Interesting Quotes

[greymouser]

A thread of something someone said that you find profound or funny or expresses an idea concisely. Provide short summary why you posted it. Include an attribution (to the best of your knowledge) of who said it. The quote doesn't need to be a famous person and could even be from a Topix post!

For example:

"No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength" - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Also known as "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." This is true for any project plans you have - whether it's project at work or remodeling your kitchen to running routine errands as there's always something issue that crops up.

And off we go!

[Old Sam]

"I never vote for anyone. I always vote against."

W.C. Fields

[greymouser]

Old Sam wrote:

"I never vote for anyone. I always vote against."
W.C. Fields

And either way you end up here...

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

[Old Sam]

"The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is in a hole?"

Will Rogers

[Ohio Cowgirl]

If wishes were horses, Cowboys would ride!

Quote.....?

[greymouser]

Old Sam wrote:

"The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is in a hole?"
Will Rogers

"Look at all that oil that's coming out of that hole in the ground!"

Jonathan Titus

Sorry. I cheated as that's not a quote. ;)

[Miss Taken]

True Humor must always lie under the Check of Reason, and it requires the Direction of the nicest Judgement, by so much the more as it indulges itself in the most boundless Freedoms. In short, it must consist in a pleasantry deriv'd from Nature, in Vivacity and Mirth without Affectation, bounded by Truth, and supported by good Sense.

[greymouser]

Miss Taken wrote:

True Humor must always lie under the Check of Reason, and it requires the Direction of the nicest Judgement, by so much the more as it indulges itself in the most boundless Freedoms. In short, it must consist in a pleasantry deriv'd from Nature, in Vivacity and Mirth without Affectation, bounded by Truth, and supported by good Sense.

What's the attribution of this quote? Googling the whole thing isn't helping.

Keeping on topic -

"Pangloss deceived me cruelly when he said that all is for the best in the world."
- Voltaire, Candide, Chapter 7

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[Ohio Cowgirl]

What doesn't kill us makes us strong!

IDK, Who said this but it's one of my favorites!!

[P- Ex]

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
Hugh Hefner

[She Was Nasty]

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfeld

[missing_goldfish]

Don't squat with yer spurs on. -Unknown

[greymouser]

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill

[Sioux Warrior]

Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain.

[NMG]

Ohio Cowgirl wrote:

If wishes were horses, Cowboys would ride!
Quote.....?

Excuse me, but I was told that quote went like this: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride".(unknown 16th century)

[Miss Touri]

greymouser wrote:

<quoted text>
What's the attribution of this quote? Googling the whole thing isn't helping.
Keeping on topic -
"Pangloss deceived me cruelly when he said that all is for the best in the world."
- Voltaire, Candide, Chapter 7

oh sorry.
It's in a book that focusses on caligraphy and penmanship while using ancient examples. The title of the book is "The Universal Penman" engraved by Gearge Bickham london 1743. It's the awsomest.:)

[Miss Touri]

Again in the Universal Penman:

"a friend should always like a Friend indite,
Speak as he thinks, and as he thinks should write,
Searching for Faults, as he would Beauties find,
To Friendship true, but not to Justice blind."

[LI_Mom]

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun. -The Tao of Pooh

[missing_goldfish]

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the Soul
And sings the tunes without the words
And never stops at all.

-Emily Dickenson

[Norseceltic]

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain