Favourite quotes

[Sparktrader]

What are they?

[CharlieH]

Movie quotes:

"Go ahead, make my day !" , "Do you feel Lucky"

 

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

 

"what we got here, is a failure to communicate"

[Sparktrader]

[bojo]

another movie quote and one of my faves...............................'If you aint first, you're last'.................. Billy Bob Thornton to Will Ferrell junior in Talladega nights..............................

[Sparktrader]

1 minute ago, josthomz said:

"Why buy the cow when you can get free milk" (Applies to everything in life)

Bargirls arent free

[Sparktrader]

1 minute ago, josthomz said:

 

I said applies to everything in life

So steal the car and house. Dont buy it.

[canthai55]

Vegetius fl. ad 379–395
Roman military writer 

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.

Let him who desires peace, prepare for war.

usually quoted as ‘Si vis pacem, para bellum [If you want peace, prepare for war]’

[ravip]

“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.” 

[ravip]

 “Fun fact: Alcohol increases the size of the ‘send’ button by 89%.”

[ravip]

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

[Sparktrader]

1 minute ago, ravip said:

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Correct

Intelligent are skeptics

[Kwasaki]

Don't interrupt me when I'm interrupting you.

[bunnydrops]

Oscar Wilde's last words “Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

[RichardColeman]

smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast - Ace Rimmer

Edited July 4, 2021 by RichardColeman

[bobandyson]

“If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you've given it away you'd ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever?

You're goddamn right they didn't.

They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for, the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.

He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.”
 

― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

[bunnydrops]

R. Crumb's Mister Natural

"Whats it all mean Mister Natural?" "It don't mean Sh*t!"

[Airalee]

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything”

 

-Mark Twain

[Sparktrader]

3 hours ago, Airalee said:

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything”

 

-Mark Twain

What did you do 5 years and 4 days ago?

[faraday]

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

 

Mark Twain

 

 

Applies to some members on here.

[canthai55]

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

is an ancient proverb which suggests that two parties can or should work together against a common enemy. The earliest known expression of this concept is found in a Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, the Arthashastra, which dates to around the 4th century BC, while the first recorded use of the current English version came in 1884

[1FinickyOne]

Sex without love is an empty experience. But, as empty experiences go, it is one of the better. - Woody Allen

 

I am but mad north northwest - when the wind is southerly, I can tell a hawk from a handsaw... Shakespeare

[Orinoco]

It's life Jim but not as we know it.

[herfiehandbag]

"He must have been on a course, no one could be like that naturally!"

Anon

[Mutt Daeng]

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income - Errol Flynn

[faraday]

 

 

"I'm giving her all she's got, Captain"

 

Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott - Star Trek.

 

Alternatively, it could well be a quote from NCC's life...555!

 

@NCC1701A

 

 

[Orinoco]

There's nothing wrong with the car,  except that it's on fire.

Murray Walker,  F1 commentator

[worgeordie]

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges!
       I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”

 

There's  one born every minute

 

Regards Worgeordie

[colinneil]

I love you long time....... Thai bar girl. Laughing emoji x4.

[Orinoco]

And for all the Brits out there.

 

And what is your name, Don't tell him Pike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YMVPXmaKds

 

 

 

 

Edited July 5, 2021 by Orinoco

[Fat is a type of crazy]

10 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

I don't want to be too serious but I think within that quote lies significant dangers to the western world. 

People feel like questioning equals being smart. Anyone with a conspiracy theory or who has listened to right wing or left wing radio or read some rubbish on the internet feels they are now equipped to take on all and sundry and to fight the consensus opinion. 

The internet has decreased rather than increased trust in the educated and scientific as there is so much noise going back and forward.

If someone objects to questions it may be because they feel the person is tilting at windmills - putting their feelings up against the hard work of actual scientists and other professionals who know what they are doing. Loud mouth politicians and others can confirm such prejudices and  tell people they are five times wiser than others just for asking a dumb question. Not talking about you or our previous climate discussion.