I searched and found some similar threads but nothing exact.

We can call this thread "Favorite Famous Quotes"

Have fun & play nice <====not a famous quote, I'm just sayin' :D


I'll start of with a few to give an idea of what I'm looking for.


Click on my sig pic and get this:

Teddy Roosevelt - To the Man in the Arena (1910)

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled 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 knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."


Einstein - A Human Being is Part of the Whole

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty."


One more from Albert

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."

Mark Twain

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig."

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

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."

Dalai Lama

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

"Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time."

related

Pink Floyd

"The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime."

A few from Edward Abbey (http://www.jameslogancourier.org/index.php?itemid=440) and I'll quit it

"Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit."

"Life without music would be an intolerable insult."

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

"Freedom begins between the ears."

"We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve the manners around here."

The true mark of genius is not perfection but originality; the opening of new frontiers.

-Arthur Koestler

"I never apologize.
I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am."

Homer J. Simpson

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Larry The Cable Guy

When your up to your a$$ in alligators you finally remember, your first objective was to drain the swam.
Author Unknown I remember reading this when I was a kid and found out later in life how true it is.

The Yankee Motto

Use it up, Wear it out, Make do, Or do without.


USS Dixie AD-14 decommissioned 1982 - Ship's Motto

“We’ve been doing so much with so little for so long, that we're now qualified to do anything with nothing.”— Anonymous


Benjamin Franklin

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth."

— Shel Silverstein

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Frank Zappa

Crime does not pay...as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

"I think it is better to risk my life
and to be a "has been"
than to never have been at all.
Even though crippled and busted in half,
it has been better to take a chance
to win a victory
or suffer a defeat
than to live like others do
who will never know
a victory or defeat
because they have had not the guts
to try either."

Evel Knievel :cool:

One of my favs:



Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Hunter S. Thompson

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine and a whole multicolored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers . . . Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon . . ."

"No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough"

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."

"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later."

"My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120 and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that . . . and there I'd be, sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me and a case of dynamite in the trunk . . . honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It'd be a tremendous goddam explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt."

Last thing he wrote

"Football seasons over. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bi+chy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."

RIP - blew his brains out at 67 years of age
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"

"run silent run deep" ... my dad not a famous person but that has become the motto of my life

now for a famous person
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Ben Franklin

"Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheeze freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze."
Fox

WE are the makers of music, and WE are the dreamers of dreams.

-Willy Wonka to Veruca Salt when she expressed indignant disbelief in the existence of Snozzberries.

(the origination of this quote is the poet Arthur Shaughnessy)

Life Is To Short To Drive Boring Cars.....Me:D

Everybodys got a plan till they get punched in the mouth..........Mike Tyson

“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.”

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.”

Ronald Reagan

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Humor is reason gone mad.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Women should be obscene and not heard.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

A cop stopped me for speeding. He said, "Why were you going so fast?" I said,
"See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down
on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off.
And see this thing? This steers it."

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you
see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read."

When a man talks dirty to a woman, its sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 per minute.
Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?
Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?
If "con" is the opposite of "pro", what is the opposite of progress?

Humans say the Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Why? Do they think there's a shortage of bad ones?
Karm'Luk P'an Ku, "The Joy of Lucidity" CY 8633

“We are a generation of men raised by women, somehow I don’t think another woman is the answer!”
Tyler Durden from Fight Club

When choosing between two evils, choose the one with the largest breasts.
Me

metaquote:

Milan Lucic on WZLX [October 30], when asked "if you were in a dark alley with another man, could you kill him with your bare hands?"
He replied: "I think so, I would just rip his arm off and beat him with it"

"Glad to hear Lucic is coming to accept his abilities." - Jack Thibault on Caveman Strong (http://cavemanstrong.blogspot.com/)'s Facebook wall

What, me worry?
Alfred E. Neuman

"Here, hold my beer and watch this"
Famous last words.

Another that I like:

~ I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating ~ Sophocles

"Amigo! Amigo!"
--George W. Bush, calling out to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Spanish at the G-8 Summit, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

Don't judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honorable life... Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

Don 't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around..

