Quotes - Lets hear some of your favorites

[tileguytodd]

Heres a few of my favorites from Ex US President
Ronald Reagan
"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the
government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have
looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."- Ronald
Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is
a government program." - Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I
have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." -
Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if
it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald
Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a
nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan
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And My All Time Favorite from Ex US President
Teddy Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- T. Roosevelt (Panama, 1906)

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[sgrandjean]

Todd,
Great quotes! Here are four of my favorites:

"The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible to impart instruction and give commands in such manner and in such tone of voice as to inspire in the soldier no feeling but an intense desire to obey. While the opposite manner and one of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment and a desire to disobey. The one mode or the other of dealing with subordinates springs from a corresponding spirit in the breast of the commander. He who feels the respect which is due to others cannot fail to inspire in them regard for himself, while he who feels and hence manifests disrespect toward others, especially his inferiors, cannot fail to inspire hatred against himself."
-Major General John M Schofield
1879 Address to Corps of Cadets at Westpoint, NY

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"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."
-Robert E. Lee

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"Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you're a mile away, and you have their shoes."
-Author Unknown

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"Doh! Nuts! Donuts! Mmmmmm!"
-Homer Simpson


Cheers.

[Oldrem]

No recollection where these came from, but......

"Great men became great by doing what they did not want to do when they did not want to do it."


"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind - what does an empty desk mean?"

[bbcamp]

"It's the least we can do, and we believe in doing the least we can do!"
-Lefty Stankhammer
Spokesman for the Stankhammers, the World's Oldest Living Siamese Triplets

[e3]

this is one I said one day to a freind helping me .After I said it he broke up ,I didn't realize what I said until he told me. But I like it!
"we accomplished everything we got done"

[flatfloor]

You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

Vincent Van Gogh

[tileguytodd]

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandberg
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin

[Richard Tunison]

I don't have a quote but I roared seeing the Stankhammer's back.... :yeah:

[cx]

"we accomplished everything we got done"Yogi Berra woulda been proud of ya, Eric. :D


One of my all time favorites:

"It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

Adlai Stevenson

[opiethetileman]

Never interupt your enemy while he is making a mistake

Naploen Bonaparte

[INtilesetter]

The key to success,is learned failure!

[Eugenius]

I think it was Teddy Roosevelt that said , "If you're not a liberal at 30, you have no heart. If you're still a liberal at 40, you have no brains."

I voted for McGovern when I was 21. I voted for W twice.

[cx]

I voted for W twice.I'm confused on the catagories for that one. :scratch:

[Mountain Tile]

A man has to know his limitations Clint Eastwood
some one left the gate open and the wrong dogs came home clint eastwood
Go ahead make my day! clint eastwood
Nothing like a good piece of hickory. clint eastwood

[Hamilton]

"Fear not young lovers! This is fire marshall bill burns, and i noticed you
were getting a little warm south of the naval there son" Jim Carrey

[Rob Z]

Said by the father of my electrician, in a southern Virginian, old-timer kind of drawl:

"You can't teach that boy nuthin', you gotta learn'im".......
about a young electrician who wasn't doing good work. :clap2:

"Boy, there's nuthin' you can do fer me that can't be replaced by a 16 penny nail drove into the wall".......about a worthless helper. :yeah:

"Boy, you might as well stick your leg up through that hole for all the good it's gonna do ya"......said to a over-zealous helper that ran up a ladder and stuck his head through the access hole to the attic, trying to figure out what to do while the electricians were down on the floor discussing the problem. :rofl:

There are more, but these are some of my favorites.

[jjwq8]

Nancy Astor:"Sir, if you were my husband I would surely poison your coffee!"
Winston Churchill:"Madame, if I were your husband I should surely drink it!"


Earl of Sandwich "Gad Sir! I know not whether you will die of the pox, or on the Gallows!"
Duke of Marlborough "That Sir, depends entirely upon whether I embrace your mistress or your politics."


And my all time favourite, when addressed by someone else to me:"I'm paying" :D

[tileguytodd]

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Malcolm Gladwell
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[HouseOfJoe]

There are several variations in the wording of this quote from Benjamin Franklin, but my favorite is:

"Those who sacrifice their liberty for security, sacrifice both."

Joe

[mark11755]

"Mom always said, don't play ball in the house" - Peter Brady

[Dave Taylor]

"We don't need no stinkin' wine bottle opener, Dave".

