Quote of the day

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  1. Allioop

    Allioop Well-Known Member

    If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

    -Colin Powell
     
  2. Rockyv58

    Rockyv58 Well-Known Member

    For the lose of James Gandolfin some Tony Soprano quotes

    “If you can quote the rules, then you can obey them.”

    “Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.”

    “What use is an unloaded gun?”

    “Is this a woman thing? You ask me how I’m feeling. I tell you how I’m feeling, and now you’re going to torture me with it.”

    Rest In Peace Tony Soprano. Just another Jersey boy
     
  3. Palisade

    Palisade Well-Known Member

    "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
    Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
     
  4. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

    Dave Barry
     
  5. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."
    Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart

    Of course he said that after:
    He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.

    http://boingboing.net/2013/07/12/the-best-opening-paragraph-on.html
     
  6. Palisade

    Palisade Well-Known Member

    "More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them."
    Harold J. Smith
     
  7. ImTheNormal0ne

    ImTheNormal0ne Well-Known Member

    love it!
     
  8. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    [FONT=&quot]"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]-- G.K. Chesterton, British writer[/FONT]
     
  9. ddrdan

    ddrdan Well-Known Member

    "Our marriage is perfect. My wife is a communications major and I'm an acting/drama major. She speaks and I act like I'm listening."
     
  10. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

  11. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    "I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."
    -- Henry James,
     
  12. oggsmash

    oggsmash Well-Known Member

    “Your attitude, not your aptitude will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar
     
  13. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    "The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."
    -- Gaylord Nelson, American politician
     
  14. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
    -- Bill Cosby,
     
  15. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
    -- William H. Walton
     
  16. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
    -- Scott Adams,
     
  17. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    [FONT=&quot]"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]-- E.F. Schumacher[/FONT]
     
  18. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
    - Franklin P. Jones
     
  19. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    [FONT=&quot]"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]-- Michel de Montaigne,[/FONT]
     
  20. Hught

    Hught Well-Known Member

    [FONT=&quot]"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]-- A.A. Milne,
    British writer[/FONT]
     

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