I love good quotes!

[A2forND]

Climate is what you can expect, weather is what you get--Mark Twain

 

[Black Irish]

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

 

[Irish2155]

"If you make a mistake you're human. Make the same mistake twice you're a f-ing idiot"

"I don't recruit milk drinkers. I want G. D. f-ing beer drinkers. We take sh-t from nobody."

My college baseball coach, ha. He was awesome.

 

[ACamp1900]

"We will run through a river sh1t in order to become a better football team!!!... Now, you... go get the hose and turn it on... you two go grab those bags of manure!"

-My old football coach...

 

[Irish2155]

"G. Damn it (insert name here), you're big enough to eat hay and sh-t in the street. Wear the f-ing pitch"

 

[BobD]

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

 

[Black Irish]

"What are those guys staring at?"

The barely clothed girls wearing 5 inch FM heels coming out of an Atlantic City night club. True story.

 

[BobD]

 

[Bogtrotter07]

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Black Irish]

Yes, you are my friend. Yes, you are my neighbor. Yes, you are my relative. But my business does not know you."

A sign on a store in Africa from P.J. O'Rourke's "Eat the Rich."

 

[Kaneyoufeelit]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Now THAT'S a quote. RT <a href="https://twitter.com/ChipBrownOB">@ChipBrownOB</a>: I asked <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Baylor&src=hash">#Baylor</a> S Ahmad Dixon if the Bears could win the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Big12&src=hash">#Big12</a>. He said, "Can God save a hooker?"</p>— Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFeldmanCBS/statuses/359813108841189376">July 23, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Indeed it is

 

[BobD]

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
— Winston Churchill

 

[Black Irish]

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius

 

[BobD]

“I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.”

― Andy Rooney

Proof that women do speed up our demise.

 

[Booslum31]

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical

- Yogi berra

 

[Black Irish]

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

 

[woolybug25]

 

[Black Irish]

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

 

[NDBoiler]

W.I.N. - What's Important Now

One of my fav's from Lou Holtz.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Nietzsche

 

[ACamp1900]

"I am a Scotsman; therefore I had to fight my way into the world"--- Sir Walter Scott

 

[Bogtrotter07]

"I am an Irishman, so I will still be fighting on the way out!"
Bogtrotter



"Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments."
Randy K. Milholland

 

[Irish#1]

"Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day"......Confucious

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party." Ron White.

 

[Irish#1]

"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."....Lana Turner

 

[Irish#1]

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."...Bill Cosby

 

[Irish#1]

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."....Albert Einstein

 

[Irish#1]

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."....elbert Hubbard

 

[Irish#1]

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."....Frank Sinatra

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy

 

[ACamp1900]

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.- Lou Holtz....


And one of my favs, that I can't find the exact wording for, but after the famed Ivory Covington one yard tackle to escape Army at the last second, a week or so after ND stomped SC, Lou Holtz was asked why his players played so well against SC but needed a miracle tackle to beat Army...

His response will endure him forever in my heart...


"Easy, Army has better players"