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
--
Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight,
he'll just kill you.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer to the end you get, the faster it goes

"Run Kate! Dammit Run!!!" - Jack

"I'm not a Moron! I'm a Presbyterian!"
-George W Bush

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Attributed to Voltaire

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.
--Ronald Reagan--

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stewart Mill--

From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
--Thomas Jefferson--

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--

Its easy to quit smoking, I've done it a million times- mark twain

Some quotes from George Best, ex British and Manchester United footballer...


"I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep."


"I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World."


and my personal favourite:


"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

" Id quit drinking...................but everybody hates a quitter.............."

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.
-- Dennis Miller

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.
This principle is, contempt prior to examination."

Misattributed to Herbert Spencer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer).
Actually a misquote from William Paley (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Paley).

Also from William Paley in Natural Theology : or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1802)

"Virtue is infinitely various.
There is no situation in which a rational being is placed, from that of the best instructed Christian down to the condition of the rudest barbarian, which affords not room for moral agency; for the acquisition, exercise, and display of voluntary qualities, good and bad.
Health and sickness, enjoyment and suffering, riches and poverty, knowledge and ignorance, power and subjection, liberty and bondage, civilisation and barbarity, have all their offices and duties, all serve for the formation of character: for when we speak of a state of trial, it must be remembered, that characters are not only tried, or proved, or detected, but that they are generated also, and formed, by circumstances.
The best dispositions may subsist under the most depressed, the most afflicted fortunes."

I just read this for the first time today when I was searching that first quote that I've enjoyed for about 22 years.

My take on it is this example from my life:

My wife and I were driving north on Interstate 93 from NH to Vermont on our honeymoon about 8 years ago.
We saw a mess of splattered ducks up ahead with a MC biker holding an injured duck in his arms by the side of the carnage on the road.
We pulled over to offer assistance if we could.
He was a scary, rough 1% MC patched guy with tears welling in his eyes from desperation, frustration & compassion.
He saw cars ahead of him run right through a family of ducks crossing the road without swerving or slowing. No brakelights. Nothing.
He knew the area so we took the duck and followed him to the local animal emergency clinic.
We chatted with him there and he's friends with our friend that's the Prez of a Cape Cod Chapter 1% MC.

It doesn't matter where he came from or what he's done in the past, when it came to that injured duck that he wanted to help he was a 10 year old kid with a good heart.
That was one of the most touching events of my life.

Very common English idiom "don't judge a book by its cover"
origin - Roman author Juvenal (1st and 2nd centuries AD)

"mmmm, donuts" - Homer Simpson

Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. Larry the cable guy.

Say hello to my little friend.
Pacino :eek:

Say hello to my little friend.
Pacino :eek:

I think you might be confused. Isn't that what Batman always said when he was introducing Robin?

If at first you don't succeed, keep on succin til you do succeed! - Curly Howard.

:lol:Batman and robin needed no introductions, They were the dynamic duo. :cool:

Come on batman and robin walk into a bar and someone says hi , I'm bill , And you are ?






























Um, I'm batman ,





















And this is robin.








Hello :lol:

A rabbi walks into a bar and says....... Ouch!

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. - Roger Zelazny

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Emerson

"It took a lot of water to down just that ****ing bat's head, let me tell you.

Ozzy Osbourne

"It took a lot of water to down just that ****ing bat's head, let me tell you.

Ozzy Osbourne

:cool:

Me and them motley crue guys, we ran out of the cocaine, then i saw a line of ants walking and said hey boys, --ck -t , it's a line. -ozzy

Only the ozz man. :lol:

:cool:

Me and them motley crue guys, we ran out of the cocaine, then i saw a line of ants walking and said hey boys, --ck -t , it's a line. -ozzy

Only the ozz man. :lol:

Leave it to the Batman to change the subject to ants!!!!

I got nothin, You got me. :red:

:cool:

Only the ozz man. :lol:

“My name is not Oswald! It's Penguin! I am not a human being. I am an animal! Cold-blooded.”

The Penguin.

Life is not a spelling bee, where you make one mistake and you are out. Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses almost half its games, and even the worst has shining moments of excellence. . .

A quote in a magazine in a waiting room. Memorized the quote, not the name.

i have given a name to my pain, and it's Batman.

