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FAVORITE quotes....
« on: January 24, 2008, 04:35:55 AM »
hello fellow chrome domes...just wondering...what's one of your favorite quotes that U would like 2 share with us.  i'll start:  this is one of my favorites (not sure who was the originator)... "tough times don't last but tough people do".

so...how 'bout U?  i gave U one of mine.  what's one of your favorite quotes?  thanks in advance 4 sharing with us.  we should have some good ones. O0

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2008, 06:54:13 AM »
one of the oldest friends i have used this one on myspace. i borrowed it for my avatar here

"People don't fail, they give up."thanks T-NAG


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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2008, 07:21:13 AM »
Here are a few i have ran across several times....
Mark Twain...Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company!

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2008, 07:53:52 AM »
Quote from a Marine General in the Korean War.  "Retreat hell, we are just advancing in a different direction."
"...and I--I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."  Robert Frost

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2008, 07:54:52 AM »
Confuscius once said, "Man who stand on toilet is high on pot".


Agonizing over what cannot be is an insult to what is.

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2008, 09:56:16 AM »
I have two that I can think of at the moment;

"Work as if you have no money. Love as if you have never been hurt. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. And live everyday as if it were your last"

-Anonymous


"The sin is not to fall, the sin is not to get up"

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“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2008, 10:19:59 AM »
What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch!

               W.C.Fields
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" W.C. Fields

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2008, 11:58:24 AM »
Smile, you'll live longer!

- Anon
People are not limited by the circumstance that they are born in. They are limited by the size of their dreams. Show them that their dreams can have no limits and in turn their accomplishments can be limitless.

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2008, 12:16:25 PM »
"A firm grasp of the obvious is good".


Agonizing over what cannot be is an insult to what is.

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2008, 12:27:15 PM »
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
-Vladimir Nabokov

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2008, 12:28:29 PM »
Lady Astor to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
Churchill, in response, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2008, 12:41:15 PM »
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.-George S Patton
In a bacon and eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. BE THE PIG!!!




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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2008, 01:21:16 PM »
Harry Truman:  "The buck stops here"

FDR:  "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
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"...and I--I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."  Robert Frost

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2008, 01:32:49 PM »
"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'"
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Re: FAVORITE quotes....
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2008, 01:34:30 PM »
There are a few I've heard, but the only on that pop's to mind is this:

"Pair up in Three's"
-Yogi Berra

 



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