John Bridge, Coverings, April, 2006 :---)

[Dave Taylor]

"I'll jest' trim this tile corner a little more".
Opie, just before his third trip to the emergancy room last year.:---)

[Scooter]

Well, I'm sorry, the best source for funny quotes is our current President and his Secy of Defense:

I think we agree, the past is over.
- US President George W. Bush (May 10, 2000)

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."—US President George W. Bush (September 6, 2004)

"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut
off by Saddam Hussein."—US President George W. Bush (May 25, 2004)

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —US President George W. Bush (Aug. 5, 2004)

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to
me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."--Donald Rumsfeld 2/12/02

"I don't do quagmires" Donald Rumsfeld July 2003

But if you want to talk a quote I use often, almost weekly, is something my Dad used to say.

"Son," he used to say, "You can't fix stupid."

[davem]

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

author unknown

[swait]

Lord Mountbatten: Never pass up a chance to go to the bathroom.

Frank Tyger: Swallow your pride occasionally. It's not fattening.

[flatfloor]

Probably the warning off a pill bottle.

My favorite is the sleeping pill warning...may cause drowsiness do not drive or operate machinery..... :D

[davem]

"Bluto" Blutarski: "Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"

[NVC]

Dave :rofl: That is a classic, as was/is Animal House.

"What that your drink'n pop?"
"Cold Duck and Ripple . . . I call it 'cham-pipple'" Red Fox in Sandford & Son

"I didn't know we had a king" Mud Harvesting peasant in Monty Python & The Holy Grail.




Mark

[Mountain Tile]

" Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" john vernon
Outlaw Josey Whales

[davem]

Classic movie Chuck, one of my very favorites. :)
Josey Wales: "Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride."

[Davy]

As a young kid my dad and his older brothers liked to cool off at the near by swimming hole. My grandmother would tell my dad,"Troy, stay away from that water till you learn how to swim". :yeah:

[Hamilton]

"Help! Someone turn the water supply to the house off fast." ME ;)

[tileguytodd]

"You aint gonna believe what happens next even while its happening"
Clint Eastwood

"if the glove dont fit you must aquit"
Johnny Cochrane

"Rosebud"
Citizen Kane

[Mountain Tile]

" The man who is wisest is usually he who thinks himself least so "
Benjamin Franklin

[Dave Taylor]

"Ohmygod, call 911 or something!!!"

Mrs. Hamilton after looking for the crayons all day and discovering what Jack had done with them... .. . :jack:

[bbcamp]

"What's the number for 911?!?!" :eek:

[Dave Taylor]

"dave tayler better watchit dude. edna beecomes yur worst nitemare"

Edna onna' good day. :think:

[6T7GTO]

My dad used to tell me...
"the older you get, the dumber you get".

one night at dinner, on an especially hot and muggy day, he said "it's not the temperature, it's the humility". :rolleyes:

david

[Dave Taylor]

"My name is Tonto….. Tonto Goldstein, but my friends call me Bubba"

Kurt G. to a really hot chick on a commercial flight somewhere above Kenosha Wisconsin.


Mebee I should quit while I'm ahead. Naw.

[pitterpat]

Repetition penetrates the dullest of minds!

My college basketball coach, Dr. Ruth Jones

[Mountain Tile]

How about this one dave,
" The hell with them fellas, worm's gotta eat just like the buzzard "
Josey Whales

[davem]

:D
Josey Wales: "I reckon so"

[Matt@Bayfront Tile]

"That boy is ate up with the dumbass" a old timer I knew :tup2:

[Mountain Tile]

" After a couple of hits on the head I began to see the light, it was an
attitude adjustment "
Hank Williams jr.

[Oldrem]

Two I remember from my childhood -

I don't swim in your toulet - Don't pee in my pool ____ Doc Erbs

Nothing smokes like a hot turd in a cold toilet ____ Auggie Dagnitz

[dufus]

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!"
~John Greenleaf Whittier

[Hamilton]

"1920 xmas eve with a full moon over town.
billy delion met stagger lee and she blew that
poor boy down. do you know what she shot
him for? what do you make of that. billy delion
drew a lucky dice, on stagger lee's stetson hat."
Music Quote.....
Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter

[tileguytodd]

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
John Muir

[Dave Taylor]

"Relax - it's a rock! What could go wrong?!"

