Your best life quotes

[brianthainess]

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

hours ago, biggeoff69 said:

"You can't put the Poo back in the cow."

Did you try? try harder.

[brianthainess]

Sh8t happens with the big jobs.

[Yellowtail]

"Women should be obscene and not heard.

 

"Yeah, it sucks, but does it swallow?"

 

 

[brianthainess]

2 hours ago, farangkinok said:

 

Slight off topic but, apparently that part of the movie was filmed in Wales, locals were used as extras, in that scene, one started singing "There'll be a welcome in the Hillside"  

[Nabby]

Most people are sh*t.

[brianthainess]

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Edited September 30, 2023 by brianthainess

[novacova]

“Howdy”

”Lighten up”

”Good f’n grief!”

“Take it easy”
“Later”

 

 

[Yellowtail]

"Never forget, at any given moment, about half the population is below average intelligence." 

 

 

[Yellowtail]

"Don't let the door hit 'cha where the good Lord split 'cha."

 

"You can't git there from here." 

[novacova]

12 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

 

What's your life qoutes you have stuck by or should of stuck by 

 

“It’s none of my business how others think of me” because whether positive, negative, null or otherwise it’s their mind, not mine.

[novacova]

“Get over it. Move on”

[novacova]

“We’ll all be dead in a 150 years, so stop worrying about it”

[mikebike]

Life is not a highway

It's a narrow winding road

The things you buy along the way

can easily be sold

 

SSMB

[ravip]

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch

[Yellowtail]

"Bend over, I'll drive." 

[ravip]

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Apparently a Rodney Dangerfield qoute ...but it doesn't explain the meaning?

A missed opportunity

[bignok]

45 minutes ago, novacova said:

“It’s none of my business how others think of me” because whether positive, negative, null or otherwise it’s their mind, not mine.

Other people are allowed to be idiots

Other people are allowed to be wrong

 

[herfiehandbag]

1) "it was like the battle of the Somme but without the laughs!"

 

2) "He must have been on a course, nobody could be like that naturally."

 

3) "Assumption, the mother of all **** ups!"

[novacova]

35 minutes ago, bignok said:

Other people are allowed to be idiots

Other people are allowed to be wrong

 

“It’s your life, live as you please”

[novacova]

1 hour ago, herfiehandbag said:

“Assumption, the mother of all **** ups!"

“Don’t assume anything”

[Yellowtail]

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." 

[gamb00ler]

13 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

Live like you'll die tomorrow, plan like you'll live forever.

Early in my software career my boss said:

The plan is nothing, but planning is everything.

[Stocky]

13 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Also "we are born with nothing and die with nothing", or "you can't take it with you".

or

 

"There are no pockets in shrouds" as my mother would say.

 

Great source of wisdom my mother, there are several pieces of advice I try to stick to.

 

• "Never a lender nor a borrow be"
• "Never spend money you don't have"
• "One enemy is one too many, one more friend is still one too few"
• "Don't put off 'til tomorrow what you can do today"
• "Everything has its place, and everything in its place"

 

[Regyai]

"Where there's a will...

 

there's a relative"

[Iamloki]

In a hundred years, who's going to care?

[Wobblybob]

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do, the fun is is having lots to do and not not doing it. 

[geisha]

« Walk with Kings , but never loose the common touch  « .

Helped me through life. 

[rumak]

11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Too many to quote. Some of my favorites:

 

You can’t hate an animal because it doesn’t know any better. You kick it so it learns, and if it still doesn’t learn you put it down. But you don’t hate it. I’m not going to let what animals do anger me because anger is caused by stress and stress is contagious. And it’s deadly. Negative energy spreads faster than any virus. You wake up late and you knock someone down, as you overtake them on the pavement. You didn’t mean to but they have a temper and you piss them off and they take it out on the girl at the coffee shop who got up late too and is dead tired and she gets pissed and deliberately burns the coffee of the woman with the baby who was too distracted to say thank you. And that woman with the kid needs that coffee because her newborn is ill and kept her up half the night. But the coffee sucks and she’s so tired and stressed and not coping with postpartum depression that her crap cup of coffee is the final straw as she waits for the red light at the crossing. Next, they’re scraping up her and that newborn from the asphalt and the guy who drove the bus is never going to be the same again.

