What are your favorite quotes?

[ablang]

What are your favorite quotes (by famous people), and what is your favorite personal quote (that you live by)?

Here are some of mine:

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles
within yourself are where it's at." -- Jesse Owens

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it." -- W.C. Fields

"Don't worry about what someone else has or does better because everyone is too obsessed about themselves to care about what anyone else is doing." -- Ron Ablang

[MegalosSkylaki]

Any quote related to Dean Carmann.

Columbia University had built a Dorm--and solicited Donations for the "naming" of the Hall. In the interim, it was named "New Hall".

This practice of selling "Naming Rights" didn't start with Stadiums. Universities and Hospitals have been doing it for a long time.

The asking price was $7,000,000 I heard.

It didn't get it. So it named it in honor of Henry Carmann (Karrmann?) --a long-time former Dean of Columbia College.

Ah ! College students. One genius decided to scribble some graffitti on the wall, like "A Carmann in time saves nine". Another decided to follow suit with , like, "Tippicannoe and Carmann too". Which was followed by "To be or not to be, that is the Carmann". You get the picture....

Well, eventually Two problems presented themselves:

A) It was increasingly difficulty to find a 'saying' that hadn't been used; and
B) it became increasingly difficult to find space--anywhere , even on the ceilings--for a "Carmann Quote"

To this day I remember the waste of University money to repaint Carmann Hall.

"A jug of wine, and thou, Ah ! Wilderness, thou art DOOOOG anon "

[tommyb55]

One of my favorite quotes is "Oh oh, Spegetti Oh!"

I was the one who originally coined the phrase "I will be on you like a fly on sh@t!"

I should get some kind of royalty for this.

[fosin]

Some of my favorite quotes...

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln

"The Senate has proposed and passed the tax cut for
marriage. Married people apparently had been paying more in
taxes, and Republicans feel that marriage is a penalty in
itself."
- Bill Maher

"If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't
you think a good costume would be to dress up like the
boss's wife? Trust me, it's not."
- Jack Handey

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that
I should have been more specific.
- Jane Wagner

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
- Lily Tomlin

"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth
part of the face."
- Jack Handey

I tell ya, my wife, she likes to talk during sex. The other night
she called me from a motel.
- Rodney Dangerfield

"If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?"
- George Carlin

"I used to have a photographic memory, but I seem to be running
out of film."
- Unknown

"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their
children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become
lesbians."
- Pat Robertson

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into
three major categories; those that don't work, those that
break down and those that get lost."
- Russell Baker

"Programming today is a race between software engineers
striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots."
- Rich Cook

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's
just one of the risks he takes."
- Adlai Stevenson

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply
with the law."
- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife
you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates

"Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists
panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to
understand the old ones."
- Mike Barfiel

"I recently read that love is entirely a matter of
chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic
waste."
- David Bissonette

"A new law in Jackson, Mississippi requires strippers to get
a license. If you want to be a stripper in Mississippi now,
you have to get a license * which, should make standing in
line at the DMV a little more interesting."
- Jay Leno

"Some days make you wonder if you've made bad choices in
your life. Especially those days when the FBI shows up and
digs in your back yard."
- Bob Van Voris

"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ
in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."
- Emo Phillips

[daveleau]

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

Isaiah 5:20

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Ben Franklin 1759

Engines of war have long since reached their limits, and I see no further hope of any improvement in the art.

Frontus 90 AD

He won the cold war, revived the American spirit, and made the world safe for capitalism and democracy.

Dinesh D'Souza speaking about President Reagan

[justy]

Knowledge isn't intelligence, the ability to use it is! Justy.

lol, I can't spell, but I'm a bright cookie, lol.

[daveleau]

Quote that I live by:

Never pass on an opportunity to look cool.

[HomeYield]

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their lives have one. -Albert Camus

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Ghandi

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Caron

[korgul]

Make the best of the cards you've been dealt...... adjust the odds so you win. ( lyrics from a song by Slayer)

Live today to its fullest, cuse tomorrow might just su*k. ( me )


korgul

[Martoch]

"She's as sweet as a honey suckle lump on a log in February"
--Jim Beard, an old southern friend of mine.

Also, while I was enjoying some beef jerky at his house he couldn't stop smiling...I said, "Jim, what is so funny about me eating beef jerky?"

His quote, "It's COON!"