Let's hear your favorite saying's or quote's.My latest favorite quote I have seen goes"Men use love to get sex.Women Sex to get love.I use coupon's to get pizza."

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Why are there more horse's asses than there are horses?

"There's money in religion, and religion in money."

You may be a king or a street sweeper... sooner or later you dance with the Reaper.

There are an awful lot of rather unusual/uncommon words that I tend to throw in wherever possible in conversation, mainly because I just like them as words.

Favourites:

Discombobulated (spellcheck doesn't like it but it is a word, means confused or disorientated)

Ultracrepadarian: long dead, but this one means someone who talks a lot about something they don't know that much about. It could be and is applied when describing a lot of teachers I've had over the years, as well as a fair few politicians.

Lots of quotes from Blackadder/Monty Python/Dad's Army/Only Fools and Horses.

"The are two great days in a person's life; the day they are born and they day they find out why."

For More, Here's a Cool List!

Some prime exampes;

”Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

"If you can’t be criticized for it, it’s probably not remarkable."

"Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does no one else."

"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies."

Build a man a fire, he’ll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire, he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken"

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken"

It does, however, make you look hella rad.

In reply to somebody saying they'll do something you don't want them to.

"Don't bother your arse!"

Has to be said in a Scottish accent.

"Soli Deo Gloria"

"NEVER trust an elf!"

A friend will bail you out of jail. A real friend will be sitting in jail with you.

Common sense: so rare, it's a super power.

I'm not crazy, but the voices in my head are fething nuts.

Duck tape is like the force.Their is a light side and a dark side and it surrounds and binds the universe together.

Ah! thread about sayings! Now comes the monkey out of the sleeve!
Dutch expressions are funny when you translate them, so this thread is corn on my mill.
I will give you some Dutch speakwords and outsayings, but if you can't make chocolate from it, don't blame me, I'm not trying to chase you into the armour against me.
I will set everything on hairs and snares so that it will be as clear as a little lump to you, and I think it will be, because you are not from yesterday after all, but if you are unable to rhyme it, too bad, peanutbutter.
It is not your fault if you don't understand a ball of it, because Dutch sayings hit like a pair of tongs on a pig.
Now you may be thinking that I'm just talking like a chicken without head, but I am not. I have hacked with this axe before, so I am not just grabbing you by the nose.
As I said before, if you don't understand one or two of these sayings, don't sit down with the packs, I have sayings with the drift nets. You may think those sayings hit side nor shore, but trust me, each one is a truth like a cow, there you can take poison on.
It stands like a pole above water that I am poking the dragon with this, but don't give me the wind from the front, I may act like no water is too deep, but I have only got a small heart.
This may not set any sods on the dyke, but it is funny, so don't be such a wooden Klaas. And if you don't think it is funny, at least pretend to and laugh like a farmer with toothache.
But if my sayings are really such a thorn in the eye to you or if your belly is now full of it, than I guess I have reckoned without the innkeeper and now I have lost the clutch.
So I will choose eggs for my money and put the bullet through the church. I will turn the prow about and no longer chase the cat into the curtains. I will hang the winch on the willows and throw the axe down with it.
I hope you enjoyed it and that it did not go above your hat. But remember, one should never look a given horse in the mouth.

I am sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge
My favourite Dutch proverb (or actually it is a Wellerism to be precise) is: 'All little bits help, said the mosquito, and she pissed in the sea'.
My favourite English saying is: 'I can't wrap my head around it'. It is hilarious when translated into Dutch.
Russian has some pretty awesome proverbs as well: 'Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek no other things.' 'Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea. '
My favourite quote is from Nietzsche: 'If you gaze into the abyss for too long, the abyss gazes back into you.'

eldar 1 wrote:
Duck tape is like the force.Their is a light side and a dark side and it surrounds and binds the universe together.

My favorite saying's what? I don't understand.

I probably have the longest saying.
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money, his treasure will not defray him as he travels. Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it. Another man may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels, as gold in a mine, and be of no use to him; but this bell, that tells me of his affliction, digs out and applies that gold to me: if by this consideration of another's danger I take mine own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security."
Mediation 17 John Donne

Don't worry, we're Chinese Canadians from Nebraska. We got this.

"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline." -G.K. Chesterton

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline." -G.K. Chesterton

"Then war has broken out... whether you know it or not. A long, grueling, intoxicating war!" ~General Martok on Marriage

Love is a state virtually indistinguishable from severe brain damage

No idea who this was, so if anybody knows, please fill me in. I want to be able to give them the credit that's due.

