QUOTES

[JH1951]

'Can't we all just get along?' Rodney King, 1991 (Can you believe it has been 30 years?)

 

[Mule Packer]

"Those that can: do! Those that can't: Teach! (I really peed off a lot of teachers! But by and large, they proved the saying correct!)

Ivan

"....and those who can't teach, teach teachers."

 

[Mule Packer]

"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
– Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" (431-404 B.C.)

 

[Robspeire]

Benjamin Franklin: The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

The above is what is on the back of my business card.

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Bad grammar is a choice."

my mother

Another one from her:

"If you have to resort to vulgarities in an argument then you have failed at communicating."

 

[TennTony]

A man who owns a gun can rob a bank.
A man who owns a bank can rob everyone.

 

[oldbrownhat]

My all-time favorite:
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt". - Abraham Lincoln

Who also (allegedly) said, "Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

 

[oldbrownhat]

"....and those who can't teach, teach teachers."

The version I know reads, "... and those who can't, administrate."

 

[biku324]

My favorite remains, "Belief resists information," attributed to the German philosopher GWF Hegel around 1799-1800.

 

[michael1000]

you have two ears and one mouth; use in proportion.

 

[Rustyt1953]

you have two ears and one mouth.....

Kim's Convenience.

 

[soFlaNative]

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed.
Curly Howard

 

[jscheck]

I've often told my wife she" only married me to put a fork in the family tree." Does that count?

 

[crazyphil]

Don't eat yellow snow.
An Eskimo's mother.

 

[crazyphil]

"It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore"
Yogi Berra about a NYC restaurant.

 

[crazyphil]

"I cannot imagine creation without a Creator."
Werner Von Braun

 

[outta_ammo]

I don't mind dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Tom Lehrer has said of his musical career, "If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while."

"The dawn of Bose created the "Man Cave" and reduced testosterone levels worldwide by 18.5 per cent"
Peteleoni

 

[fordson]

That which you come by too easily, you value too lightly.

If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes

And from my tag line - "your other right….." is what I use to say to student pilots who go left after I tell them to go right………..

 

[crazyphil]

"Inflation has gone up over a dollar a quart."
W. C. Fields

 

[JeffYo]

Dad's Quote

"If you watch how it comes apart you can always put it back together."