Quote of the Day - [3]

[Arc]

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

_ Edmund Burke.

 

[jdXp610]

May the force be with you
~Obi-Wan Kenobi~

 

[Britton30]

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." (And at the worst possible time.)
Murphy's Law

 

[A Guy]

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
~George Orwell

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free
with my breakfast cereal."
-- Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

 

[Britton30]

 

[A Guy]

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
~J. W. Schopf

A Guy

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
~J. W. Schopf

A Guy

Still is.

 

[drpepper]

I was born at a very young age.
-George Burns

 

[noobvious]

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
~J. W. Schopf

A Guy

Still is.

You mean the U.S Congress? :roflmao:

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
~J. W. Schopf

A Guy

Still is.

You mean the U.S Congress? :roflmao:

For starters. For being an arid State, AZ has more than its share of pond scum.

 

[DocBrown]

ribit

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

ribit

No, frogs are too high on the evolutionary scale, well above pond scum.

 

[jdXp610]

“Courage my friends, ‘tis never too late to build a better world.”
A man of courage, a Canadian of courage, who strove for a better world.

“Le courage mes amis, ‘tis jamais trop tard pour construire un meilleur monde.”
Un homme de courage, un Canadien de courage, qui s'est efforcé pour un meilleur monde.

~Jack Layton~




<would a verse or line out of a song be considered a suitable quote or should we start a song line thread?>

 

[A Guy]

<would a verse or line out of a song be considered a suitable quote or should we start a song line thread?>

Perfectly acceptable, and been done, yes

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

"The question is rather: if we ever succeed in making a mind 'of nuts and
bolts', how will we know we have succeeded?"
-- Fergal Toomey


"It will tell us."
-- Barry Kort

 

[A Guy]

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

“Courage my friends, ‘tis never too late to build a better world.”
A man of courage, a Canadian of courage, who strove for a better world.

“Le courage mes amis, ‘tis jamais trop tard pour construire un meilleur monde.”
Un homme de courage, un Canadien de courage, qui s'est efforcé pour un meilleur monde.

~Jack Layton~




<would a verse or line out of a song be considered a suitable quote or should we start a song line thread?>

Sure, in English.

 

[koolkat77]

Sometimes we under estimate ourselves so much, that when people compliment us, we can never believe them.
--
SS

 

[Dsprague]

He who laughs last hasn't been told the terrible truth.