Post the quotes that mean a lot to you.

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..." - Brandon Lee

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” - Bruce Lee

"Sex is the most fun i have ever had without having to laugh." - Woody Allen

 

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

Dan

 

"When your numbers up, its up, better going early as going fucking late"

Some guy from a glasgow pub in the britians toughest pubs tv show

 

'There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.'

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.


Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Very Similar to this one

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
- Japanese Proverb

 

Both are very true..

 

"Golf is a good walk spoiled"
Mark Twain

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not"
Stephen King

 

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." Bill Shankly

 

"You are truly wise, when you realize how foolish you really are"

 

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld

 

"the more you practice in peace, the less you bleed in battle"

some ancient chinese battle saying

 

This reminds me of a very good friend of mine when we were young, playing knock a door run etc...

"A good friend will come bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying... 'Damn, that was fun!'"

 

Compare that to this one-

'If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.'

 

" I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a women in it "
Mark Twaine

 

groucho marx once said "no need to waste time getting married, just find a woman you hate and buy her a house"

 

a similar one from some one I know who got divorced. "you might as well go into a pub find a women you hate and give her the deeds to your house "

 

i'll post up sme ones from the book of famous peoples quoets i've got at hime later

 

google is your friend dojj you don't need books these day
just found this one :-
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash

 

One ive used since my early twenties...

"Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly"

 

I like yours stu - definately something to live your life to!

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

An apt one for our government
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain

 

"When the only only tool you have available is a hammer, every problem starts to resemble a nail"

 

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
Sun Tzu

I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes

 

The meaning of life is a life of meaning.

 

Love yours Stu, nice and simple, yet very effective

 

born free
taxed to death

 

"Hindsight is 20/20 son"

From my dad, after I'd regretted getting myself into a bit of trouble one New Year Eve.


Cheers,
Grant

 

"If In Doubt, Flat Out"
"We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time"

Colin McRae two quotes that fit his life well.

 

"Sic vis pacem, para bellum" - "If you want peace, prepare for war"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

 

"Mind that bus, what bus splat"
Rimmer, Red Dwarf

"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round"
Jack Nicholson, Bucket List

 

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

 

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

 

"He who fights and runs away is spending valuable running time fighting"
Rimmer Red Drawf

"Die my dear thats the last thing i'll do!"
Oscar Wilde

"Keep your foot in, keep 'em lit and drive throught it!"
Mark Johnson

 

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. As you think, so shall you become."

 

"you were just a splinter in my arse as I slid down the bannister of life" - Can't remember where I heard this one, had it for a while though.

"who looks at the mantle piece when they're poking the fire?" - My dad, talking about various women.

"work to live, don't live to work." - My dad on the principles of having a job.

"why is it always I that gets hit at and hurt at?" - My elder brother after my eldest brother "beat him up" when kids.

Cheers,

 

"nothing lasts forever"

 

"live every day like its your last cos one day you'll be right" - Jethro

 

the thought of spending 2 weeks alone with you alone makes me want to cry........... - my mate talking to her ex bloke about holiday last night at the pub