Favourite Quotes

[Octane (Humayun)]

Something which is endearing to me is the following quote (no idea where it's from, but, someone said it to me once when my family was going through a very difficult period):

"The fruit of perseverance is sweet."

Regards,
Humayun

[kinetic (Steve)]

A few from the late Dr Fred Hollows,
a beautiful man, rough diamond, and a bloke never afraid to tell it like it was:

"I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done."

"When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, we've gone and done it."

"I believe the basic attribute of mankind is to look after one another"

Steve

[stephenb (Stephen)]

"People who want to be political leaders are the least qualified to do it. The people who really are qualified won't mess with it. So we always get second best."

- translated from Tao.

Originally Posted by gman

Quote 2 - Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Love it!

[PCH (Paul)]

Einstein or Newton - seems uncertain which ...

"If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants"

Very humble.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

If you can't be good, be good at it.

This is my take on JJJ's one; (often said when saying goodbye to someone)

1) Be good! but if you can't be good.... be anonymous!

Also, someone here on IIS has, or used to, have this on their signature;

2) "Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes, if you still want to criticise them, feel free, because now, you are a mile away and have their shoes!"

3) When you assume, you make an ASS out of U and ME

4) If someone doesnt take NO for an answer, I made this one up for them; " You can't spell REFUSE without F U !"

5) "Painting on canvas is creative, STUPIDITY is an artform"

That's all for now....

Cheers

Chris

[TrevorW]

"I see dumb people and they don't even know they are dumb"

[Jen]

Inside me is a skinny woman screaming to get out "I usually shut her up with chocolate"

[norm]

"Good, fast, cheap.....pick 2"

[Hagar (Doug)]

I just thought of another one while posting a reply to another post.

"If brains were dynamite he couldn't blow his nose."

Very fitting.

[Jen]

My favourite one which is soooooo true is......
What goes around comes around
And paybacks are a B**TCH

[chrisp9au (Chris)]

I hesitate to mention this one, but it came from my wife so it must be ok?

Denise was a nurse for the last 20 years, retiring early last year.
Being married to a nurse is ok, but it has it's negative aspects, as I found out early in her nursing career.

'Sympathy?', 'You want sympathy?' 'You'll find it in the dictionary between s**t and syph*lis'

I found it a bit hard to argue with that!

She's that sort of lady, no nonsense, straight to the point.
Which means I have direction in life...

'Go to work, earn money, bring it home', every bl**dy day!

Cheers
Chris

[NeilW]

"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." - Steven Wright

[styleman333]

A friend is a person that will always bail u out of jail , a true friend is in jail with u saying " Hell what a ride ! When we gonna do that again ! ?"


:rofl ::rof l:




"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid for so long?" John Archibald Wheeler

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Originally Posted by sheeny

I don't doubt it.

Another of my favourites from Confucius, I believe, goes something like:

"It is better to live 1 year as tiger than 50 years as a lamb".

Al.

Another Confucius for ya Al...
Man who seduces girl on the hillside,definatelly not on the level.

[Octane (Humayun)]

lol, Neil, anything by Steven Wright is just plain genius.

[Enchilada]

"You can't be a synchronised swimmer, if you can't swim"

Encha (2009)

[Enchilada]

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the Master calls a butterfly."

Richard Bach "Illusions"

[Enchilada]

"You can't be a ballet dancer, if you have weak toes!"
Encha (2009)

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Not sure if this is a Wright one but...
"Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film"

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

"I've told you a million times - do not exaggerate!"
(Ric from The Young Ones)

"It's better to be half safe and half sorry"
(Moe Howard, the 3 Stooges)

"If something is fool-proof, that only means it's been proven by fools"

"As a rule, I don't like to make generalisations"

"You might have been born in a barn, but that doesn't make you Jesus"

"You can't have everything - where would you keep it all?"