Favourite Quotes

I'm, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt,
When I do my little turn on the catwalk, on the catwalk..... (RightSaidFred)

I'm up at the dawn, at the crack of dawn, I've been workin' like a regular dog, to keep the woman and  the lights and the water and the phone turned on. I've been sayin' "yes sir" all day at work, I been sayin' "yes ma'am" at home. I been storin' up the [f ] you's, keepin' 'em a under my tongue.....(David Allan Coe)

Is it Pet Smart, or Pets Mart ? ...(Larry The Cable Guy)

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. (Sigmund Freud)

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.(Frank Zappa)

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom.
The fear of God is the death of wisdom.
Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.(Clarence Darrow)

Peace,SouthPaw41L

"Some High society lady, said is you're horse outside? Well no mam he's between my legs but you're too fat to ride..." -Hank Williams Jr.

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"- Kris Kristofferson

"Take no thought for the morrow, sufficient unto the day are the evils thereof." - That one's from the Bible, always thought it was a catchy little piece of advice....

"Well I was born in Nashville but I left there long ago, cuz they built music city by sacrificing soul, And L.A. aint much different 'cept they got those fancy clothes...."-Shooter Jennings

  If I think of some more I'll post 'em later. Nice topic Jikklop, take it easy

All You Need is Love

The quote in my signature

I find it hard, it's hard to find, oh well whatever, nevermind -Kurt Cobain

Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only 3 feet. -Woody hayes

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -a million people

Just a few

Another statistics quote.  I heard it from my old boss, who held a doctorate in Statistics.  "A statistician is a person who will tell you that if you've got your head in an oven and your feet on a block of ice that you'll be fine." 

Some from my Pap-pap (that's hillbilly for paternal grandfather):
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.  (That one's in my signature block.  It may help to understand his meaning if you know that he was a stone mason.)

If it won't go, don't force it.

It's on your plate, eat it.  (This was not applied to dinner, but in overcoming adversity or accomplishing unpleasant obligations.) 

Walk it off.  (This one was literal, he walked anywhere that was less than five miles away.  He didn't think there were many problems in life that couldn't be solved with a good walk - and he was a man who knew problems and hardship.) 

Some from my gram (maternal grandmother):
There you have it.  (usually said just after an obvious conclusion to events.  Or rather obvious to everyone but the knucklehead who decided to do whatever stupid thing had the predictable poor result.)

Don't enumerate upon your juvenile poultry until the proper process has fully matriculated.

From a cartoon my Mom sent me when I earned an Economics degree:
"If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end to end, you still wouldn't reach a conclusion." 

- Zurf

"People forget that all you really need is good melodies, three chords and the truth."
– Matt Friction of the pink spiders

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.â€
-someone

"Time it passes and it tells us what we're left with
We become the things we do
Me, I'm a fool spent from defiance, yeah you got me but
I didn't give up on you"
- Third Eye Blind 'Blinded'

"Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on"
- zeppelin 'stairway'

there's more i cant think of right now...might post em later

well lets see...

gimme a chocolate late so i can cry in it-some random person i was talking to

and of course my signature hehe

I have some quotes, somewhere, but there is one I'll never forget: Sammy Davis Jr. telliing how bad it is to be BLACK and JEWISH.

Here's mine, you might recognise a few (BTW I've left out the names accidentaly)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand"

"A road twice travelled is never as long"

"Citius, Altius, Fortius" [Faster, Higher, Stronger]

What's another word for Thesaurus?!

"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life— It goes on."

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared"

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

"With great power comes great responsibility"

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
If atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!
If you believe in Jesus, and on a day you meet him in person, you stop to believe, because he exists. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. .
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called “the Dark Ages†.
Organized Religion is like Organized Crime; it preys on peoples’ weakness, generates huge profits for its operators, and is almost impossible to eradicate.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.