Post the best quotes you've ever read...

[KAG]

lets hear the quotes left an impression.
I recently read this one and it made sense to me, in a non religious sort of way.

“When the heavenly gods created human beings, they kept everlasting life for themselves and gave us death. So accept your fate.
Each day, wash your head, bathe your body, and wear clothes that are sparkling fresh. Fill your stomach with tasty food, play, sing, dance and be happy both day and night. Delight in the pleasures that your wife brings you, and cherish the little child that holds your hand. Make each and every day of your life a feast of rejoicing! This is the task that the gods have set before all human beings. This is the life you should seek, for this is the best life a mortal can hope to achieve”. – The parting words of the fishwife Sidur to Gilgamesh.

[yvanddivans]

"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
- Luigi Pirandello

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein

[MCB]

All Leonardo da Vinci:

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

[Hedley]

The only time you have too much fuel
is when you're on fire.

The only thing more useless than gas still
in the truck, runway behind you, or altitude
above you, is a field-grade navigator in
the right seat.

If you're young and right wing, you have
no heart. But if you're old and left wing,
you have no brains.

The cheque is in the mail.

I'll respect you in the morning.

[niss]

Son, I have been flying airplanes for a living since you were still in liquid form.

[Hedley]

(Grumpy captain to fuzzy-cheeked know-it-all copilot)

Your mother's legs have spent more time in the air than you have.

[Brantford Beech Boy]

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt


BBB

[Mr. North]

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.
-Winston Churchill

A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat.
-Oscar Wilde

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

[meflypretty]

"60 percent of the time, it works every time"
-Brian Fantana, The legend of Ron Burgundy

"We paved the way for lesser men to follow"
-Ernest K. Gann, Fate is the Hunter

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do"
-reported last words of Oscar Wilde

[Widow]

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A.A.Milne

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein

“A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.” - Zadoc Rabinowitz

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” - Albert Einstein

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything." - Albert Einstein

[ScudRunner]

I'm too Drunk to taste this Chicken!
- Colonel Sanders.

[2R]

Show me the money

[TG]

Never fly something that will use your @rse as a landing gear.

[iflyforpie]

"We're not retreating! We're advancing in the opposite direction!"-General Douglas MacArthur

"You are so far behind the airplane you won't get hurt when it crashes."-Unknown

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before!"-President Dwight D Eisenhower

[CelBatrin]

The night wore on, cold and clear, without further alarms, and the Moon rose slowly amid equatorial constellations that no human eye would ever see. In the caves, between spells of fitful dozing and fearful waiting, were being born the nightmares of generations yet to be. - Arthur C. Clarke

It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! - Mark Twain

[Siddley Hawker]

Canadians want to benefit from the American nuclear umbrella but they don't want to hold unto the handle. To that extent, the knee-jerk anti-Americanism of some Canadians verges on hypocrisy. Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Pierre Trudeau makes Judas Iscariot look like a team player. Bob Rae.

Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing cuccu. Geoffrey Chaucer
Winter is icumen in, lhude sing Goddam! Oscar Wilde.

Capitalism stands for the unequal sharing of blessings. Socialism stands for the equal sharing of misery. Sir Winston Churchill

There are two sizes to lambskin condoms, Wooly-Bully and Little bo Peep. Larry the Cable Guy.

To a fine soldier war is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value. Dean Stacey, Canadian Human Rights Commission member.

[freakonature]

From a grumpy captain, If I'm doing my job,and your doing my job,Who's doing your job?

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“I regret the day I learned to read because it gave me an outside view of my own retched condition with no remedy.”
~Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)

[balfour]

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

[HS-748 2A]

'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.'
- Thomas Brackett Reed

[5x5]

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle

[Just another canuck]

The littlest things in life are infinitely the most important.

-can't remember

[mikesxr]

"If you aint first your last"

Ricky Bobby lol

[Chuck Ellsworth]

I never had sex with that woman.

Slick Willy.

[Invertago]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz