Favorite Quotes 19

[BJCooperIT]

Many of us here at TT have quotes in our signature lines. Some funny, some profound (like CC's) and some personal. The problem I have is that I do not have the time, or inclination, to change the quote in my signature on a regular basis. That being said, I would like to post another of my favorite quotes:

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson (1902-1981), English Racer

So true in this business. Your favorites?

[sup]Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.[/sup][sup] ~George Bernard Shaw[/sup]
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[donbott]

Ladyazh

We try to please

DonBott

Founder
Eunich and Sons Inc.

 

[2ffat]

On a similar thought, "If you argue with a fool, which one is the fool?"


James P. Cottingham
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[Lunatic]

While on the subject of fools...

“Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?” - Obi Wan Kenobi, Episode IV - A New Hope



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[flapeyre]

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

Sumptum fac donec consumptus sis.

-- my wife's motto

 

[Ladyazh]

If opponent was introduced to you as a fool then yes if not then no. Simple!

 

[mrregan]

Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

 

[2ffat]

For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.

James P. Cottingham
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[MCuthill]

Favourite Quote?
How does a man pick only one... he doesn't... he picks 3.

Therefore, my Top 3 Favourites Are:

"Never Argue With An Idiot, They Drag You Down To Thier Level Then Beat You With Experience" -unknown (to me)

"When You Were Born, You Were Crying and Everyone Else Was Smiling.
Live Your Life So When You Die, You're Smiling and Everyone Else Is Crying" - unknown (to me)

"If This Is Love, Fairy Tales Never Came True, Judies Are Black In Full Bloom, And I Died In The Womb" - from "Alone in December" by Underoath



Mike
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"It Seems All My Problems Exist Between Keyboard and Chair"

 

[KornGeek]

I'm not sure where it came from, but

"Build a man a fire, and he is warm for one night. Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life."

 

[flapeyre]

Give a man a fish, and he'll have food for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day."

Sumptum fac donec consumptus sis.

-- my wife's motto

 

[ESquared]

We have learned of evil, though not as the Evil One wished us to learn. We have learned better than that, and know it more, for it is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the knowledge of sleep.

- CS Lewis, Perelandra

... they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness ...

- Isocrates, Areopagiticus *

 

[Ladyazh]

Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life?
Human man?

 

[Grenage]

Exactly, it's a wonderful play on Oxfam's old advert campaign.


Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[Trevoke]

Korn Geek : it comes from the Discworld books, by Terry Pratchett. The original quote goes somewhat like this :

"You know what they say, Nobby. Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day, but ..."
"Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life?"

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1314551

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[mjldba]

You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot please all the people all the time."

- Abraham Lincoln

 

[mjldba]

opps!! hit "Submit" too soon

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son"

- Dean Wormer

 

[AnotherHiggins]

That last quotation from Lincoln always brings this to mind:

"There's a sucker born every minute."
[tab]-David Hannum (No, not P. T. Barnum)

Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life?
Human man?

Yes. It is an example of "dark" (or morbid) humor.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
[tab]-George Bernard Shaw

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[DTSMAN]

The married man's prayer:

I'm a man.
I can change.
If I have too.
I guess.

http://www.redgreen.com/

Bo

Kentucky phone support-
"Mash the Kentrol key and hit scape."

 

[98Converter]

Never fight a man uglier than you, he has nothing to lose..."

-Anonymous

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ARISTOTLE 384-322 B.C.

 

[JustinTMI]

Do or do not, there is no try" - Yoda

"Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect" - Unknown

-Justin