The joker

"If I'd have known that I was going to live so long, I would have taken better care of myself."
Kurt Drew

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
W.C. Fields

The Joker is a menace to society, And he shall be treated as such. :lol:

THE BATMAN (3-31-2010)

Houston........ we have a problem.

Apollo 13.

The Joker is a menace to society, And he shall be treated as such. :lol:

THE BATMAN (3-31-2010)

"And now, folks, it's time for "Who do you trust!" Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money. And where is the Batman? HE'S AT HOME WASHING HIS TIGHTS!":D

The Joker

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::thumb:

You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with.

the Joker

Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience - (1849) (http://www.walden.org/documents/file/Library/Thoreau/writings/Writings1906/04Cape/CivilDisobedience.pdf)

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."

"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."

George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)

Frank Loyd Wright (1869-1959)

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"

Will Rogers (1897-1935)

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."

" Crazy People make the world go round !! like the one guy who spends all day running " - mine

" don't shoot him it will only make him angry ! " - Gene Wilder- Blazing Saddles

Air force definition of explosives: A loud noise followed by the sudden going away of what was once there a second ago.....

A TRULY lazy person does the job right the first time so as he never has to go back and do it again....My great grandfather whom I owe my user name to Axle Callenburg

My favorite Days of Thunder quotes If you are a Nascar fan you'll love 'em

1. Harry: "I want you to go out there and hit the pace car"

Cole: "Hit the PACE car?"

Harry: "YA! you've hit every other gull darn thing out there I want you to be perfect!"

2. Crew member: "Well looky there a panel we don't have to fix"
(Harry pulls his foot back and kicks the door with all he has)
KA-BAM!

Harry: "I don't want you boys gettin' spoiled on me"

3. Cole: "I need to come in I need tires"

Harry: "Nope can't do that right now"

Cole: "why not what are you doing"

Harry: "Eating ICE-CREAM I'd offer you some but I don't think NASCAR would look too kindly on you eating ice-cream you are having a hard enough time driving out there as it is."

The scene that ensues is funny....

3. Cole: "Oh this is gunna hurt"

4. CRASH on the track

Cole: " good news is the accelerator is un-stuck bad news is I only have 1 gear" As the car drives into the pits backwards

5. Roudy: "The only time my family goes to the hospital is if a limb is missing or their dying"

Cole: (bat in hand) "Well we can go to the hospital" (Ka Bam with the bat against the pool table) "or we can fit right here" "NOW! what's it gunna be?"

6. Cole: "Now Harry WHO is this?"

Harry: "Cole this is your doctor, Dr. Luwicki"

Cole: "Oh right sure Dr. Luwicki this is a good costume Harry you got the coat and the stethoscope and everything"

Harry: "NO Cole this IS your doctor"

Dr: "I'm here to check you out I was do to leave but I figured since you are awake I would do so before I left."

She moves in closer to start the examination

Cole: grabbing her hand puts it in his crotch and says " hey doc isn't this really what you're looking for?"

Dr: "be that as it may it really isn't my specialty" And she exits

Cole looking over at Harry "she's really my doctor?"

Harry: "Well now Cole we wouldn't play a trick on you, and I'm tryin' not to laugh, in a situation like this"

Cole: " get out all of you get out"

The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well. Unknown

Ah yes, Women are like Elephants...You like to look at them but you wouldn't want to own one. WCFields

I got the need, THE NEED FOR SPEED! :cool:

I bet someone else said this but I got it from my dad and he famous from my point of few..

No trees were harmed in the production of this message.
However, an extremely large number of electrons were rather annoyed.

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing."


Authored by.......some guy testifying before a grand jury, after getting a BJ

“Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.” Steve Martin

"I wear the pants around this house!!!!(when she's at work)

As a matter of biology, if something bites you it is probably female.
- Scott M. Kruse

"Since food has replaced sex in my marriage, I can't even get in to my own pants!"

Rodney Dangerfield

“I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.”

Rodney Dangerfield

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first."

David H. Comins

"it's one thing for people to think you are stupid, its another to open your mouth and prove it"

My Dad

I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.
Teri Hatcher

Hows your day going ?

ok, How bout you ?

"Any better and i could'nt stand it."

