Anyone know any good famous quotes? (doesnt have to be famous)

nmcgrawj

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Im always looking for nice quotes. Doesnt have to be famous, i actually like the one's that are passed down or that no one really knows about. Seems we havea pretty diverse group of guys here so lets see what ya got!
 
nmcgrawj said:
Im always looking for nice quotes. Doesnt have to be famous, i actually like the one's that are passed down or that no one really knows about. Seems we havea pretty diverse group of guys here so lets see what ya got!


My favorite quote is in my sig. :hail2:

But there is always...

"walk softly but carry a big stick" - roosevelt :rlaugh:

interpret that however you may wish :nice:
 
nmcgrawj said:
Im always looking for nice quotes. Doesnt have to be famous, i actually like the one's that are passed down or that no one really knows about. Seems we havea pretty diverse group of guys here so lets see what ya got!

"The guy's name is Brock Landers"
"And his partner is Chest Rockwell"

"The Nympho Is The State Bird of Ohio"

"I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"
 
"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley..." -Robert Burns, To A Mouse



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"God doesn't care where you pray as long as you are praying"

My grandfather said that many years ago when I was a kid, and I asked him why he wasn't going to church any more( I didn't know at the time he had cancer) and that is what he said.

My favorite " A man has got to know his limitations" Clint Eastwood- in the Enforcers
 
Some quotes that the academy has taught me

"Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies" -John Dryden

"Who loses honor can lose nothing else" -Publius Syrus

"You may be whatever you resolve to be" -General Stonewall Jackson

"Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!" -General Stonewall Jackson

"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." -General Stonewall Jackson's last words

John Paul Jones Quotes

"An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it."

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."

"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. "

"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."

"Whoever can surprise well must conquer."
 
This is a never ending used quote at my house.....we tell the kids this all the time because they are always asking for rides everywhere.


"Walking ain't crowded"

How about the forest gump one "?is as ? does"? Cant remember whats in place of the ???
 
sajoseph said:
This is a never ending used quote at my house.....we tell the kids this all the time because they are always asking for rides everywhere.


"Walking ain't crowded"

How about the forest gump one "?is as ? does"? Cant remember whats in place of the ???


Pretty sure it was stupid is as stuipid does


"lifes a bitch and then you die"

"lifes like sex you never know when you gonna get ****ed" made that up after the Forest Gump choclate thing
 
"i am what i am, thank god"--jimi

"sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but i don't know cuz i won't eat the filthy mother****er"--pulp fiction

"hell i like you, you can come over to my house and **** my sister"--full metal jacket