Your favorite quotations

[JDArt]

What are some of your favorite quotations?

Here are a couple I was reminded of recently:

"By the time a man is 60, he has learned everything he needs to know about life--and it's too late."

--Pablo Picasso

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"I don't hate people; I just seem to feel better when they're not around."

--Charles Bukowski

[jfrancho]

"There's nothing you can do about it. And that's that."
-Mob Boss in Good Fellas

[eovalles]

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams

[Mr. Pickles]

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
- Groucho

[Mr. Pickles]

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy,

[jfrancho]

"Nobody did nuthin' to no one!"
--Yogi Berra

[Mr. Pickles]

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

[xovoodoo]

"Ma Ma Se,
Ma Ma Sa, Ma Ma Coo Sa
Ma Ma Se, Ma Ma Sa,
Ma Ma Coo Sa"

- Michael Jackson, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin"

[Blinky]

You should never ask me this question... I got a million of'em. Here's a few:

Erwin Rommel said some great things about war and leadership...

• "In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."
  
• "Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."
  
• "Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both."
  
• "The best plan is the one made when the battle is over."
  
• "So long as one isn't carrying one's head under one's arm, things aren't too bad."

Others:
"Sounds like a case of big hat, no cattle." -John Francho

"Every calendar's days are numbered." -Unknown

"A backward poet writes...inverse." -Unknown

"With her marriage she got a new name and a dress." -Unknown

"Spend all your money on film" - Eric Hansen

"Once the medium has been mastered, it's all about aesthetics." -Greg K Davis

"If you value your work, your work will be valued." -Greg K Davis

"Never justify your price." -Greg K Davis

"Stop hating the world, and the world won't hate you back." -Trent Chau

[jfrancho]

Chip, my last name is actually "Franchot." And I think the quote, "Sounds like a case of big hat, no cattle," is by MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Jim "Kitty" Kaat.

[Blinky]

Damn! Now I'll have to withdraw my entry from the Smithsonian Magazine Favorite Quotation Contest!

My apology Mr. Franchot.

[jfrancho]

A fast OT bit about the screen name: it's from back when NT domain usernames could only have characters. The corporate naming convention clipped the last letter off.

[macmaam]

Some people are like Slinkies--not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. --unknown

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. --Isaac Asimov

[JDArt]

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

--Anne Sexton

[Blinky]

Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
—Catherine Zandonella

All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
—Homer Simpson

Damn you! Damn the broccoli! ...and DAMN THE WRIGHT BROTHERS!!!!
—Stewie Griffin (of The Family Guy)

[xxx19]

"If you were homework," ... "I'd be doing you on this table right now."-i forget

"i'm thinking I might take that new chick from logistics, things go well I might be showing her my Oh face, Oh, Oh, Oh, you know what I'm talking about. Oh"- Office Space

"Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in" -godfather

"You llama-kicking, stinky horse-manure smelling motherungulateer you!" casino