Random snippets of Great Knowledge --thread

[88BlueTSiQuest]

DO or DO NOT, there is no try.

Yoda.

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Just look below...

[turbocarrera]

I spent all my money on women and booze and, like a fool, I squandered the rest..

[stomachmonkey]

My mother,

"Put brain in gear before putting mouth in motion."

[emcon5]

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

In fact there are enough excellent Heinlein quotes it is difficult to pick just one.

There are a ton of them here:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein

Tom

[gr8fl4porsche]

If you want to train a dog - you have to be smarter than the dog.

[StevoRocket]

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 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 high 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.

Theodore Roosevelt.

[StevoRocket]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the tradewinds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain.

[rob macdonald]

"I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone . . . but they've always worked for me." Hunter S. Thompson1937-2005

[David]

Never argue with an idiot.
They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

"The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones" Car & Driver or Road & Track (forget which) on the concern that we may run out of oil.

[Victor]

"The relations with, uhh — Europe are important relations, and they've, uhh — because, we do share values. And, they're universal values, they're not American values or, you know — European values, they're universal values. And those values — uhh — being universal, ought to be applied everywhere."

—George W. Bush, at a press conference with European Union dignitaries, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2005

More classic stuff here:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm

[TerryBPP]

A puzzle is easier to put togther if you can see the picture on the box. ---- ME!

Smartest thing I ever said and now I got nothin.

[craigster59]

To be or not to be... Shakespeare
To do is to be...... Aristotle
To be is to do.... Plato
OOh be doo be doo... Sinatra

[KFC911]

"Blah, blah, blah, blah"... Al Bundy

[Gooch1971]

"If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man."
-- J. Paul Getty

"The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away."
-- Ronald Reagan

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
-- Salvador Dali

"No man goes before his time…unless his boss leaves first."
-- Groucho Marx

"Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unlimited carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, World Series - they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One moment you're up half a mil in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?"
-- Louis Winthrop III

[M.D. Holloway]

The Status Quo protects itself by challenging all on comers.

[MARTIN AIDE]

Sarcasm is neither wit nor humour but they incessant rambling of a deseased mind

[MikeCT]

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk they're sober." --William Butler Yeats

"The pub knows a lot, almost as much as the churches." --Joyce Carey

"Wine is but a single broth, ale is meat, drink and cloth." --English proverb

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk in order to spend time with his friends." --Ernest Hemingway

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." --Henny Youngman

"Life alas, is very drear. Up with the glass, down with the beer!" --Louis Untermeyer

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." --Homer Simpson

"If you can't have 1 by 11, have 11 by 1." --Anonymous

"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" --W.C. Fields

"A mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer." --Ancient Egyptian adage

"Women and drink. Too much of either can drive you to the other." -- Michael Still

"I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night." --Ancient Greek Proverb

"I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me." --W.C. Fields

"Drink triple, see double and act single." --Anonymous

People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot." -- Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs." --David Daye

"Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health." --Thomas Jefferson

"Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is." --Denny Conn

"If my mother was tied up and held ransom, I might think about making a light beer." --Greg Koch, CEO and co-founder of Stone Brewing

ok enough drinking quotes

Love the life that you live, live the life that you love

[MikeCT]

one more

"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers." --Cliff Clavin (Cheers)

[MikeCT]

Originally posted by turbocarrera
Mike wins

No, I'm just good with the copy and paste.