Random snippets of Great Knowledge --thread

[lowyder993s]

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life..." -Dean Wormer

I beg to differ

[azasadny]

Said to an obviously pregnant woman on the TV show "You bet Your Life"

Groucho - Madam, how many children do you have?

Woman - Seven (or similar number, I can't remember)

Groucho - Wow, I like my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!

[elwood-914]

What do you mean I can't remember $%$#, I have a great memory....... It's just short.

[turbocarrera]

build a man a fire and you warm him for a day.. set that man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life

[COLDBASS]

"The journey is the Reward..." Steve Jobs

"Do you want to continue sellling sugared water for the rest of your life?" Steve Jobs to John Scully @PepsiCo

"The goal of science is to build a better mousetrap. The goal of nature is to build a better mouse..." Chris ??? @ HRL...

(dont recall his last name, but I believe it was his quote...)

[djmcmath]

A man is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliot

[tabs]

Just before they hung my dear old Grandfather he said, "You can't cheat an honest man, give a sucker an even break or wise up a chump."

[pohsche]

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Al Einstein

" Numbers are a liars best friend"
Ed Arragone
9th Grade Phys Science


Alan Poh
'77 Carrera 3.0

[COLDBASS]

Originally posted by pohsche
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" Numbers are a liars best friend"
Ed Arragone
9th Grade Phys Science


Alan Poh
'77 Carrera 3.0 [/B]

Did Ed go on to work at Enron?

[911SC Pilot]

Originally posted by Tim Walsh
It is better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -unkown.

Mark Twain.

[island911]

---You can design it to be idiot-proof, but someone else will surely have designed a better idiot.

[dhoward]

"No matter how good she looks, somebody else is tired of her *****." - A wise man.

[island911]

If time travel ever will exist, then it already does. --bryanthompson (pelican parts OT)

[addictionMS]

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
German-American physicist



Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Scottish novelist and poet



"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle -- when the sun comes up, you had better be running."

unknown



"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
26th President of the United States



"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
American baseball player

[wludavid]

Originally posted by Kurt V
Author unknown: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming loudly--WOW, what a ride!"

I like this one too, but I prefer the variation that ends, "WOW, did I hit any cones?!"



"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." -- Robert Heinlein

[Bill Verburg]

[Tyson Schmidt]

"If a man speaks in the forrest, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?" -unknown-

[nostatic]

Originally posted by Tyson Schmidt
"If a man speaks in the forrest, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?" -unknown-

yes



next?

[Bill Verburg]

[Wrecked944]

"If you don't come back to the pits with a steering wheel in your hands every once in a while, you aren't trying hard enough!"

- Mario Andretti

"If everything seems under control, then you're just not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down".
-Mario Andretti

"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower"

-Mark Donohue

Faster... faster... faster...

Until the thrill of sheer speed,

overcomes your fear of dying!

-HST?

Nobody remembers who finished second except the loser in third.

-Anon

Objects in the rearview mirror are LOSING.

-Taken from a Pelican Sig Line

Why Racing? Because Football, Baseball, and Basketball only require ONE ball....

-Anon