Time For A Quote

[cabinetman]

I love quotes. Whether it's one of those side splitting, funny ones, or a philosophical one that makes you change cereals, I like 'em all. Lets see some!

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk" - Jacqueline Schiff

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[bigstick509]

"It's not the things you don't know that will hurt you, it's the things you think you know that ain't so." - Mark Twain

[leehljp]

A few of my favorites:

"Leaders are best when people scarcely know they exist,
not so good when people obey and acclaim them,
worst when people despise them.
...Of good leaders who talk little,
when their work is done,
their task fulfilled,
the people will all say 'We did this ourselves'"
Lao Tsu 2000 years ago

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Occasionally, we all must wonder to ourselves why it is that we "fight the good fight." Why do we refuse to accept mere mediocrity? What makes us swim upstream against the current, to fight time and tide?

We do not take the easy way out, choosing instead to stand up to the ignorant multitudes. Not for love or money, nor for ego nor material gain, but simply because we know it is the right thing to do.
Barry Ritholtz (I think)

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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.


"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

The mark of a good Network Manager is that they know exactly what the source of all their network problems are since they create them all. Chuck Goolsbee

"History is written to say 'It wasn't our fault'." - Sam Phillips

"Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life."
Chinese proverb


If you try you could fail. If you don't try you've already failed.


Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. --Mark Twain


Anybody can make something complicated; It takes a genius to make it simple. Mark Twain


Yogi Berra: Cut the pizza into 4 pieces; I can’t eat 6.
YB: If you don’t know where you are going, you won’t know when you get there.

[Pappy]

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi

[dbhost]

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost.

[JeffG78]

It's not the mountains ahead that will slow your journey, but rather the grain of sand in your shoe.

[gsmittle]

"Drama is life with the boring parts cut out." G. B. Shaw

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Einstein

"Get them scientists away from that rocket and shoot it!" Some military guy at White Sands--I can't remember his name.

g.

[dbhost]

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. -- Benjamin Franklin

People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot. -- Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

[JR]

Nice thread. It has caused me to get my Churchill book from the shelf. This one was timely.

On political campaigning, "A politician is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie."

[cabinetman]

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the
prescription ran out. -- Steven Wright
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[Mr__Bill]

Any **** fool can figure out how not to do it!

My father


Bill, sitting in the fog on the Sunny Oregon Coast


**** = that Grand Coulee thing

[windfall]

Just hitting our stride

"Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.
If you can't stay young, you can at least stay immature.
-Red Green"

[cabinetman]

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
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[Black wallnut]

"Never do for a boy what a boy can do for himself" Sir Baden Powell

[shoottx]

Research

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie, French Chemist

Basic Research is when I’m doing what I don’t know I’m doing.
Wernher von Braun, American Engineer

Facts

The facts, all we want are the facts.
Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley, Author & Critic

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
Thomas Huxley, English Biologist

Data

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British Physician & Novelist


Measurement

When you can measure what you are speaking about and express in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of meager and the unsatisfactory kind
Lord Kelvin (1824 -1907)

One Accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Grace Murray Hopper, Admiral US Navy