One that was instilled in me as a little one was from John F. Kennedy and has stuck in my mind ever since. Even as a young child I thought what a good thing to say. Little did I realize then how obscure it would become.

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".
John F. Kennedy



Another one that has changed my whole outlook on life is "God created man. Smith & Wesson made him equal".

"Suck it up cupcake" - Best winter mountaineering advice I've ever found.

i always liked this one:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

One mans ceiling is another man floor.

To reading classics, it's never to late. Been wanting to read a few I passed on early in life...one day.

One time I decided to read the 100 best books of all time. I didn't make it through Anna Karenina and gave up on the list.

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socks wrote:

Rasty wrote:

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

This one changed my political views when I reread Animal Farm in my thirties. It went over my head the first time I read the book. In my defense I was around 12 the first time I read it.

To reading classics, it's never to late. Been wanting to read a few I passed on early in life...one day.

One time I decided to read the 100 best books of all time. I didn't make it through Anna Karenina and gave up on the list.

I think it has to become a wanting, a true passion, I'm still waiting for my muse.

I've read nearly all of Vonnegut. I consider that good enough.

Did you make that one up?

Whoops!

TrafficJam wrote:

socks wrote:

Rasty wrote:

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

This one changed my political views when I reread Animal Farm in my thirties. It went over my head the first time I read the book. In my defense I was around 12 the first time I read it.

To reading classics, it's never to late. Been wanting to read a few I passed on early in life...one day.

One time I decided to read the 100 best books of all time. I didn't make it through Anna Karenina and gave up on the list.

Read the cliff notes and you can quote me on that.

Negative, my landlord.

"Don't make me turn this car around".

"Get in sit down shut up and hold on."

Well you could see this coming... The last couple of years my heath care tripled.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?



"RUSH"

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.


"David" His religious brother.

"Go get a switch".....mother.

"Build a bridge. Get over it." - my daughter.

Mine was a moment and not a quote, but the one quote that has stuck with me is from my Dad:

"This business of making a living is mighty inconvenient"
-Dad

"Don't think, ya weaken the team"

"Two wrongs don't make a right"

"Don't lean...clean"

"Drink water, it's free"

And one of my favorites. "Go play outside"

Followed by..."Where the hell you been all day"

I heard a similar one a few times.

"Boy, don't make me come back there"

I used to get the driest spindleiest stick I could find.

I wouldn't say it altered my outlook on life, but one that I certainly try to live by is the quote in my signature by Robert E. Lee.

It is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

It is more blessed to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission. - Grace Murray Hopper

"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."

Groucho

(but popularized by woody allen in annie hall)

Hurricanes are like women : when they come, they're wet and wild, but when they leave they take your house and car.

I never realized until now that was one of her's too. She had some good ones including coming up with the term "bug".

I hate when you have to leave, but I love to watch you walk away.

Your life isn't all about you.

I don't know where or when I heard that but I think it's pretty profound.

Remember librivox.org. You can listen to them while you do other things...for free! I've enjoyed so many classics thanks to the leisure of free ebooks.

Quotes are my bible. There have been so many, in different times of my life, that have changed my perspective and attitude and inevitably changed me.
Here are a few:

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~Bertrand Russell

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~Buddha

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world. ~Author Unknown

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~Buddha

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson

A man takes his wife to the stock show. They start heading down the alley that had the bulls. They come up to the first bull and his sign stated: "This bull mated 50 times last year." The wife turns to her husband and says, "He mated 50 times in a year, you could learn from him." They proceed to the next bull and his sign stated: "This bull mated 65 times last year." The wife turns to her husband and says, "This one mated 65 times last year. That is over 5 times a month. You can learn from this one, also." They proceeded to the last bull and his sign said: "This bull mated 365 times last year." The wife's mouth drops open and says, "WOW! He mated 365 times last year. That is ONCE A DAY!!! You could really learn from this one." The man turns to his wife and says, "Go up and inquire if it was 365 times with the same cow."

Quotes that changed people's lives?

"I'm pregnant"

Don't forget - the predecessor to that quote... "off like a prom dress!..........."


what no likes... we need a new button - Damn that's wrong and I like it.....


Don't start I have kids and a granddaughter... laughter is KING!

WiseOldOwl wrote:

A man takes his wife to the stock show. They start heading down the alley that had the bulls. They come up to the first bull and his sign stated: "This bull mated 50 times last year." The wife turns to her husband and says, "He mated 50 times in a year, you could learn from him." They proceed to the next bull and his sign stated: "This bull mated 65 times last year." The wife turns to her husband and says, "This one mated 65 times last year. That is over 5 times a month. You can learn from this one, also." They proceeded to the last bull and his sign said: "This bull mated 365 times last year." The wife's mouth drops open and says, "WOW! He mated 365 times last year. That is ONCE A DAY!!! You could really learn from this one." The man turns to his wife and says, "Go up and inquire if it was 365 times with the same cow."

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For me personally, that one would suck!

WiseOldOwl wrote:

Hurricanes are like women : when they come, they're wet and wild, but when they leave they take your house and car.

WOO....you get a star on your forehead for that one.

WiseOldOwl wrote:

A man takes his wife to the stock show. They start heading down the alley that had the bulls. They come up to the first bull and his sign stated: "This bull mated 50 times last year." The wife turns to her husband and says, "He mated 50 times in a year, you could learn from him." They proceed to the next bull and his sign stated: "This bull mated 65 times last year." The wife turns to her husband and says, "This one mated 65 times last year. That is over 5 times a month. You can learn from this one, also." They proceeded to the last bull and his sign said: "This bull mated 365 times last year." The wife's mouth drops open and says, "WOW! He mated 365 times last year. That is ONCE A DAY!!! You could really learn from this one." The man turns to his wife and says, "Go up and inquire if it was 365 times with the same cow."

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For me, personally, that one would suck!