My Dad (also an HHR SS owner)

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Lenny Kravitz

"Zed's Dead, Baby, Zed's Dead..." - Butchie

"a fella hadn't ought ta run from nothin cause a man jest cant git nothing did that a way."
Festus Hagan

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
- Eddie Rickenbacher

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." -- Edward Abbey

"Resist much, obey little" -- Walt Whitman

Edward Abbey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey) (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989)

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the government and outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

Let us hope our weapons are never needed—but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life - that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

The essence of true wilderness is big mammals that can eat you.

Climbing K-2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube: There are some things one would rather *have done* than *do*

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

always pull up survey stakes, anywhere you find them. anywhere.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets--the seventeen who got away.

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

Permanen ser sentados, Por favor. Remain seated Please. - Matterhorn; Disneyland. ;):nuts:

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.


It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin

"If ever a time should come, when vain and
aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government,
our country will be in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its
ruin." - Samuel Adams, 1776

Regulators, such as the SEC sat around during the Madoff and Sanford scandals doing nothing, they need to be marginalized. As it has been said before, there is no end to the travesties of justice that take place under Big Government.

Someone who cares.

"If ever a time should come, when vain and
aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government,
our country will be in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its
ruin." - Samuel Adams, 1776

"Samuel Adams Makes a hell of a beer"


THE BATMAN 6-3-2010 :D

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?;)
- Stephen Wright

Nope just pure talent. and yes damn good beer. Wasn't he a friend of Ben Franklin?

Ben traded himself off for the first case.................( lets see who misses that)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

"Praise Your God, Drink your Rum, Mind your own business." Derek Walcott (St. Lucian Nobel Prize winning poet)

"Who is John Galt?" Ayn Rand

"I swear by my life and for the love of it that I shall not live for the sake of another, nor ask another to live for the sake of mine." Ayn Rand

Jim

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Richard Bach

From Modern Family on ABC:

Things Phil wants: Robot dog, night vision goggles, bug vacuum, GPS watch, speakers that look like rocks, yogurt maker. He can't stop thinking of things he wants....

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.


Groucho Marx

"She said fu*k me like Chopin or don't fu*k me at all" - David Lee Roth

aim low...reach your goals...avoid dissapointment.
lol

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes - the ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

- Jack Kerouac -

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Nelson

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Nelson

So true. :thumb:

"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt.
Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."

- Mark Twain -

"The early bird gets the worm but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese"

