Quotes - Words of Wisdom

**nilknarf** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:21 PM

Gee, this thread looks familiar!!!!

"Managers do it by the book, Leaders challenge the book"
- Timothy R. Franklin (that would be me), January 2, 2002

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right"
- Tom Hanks, in the movie A League of Their Own

What are your favorite words of wisdom????

Tim

**RADAR1797** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:26 PM

Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle...Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

-General George S. Patton Jr.

**newbie~wan** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:31 PM

Every battle is won before it is ever fought

- The Art of War, Sun Tzu

shahani · January 2nd, 2002, 12:35 PM

Engineers do it with Precision.

**Thud** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:37 PM

"Endeavor to live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry."

Mark Twain

shahani · January 2nd, 2002, 12:41 PM

Boy: Sir, How long should a man's legs be?
Abe Lincoln: Son, long enough to reach the ground.

**fatal xception** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:45 PM

I'm a pessimist by heart, so here are my favorites:

"When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do."

"It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going."

"The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower."

"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."

**DSJ** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:18 PM

Winners never quit; Quitters never win

When the going gets tough, the tough gets the going.

**Bob The Great** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:21 PM

ROLF You need a shrink fatal xception :P

My favorite one is "don't bite dogs with rabies" It's simple, clear, and a good idea! Also it's an origanel by me!

shahani · January 2nd, 2002, 01:30 PM

This one's for Fatal:

A Pessimist and an Optimist are in a crowd of 100,000 watching the parade. A pigeon flies overhead and does its thing on the Pessimist.

Pessimist: Just my luck- 100,000 people here and he picked on me!!

Optimist: Thank God Elephants don't fly!

**800XL** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:36 PM

"Time and Tide melts the snowman." - Dr. Who

"I have a plan so cunning, you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel." - Blackadder

"Anyone with half a mind, is probably dead." - Me

**EndobioticChaos** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:45 PM

Heh. I too am a pessimist by nature, so I really enjoyed the ones posted by fatal xception.

Here's one of my favorites: "If life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add a few of your own." - by Jim Watterson; said by Calvin in a Calvin and Hobbes book.

**str8jakit** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:49 PM

Don't eat the yellow snow.
-unknown

Everything you know is RONG.
-Rong Foo

shahani · January 2nd, 2002, 01:51 PM

"If life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add a few of your own."

If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.

**pickel** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:56 PM

" If you can't take the heat, get out the kitchen"
" The hurrier I go, the behider I get"
" It is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all"

**crazyray** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:56 PM

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous."

Captain Beefheart

**Agent_Embryo** · January 2nd, 2002, 01:58 PM

"If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough."

I always liked that one.

**crystaldragon** · January 2nd, 2002, 02:01 PM

Here are two of my favorites to think about.

Qui desiderat pacem, preparet bellum
Flavius Vegetatius Renatus c.375

Translation;
Let him who desires peace prepare for war

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
George Santayana 1863-1952