If you cooperate we'll reduce the charges from hit and run to littering."

"It's in the shop being readied for the next failure."

Grind. Rattle. Clunk. "Give me a gun. I'll put it out of its misery."

"This device has survived two weeks in Axley's hands. I think that
qualifies it for anything."

"Don't ask me to fix his helmet. It's his head that needs fixing."

"I joined the Imperial Space Marines to see strange new galaxies, meet
strange new alien races, and kill them."

"We come in peace, shoot to kill!"

"Once you pull the pin, Mr. Hand Grenade is no longer your friend."