Asking a Redshirt for rules clarification is like taking financial advice from a homeless person.

"If you're skating on thin ice, you may as well tapdance."

(if you're going down no matter what you do, do something WORTH going down for.)

Only two things are infinite. Human capacity for stupidity and the universe - and I'm not too sure about the universe .

Beauty fades, but dumb is forever.

You can also never go amiss with a few words of wisdom from the late, great Douglas Adams:

'Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.'

'the difference between something that cannot posssibly go wrong and something that can is when the thing that can't go wrong does, it's impossible to get in an fix it.'

'Ten out of ten for style, but minus one million for good thinking.'

'there's a knack to flying, which is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'

@Iron Captain: post of the year so far, hilarious stuff!

Oh-I forgot: "take time to appreciate the little things"

Thank you, Zombieland!

 Medium of Death wrote:
In reply to somebody saying they'll do something you don't want them to.

"Don't bother your arse!"

Has to be said in a Scottish accent.

Well I'll be saying that a lot from now on.

 Monster Rain wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
In reply to somebody saying they'll do something you don't want them to.

"Don't bother your arse!"

Has to be said in a Scottish accent.

Well I'll be saying that a lot from now on.

Don't bother your arse.

Just a few of my extensive list of Favorites

Doing favors for friends is like giving Bonbons to fat people. They'll just ask for more. ~ Rat

It never 'just a game' when you're winning ~ George Carlin

"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'”
- George Carlin

"There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
- Thomas Edison

“Remember the first rule of gunfighting: 'have a gun.'”
- Jeff Cooper

“During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were 'just going down to the corner.'”
- Jack Handey

“If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.”
- Mark Twain

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
- Abraham Lincoln


“We can't all be heroes, because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
- Will Rogers

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”
- Frank Zappa

The reason to build large creations is because peaople need a place to put the really big guns - Mike Rayhawk

“ Whoever said 'the pen is mightier than the sword' obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
- General Douglas MacArthur

“I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”
- Mark Twain

40,000 awesome points to the one who can name where these most saying appear

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C Clarke

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Wayne Gretzky

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal
Mike Ditka

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else
George S Halas

From the Stars we came; and to the stars we return
Commander Ivannova

"Too many Chinese cooks spoil the broth."

 rubiksnoob wrote:
My favorite saying's what? I don't understand.

Hell I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it would help.

"Through me you pass into the city of woe. Through me you pass into eternal pain. Through me amongst the peoples lost for aye.
Justice, the founder of my fabric moved. To rear me was the task of Power Divine, Supremest Wisdom, and Primeval Love.
Before me things create were none, save things eternal. And eternal I endure. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
-Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto III, paragraph 1. The inscription on the Gates of Hell

Dang, there's so many to choose from <(o_O)>

"Onii-chan!"
or
"Onii-chan?"

The best negotiating tool is a fully charged phaser bank -Scotty, the original Star Trek series.

 Paradigm wrote:
There are an awful lot of rather unusual/uncommon words that I tend to throw in wherever possible in conversation, mainly because I just like them as words.

Favourites:

Discombobulated (spellcheck doesn't like it but it is a word, means confused or disorientated)

I use this one allot myself, not sure where it comes from. I must use it allot as I have had my 4YO daughter explain her naughty/silliness away with "Sorry Daddy, I think I must be a bit discombobliated [sic]?"

Lots of quotes from Blackadder/Monty Python/Dad's Army/Only Fools and Horses.

"Act cool Trigger" - me to at least one of my thick work colleague a day as I stop them making a dangerous/expensive mistake.

Usually however I'm not a fan of sayings and will proffer "people in glass house shouldn't paint the kettle black" or "we'll fall off that bridge when we come to it" when an outbreak of communally retained and repeated wisdom happens.

My favourite sayings won't get past the filter.

How do you set this laser printer to stun?.

You have to be smarter than the tool you are using.

Also, the military classic SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fethed Up

Couple of my favourites, not that I get to use them much in normal situations (except the last two):

'Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime, teach a fish to man, and he'll never feel like he truly belongs'

'The last sound heard before the univers folds in on itself like a paper hat will be "I wonder what will happen if I do this"'
-Terry Pratchett

'The problem with looking for quotes on the Internet is you cannot guarantee their accuracy'
-Abraham Lincoln

And the two I actually get to use:
'I'm not here to win, I'm just here to make sure you don't' (while playing games with others)

'Don't bust a nut' (when someone is getting stressed out)

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you undercut your market and create another competitor.