Adriana just before makin' driveway gravel out of an expensive piece of granite she was only tryin' to trim".


"Oh $hit!"

CX 60 feet up a tree when he discovers the baby owl he is a-peepin' at has been adopted by a pissed Condor that’s just returning to the nest after an unsuccessful food forage.


"Go outside in the yard and find the Felker, will-yah' Horhea!".

Todd G to his helper after a Warba Minnesota snowstorm event.

[Chris the Rep]

A few that have always stuck with me...

"Virtue in the middle, said the devil as he sat between two lawyers".
Old Scandanavian proverb

"Never speak ill of your competitors, someday you may have to work for them"
My father (miss you every day Dad)

"Lose your head and your ass goes with it"
Willie Shoemaker

"Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are"
The parish priest if my youth

"We have met the enemy, and he is us"
Pogo

...and hundreds of movie quotes that I have discovered to be quite profound as I grow older.

[sgrandjean]

“Discrimination is simply the act of choice. When we choose Bordeaux wine, we discriminate against Burgundy wine. When I married Mrs. Williams, I discriminated against other women. Even though I occasionally think about equal opportunity, Mrs. Williams demands continued discrimination.”
—Walter Williams

[Trask]

not an exact quote but it's Mark Twain " There comes a time in every rightly constructed boys life when he has a burning desire to run off in search of some hidden treasure."

[dgunnels]

Don't know the attribution:

Better to have a bastard in the family than an unemployed son-in-law.

[flatfloor]

:rofl:

[Trask]

Kinda a hybred from my college wrestling coach.." never underestimate insecurity..it has driven men to gold medals and riches"

And I don't remember who it was attributed to but on defining Pornography it was said that " Pornography is anything that may arouse a judge"...that's the clean version :)

and my dad's advice when I told him I was going to start my own tile & stone buss. " Conduct yourself like a coyote does..always be moving and nervous..cause everybody is gonna take a shot at you when they get a chance."...he failed to tell me that howling at the moon with the boys was also a bad idea :tup2:

He also told me when he finally "arrived" at the big time money jobs that "it was like he fell into a big phone booth full of hundred dollar bills..all he could gather. Except the designer insisted that his arms be tapped to his sides, then the Builder turned on a big fan. If that wasn't enough the owner got to open shooting ports in the walls and take shots at him with a shotgun. "

" so how do you get the money" I asked...." With your teeth " he said.. :D

[Mountain Tile]

" working is just like bumming, whenever you feel like bumming, start working harder and before you know it working will seem easier then bumming "
Bill Carango

[flatfloor]

It's hard work doing nothing. - Jim Buckley

[Hamilton]

Do your best to pay attention and learn. You will learn your trade so...,
go to work every day,.... on time and do it better than everyone
else. you will always have work
My mother.

[cx]

:topicoff: "Oh $hit!"

CX 60 feet up a tree when he discovers the baby owl he is a-peepin' at has been adopted by a pissed Condor that’s just returning to the nest after an unsuccessful food forage.
You have nooooo eye-dee how close you are, Dave. Change 60 to 40 and Condor to Goshawk and you're right on the money. You can't actually distinguish the words on the audio portion of the video (I was shooting from adjacent tree), but the loud scream could be translated to your quote as easily as to anything else. The sentiment is certainly accurate. :D

Had to stay up there until dark to get down without bloodshed, too. :twitch:

[jjwq8]

So how many rats and bugs and worms did momma feed you, or was the bloodshed coz you had to fight the chicks for the food:D?

[Scooter]

This one is appropriate for this week, the week that John Kerry put his foot in his mouth:

"It seems to be a law of nature, that the poor should be to a certain degree improvident, that there may always be some to fulfil the most servile, the most sordid, and the most ignoble offices in the community. As for the lowest of the poor, by custom they are reconciled to the meanest occupations, to the most laborious works, and to the most hazardous pursuits; whilst the hope of their reward makes them chearful in the midst of all their dangers and their toils. The fleets and armies of a state would soon be in want of soldiers and of sailors, if sobriety and diligence universally prevailed. Men who are easy in their circumstances are not among the foremost to engage in a seafaring or military life."

--Joseph Townsend, A Dissertation on the Poor Laws (1786).

[tileguytodd]

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy