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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