If you made a lot of mess doing it, you probably did it wrong, if you made a little mess doing it, you probably did it right, and if you haven't made any mess at all, you probably didn't really do anythging.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Have an exalt. Wise words from the one of the greatest wits humanity has ever produced. You can never go wrong with Pratchett, or Douglas Adams:

'in the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is generally regarded as a bad idea.'

 Paradigm wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Have an exalt. Wise words from the one of the greatest wits humanity has ever produced. You can never go wrong with Pratchett, or Douglas Adams:

'in the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is generally regarded as a bad idea.'

Pratchett and Douglas just happen to be my two favorite writers!

Sayings I actually say:

“Do or do not, there is no try.”
-Yoda

“Get off my lawn!”
-TBone the Yoda of wiener dogs

“Plan B is for dreamers. You need to have a Plan C, D, and E”

“Ow. That’s a new ache.”

“I hate this bull *)&”

"I will kill you, your parents, your entire family and drop the body parts in five different bayous."

Not my favourite, but very interesting:

Do not throw the arrow that will return against you
-Turkish Proverb

Who would throw arrows?

 sing your life wrote:
Not my favourite, but very interesting:

Do not throw the arrow that will return against you
-Turkish Proverb

Who would throw arrows?

Someone without a bow?

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Hah, those are pretty funny

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Hah, those are pretty funny

He's a very good author.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

This was my favourite part of that book, and one of my favourite parts of the entire series

"Oh God, Please Let Me Roll Average"
Me before any game

 Co'tor Shas wrote:


Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/xd-16635.jpg

My reaction.

 sing your life wrote:
Not my favourite, but very interesting:

Do not throw the arrow that will return against you
-Turkish Proverb

Who would throw arrows?

Eros Bristow, the crafty cockney of course.

 notprop wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Not my favourite, but very interesting:

Do not throw the arrow that will return against you
-Turkish Proverb

Who would throw arrows?

Eros Bristow, the crafty cockney of course.

who is Eros Bristow?

The only rational response to an absurd world is to laugh.
-Sarte

So dense, not even ligth can escape.
-Unknown

I'm the one they call when things go wrong. Things have indeed gone wrong.
-Snake

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot
-Unknown

"When in doubt, attribute to Twain"
- Ben Franklin

"There is no problem in the world that cannot first be solved by having something to drink."
- My Father

"Don't gak where you eat."
-Unknown

LEEEERROOOOYYYY JENKINS!!!!

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”― Bil Keane

An obstacle is often a stepping stone. - Prescott

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Denis Waitley

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F. Drucker

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. -Ray Bradbury

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Phillip K. Dick

 kronk wrote:
LEEEERROOOOYYYY JENKINS!!!!

Have an exalt .

A watched cheetah never bevels.

Ahem

Uncle Sargie Wilki..

1. Ate up like a soup sandwich (Eat a soup sandwich and you know why)
2. Ate up from the floor up (Can be: Ate the feth up) complete dumbarse)
3. Pray and spray or spray and pray? The level of dedication of a calm insurgent
4. "Ten to the wind Airborne" 10 push ups in each cardinal direction of the compass
5. "Sign your life away" till your military you would not believe how true this is.
6. "Recruiter lied to me". STFU. The recruiter made it sound fun. The person at MEPS behind the desk is the one that corraled your arse into the MOS
7. "Corraling Tadpoles" Rubbing one off in the toilet
8. "Its a goat rope" Someone looked it up and we clarified it a bit for him and he has a new saying
9. "Even if your dad calls you son it does not mean your bright"
10. "Sharp as a pencil does not mean your head comes to a point".
11. "Singing "All by myself" while in the shower means your having quality time
12. "100 mph tape" Its green duck tape Unroll it a strip and it sounds like it took off a 100 mph"
13. "550 Cord" Why is it called 550 cord and not parachute cord. Well Hero it takes over 550 lbs to break the cord.
14. "A finger point means I have something to say. A hand point means your arse fukked up big time"
15. " Why are tracers round loaded first? (five round tracer} "Well Hero its not Halo where you have a ammo counter in your eye".
....

 sing your life wrote:
Not my favourite, but very interesting:

Do not throw the arrow that will return against you
-Turkish Proverb

Who would throw arrows?

It's probably just a poor translation.

 kronk wrote:
LEEEERROOOOYYYY JENKINS!!!!

The lead-in is very important as well, though!

"Let's do this!"

Also:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you!

