Famous quotes

or not so famous quotes....

[johnhh]

Been trying to get this on the Google forum but nowhere appropiate. Article on business in national paper featuring AOL ( as it was ) and BP.

When powerful leaders are plagued with over-confidence, the consequences for performance can be detrimental

i.e they bet the farm on a hunch as they were right last time.

[lawman]

Fred "The Hammer" Williamson brought his football swagger to his brief stint on Monday Night Football. Once, when the camera cut to the broadcast booth, there was The Hammer with a big cigar. Howard Cosell said, "There you are" to which The Hammer replied, "everybody's always somewhere Howard."

Not so famous. Don't know why it stuck with me.

[johnhh]

@lawman nice one

UK based. Went to a Monday Night Football game once in Miami - amazed they sold beer and you could pass cash and beer down the seats and actually get it ! ... another thread perhaps...

more Quotes of a lifetime please

"life is too short lets move on"

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I liked one from John Lennon's song, Beautiful Boy, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

[Old_Honky]

My favourite quote is from a friend of mine his name is Robert Loving and he is only famous in a very small part of Dorset. The Quote is "You can't Educate Pork"
Over the years I have found it to be a useful and versatile phrase as it can be used to console someone who has lost an argument or as a fine insult to someone who is stuck in their belief and will not listen to an argument.

[rocknbil]

Not so famous. Don't know why it stuck with me.

Most of us only remember his dethroning moment, "Lookit that little monkey run!"

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but the moments that take our breath away."

[lawman]

You must be talking about Cosell and not Williamson. He made several "little monkey" comments over the course of his life. None dethroned him.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Pork!

I like it!

[johnhh]

"glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords"

always liked that one , 1923, Lord Birkenhead at Glasgow University.

[lawman]

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

A liberal is a conservative who's been charged with a crime.

[lucy24]

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

[martinibuster]

Pmac's immortal cry has stayed with me all these years. My feet stink! [webmasterworld.com]

[johnhh]

Given Facebook IPO

quote from UK millionaire

"Half my money I spent on s*x, drugs and rock 'n roll...the other half I wasted"


From another

"I've written books on advertising ... cheque books"

[Old_Honky]

Two more good ones from fiction:

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius".
Sherlock Holmes from "The Valley of Fear"

"Those who follow Jesus are the Devil's right arm"
Lyric from "Kiss of Confusion" by Blossom Toes (1969)

[thecoalman]

The ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

-Ronald Reagan

[graeme_p]

The goal of education is to teach students to hate subjects. The one the student learns to hate last becomes the student's career.

Ted Nelson (hypertext pioneer, possible inventor)

[lexipixel]

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

(quote is generally attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

[lexipixel]

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-Laurence J. Peter


From the 1969 book "The Peter Principle (Why Things Always Go Wrong)"

[g1smd]

"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."

-- Einstein

[Leosghost]

I posted the link just a few days ago [en.wikiquote.org...] elsewhere on WebmasterWorld..

There are so many quotable lines from Justice Brandeis, that I'll suggest each choose their favourite..

[lexipixel]

"I like to ski cross-country, or downhill when I'm so inclined"

-me

[lucy24]

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

(quote is generally attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

By the usual yawn-provoking coincidence, I recently came across an equivalent passage in Chaucer's translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae while looking for some light reading.* Nobody panic: the bit that caught my eye was in the editor's synopsis.

After counterfeiting patience for a while, the sophist said to the other, ‘You must surely confess that I am a philosopher.’
‘I might have believed it,’ said the other, ‘had you held your tongue.’

The wording may not be as snappy, but the sentiment is definitely there :)


* JOKE. Look for the e-book, coming soon to a scraper near you. For a given definition of "soon", anyway.

[lawman]

I don't know if this counts, but I saw men's underwear that said on the front "res ipsa loquitur"

[Leosghost]

If we are sufficiently enlightened as to be discussing discussing mens underwear in foo then "Ma gavte la nata" has to be a favourite by association :)

From one of my favourite books by one of my favourite authors ..

[Leosghost]

I don't know if this counts

"it's the tobacco that counts"...et .."Burma shave"..echoes from a misspent youth..reminds me of "Near Dark"..a favourite movie..

[lexipixel]

Re:

res ipsa loquitur

...I know this is a stretch on the topic, but that reminds me of the sign in front of a Chinese restaurant in Portland, Maine:

Bangkok Inn II
- Restaurant -

[johnhh]

um all this is over my pay grade

In a forest no one hears a tree fall...

[Old_Honky]

In a forest no one hears a tree fall...

Except of course the lumberjack.

[vik_c]

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Usually credited to Albert Einstein

[Lame_Wolf]

Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with
experience.