good quotes thread

[pucho812]

“The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.”

 

[pucho812]

opps I thought this was posted in the brewery

 

[JohnRoberts]

christmas magic...

JR

 

[pucho812]

christmas magic...

JR

thanks

 

[rob_gould]

Ooh, good thread!

Two personal faves :

All generalisations are false, including this one

.

Mark Twain

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity

William S Burroughs

 

[scott2000]

Eye candy. You can put a 6E5 on ANYthing. Give me a 25-stack of 9V batts, I'll monitor my truck's spark or fuel injection on the magic eye.

PRR :'(

 

[JohnRoberts]

‘If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart.  If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.’

“The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

"Its nice to be nice"

"When in doubt, do right"

‘I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member’

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

"measure twice cut once"

and so many more....

JR

[edit= those were pretty much from memory, but I have a book with 4000 Aphorisms (Websters new world best book of) that i have read several times. Besides aphorisms, we have ; adages, anecdotes, apothegms, axioms, bromides, cliches, dictums, maxims, mottos, proverbs, quips, sayings, saws, and truisms.  [/edit]

 

[Winston OBoogie]

There are numerous great quotations from Winston Churchill and this what he had to say himself about the matter:

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”

 

[pucho812]

"you can't believe everything you read on the internet"

- Abraham Lincoln


""What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife."

- Rodney Dangerfield


“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu

 

[rob_gould]

"you can't believe everything you read on the internet"

- Abraham Lincoln

Ha!

 

[JohnRoberts]

"you can't believe everything you read on the internet"

- Abraham Lincoln


""What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife."

- Rodney Dangerfield


“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu

I have read the art of war multiple times and it is full of wisdom like that. One powerful concept is to let generals wage war without interference and keep politicians out of the mix. Looking at multiple mismanaged military campaigns since Viet Nam the failures can be all be pinned on the politicians. Sun Tzu understood and warned about it BC. 

Afghanistan is just the most recent example. (sorry).

JR

 

[Larry Sheehan]

Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded - Yogi Berra

 

[pucho812]

I have read the art of war multiple times and it is full of wisdom like that. One powerful concept is to let generals wage war without interference and keep politicians out of the mix. Looking at multiple mismanaged military campaigns since Viet Nam the failures can be all be pinned on the politicians. Sun Tzu understood and warned about it BC. 

Afghanistan is just the most recent example. (sorry).

JR

I have  read it many times to.  In the sopranos they refer to him as the Chinese Machiavelli.  It's a great read for sure.

 

[pucho812]

"the most effective way to make change is to share a meme on facebook" - Ghandi

 

[iturnknobs]

“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ve heard this one. You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else.’”

-DJT

 

[pucho812]

“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ve heard this one. You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else.’”

-DJT

I was hoping to have at least  one brewery thread that didn't dwindle down to something about politics.
I may even respond as biden has said so many, in fact I am still baffled he admitted on cnn how if he and harris fundamentally disagree he will say he has an illness and resign.  But I digress I will take a different path and quote the great yogi berra on jazz.

nterviewer: What do you expect is in store for the future of jazz trumpet?

Yogi: I'm thinkin' there'll be a group of guys who've never met talkin' about it all the time...

Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?

Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.

Interviewer: I don't understand.

Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's whats so simple about it.

Interviewer: Do you understand it?

Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.

Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?

Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Some would kill for it.

Interviewer: What is syncopation?

Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.

Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.

Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.

 

[iturnknobs]

‘If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart.  If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.’

“The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

I was hoping to have at least  one brewery thread that didn't dwindle down to something about politics...

...that you don't agree with. My apologies(sincerely). I wasn't the first one. I will refrain from posting political items outside of political threads.

The 2 political quotes above are from another member. You just chose to look beyond those... or haven't seen them yet.

 

[pucho812]

‘If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart.  If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.’

“The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”...that you don't agree with. My apologies(sincerely). I wasn't the first one. I will refrain from posting political items outside of political threads.

The 2 political quotes above are from another member. You just chose to look beyond those... or haven't seen them yet.

I had not.

 

[john12ax7]

"You get more stinking from too much thinking than too much drinking "

Think this was from a Motown recording studio

 

[JohnRoberts]

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

A little 17th century brit poetry. Usually paraphrased as "ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

JR