Deep quotes you heard or made up?

[paragirl]

Some people are like slinkies. They don't really have much purpose, but they make you smile when you push them down the stairs.

 

[Puhp]

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room.” —President Merkin Muffley

 

[Ægir]

 

[wishboner]

"When the debate is lost, insults become the loser's tool." -Socrates

 

[dartel]

Lose it.

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[dartel]

"Optimism without facts is wasted intellect."

 

[dartel]

"Hope in one hand. Shit in the other. Observe which fills first."

 

[UR20Z]

Hope for the best, but expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed.
- My grandpa (who almost certainly picked it up from somebody else)

 

[Goattobeloved]

Hope for the best, but expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed.
- My grandpa (who almost certainly picked it up from somebody else)

I use and quote that one very often.

Or more precisely, I often live by that one and quote:
"A pessimist is just a life seasoned optimist"
To anyone that is not happy with me stating the worst possible scenario along with the positive one

 

[zooznz]

"Beachball sized lady nuts" - Neagan

 

[dartel]

I use and quote that one very often.

Or more precisely, I often live by that one and quote:
"A pessimist is just a life seasoned optimist"
To anyone that is not happy with me stating the worst possible scenario along with the positive one

"There's nothing sadder than an old optimist, except for a young pessimist."

 

[Ægir]

When someone points a finger at someone else, they should remember that their three fingers are pointing at them.

 

[Sedirae]

Hope for the best, but expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed.
- My grandpa (who almost certainly picked it up from somebody else)

I prefer to always expect the worst. Either I'm right or I'm positively surprised by something less than the worst. Sometimes even something positive.
I'm usually pretty spot on though.


As I said in another thread:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment"

 

[dartel]

"If at first you don't succeed, hit stuff harder."

 

[sarahsingletono98]

Knowledge is power. The ability to rapidly recall knowledge is sarcasm.

 

[dartel]

"Males. Can’t live with them. Can’t rip out their throats and eat them for supper."

 

[wishboner]

"shit, fire and save matches"

 

[jeepinn]

It gladdens me to know that Odin prepares for a feast! Soon I shall be drinking ale from curved horns. This hero that comes into Valhalla does not lament his death. I shall not enter Odin’s hall with fear. There, I shall wait for my sons to join me. And when they do, I will bask in their tales of triumph. The Aesir will welcome me. My death comes without apology. And I welcome the Valkyries to summon me home!

 

[lilsarah91]

"if life begins a conception, then all men are transgender."

 

[dartel]

"A mind that rejects new data, even if the data contradicts what the mind thinks it knows, is not functioning at peak.”

 

[Hugh Jasole]

“Some people have more drama than a Broadway show”

 

[dartel]

"Causality is an illusion supported by a limited ability to perceive."

 

[humananimal]

We all have the same amount of time 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. Unless you are born in the states in summer. Then you get an extra hour in the fall that winter people do not. Unless you die in the winter, in which case you gave back your extra hour.

so you think someone gets older just by turning the dials on his wristwatch

 

[Max13]

"Ares: No. Life *isn't* worth living. It's to be *taken*, and *beaten*. And wrestled, and formed in your image. *That's* where the meaning lies. In what you can twist life into. For those who just *endure* life, yeah: it is a very nasty joke. But for those who form it with their will, the joke is on those who get in the way." -Xena: Warrior Princess

 

[dartel]

"Heroes are people who hurt their own families only to help complete strangers."

 

[sarahsingletono98]

so you think someone gets older just by turning the dials on his wristwatch

I mean deadpool did it

 

[Cyon]

I pity you, who have no cause worth dying for

 

[wishboner]

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Aristotle

 

[KnotSock]

Grandpa used to always say,
"A fartin' horse never tires. A fartin' man's, a man to hire."

 

[dartel]

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Aristotle

So there were no couch potato basement dwellers in ancient greece? Cause I'm pretty damn sure there's lots of criticism to be thrown at them.