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"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are."
"Money is only an idea. If you want more money, simply change your thinking."
"Do not pray when it rains if you do not pray when the sun shines."
"Its choice, not chance, that determines your destiny."
"We must all fear evil men, but there is another kind of evil which we must fear most and that is the indifference of good men."
- Opening scene of The Boondock Saints
Some Scottish guy.
Here are some more Yogi Berra classics:
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it"
and
"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
Where ever you go there you are.
Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all the evidence that you tried.
“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
- Petronius (allegedly)
A couple of others:
If you're not confused, you don't know what's going on.
Jack Welch, (then) CEO & Chairman, General Electric Company
If you think your teacher's bad, wait till you meet your boss.
Bill Gates to a class of school kids.
Syzygy
and an appropriate one from from Sherlock Holmes ...
"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
If you think your teacher's bad, wait till you meet your boss.
A related one I found from a Funny Bunny book, "School prepares you for real life, which also sucks."
From a Star Trek TNG episode.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all the evidence that you tried.
also:
If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving is not for you.
Astor said: "Winston, if I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Churchill replied: "And if you were my wife, i'd drink it."
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Mark Twain had some great one liners too:
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
And of course as my 50 "somethingeth" birthday looms at hand, I can't forget ...
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." - Shakespeare
[edited by: Liane at 10:19 pm (utc) on Sep. 19, 2006]
That one got me through my first year in business. Obviously you have to work on getting the proportions right.
"It's easier to get forgiveness than permission"
"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily".
Think it's from Collosians or something. As said, I don't buy the religion, but I love the attitude in this one.
My family cracked up when I told them the quote about eagles may soar but weasles don't get sucked up into jet engines.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof." -V
"Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." -Einstein
And of course:
"Lorem ipsum dolor [...]" -Unknown person in the 1500s :D
