Coolest little quotes/quips ever!

[ParkCungHee]

"Oscar Wilde says we cannot value sunsets, because we cannot pay for them. We do pay for them. We pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde." -- G.K. Chesterton.

 

[aneeshm]

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled.
-R.P. Feynman


Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
- C.C. Colton


People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.


In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.
- Bruton


It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task.
- Sydney J. Harris


"What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager asked her mother. "Encouragement, dear," she replied.

 

[Perfection]

"In private one can well be a cat that walks by itself, and without roots in any specific soil: but in the great battle for the Kingdom of God it seems to me one ought to belong to some brotherhood. "

Ida Friederike Görres

 

[WickedSmurf]

What doesn't kill us, makes us bitter.
-Chuck Lorre

 

[Phrossack]

It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task.
- Sydney J. Harris

That is so good I'm sigging it.

 

[SG-17]

The success or failure of your deeds, does not add up to the sum of your life. Your spirit cannot be weighed. Judge yourself by the intentions of your actions, and by the strength with which you faced the challenges that have stood in your way. The Universe is vast and we are so small. There is really only one thing we can ever truly control... whether we are good or evil.

"If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago"

"Though the river tells no lies the dishonest standing on the shore, still hears them."

-Oma Desala

 

[Yeekim]

"If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago"

I really don't get this one...

 

[SG-17]

I really don't get this one...

From what I (and others) gather it means if you are so sure that something is what you think it is without considering other possibilities then your future has already been determined.

 

[IAM]

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles."

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with 100% mortality.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), when informed that his wife was dying

editorial: The best quotes are clever, funny and can change your perspective on something you assumed true but had not looked at the other side of it. Like Nitcheize "God is Dead." It's a simple statement that changes the arguement. At least superficially.

 

[Perfection]

My Führer, if it's not possible for you to give me a date for the wonder weapons, we Germans must approach the Anglo-Americans and seek peace.
-Karl Wolff

 

[cardgame]

May you be Touched by His Noodly Appendage.

 

[Golden Touch]

'be nice or leave'

saw it in a cafe. think its fabulous. simple.

 

[Ekolite]

''Short term pain for long term gain, that's my motto.''