さすがおにいーちゃん！

 Monster Rain wrote:

 kronk wrote:
LEEEERROOOOYYYY JENKINS!!!!

The lead-in is very important as well, though!

"Let's do this!"

And the exit line: At least I have chicken.

Also

"Hold me closer, Tony Danza!" Elton John, Tiny Dancer

I use to have the best sayings until I took an arrow to the knee.



Kronk am I doing it right?

How come that guy never went to a healer? What a wuss.

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
さすがおにいーちゃん！

Now I want to know what that means...

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
さすがおにいーちゃん！

Now I want to know what that means...

#46 in OK sauce.

さすがおにいーちゃん！

Pilot training. One time flight. Sounds 1940ish

 Easy E wrote:
I use to have the best sayings until I took an arrow to the knee.



Kronk am I doing it right?

We're missing something.

"Do a barrel roll!" - Peppy

There.

That's really great, big brother!

That'll do, pig.

 Monster Rain wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
In reply to somebody saying they'll do something you don't want them to.

"Don't bother your arse!"

Has to be said in a Scottish accent.

Well I'll be saying that a lot from now on.

Yes! Let it spread around the globe!

IT'S A TRAP!!!


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If I have to say who made that famous, I'll punch a kid.

I thought it was "IT'S A TARP"

Its pronounced analgesic not ANALgesic, the pills go in your mouth

Its called fishing not catching

How'd my car get up in that tree

I was issued with it in Hungary

"Get your hands off my you filthy casual"
"You keep talking slick with me and I'mma slap the shat out of you"

Idk even know why the first one is as funny as it is to me, but the second one comes from a prank phone call that nearly got me killed listening to it while lifting weights.

Yeah don't lift and laugh, it's dangerous.

Award for most dramatically delivered three word sentence.

Words to live by:

"Drive it like you stole it."

On the subject of DS9....god that was the best trek....

"Dont worry! I have everything under control. I have the prisoners...see, first, I pretend to be their friend. And then I shoot you. [shoots confused enemy soldier]"
-Garak

"IT'S JUST GOLD! USELESS, WOTHLESS, GOOOLLDD!"
-Quark

You know, I was hoping somebody was gonna call me out for that, either saying it wasn't cool or asking who said it to watch me punch a baby goat. There was a reason I didn't say "child".

Perhaps I was too obvious. Drat

"Never trouble trouble 'till trouble troubles you"
"The race is not always to the swiftest, nor the battle to the strongest... but that's the way to bet"
"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate"
"The mouse that has but one hole is taken quickly"
"The first step on the road to wisdom is to understand you might be on the wrong track"
"If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would be clean"
"He that is overcautious will accomplish but very little"
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone"
"In victory, malice. In defeat, revenge. Don't get mad, get bad"
"Whomever laughs last, gets the last laugh... usually."
"If you're feeling good, don't worry... you'll get over it"
"An optimist is a guy who hasn't had much experience"
"In the final analysis you just can't beat a heart of gold"

"You won't be missed, but you will be forgotten."

The early bird get's the worm but the second mouse get's the cheese!

"Change we can believe in"

Just about anything Kronk says really...

 liquidjoshi wrote:
Just about anything Kronk says really...

I can agree with this.

One of my favorites has always been "Who Dares Wins", the motto of the British Special Air Service (their elite special forces unit).

And they're not so much sayings (to most normal people anyway) but most anything Chesty Puller or Patton said makes me smile a little.

 dementedwombat wrote:

And they're not so much sayings (to most normal people anyway) but most anything Chesty Puller or Patton said makes me smile a little.

This thread really is about the most "quotable" phrases, so yeah, anything Chesty or Patton have said works here

Hard works pays off, but procrastination pays off right NOW!

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 dementedwombat wrote:

And they're not so much sayings (to most normal people anyway) but most anything Chesty Puller or Patton said makes me smile a little.

This thread really is about the most "quotable" phrases, so yeah, anything Chesty or Patton have said works here

Attributed to Patton IIRC, but I don't know whether he actually said it.

"Though I walk through the shadow of the valley of death I shall fear no evil; for I am the baddest motherfether in the whole damn valley!"

