I love good quotes!

[NDBoiler]

"Its better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." I've heard it attributed to Abe Lincoln and Mark Twain.

 

[Old Man Mike]

"A man does not test the depth of the river with both feet".

Nigerian Proverb.

and the related classic: "Darkness hides the Hippopotamus".

 

[IrishSteelhead]

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."

-Mark Twain

*Sorry if already posted.

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

"A man does not test the depth of the river with both feet".

Nigerian Proverb.

and the related classic: "Darkness hides the Hippopotamus".

Thanks for posting these. I am going to work these into talking to my wife tonight.

 

[Old Man Mike]

They're conversation stoppers, that's for sure.

I have had friends whose eyes momentarily glazed over, and one who would b-b-b-b-b-b-b for a while and wave his hands in the air. One needs to take every opportunity that life provides for certain things. [seems someone said that too.... Evil Knievil? Hugh Hefner? Beau Benken??].

 

[irishog77]

They're conversation stoppers, that's for sure.

I have had friends whose eyes momentarily glazed over, and one who would b-b-b-b-b-b-b for a while and wave his hands in the air. One needs to take every opportunity that life provides for certain things. [seems someone said that too.... Evil Knievil? Hugh Hefner? Beau Benken??].

It was Grubl.

 

[Bubba]

"Dude, that's gonna come back to bite you in the butt." ~ my son a few weeks ago.

 

[BeauBenken]

Think that turned out to be a fake Seth Rogen account though...

 

[ACamp1900]

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

Some great ones from Ronald Reagan.

 

[Irish Houstonian]

"The hen is the wisest of all animals. Because she only cackles after the egg is laid."

President Lincoln, following Gen. Hooker's loss to Gen. Lee at Chancellorsville. Hooker had said something like "I'll whip Lee, and Lord have mercy on the General for I shall have none." Little did he know Chancellorsville would be Lee's masterpiece, splitting his forces twice and defeating Hooker while facing a superior enemy.

 

[BobD]

Rub some dirt on it and get back in the game. ~Unknown

Thanks for the great quotes you guys added today! reps for all.

 

[Black Irish]

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're misinformed."

Mark Twain

 

[PJWhitfield]

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." --Jack London

 

[Irish Houstonian]

"Split in both directions and charge both ways."

-Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest after being surrounded at Parker's Crossroads, the only time the North surprised him. His regiment escaped.

He started as a private, and rose the fastest in rank of any man in the war. The son of an illiterate blacksmith, he funded his calvary largely out of his own pocket.

He defeated 31 men in hand-to-hand combat, and had 30 horses shot from under him.

W.T. Sherman would end up calling him the "most brilliant man the War produced -- on either side."

 

[ACamp1900]

Steve Jobs... as a teacher, I totally agree... but if nothing else it is a very interesting quote for Jobs of all people

"What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in, they couldn't get rid of people that they thought weren't any good? Not really great ones, because if you're really smart, you go, 'I can't win.'... what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way. This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy."

 

[TDHeysus]

"Just because a system is working now, or has worked in the past, does not mean that system has been working properly."

-unknown school district employee

 

[ACamp1900]

"If God were a woman sperm would taste of chocolate"

Carrie Snow

lmao

 

[Bubba]

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

 

[no.1IrishFan]

"If you have a small business, you didn't build that. Someone else made that happen". Barack Hussein Obama

 

[DSully1995]

If you have a small business, you didn't build that. Someone else made that happen. Barack Hussein Obama

Your italics arent showing.

 

[DSully1995]

Steve Jobs... as a teacher, I totally agree... but if nothing else it is a very interesting quote for Jobs of all people

"What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in, they couldn't get rid of people that they thought weren't any good? Not really great ones, because if you're really smart, you go, 'I can't win.'... what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way. This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy."

Good quote, even the threat of firing elevates everyone to do better.

 

[4irishnation]

If you have a small business, you didn't build that. Someone else made that happen. Barack Hussein Obama
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OH SNAP!!!!! "By some club kids in NYC or something in late 70's or early 80's"

 

[4irishnation]

I think you're all f#cked in the head! We're ten hours from the f#cking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something, this is no longer a vacation, it's a quest. It's a quest for fun, I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun, we're all gonna have so much f#cking fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our godd@mn smiles! Youll be whistling Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah out of your @ssholes! I gotta be crazy; I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose! Praise Marty Moose! Oh sh!t Don't touch! Clark W. Griswold

 

[Irishnuke]

"If it ain't broke, fix it til it is."
- Navy nuclear power field motto

 

[Quinntastic]

"You're so beautiful - like a tree. Or a high class prostitute." - Flight of the Conchords

 

[irisheyes]

I don't want to be a millionaire, I just want to live like one.
Wish in one hand and **** in the other, see which one fills up first
If you find a hole, stick something in it.

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[BobD]

 

[Old Man Mike]

"We Can Do'er, If There Ain't Much To'er".

Local Weight-lifting Gym's motto.

 

[dshans]

"It's been my experience that opinions are rarely, if ever, humble. They shouldn't be. They can be humbly presented, but the rightness or wrongness are always in the eye of the beholder."

– dshans, 2013

 

[Booslum31]

"Don't tell me how stormy the sea is...just bring the ships home"

Jerry Glandville...Defensive Coord at Bills when I tried out in 1983.