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[MatB]

So every now and then you see a quote that really hits the spot. Captures so much in a sentence or two.

What do you have ? post it here. No politics please. But I know sometimes it can be inferred. But also like a good poem, you'll get out of it what you want.


One of my favorites is from Bertrand Russell

"The whole problem with the world is fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubt"

 

[JMC9389]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"- Wayne Gretzky

-Michael Scott

 

[detroitdad]

I'll watch monkeys fuck for two bucks...

@mike32

 

[arch3r]

Being a software developer, I find this one so true...

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[bsdunbar1]

"60% of the time it works every time"

-Ron Burgandy

 

[bsdunbar1]

This has always been a favorite

 

[RichMahogany]

“...once you get locked into a serious *chip collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can”

-Hunter S. Thompson

*he may have actually said drug collection but it’s more or less the same thing

 

[Eloe2000]

I happened to have posted this one earlier today, which I have always appreciated.

“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron... If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.” - George Mallory

 

[Frogzilla]

Saw this one today, might try this out for a while

 

[William White]

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

 

[Darson]

Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.
- Furious Styles (Boyz n the Hood)

 

[Mangatang]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

 

[shorticus]

So relative to our society now.

 

[jpietrella]

"I have some PCA secondary I can give you."

- No one, ever.

 

[k9dr]

 

[BPTDirector]

One of my faves.

 

[slisk250]

 

[BukNaked36]

Poker / Gambling

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

You can fool some of the people, some of the time - and that's enough to make a decent living.

Life

The work is the reward.

All happiness is earned.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

 

[ParrotheadMZ]

I hope I break even! I sure could use the money.

 

[BukNaked36]

So every now and then you see a quote that really hits the spot. Captures so much in a sentence or two.

What do you have ? post it here. No politics please. But I know sometimes it can be inferred. But also like a good poem, you'll get out of it what you want.


One of my favorites is from Bertrand Russell

"The whole problem with the world is fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubt"

Reminds me of this one -

 

[Mangatang]

I hope I break even! I sure could use the money.

The compulsive gambler’s prayer when stuck...

“Please Lord, let me break even. Because I really need the money.”

 

[CraigT78]

"To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that's what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one's community."
-RBG

 

[Dodger]

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt

 

[legend672]

If you have a hard job, hire a lazy person, he’ll figure out an easy way to do it. Thinking maybe Bill Gates said it

 

[MilouPilou1]

 

[davislane]

"Nothing is True. Everything is permitted" - Hassan-i-Sabbah

 

[David O]

Worry is the interest paid on the principle of a problem you have not taken out yet.

Me

 

[Mangatang]

Youth is wasted on the young.

 

[detroitdad]

Pot motherfucker

@MatB

 

[dennis63]

Chaos is not excitement and peace is not boredom.

-- Unknown