I've always loved that one

I can think of three Latin mottos that probably rank as my top 3 favourite mottos. They don't really roll off the tongue, and they aren't witty like so many in this thread, but in times of hardship or doubt I find that they quietly instill in me a very British resolve. They would be:

Per Ardua ad Astra - 'Through difficulty, to the stars'

Si vis Pacem, Preparum Bellum - 'If you desire Peace, prepare for War'

Quo Fata Vocant - 'Whither the Fates Call'

The first two are the mottos of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy respectively, but I've always felt that when all the odds seem stacked against you, simply reciting these sayings galvanise you to push forward and see things to the end regardless of the hardship. The last is the motto of the 5th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and is probably the one that resounds the most with me. It's similar in meaning to 'Who Dares Wins' of the SAS - the fact that the opportunity to make something of yourself and your actions is there, you just have to go out there and seize it.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett is one of the best writers out there, and full of words of wisdom.
Have an Exalt on me.

'An optimist looks for the light at the end of the tunnel, a pragmatist brings a torch.'

A brave man doesn't fear the rain but a wise man brings an umbrella.

I want to protect that smile

I often find myself pulling out the old "Stop crying and put on the cheerleader uniform."

More seriously: "The ink of the scholar is worth more than the blood of the martyr." and its various translations, attributed to Prophet Muhammad iirc.

In a world without gold, we'd be heroes - Blackbeard in AC4

Does this count?

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
-Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)

Lucarikx

Your just angry the voices talk only to me.!

Bring back "Shat Goblin" and the "Shat Alarm"

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/437555.page#4049364

Well oil beef hooked - said in an Irish accent.

A few favourites...

"You know, there's on old Polish saying for times like this. That's too bad."

"Good things come to those who go out and fething earn them."

"You know who cares less about your problems than you do? Everybody."

"Feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Feed a man a bullet, and he'll never be hungry again."

"Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver."

"Optimists see the glass as half full; Pessimists see the glass as half empty; Realists see that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

My signature. Winston Churchill

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never care for anything else thereafter"
Ernest Hemingway

Being mechanically inclined my favorite is
You gotta be 2% smarter then the thing you are working with/on

"If you were half as smart as you think you are, you would be twice as smart."
No idea what that is from though, It's older than me by at least three years though.

 Ruberu wrote:
My signature. Winston Churchill

If we're doing Churchill quotes, there are some crackers.

"Winston, you are drunk."
"Yes, and you are ugly, and in the morning, I shall be sober."

"If I were your wife I'd poison your coffee."
"If I were your husband I'd drink it."

And one from Lord Kitchener on Churchill's Partner-in-politics, David Lloyd-George

"I hate politicians. You tell them something's top secret and they go home and tell their wives... apart from Lloyd George, who would go home and tell someone else's."

You want some cheese with that whine!

As my signature says: "Cine tace nu se caieste". "He who is quiet does not regret". Probably the wrong motto for a forum participant, eh?

Banateantepes,Your thoughts and motto are very relevant here.Here is another piece of game wisdom.Chaos,Panic,Disorder, my job here is done.!

"Ain't nobody got time for that"

"Better to be a smartass than a dumbass".

or

"Life sucks, then you die".

General Beringer: Hell, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it would help!

General Beringer: Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.

 Paradigm wrote:
'An optimist looks for the light at the end of the tunnel, a pragmatist brings a torch.'

An optimist sees a light at the end of a tunnel
A pessimist realises it's attached to a train
A realist sits there wondering why there are two people standing on the train tracks
A surrealist licks his shoes

Also, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life
Teach a fish to man, and he'll never feel like he truly belongs

Pretty much anything this dude says in interviews:







Some personal favorites:

"sweating like a gypsy with a mortgage"
"hard as woodpecker lips"
"goin' off like a cut snake"

There are some characters left in this country who still speak like that. Generally from "out bush" ways.

Us cityfolk don't speak like that anymore.

Although why a Gypsy would have a mortgage is beyond me - they should just be swiping stuff and conning people to get what they want ...

(I'm half-gypsy. )

We'vet Tried it smart and Delicate and that Was a Right Fething shower of Gak now it's Time For some Brute Force and Ignorance.

"It is what it is" - T. Bertuzzi

 chromedog wrote:

Although why a Gypsy would have a mortgage is beyond me - they should just be swiping stuff and conning people to get what they want ...

(I'm half-gypsy. )

While it's good to know people (other than Nick Cummins) still speak that way, I'd imagine that if a person were an actual gypsy, AND had a mortgage.... the lifestyle/ "employment opportunities" wouldn't lend themselves well to paying said mortgage, and would therefore lead to much "sweating" over how to pay up

It is what it is.

 Retrogamer0001 wrote:
It is what it is.

You are what you is
And that's all it is

"The whole worlds crazy except me and thee. And well...sometimes I wonder about thee."