Favourite sayings or quotes

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favourite sayings or quotes

:hug:these can be famous quotes or family sayings or just something that you feel.I'll start with "Nothing matters except loving and being loved"
 
"There is always a risk in being alive,
and if you are more alive, there is more risk"
Ibsen
 
I've always liked and practiced:

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss that you'll hit the stars"


Although I came across another one which probably relates to us, especially whilst flaring:


"If you're going through hell, keep going"
 
I have two

1) "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing.....after they’ve tried everything else." churchill.

2) "Maybe the dingo ate your baby""
 
Emma: A child's mind is their strength and their weakness.
Brent: You're like Yoda.
Emma: I don't know what that means.

From "Corner Gas"
 
I have a few which are horsey ones:

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence-and then go over and catch it-Dick Francis.

A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care-Pat Parelli.

A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you-Monty Roberts.

Ask me to show you poetry in motion, and I will show you a horse.

These are only 4 of my favourite saying, I have many more :)
 
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
 
[As Jamie begins noisily climbing the duct]
Adam: [laughing] Why, Thor, the god of thunder, is trying to enter my building!

MythBusters - Crimes and Myth-demeanors 1
 
The best thing about being my age,is you know everything,but you have to deal with people who know nothing. Micheal Caine 78.
 
Lone Starr: I wonder, will we ever see each other again?
Yogurt: Who knows? God willing we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.

From "Spaceballs"
 
I have a few:

"Be the change you want to see in the world"-Gandhi

"Things do not change, we change." —Henry David Thoreau

Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
– Albert Einstein
 
Adam: [about spacesuit he's wearing] By the way, I should point out, this is not a real spacesuit. It's just my 'wear-around-town' spacesuit.

MythBusters: "NASA Moon Landing"
 
A dog looks up to a man, a cat looks down on a man, but a patient horse looks a man in the eye and see him as equal.

A good rider can hear his horse speak to him, a great rider can hear his horse whisper, but a bad rider won't hear his horse even if it screams at him.

A horse is like a violin. First it must be tuned, and when tuned, it must be accurately played.

Give a horse what they need and they will give you their heart in return.

Horses are the dolphins of the plains, the spirits of the wind; yet we sit astride them for the sake of being well-groomed, whereas they could have all the desire in the world to bolt, but instead, they adjust their speed and grace, only to please us, never to displease.
- Lauren Salerno

Horses can't talk, but they can speak if you listen.

I have often been asked why do I like horses so much. Look into one's eyes. There you will see generations of horses who have served the humans for thousands of years faithfully for nothing in return. Beaten horses, starved horses, horses who no longer possess a spirit. They deserve to be loved and respected as much as humanly possible. Let them run free again. Let them no longer be a faithful beasts, but embrace them as you would a dear friend, for that is what they are.

I have seen things so beautiful, that they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet, none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.

Throw your heart over a fence and your horse will follow.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
 
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Elaine Dickinson: There's no reason to be alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

from Airplane!
 
[Kari is sending a fake yeti to bug Adam and Jamie.]
Jamie: (unenthusiastic) Oh great, we got a yeti outside.

MythBusters - "Alaska Special"
 
Call those pants? I remember when pants were pants.You wore them for twenty years then you cut them down for pan scrubs. ( Victoria Wood. old bag. )
 
"The new phonebooks are here!!! The new phonebooks are here!!! I'm SOMEBODY now!!!!!!" (Steve Martin in The Jerk)
 
You've got to keep in shape.My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty,Now she's ninety seven and we do'nt know where the hell she is. (Ellen de Generes,actress and comedian)
 
Seth Meyers: The commander of the International Space Station, on Wednesday, shook hands with Robonaut, which NASA officials are calling the first ever handshake between a human and a robot in space -- and which robots are ominously calling "Phase 1".

Saturday Night Live - "Season 37: Episode 15"
 
Dr. Rumack: Captain, these passengers don't have much time. How soon can we land?
Capt. Oveur: I can't tell.
Dr. Rumack: You can tell me, I'm a doctor.
Capt. Oveur: What I mean is, I don't know.
Dr. Rumack: Well can't you take a guess?
Capt. Oveur:...Not for another two hours.
Dr. Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?
Capt. Oveur: No what I'm saying is we can't land for another two hours.

From Airplane!
 
Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
 
3 of Oscar Wilde

-It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

-Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

-Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
 
"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." Paul Beatty

(I really, really, really want to operate the trap door, lmao)
 
at twenty we worry about what others think of us,at forty we don't care about what others think of us,at sixty we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
 
"You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit". My grandfather.

"Don't panic". On the cover of The Guide, in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

"Until this moment I never knew myself". Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice
 
"Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.” ~Karen Armstrong
 
What Lies Behind Us and What Lies Before Us are Tiny Matters Compared to What Lies Within Us

Although I now consider the part about what lies within us to be rather ironic...I still like the notion in general.

Also...If my body is my temple then my mind is my fortress.

because something has to be strong sometimes!
 
one of the advantages of being old is you need only four hours sleep.True, you need it four times a day,but still.
 
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”


“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” ― Dr. Seuss
 
If you are caught smoking on these premises it will be assumed you are on fire,and the emergecy will be dealt with in the appropriate manner
 
“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 and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
 
First post, after a 5 and a half year hiatus.

And hey, Kossy is still here!

Anyway, here's my current favourite saying.....................

"When shit becomes valuable, governments will ensure we are born without arseholes"
 
First post, after a 5 and a half year hiatus.

And hey, Kossy is still here!

Anyway, here's my current favourite saying.....................

"When shit becomes valuable, governments will ensure we are born without arseholes"

Welcome back! I actaully returned in June after a few years myself. My account was deactivated, but I was able to reuse my old screen name so it's all good.
I hope you've been doing good!
 
Hi Kossy!

Aye, same here, my account was deactivated. No surprise really, I was gone for so long.

I've been................. well, it's been interesting mate, put it that way. By my reckoning, I've been under the knife three times since I was last on here, the outcome of which is that I'm having a battle with Crohns right now, and am now on medication for it - the first time in around fifteen years. Anywho, that's a story for another part of the forum. Maybe some day I'll jot it all down.

Hope all is well with you!

Anyway - another favourite saying of mine - and it may have been posted elsewhere, who knows

"Never argue with an idiot - he'll only drag you down to his level, and beat you on experience."
 
Rob Lee: And as Adam once said...
Adam: Gravity, man... it's not just a good idea - it's the LAW!

MythBusters - "Fall Guy"
 
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.
:ywow:
 
Smoking kills, and if you're killed you've lost a very important part of your life.
-Brooke Shields
 
"Winifred, never confuse efficiency with a liver complaint." George Banks - Mary Poppins

"God doesn't hate us, if he did he wouldn't have made our hearts so brave." Feast of Love

“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.” A A Milne

"Honour your first commitments" My Mum :)
 
Perchik: Money is the world's curse.
Tevye: May the Lord smite me with it! And may I never recover!

-- Fiddler on the Roof
 
(Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.

1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.

3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

10. Buses stop in bus stations. Trains stop in train stations. My desk is a work station.

11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.

12. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'

13. I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was blaming you.

14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.

17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.

20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.

21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.

22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.

23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

25. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

26. Where there's a will, there are relatives.

27. I'm taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder for me to find one now.
 
I now realise that the small hills you see on ski slopes are the bodies of 47yr olds who tried to learn snowboarding!!!
 
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens.

If you are going throug hell, keep going. Winston Churchill.

An animals eyes has the power to speak a great language.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
 

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