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
~~~Winston Churchill~~~

“No person was ever honored for what he received. He was honored for what he gave.”

Calvin Coolidge

"I want you to hit me as hard as you can."

- Tyler Durden (http://8-0.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/tyler-durden.jpg) -

I want to hit you but I dont want to be sued by your parents........

1st rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

"Now, a question of etiquette - as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch?" - Tyler

"My God. I haven't been ****ed like that since grade school." - Marla Singer

"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time." - narrator

* * *
“Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.”

F. LeBoyer

"The self-declared former "King" will be taking the "curse" with him down south. And until he does "right" by Cleveland and Ohio, LeBron James (and the town where he plays) will unfortunately own this dreaded spell and bad karma".

Dan Gilbert (Owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers)

Stated and posted to the team's website at a time that was obviously past his nap time.

“The way your head works is God's own private mystery."

== Sailor Ripley to Lula in David Lynch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch#Filmography)'s Wild At Heart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_at_Heart_(film)) ==

to: BP

“The earth is not ours, nor did God create it for us to do with as we please.

Michael L Blaine.

You are bound and determined to look for the quarter at the intersection where the light is better instead of middle of the block where you dropped it.

See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite, and gunpowder...

The Joker

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it"

William Durant

One must have strategies to execute dreams, but one must have a dream in order to execute strategies.

Its all fun and games until someone loses a weiner..............

"I'm sobbing. The baby's screaming. The doctor's cutting. There's blood everywhere. And the doctor looked into my face and said, 'There's no medical reason for doing this.'" ---Marilyn Milos, RN

"Holy Shit"!!.....George Armstrong Custer, June 1876

A person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it. :bow:

"'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs."

-Lin Yutang (1895 – 1976)


"The difficult I can do today. The impossible will take a little longer."

- Billie Holiday (1915-1959)


"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

- Anatole France (1884-1924)


"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

- William Faulkner (1897-1962)


"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

- Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)


"They are able because they think they are able."

- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

"Shazbot. Nanu-nanu."

Has the fact that you're completely psycho managed to escape your attention?

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

++Edgar Allen Poe++

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."


Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I can keep a handle on anything just this side of deranged"

ZZ Top

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."

Albert Camus

"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Necessity... the mother of invention"

Plato



"CREAM . . . cheese
Cream-cheese
(Creamcheese!)
Creamcheese
Creamchee . . . (ese!)
(F*CK!)
Creamcheese
Creamcheese
Creamcheese
Creamcheese
Creamcheese
Cream . . . cheese
Cheese, cheese-cream
I know, creamcheese
(Cream . . . )
Ah . . . a-ha!
Cream, cream, cream . . . CHEESE
CREAM-CHEESE!
CREAM-CHEESE!
Creamcheese, creamcheese, cream-m-m-m-cheese
(Cheese?)
A-ha-ha-ha! Cream, cheese
Creamcheese . . ."

The Mothers Of Invention (w/Suzie Creamcheese)



"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

Frank Zappa

.

Best Frank Zappa ever...

Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

:lol:

"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT."

"For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973."

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll gonna murder you in your sleep.

Dweezil's Father

"I was in the motel one night practicing in my room and this dude stuck his head in the door and said, 'Hey-y man, I thought I heard something going on in here.'
It was Jimi Hendrix. I was speechless. I couldn't move.
He took my guitar away and lay down across the bed with his head dangling towards the floor, looking at the ceiling.
He'd run off this incredible line and then look up at me and said, (in Hendrix space-drawl tones) 'Say, man, c'n you do that?'
Then he'd laugh and play some more. After that he started teaching me. I learned a lot from him."

Billy Gibbons


Billy and some friends spent time trekking through Nepal, searching for hidden, exotic musical instruments.
Before long, this adventure turned into Billy searching for the Yeti.

"I had an encounter with something up there. I don't know what it was, but I wrote a song about it called (I Wouldn't Touch It With A) Ten Foot Pole"

I can't believe you Texans (and ZZ Top fans) haven't posted this one yet.

"Hallelujah, hallelujah, ride my Chevrolet." - ZZ Top

Henry Fool (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122529/): "It's a philosophy. A poetics. A politics, if you will. A literature of protest. A novel of ideas.
A pornographic magazine of truly comic book proportions. It is, in the end, whatever the hell I want it to be.
And when I'm through with it it's going to blow a hole this wide straight through the world's own idea of itself."

[sound of bottles breaking]

Henry Fool (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122529/): "They're throwing bottles at your house. Come on. Let's go break their arms."

From another Hal Hartley movie called The Book of Life (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167059/)

[Jesus and Satan are doing shots in a bar discussing humans]

