The Quotes Thread

[cakemafia]

Mention quotes that inspire you, appeal to you etc...



"Failure is never nearly as important as the fact that we tried" - Shane Koyczan

[SectorVector]

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
~ Willie Sutton, bank robber.

Mary had a little key
(It's all she could export),
and all the email that she sent
was opened at the Fort.
~ Ron Rivest

[Totenkruez]

http://www.pjwnex.us/quotes.html

Lots of insightful quotes there. The sex ed and the cold water monkeys quotes are particularly hilarious. The John Carmack and the Hub McCann quotes, on the other hand, seem to be more subject to debate in my opinion.

[SectorVector]

Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is, it could be worse and no matter how good it is, it could be better.

-- Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014)

[EVA]

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. ~Robert Brault,
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[snilloc]

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.


– Albert Einstein

[DavidTenn]

"I hate all this terrorist business. I used to love the days when you could look at an unattended bag on a train or bus and think to yourself...'I'm going to take that.'" -- KnockKnock @ TPB

[SectorVector]

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must
judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Judged by the standards
of one century, the noblest characters of an earlier one lose much of
their luster; judged by the standards of today, there is probably no
illustrious man of four or five centuries ago whose character could meet
the test at all points. But the character of Joan of Arc is unique.

From the book "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc", Mark Twain. Gutenberg link.

[connor17]

Oscar Wilde quotes are brilliant:
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
True friends stab you in the front.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
etc,etc

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/author...wilde.html

[LZA]

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be." - Jane Austen