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Posted by: bingism

Thought I'd start a thread where we can post our favourite sayings, quotes or personal philiosophies:

This one's my own work:

"Love is a fickle beast that sneaks up behind you when you least expect it! It takes courage and faith to accept it, strength and hard work to keep it..."

This one belongs to Madonna of all people (well it was is her book):

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend upon the permission of another."

This one belongs to Confucius (550BC):

"If you find a job you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

"If you do not love yourself then how can you expect anyone else to".

"Build a bridge"

"Live life to the full so don't be half full about it"

"Frowning is a good way to lose weight"

You have to be an Aussie to get the humour behind these or at least a teacher who deals with kids who don't wanna be at school.

Posted by: Samurai_Bob

Best Bush quote:

"I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship."
--George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2006

Favorite royal quote:

“To be kind to all, to like many and love few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
--Mary Stuart (Scottish Queen, 1542-1587)

“It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. “
--W.C. Fields

Favorite quote in literature:

... Ishmael is forced and finally conciliates to sleep in the same bed with Queequeg ,
" Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian . "
--Moby-Dick - by Herman Melville

Posted by: Chrismc

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”

“The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.”

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

Benjamin Franklin

and one from the Dame!!

“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.”

Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )

Posted by: bingism

Cant' remember where these come from:

"Dare to be different."

"The internet is an elite club; most of the World has never used a telephone."

"Bad ideas do not get better on the Internet."

This is one of the Bashkortastan Hero's quotes (I forget which):

"If you want to be happy, be happy!"

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

Bob Marley said in a famous song also done by Bobby Ferris

in every life we have some trouble,
when you worry you make it double
don't worry, be happy

Posted by: bingism

All my own work again:

If you make me jealous, I'll be jealous
If you scorn me, I'll be scornful
If you make me happy, I'll be happy
If you love me, I'll be yours!
I'll be whomever you want me to be.

Posted by: firemansam

Quote:

Originally Posted by bingism

I'll be whomever you want me to be.

For the right price I hope mate...

hehehehehe KIDDING!!!!!

Posted by: Chrismc

Remember: Success is nothing but luck. Just ask any failure.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

- Seneca

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

- Woody Allen

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooo Possums.

Posted by: Ade

'If you love life, then don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.'

-Bruce Lee

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

"Wax on, Wax off" Pat Morita as Mr Miyagi in the Karate Kid teaching the virtues of patience.

Posted by: Pin Boy

what comes around, goes around.

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

i wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have someone like me as a member - groucho marx.

the device has yet to be invented to measure my indifference to that remark. alan alda as hawkeye pierce, tv character on the sitcom MASH

Posted by: ira156

Anyone got a light?
Captain of the hindenberg

Im really a nice guy when you get to know me!
Ivan The Terrible

Im really a nice guy when you get to know me!
GWB

The mongols? Never heard of them!
Chinese emporer

Leave it with us and it will be done in no time.
Australian Immigration

i didnt do it...i was in the spa blowin bubbles!!!
Michael Jackson

I love the fact she has a good head on her shoulders!
Henry VIII

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

"Trust me" anyone in power!!!!!

Posted by: Pin Boy

the sun doesn't shine on the same dog's ass every day. pro baseball manager and mangler of the english language casey stengel.

nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded. pro baseball player yogi berra's response to a fellow player's restaurant suggestion.

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

"In the land of the blind the man with one eye is King" Dunno where it come from but I have seen it used as a signiture in a few forums.

Posted by: waiting123

Quote:

Originally Posted by OzGuyLooking

"In the land of the blind the man with one eye is King" Dunno where it come from but I have seen it used as a signiture in a few forums.

H.G. Wells.

except it is mis-quoted, it should be:

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

I have a talent for remembering useless information! lol...

Posted by: waiting123

"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion." ~ Lord John Emerich

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." ~ Henry Brooke Adams

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

Quote:

Originally Posted by waiting123

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." ~ Henry Brooke Adams

I so agree with this.

Sorry about the blind one, I just thought it was so cool and now you have shattered this image. ha ha ha.

Posted by: ira156

Comlpain about your shoes till you see a man with no shoes......complain about having no shoes till you see a man with no feet~!!!!!!!

Posted by: waiting123

Quote:

Originally Posted by OzGuyLooking

I so agree with this.

Sorry about the blind one, I just thought it was so cool and now you have shattered this image. ha ha ha.

sniff sniff sniff....did not mean to shatter the image of a one-eyed king.... of land or country

In the big picture it is all the same !

Posted by: bingism

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell, 1984

Now for something completly different ("He's not the Messiah, he's just a very naughty boy):

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. "
Sir Winston Churchill

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. "
Sir Winston Churchill

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. "
Winston Churchill

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
Winston Churchill

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
Winston Churchill

"Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?"
Winston Churchill

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

Thanks Waiting I feel better now

, ha ha ha.

Posted by: bingism

and finally, thanks to Confunctious:

"Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok." LOL

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

Apart from hs faux pas of Gallipoli I really like the Winston, he was a funny dude. I don't think he was an optimist though, even if he thought he was.

Posted by: waiting123

"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." ~ Albert Eisnstein

"Only the dead have seen the end of war" ~ Plato

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." ~ Albert Einstein

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted by: waiting123

My personal favourite:

"So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now." ~ William of Baskerville

"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." ~ George H.W. Bush

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

Quote:

Originally Posted by waiting123

"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." ~ George H.W. Bush

Wow heavy duty stuff from GwB and not only that he is correct.

Posted by: waiting123

Quote:

Originally Posted by OzGuyLooking

Wow heavy duty stuff from GwB and not only that he is correct.

No....Not GWB, his daddy said this

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

My boo boo.

Posted by: waiting123

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."~ John Galbraith

"Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." ~ Hector Berloiz

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait." ~ A. Whitney Brown.

Posted by: zumanity

A.Chekhov "Everything should be beautiful in person body, soal and thoughts."............... ....And shoes...

Newton " For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
To every force in nature there is corresponding reaction force.
The reaction force has the same magnitude and acts in the opposite direction.

"it's good to be king to sleep with a queen.. "guess who?

Posted by: bingism

I know these are sappy, but I cam across them during my internet travels and thought that they may be useful here:

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Mozart

"Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is."
Duke Ellington

"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
Francois Mauriac

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
Karen Sunde

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau

"Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see."
Anonymous

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
J. Krishnamurti

"One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved."
Romain Rolland

"There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved."
George Sand

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
Herman Hesse

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
Janos Arnay

"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
Sarah Bernhardt

Posted by: BradIL

Quote:

Originally Posted by bingism

Bangkok

Lovely word... delightful... marketing genuises are born in Thailand/Siam (suit your preference).

Posted by: johnf19083

Unless you are the lead dog the view never changes

it is what it is

I am so miserable without you.. it’s almost like having you here

do not get angry with your customers - take thier money

eat, drink and remarry

Posted by: Chrismc

A few Mark Twain quotes:-

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“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 by how much he'd learned in seven years.”

“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.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first”

Chris

Posted by: andrei

Some talk about killing people and can't even kill time
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If she has cancer in her breast, don't ask her why she's stressed
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and my signature

Posted by: Volga Trader

Quote:

Originally Posted by BradIL

Lovely word... delightful... marketing genuises are born in Thailand/Siam (suit your preference).

Phuket Island