Satan: It's amazing the things they do. They're inventing themselves now. Artificial intelligence and cybergenetics and so on.
Jesus Christ: It's impressive, I admit.
Satan: They're cross-fertilizing pears with apples and goats with sheeps, tobacco plants with lightning bugs.
Jesus Christ: Now that's just stupid.
Satan: Well, I agree

[different scene]

Lawyer: It's the Mormons. I'm outta here, you're on your own.
Jesus Christ: Now, who are the Mormons again?

[different scene]

Jesus Christ: I had considered the truth of the gospels to be self evident, but I had no idea it would be perverted by people who claimed to preach it in my name.

[different scene]

Satan: I talked to your boyfriend today.
Magdalena: You're so unimaginative.

"I could never belong to a club that would have someone like me as a member"

Groucho Marx...

"Man is the only animal, content with worrying his life away"

Emerson

"Overwhelming force, is always an acceptable option when faced with the unknown"

Carl Sagen when asked how the military would react to an alien visitation. (when he was designing the plaques for the Voyager spacecraft)
Not one of his positive comments, sarcastic, but most likely true.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."
-Sonny Barger


.

Jimmy Buffett

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead!

"Adventure is just bad planning"- Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Arctic & Antarctic explorer

"And then one day you find, Ten years have got behind you, No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun" - From Pink Floyd's "Time"

"The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death" - From Pink Floyd's "Time"

"I only know what I can see, but I imagine what could be" - Ian Bairnson, from the Alan Parson's album "On Air"

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

- Abigail Van Buren

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

"Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning"

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-∞)


"The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street."

-Aaron Copland


"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons.
First, to discourage the composer from writing any more, and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."

-Jascha Heifetz


"Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain."

-- Michael Bakunin


"It's sunny out. I'm going for a ride."

--Me

.

The meek shall inherit the earth.

Frank Zappa

The meek shall inherit nothing.

Frank Zappa

"If I were capable of killing a man, I would kill Mussolini." - Arturo Toscanini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini)

"I am not wicked---fiery blood
is all my malice, and my crime is youth.
Wicked I am not, truly I am not wicked;
Though wild up-surgings often may plead against my heart.
My heart is good.
To help wherever one can,
Love liberty above all things,
Never deny the truth
Even at the foot of the throne!"

(Lines inscribed in a friend's album --- c. 1792-3)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - ∞)

Me 'ead 'erts!!"





Monty Python Twit #7

"I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ?
To this very moment..." :itsok:

— Jean-Paul Sartre

"How many times can you get tazed in the nuts before you can't have kids?”

-- Leo, convulsing, Transformers 2 --

“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.”
....Ronald Reagan


OOORAH! Semper Fi! :twothumbs:




"the only difference between a wise man and a fool is the magnitude of the mistakes they make....no one trusts the fool with important decisions"
-unknown


"we're surrounded; that greatly simplifies the situation"
-Gen. Lewis B. Puller, USMC


"don't try to impress people...just be impressive"
-unkown

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
-George Carlin

oh yeah- Found On Road Dead. not much of a quote though

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived--forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.
--Søren Kierkegaard

That is f---in deep. :lol: :smile: :batman:

Batman's Creed...
"...the individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself."
~ Dr. Thomas Wayne, 1948

"Humanity has won it's battle, liberty now has a country"

Gilbert De LaFayette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_marquis_de_Lafayette) (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834)

--Author of "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citize n)
--Important French General in the American Revolutionary War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#Southern_theater)
--Was forbidden to go to America to join the war under threat of imprisonment so he bought a ship and came anyway
--He was so loved here that when he returned to America after the French Revolution 80,000 people had amassed at Staten Island to greet him.
----New York only had a population of 120,000 at the time.
--Close personal friend of George Washington & Ben Franklin
--He loved America so much that he brought soil from the Bunker Hill battleground (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill) with him back to France, he's buried under American soil in Paris
--Strong early proponent for human rights and all around hot shit :beer:

There's a great show about him on PBS this week called Lafayette: The Lost Hero (http://www.pbs.org/lafayette/)

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.



Søren Kierkegaard

Interesting character but too cerebral for me.
I've never had the patience for introspective philosophy.

This is me on the right, I tried Plato once but prefer cake.
I cry because Evelyn the modified dog (http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/frankzappa/evelynamodifieddog.asp) can only say arf.

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/F/fleetwood_mystf.jpg

Actually I'm reading Lies My Teacher Taught Me (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743296281) when I sit and think and shit and stink
