Quote? What is your favorite quote?

[Zeus-cat]

“Badges?! We don’t need no stinking badges!” - a Bandito from Blazing Saddles.

Actually, this quote is a paraphrase from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which is based on the book of the same name. The 1948 lines were: "Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabrón and chinga tu madre!"

 

[goose_in_co]

 

[lakeroadster]

 

[Cape Byron]

"I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. - Groucho Marx

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

I find that Intensify Forward Firepower is an excellent mantra to use in many situations.

 

[MAT2000]

"There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't."

Pick up line.
"Excuse me, miss. Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform?"

"You can accomplish more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

 

[alexzogh]

‘that’s too much bacon!”
-said nobody ever

 

[alexzogh]

My favorite quote is:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Thomas Jefferson

This quote is actually taken out of context and means something other than what it appears to mean... (Link)

Especially because it was written by Ben Franklin, not Thomas Jefferson.

 

[lakeroadster]

My favorite quote is:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Thomas Jefferson

This quote is actually taken out of context and means something other than what it appears to mean... (Link)

Opinions Vary...

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/b...n-essential-liberty-and-temporary-safety-1775

 

[Cape Byron]

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince.

If you haven't read it, you should.

 

[Antares JS]

"Your Majesty, the clergy have done our best to destroy the Church for 1800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you."

-Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, to Napoleon after the latter declared he "had the power to destroy the Church."

 

[Hobie1dog]

 

[Tobor]

Especially because it was written by Ben Franklin, not Thomas Jefferson.

(Quote-Me) ooops... New rule: No quoting before first cup of morning coffee. (/Quote-Me)

 

[dr wogz]

"It's better to regret the thing you have done, than regret the things you haven't done"..

 

[Mugs914]

"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces."

Or, in perhaps a more familiar paraphrase:

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

-Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, 1871

 

[Pickles McRocketPants]

“Badges?! We don’t need no stinking badges!” - a Bandito from Blazing Saddles.

"Badgers!? We don't need no stinkin badgers!"

- Raul Hernandez

 

[blackwing94]

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. -Bob Newhart

 

[NateB]

"If you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do." Warren Miller

 

[Pickles McRocketPants]

"Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks!?"

-Cpt. Elliott Spencer

 

[R. S. Galileo]

"Once ze rockets are up, who cares where ze come down?
Zat's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
-- Tom Lehrer

 

[dbpeirce]

“I plan on being immortal…so far, so good”
Steven Wright

 

[XrayLizard]

Freedom is just another word, for nothing left to lose.
Janis Joplin

 

[manixFan]

Read through all the posts, and unless I missed it:

"It is what it is"

No definite origin (but likely J. E. Lawrence in the Nebraska State Journal in 1949), but I got it from my mom. When she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, in the end that was her response. Nothing to do but accept it and move on.


Tony

 

[Hobie1dog]

the easiest person to fool is yourself

 

[Scott_650]

An optimist looks at the glass and sees it’s half full, a pessimist looks at the glass and sees it’s half empty, a realist looks at the glass and knows dang well they’re gonna get stuck washing it.

Sometimes the best you can do is the least wrong answer.

This all makes sense, to somebody, somewhere…

 

[Cape Byron]

"But did you die?" - Me, frequently

 

[Hobie1dog]

"sick people don't generally have good personalities"

 

[Cape Byron]

"If I only had a brain" - The Scarecrow.

Also me, frequently.

 

[Lugnut56]

"If we can't fix your brakes, we'll make your horn louder."

My boss at Freightliner Trucks was not amused when I told customers this.

 

[KenECoyote]

"You buy cheap, you get cheap... DUH."

KenECoyote (circa 1984)