Tom Wood, author

 

There is a limitation to human understanding. Our ability to comprehend is finite because our brains are physical organs. We do not expect our skin to be fire resistant or our lungs to breathe seawater, so why do we expect our brains to possess all knowledge, to unravel all mysteries? Whatever our faults, arrogance is perhaps our greatest.

It is not how you play the game. It's whether or not your opponent ends up dismembered in the woods.

Once core principals are surrender, it becomes nothing but power, spectacle and image.

Practiced wisdom is not opportunistic judgment. If you make wise judgments, relative to constraints, principles can be compromised but still retained.

 

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
Tom Waits

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness its limbs and outward flourishes, i will be brief

Democracies end when autocrats master the use of the freedoms of democracy to kill democracy.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

 

If there is a hell, if there is an afterlife, I think it is an encyclopedia. You can just look up see what everyone in your life thought about you. And if there is a heaven it is a Wikipedia, and you can change anything it says. 

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. 
If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away. 

 

BJS, a movie great of another time. once a brilliant star in a firmament no longer part of the sky. ecilpsed by the movement of the earth and time. now her world is a projection booth, who's dreams are made of celluloid. She is struck down by hit and run years - and lying on the pavement trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.

From an episode of Twilight Zone.

 

One of my absolute favorites:

Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. 

 

American women may be fun and all Victorias secrets when you first meet them. But as soon as they get their claws into you they stop f****ng, and start eating. And the only ass you are going to get, is a fat one. American women invariably become spouters of self help platitudes, and become addicted to dieting and frozen yogurt. Overall thoroughly nasty, selfish and vain creatures, that don't f***. 

 

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

 

Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, "Being There." Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty handed…

From Tropic Thunder. Classic stuff.

 

Think we are going to find anything? Yeah. We are going to find something. Mother nature is a serial killer. No one is better or more creative. Like all serial killers she can't help the urge to want to get caught. What good are all those brilliant plans if no one takes the credit. So she leaves crumbs. Now the hard part, why you spend a decade in school is seeing the crumbs. For the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loved disguising her weaknesses as strengths.

From the movie World War Z

Angels and Demons can't cross over onto our plane. So, instead we get what I call half-breeds. The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. But a single word can give you courage, or turn your favorite pleasure into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch like those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance. I call it hypocritical BS.

John Constantine

 

What are you most afraid of:
That because the last thing in the world I want to do is tweet or update my Facebook status the soul of youth will vomit me into the cesspool of the old and the worthless.

 

Both of these quotes are from the 1st season of True Detective. Possibly one of the top 3 TV shows in the past 20 years. Both uttered by Rust Cohle, Matthey McConoughey's character. Utterly brilliant writing.

 

I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures what should not exist, by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand and hand into extinction. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

Transference of fear and self loathing to an authoritarian vessel is catharsis. He absorbs their dread with his narrative. Because of this, he is effective in proportion on the amount of certainty he can project. Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus, that rewrites pathways in the brain, and dulls critical thinking.

 

 

 

 

One can learn a lot about someone on these forums.

I just learnt one thing about 007 .    Sit down after i ask him a question ........

[bendejo]

Here's one that I loathe:

I had no choice

 

Tied for first place with:

Someone having to answer for an obvious willful act: "I can't help it"

An ex of mine who aspired to be a corporate powerhouse would use this when it was not possible to blame another person (like throwing a temper tantrum).  She couldn't be held responsible because she was is a re-incarnated samurai, also a re-incarnated ninja.

 

Edited September 30, 2023 by bendejo

[Datsun 1200]

Youth is wasted on the young,

and wisdom is wasted on the old.

IH