and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 (http://www.amazon.com/Ninth-Beethoven-World-1824/dp/140006077X) when I smoke and caffeinate in the garage.


"Mongo like Sheriff Bart, Sheriff Bart only man ever whip Mongo!"
.

To Mowgli, a wise man--- :thumb:

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.:wink:

Soren Kierkegaard

"Can't we all just get along?"

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2951/article119848400c69a060.jpg

Rodney King :D

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2010 HHR PANEL LS 2.2L

A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted. ~Author Unknown

I ain't gonna squash it. And you don't need to wash it! - Zappa

I ain't gonna squash it. And you don't need to wash it! - Zappa

Mary: What is it?

Larry: It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 You'll love it...

Mary: What is it?

Larry: It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 You'll love it...

Mary: With leather?

Trade your spot on the bench
For a guy with a wrench


ROAD CREW CHORUS :twothumbs:

And so MARY was enticed away from Joe
By an evil barbarian with a wrench in his pocket
Lured into a life of SLEAZERY
With the entire road crew of some Famous Rock Group

Frank

"The best sound is silencing critics" -= Hockey Night In Canada commercial =-
.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series. ~Steve Rushin

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
Sam Levenson

" I Love it when a plan comes together !! " Colonel John Hannibal Smith . the A Team

"Political Correctness is a doctrine,
fostered by a delusional, illogical minority,
and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Winning entry in an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.

"We're about violence and destruction, destroying objects and material possessions of our greedy society, which must be a healthy satire"

RIP Wendy O Williams (http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/WendyOBio.html) (1949 - 1998)

http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/WhendyO.Images/wendy2.jpg

"If you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem...."
Unknown

"If you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem...."
Unknown

That would be John McClane in the movie "Die Hard"

probably not original to the movie, I'm just sayin...

That would be John McClane in the movie "Die Hard"

probably not original to the movie, I'm just sayin...

I'd heard the quote long before the movie came out. Didn't realize the quote was in the movie, and it's one of my favorites. LOL.

I mostly hear it in church basements while drinking hi-octane coffee - 20 miles into the woods ~ 12 Steps got me out

"If you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem...."
Unknown

I think that was something Adam said to Eve. :givemebeer:

"Gunter glieben glauchen globen"

- Mutt Lange

the united states is the only country in the world to go from barbarance to decadence without ever knowing civilization.

i heard this about 40 years ago and i don't know who said it first.

Our High School Class Chant:

"I'll Exx Yours"

"You Exx Mine"

"We're the Class of '69"


Very uplifting and so very mature, but remember - it was high school 40 years ago. Assume this is OK, as we're in the Lounge. :)

Our High School Class Chant:

"I'll Exx Yours"

"You Exx Mine"

"We're the Class of '69"


Very uplifting and so very mature, but remember - it was high school 40 years ago. Assume this is OK, as we're in the Lounge. :)

It's only ok if you uncensor it :thumb:

That was the uncensored version. The censored version read:

You're mine.

I'm yours.

We are the Class of "69".

"NUTS!" Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe 101st Airborne..Bastogne, Belgium 17-26 December 1944. In response the to formal German request to surrender his troops to superior forces. :patriot:

Dr. Walter Bishop - "Excellent! Let's make some LSD!" :biggrin2:

Fringe ~ Pilot episode

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly"

--Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzsche--

bumping-my-own-cool-thread-day

Our High School Class Chant:

"I'll Exx Yours"

"You Exx Mine"

"We're the Class of '69"


Very uplifting and so very mature, but remember - it was high school 40 years ago. Assume this is OK, as we're in the Lounge. :)

I was in the class of '69. Don't remember this. Or maybe I just wasn't listening........

"When I tell you move, you'll move fast. When I tell you to jump, you're gonna say, "How high?" And make no mistake. I don't care where you come from, I don't care what color you are, I don't care how smart you are, I don't care how dumb you are, 'cause I'm gonna teach every last one of you how to eat, sleep, walk, talk, shoot, s**t like a United States soldier. Understand?"

Warren Oates as Sgt. Hulka in Stripes (1981)

Eat, F**k, Suck, Bite, Nibble, Gobble, Chew.
We're HM-14, Who the F**K are you?

U.S. Navy's Helicopter Mine Counter Measures Squadron 14 (call sign Vulcan) after a night at the bar, "E" Club, or where ever there was large amounts of alcohol consumed & usually at the top of our lungs!!!!!!!!!!!!!:skull1::patriot::beer2:

"I crashed, it is possible to crash out there you know"

--Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts 1929-1964--

"That's some bad hat Harry"

- Bad Hat Harry Productions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(TV_series))

http://chanarchive.org/content/1_b/314030763/1299434735963.jpg http://www.chevyhhr.net/gallery/files/1/5/4/3/4/houseinvitadoscarmenele.jpg

"A perfection of means and a confusion of aims; that seems to be our main problem." - Albert Einstein

I heard a good one yesterday, and then used it with my soccer-playing son last night:

"The truth is you only score a goal maybe one of every five shots, but you miss EVERY shot you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

That one works in other parts of life besides sports as well...:thumb:

"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."

- Murphy

Ask any racer, any real racer. It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning

dominic toretto