Author Topic: Famous (and not so famous) quotes (Read 210979 times)

Pollypocket · « **Reply #240 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:00:17 PM »

A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself. He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.

John Foster

Spacey/f · « **Reply #241 on:** May 11, 2006, 09:06:28 PM »

Nothing shows a man's character more than what
he laughs at

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pollypocket · « **Reply #242 on:** May 12, 2006, 05:24:01 PM »

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln

Spacey/f · « **Reply #243 on:** May 12, 2006, 07:13:30 PM »

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Pollypocket · « **Reply #244 on:** May 13, 2006, 12:57:52 PM »

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Spacey/f · « **Reply #245 on:** May 18, 2006, 04:27:03 PM »

Few great men would have gotten past Personnel.

Paul Goodman

Spacey/f · « **Reply #246 on:** June 06, 2006, 04:25:41 PM »

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

Pollypocket · « **Reply #247 on:** June 06, 2006, 07:48:15 PM »

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

Spacey/f · « **Reply #248 on:** June 17, 2006, 09:28:38 PM »

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

Spacey/f · « **Reply #249 on:** June 30, 2006, 04:03:45 PM »

Time wounds all heels.

Groucho Marx

Spacey/f · « **Reply #250 on:** July 26, 2006, 03:30:19 PM »

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?

There's a support group for that.

It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

Drew Carey

Pollypocket · « **Reply #251 on:** September 07, 2006, 05:51:37 PM »

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Spacey/f · « **Reply #252 on:** September 09, 2006, 08:03:15 AM »

The quote board lives *l

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

Paul Beatty

Pollypocket · « **Reply #253 on:** September 09, 2006, 06:21:16 PM »

it lives

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

Spacey/f · « **Reply #254 on:** September 10, 2006, 05:23:49 PM »

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

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