Appropriate quotes for this brand new forum

[von_Tom]

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac

 

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent. Andrew Alden

 

Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress. Isocrates

 

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Lord Chesterfield

 

Just because something is true doesn't mean you have to say it.  Katherine Triandafilou

 

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. Abel Stevens

 

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and silently watch someone else do it wrong. T H White

 

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  WInston Churchill

 

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. WInston Curchill

 

If you have nothing nice to say about a person . . . don't say it.  Unknown

 

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. Eilias Canetti

 

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.  Sa'di

 

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.  Evangel 

 

The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound. Unknown

 

Never answer a critic, unless he's right. Bernard Baruch

 

There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.   Joseph Addison

 

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. Cato the Elder

 

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude. Henri Frederic Amiel

 

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. Unknown

 

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. Sharon Anthony Bower

 

It is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler

 

 

Feel free to add any quotes that inspire you in any way.

 

Hood

 

[PrvtSNAFU]

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots" - Einstein

[APIKalimba]

 "I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in WW 3, but I know that WW 4 will be fought with sticks and stones" -Einstein...again

[Skoshi_Tiger]

"Up from the ashes grows the roses of success!"

[AndyJWest]

"Wait and see" - my mother, in inevitable response to "what's for pudding, mum?"  :D

[DD_fruitbat]

"Don't aim for the stars, aim for Grimsby, its easier to get to, and just as fun"

[Skoshi_Tiger]

"Don't aim for the stars, aim for Grimsby, its easier to get to, and just as fun"

Sorry fruitbat but -1 for this one

 

Per ardua ad astra!

Edited December 19, 2012 by Skoshi Tiger

[DD_fruitbat]

kudos that you got the nod to the RAF motto though...

[VaeTibi]

Well I am sticking with Ceasar:

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[Skoshi_Tiger]

kudos that you got the nod to the RAF motto though...

It's also the one for the RAAF!

 

Though my favorite one is for the 75th Squadron RAAF - "Seek and Strike"

If (as a child) you'd ever thrown a stick at a Australian Magpie - or looked as one wrong way- you'ld understand!

They don't call them  the "Black and White Lightning" for nothing!

 

(I feed my local ones on the front lawn and never have a problem by the way!)

Edited December 19, 2012 by Skoshi Tiger

[FlatSpinMan]

Very apt quotes in that first post. Some new ones to me, too.

Fruitbat - made me laugh. Where's that from?

Skoshi - isn't it "per"? Not that I know Latin - hell, I've never even stepped foot in South America.

[Skoshi_Tiger]

Skoshi - isn't it "per"? Not that I know Latin - hell, I've never even stepped foot in South America.

My Bad! Your 100% right, but as a 'stralian I reserve the right to butcher any language!

[[KWN]T-oddball]

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

and my favorite Nietzsche Quote,  does not apply here but funny none the less

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Edited December 19, 2012 by thee_oddball

[FlatSpinMan]

That first one is so appropriate.

[ACG_Dickie]

Churchill also said (paraphrase)  "I was the thickest boy in the school, but a boy should know his English, or be flogged for it"

[carts]

"Great minds think alike,but Elephants seldom differ" Me,just now.

 

"The Boy stood on the burning deck,When all but he had fled..........Bloody idiot"  Spike Milligan.

 

"My love as like a red,red rose,but my underwear is off-white"   Spike,again.

Edited December 19, 2012 by carts

[DD_fruitbat]

Fruitbat - made me laugh. Where's that from?

 

That would be from me, about 2 hours ago

 

 Not that I know Latin - hell, I've never even stepped foot in South America.

 

funniest thing i've read in days!

 

 

I think my all time favourite quote is,

 

"Never judge a man by his umbrella, it may not be his." 

 

Perfect for the Simon Cowell generation of style over substance. Don't know who originally said it, but i do know its on the wall in the headmasters office at Eton, behind his desk.

Edited December 19, 2012 by fruitbat

[bolox]

Cui bono

[ATAG_Slipstream]

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius

[addman]

"I know you are but what am I?!" -

 

Edited December 19, 2012 by addman

[Blitzen]

" Keep Watching the Skies..."

 

[Jetlagg]

Some of my favorites are from Napoleon:

 

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

 

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

 

There is also one I liked but forgot the exact wording to.  It was said by a French general at the Second Battle of the Marne and referenced being practically outnumbered and overrun but ends by stating that they are pressing the attack.  If anyone knows the quote, please remind me!

[LoneRanger]

My favourites ever..

 

'Life is like a box of chocolates, it doesn't last long for fat people'

 

And my favorite is:

"Thin people don't live longer. They just die healthier."

[=BKHZ=Furbs]

Oleg once said...

 

"Furbs is the greatest online 109 pilot ive ever seen...be sure"

 

:D

[LoneRanger]

A bullet in the arm, can do you little harm.

A bullet in the head, can make you very DEAD.

 

When you are in combat, and the odds aren't fair,

don't look for me, I won't be there.

[von_Tom]

There is also one I liked but forgot the exact wording to. It was said by a French general at the Second Battle of the Marne and referenced being practically outnumbered and overrun but ends by stating that they are pressing the attack. If anyone knows the quote, please remind me!

 

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

 

Ferdinand Foch

[ATAG_Slipstream]

I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game.

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[Bearcat]

I could be wrong here.. but I don't think this thread was meant as a "post your favorite quotes" thread..

[von_Tom]

I could be wrong here.. but I don't think this thread was meant as a "post your favorite quotes" thread..

Yes and no. I started it for the purpose of appealing to peoples' better nature for posting purposes but throwing it open for all quotes.

 

If you think it would be better as a "Free Subject" please shift it to that forum.

 

Hood

[LG1.Farber]

I could be wrong here.. but I don't think this thread was meant as a "post your favorite quotes" thread..

 

They arent at each others throats...  Enjoy the peace!

 

Why bust up the party? - use Zen!

 

 

Feel free to quote me!

Edited December 20, 2012 by 5JG27Farber

[ACG_Dickie]

"I am the one and only"

 

Who said that?  :D

[TWC_TWC_SLAG]

"For every difficult problem, there is a simple, easy to understand, wrong answer". - unknown

 

binky9

"I am the one and only"

 

Who said that?   :D

Muhammad Ali?

[BlitzPig_EL]

???

[von_Tom]

"Two weeks, be sure."

 

Unknown

 

*cough*

 

 

 

Apologies - had to include it.

 

Hood

[BlitzPig_EL]

Well played sir.

[=IRFC=Huetz]

_{Two Weeks In 2014.}

[CrashMoses]

Success is like a fart.  Only your own smells good.

[Gunsmith86]

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Karl Von Clausewitz

 

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz

 

There is only one decisive victory: the last.
Karl Von Clausewitz

 

 

 

 

[Jetlagg]

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

 

Ferdinand Foch

 

That's it Hood! Thanks!

[exhausted]

"I've fallen, and I can't get up" - Commercial